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Fuyumi Ono's Ghost Hunt Supernatural Novels Get Live-Action Film
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Shiho Inada's manga.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) will serve as executive producer with Adrian Chaw as co-executive producer.
Maya Fukuzawa (Good Luck!!, Mr. Brain) will star as Mai Taniyama, Rookies) will play Hōshō Takigawa. Twins Japan and Kadokawa Shoten will announce more cast at a later date.
In the original Ghost Hunt series, high school girl Mai Taniyama encounters Shibuya Psychic Research, a paranormal investigation agency led by a tall, dark, handsome — and, naturally, aloof — teenager (who Mai nicknames "Naru" after the English word "narcissist"). Before long, Mai s the ranks of the agency, whose associates include a Chinese occultist, a world-famous psychic, a self-proclaimed Shinto shrine maiden, a former Buddhist monk, and a Catholic exorcist.
Inada Kodansha's Aria magazine in July 2012, and Kodansha published the first compiled volume in June.
licensed and released the 25-episode television anime version of the manga on DVD in 2008.
Source: Screen Daily
