Comedy and a dominatrix scene as hot as anything I have read in eromanga, makes this a must buy for fans of adult titles.
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Okuse Saki and Meguro Sankichi
Translation/Adaptation: Matthew Johnson
What They Say
Welcome to the sexy, spooky, and suspenseful world of Ghost Talker’s Daydream. In the continuing story of Saiki Misaki, the albino dominatrix necromancer, Misaki has to put her wits, looks, and knowledge of ghosts to the test. Follow Misaki as she dodges cops, fights psychos, and exorcises the dead. Fast-paced, smart, and sassy, Ghost Talker’s Daydream is everything you loved about the anime and much, much more.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
This volume has great stories that didn’t make it into the anime adaptation. The first chapter is amazingly graphic compared to all the non-eromanga titles I have read. Misaki is taking care of an extra kinky customer that likes horseplay. Her customer enjoys being whipped, ridding a wooden horse, and being ridden by Misaki. Things get a lot freakier, even to the point that Misaki gets off for the first time with a client. It is just another day on the job, until she returns from the bathroom to find her client dead, hanging from the ceiling. She may be used to ghosts, but dead bodies are a completely different thing. Now how is she going to explain this to the cops?
Something I did not realize the first time I saw the anime adaptation is Ai’s connection to Misaki’s stalker, Mitsuru. They are both in the same class at school, even though Mitsuru is still ditching school after his suspension has ended. Why was he suspended? It can’t be for stalking Misaki because she doesn’t know Mitsuru’s real identity. Regardless, Ai finds herself in trouble with a vindictive ghost when Mitsuru intervenes. Even with his help, they are no match for something like this. Will Misaki reach them in time? Does she even care enough to track Ai down after the strange text she sent?
In Summary
This series is proving to have many more comedic situations than I would have expected. This is a good thing considering how dark most of the stories are. The chapter titled ‘Daydream’ proves to be wickedly dangerous when real estate brokers disturb a forest housing the souls of murdered women. Soichiro can’t see the ghosts Misaki does, but that doesn’t stop a vindictive naked woman’s spirit from following him from the woods back to his home. This aspect is cool since the spirit has poltergeist abilities. The spirit is bent on killing Soichiro and she has the ability to shove him or turn a car’s steering wheel to crash his car. This ghost might be more than Misaki can handle. After all, she can’t use her demon whip against a ghost.
Content Grade: A-
Art Grade: A-
Packaging Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: A
Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: October 29th, 2008
MSRP: $10.95
