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

Kamiyo, Ai Supporting

Kawaguchi, Rina Japanese

Imprisoned Martyr Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Otogiri Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Flamsteed, Dorothy Supporting

Shimabukuro, Miyuri Japanese

God Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Boy Spirit Supporting

Oda, Aoba Japanese

Cao, Cong Producer

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Matori, Miho Producer

Yamamoto, Kyouka Producer

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Aug 2, 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.

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

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 21, 2024

Eravern

Mixed Feelings

If you are looking for horror, this is kinda mediocre, there was one very chilling aspect, that gets ruined by playing it off as a joke in ep 5, some parts are downright just FNAF jumpscares, a lot of the more disturbing themes seem too much to have a big effect, a lot of edge.

If you are looking for a Shounen, this is also kinda bad, very repetitive fetch quest-like structure, characters have pretty good motivation for what they are doing and are all morally gray, exept for the MC who seems to be the pure of heart kind.

The characters are fine, classic apathetic character, ... pretty tame sadist yandere and easily scared MC, villains are villanous.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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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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