Ghost Hunt's structure is simliar to X-File's. It's divided in three to four episodes long stories, each covering one investigation by a team of ESP users. The setting is, unsurprisingly, today's Japan. This 25 episodes series covers part of the manga with the same name and doesn't have a real ending -- maybe a second season will follow.

Animation

Ghost Hunt has the most boring animation I've ever seen. The character design is so generic any character could fit in any other anime, the various phantoms and spirits and whatnot seem taken from a child's drawing or bad b-movies and the environments are also generic -- the typical school, the typical flat and so on -- and not very well drawn. That is, the backgrounds suck.

Only a few 3D elements are used throughout the anime, e.g. the glass shards during the first story, and while they're not too ugly they certainly are completely uninteresting.

I'd like to go out on a limb and claim the producers simply went through the manga's pages re-drawing it and animating as little as they could, but since I haven't read the manga I can't be sure.

The animation is the element that is most guilty of Ghost Hunt being a boring anime. Even the OP is barely bearable the very first time and would make a fly fall asleep from the second time on.

Sound

The soundtrack is forgettable, the dubbing and the special effects are adequate. Completely average from any point of view.

Story

The novelistic frame seems, like all the other elements composing this anime, the lowest common denominator of all the anime belonging to Ghost Hunt's genre and the viewer is always able to predict accurately what will happen during the next three or four episodes.

As for the actual stories within that frame, even I could write something better and I lack any talent. The lack of imagination -- in a fantasy story ffs!!! -- and the excessive use of clichès derived from famous movies like The Ring are simply ridiculous.

Characters

I have no words to describe the ridiculousness of the idea of a Catholic priest, a Shinto priest and a Buddhist monk working together to exorcise spirits -- with the same success rate. Whether those religions are actually at odds or not in real life is irrelevant, the overly simplistic approach to religion used either by the manga creator or by those who made the anime adaptation reveals what they had in mind: a team of superheroes, each using different superpowers to fight a common enemy. A common paradigm in anime, but this time in particular it doesn't work: the only things setting a character apart from the others are the clothes and the nonsense they mutter. The lack of personality and development worsen an already disastrous situation.

Personal judgment

One of the worst anime I've ever watched. A waste of colors. I could go on a tirade about exactly what I personally disliked about it, but who cares? Ghost Hunt is, like ectoplasm, phantom's ethereal vomit bound to disappear soon.

Overall

While devoid of interesting elements, Ghost Hunt isn't ugly, just boring.