Dark Gathering

Spirits have always been attracted to Keitarou Gentouga due to his strong spiritual presence. A traumatic encounter with one had caused his right hand to be cursed, forcing him to wear a glove at all times. Now a college freshman, Keitarou is trying to live as normal a life as possible. With the encouragement of his childhood friend Eiko Houzuki, he becomes a private tutor. Since he is at the top of his intake class, his first client is the tutoring firm's most promising student, Yayoi Houzuki.

To Keitarou's surprise, Yayoi is Eiko's cousin, and she possesses two pupils in each eye—allowing her to see into the spirit world and purposely seek vengeful spirits to exorcise. Ever since a car accident killed both her parents, Yayoi has been searching for the powerful spirit that kidnapped her mother's departed soul. Seeing that spirits are so attracted to Keitarou, she ropes him into helping her collect other evil spirits that will assist in her future fight. Although her quest is dangerous, Keitarou reluctantly decides to join her, even as each new spirit they meet has him questioning his resolve at every turn.

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Houzuki, Yayoi Main

Sasahara, Yuu Japanese

Houzuki, Eiko Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Gentouga, Keitarou Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Castle H Ruins Spirit Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Imprisoned Martyr Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Kamiyo, Ai Supporting

Kawaguchi, Rina Japanese

Otogiri Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Alien Doll Spirit Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Boy Spirit Supporting

Oda, Aoba Japanese

God Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Cao, Cong Producer

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Fujimura, Kayane Producer

Matsumura, Nao Producer

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Aug 18, 2024

AniSabii

Recommended

I loved it! The story was solid enough to make me bookmark the manga to read for later. I prefer korean mangas too and rarely want to read a Japanese manga, but this one was different. It took me a long time to get past the first episode, but once I did I was hooked. The main reason being was Yayoi, but Ill get to that later. I'm a big thriller, suspense, and horror type of guy when it comes to anime. Especially when it comes to very good ones like dark gathering because its like finding a needle in a haystack.

It took me ... awhile to get past the first episode because of a biased towards Yayoi. I just couldnt take the anime serious at first because she was this young animated girl. Ironically enough though Yayoi ended up being my favorite character in the show because she got that dog in her.

Its not really much else to say the art was amazing and the soundtrack was cool too for a suspense, thriller, and horror vibe. If my girl was into this type of genre I would definitely watch this with her no problem. Dont expect no high school of the dead fan service type deal lol but truth be told this anime does completely fine without it.

No disrespect to the people who put this anime together at all though just a hobby for me. I know how it is to create things and havent it judged harshly just got to keep creating for the love of the craft.

Story: 8
Art:8
Soundtrack: 8
Characters: 9
Rewatch Value: 8 (Idk why, but in the summer I love watching suspense/thriller anime)


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Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 18, 2024

Loroline

Mixed Feelings

I really wanted to like the show more but unfortunately I struggled for months to finish it as when I would go back to watch the last episode I left in I just got bored. I watched every week as soon as the show came out. I was compelled to watch the show for the animation and genre of the anime, plus the kind of mystery aspect of the show, why does Keitaro have a glove on one hand, why does Eiko seem infatuated and weirdly creepy at times stuff like that. I honestly can't remember most of the show even though I just pretty ... much completed it. I got to the point where I got to episode 19 and then skipped to 25. Not proud of it but I needed to know where it ended. It ended on a cliff hanger which honestly I was disappointed in since I was hoping for a clean 25 episode anime with a decent enough ending.

If you do watch this show watch out for changing genres and watch in the sun as the dub isn't as good. This is coming from someone who primarily watched dubs over subs. The dub made me less invested in the show

I also wish they they didn't make the female MC Yayoi was just too much in terms of character design. I don't mind her personal since she like a child (I'm assuming around 8-12 since they never really say). If they had maybe given her normal/smaller shoes, a simple light jacket, showed her hair more/shortened
it, and pants that don't look square shed look less over designed.I love the skull eyes but other then that I don't really like much if her design. The same can be said about Ai. They gave her too many clashing patterns. Polka dot Leggings, plaid skirt, striped tye stringy blonde hair with a red bow falling down, and 2 black chokers with little black bows. I believe there are the only 2 characters how are overly designed.

I also wish that the show had some adults and people who don't believe in the paranormal plus more simply paranormal elements like to build up to make the show more scary instead of just disturbing with load sounds and lot of blood. Some of the ghosts are really disturbing as in gross (just watch episode 17/18 the dad and daughter grossed me out)

Overall 6.5 out of 10. Just wished for sone simpler character designs and a more concise story ending. I also wish there was more mystery and character developments as I feel the majority of the characters are a bit stagnant with their development

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 5, 2023

Sayayurin

Not Recommended

Preliminary (9/25 eps)

As a horror/supernatural anime, it falls in both aspects.
The horror is mediocre fluff (audio SFX & soundtracks, visual mood settings) and the protagonist's terrified expression has already become the default by episode 2 as he scares easily. There's no real sense of danger or tension regarding the supernatural as Yayoi can easily secure the scene, she's the ultimate safety net.
Yayoi's apathetic demeanor and Eiko's cheery nonchalance have to be the most chilling part of the series. Overall though, it's more mysterious than spooky, intriguing but not as nearly terrifying as advertised in the trailers.
Horror, gore, and the supernatural merely play the role of tools to ... highlight the characters and their journey, vaguely touched on at all in detail or broached way too soon, spoiling the fun.
So do I recommend Dark Gathering based on the main genre being horror/supernatural? No.
If you feel the characters are intriguing enough, it's possibly entertaining.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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