Ghost Talker's Daydream

Japanese manga series and its adaptation
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Ghost Talker's Daydream
DVD Cover art for Volume 1 released by Geneon
低俗霊DAYDREAM
(Teizokurei Daydream)
GenreHorror[1]
Manga
Written bySaki Okuse
Illustrated bySankichi Meguro
Published byKadokawa Shoten
English publisher
  • NA: Dark Horse Comics
MagazineMonthly Shōnen Ace
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 2000 – November 2007
Volumes10
Original video animation
Directed byOsamu Sekita
StudioHal Film Maker
Licensed by
  • NA: Discotek Media
Released June 25, 2004 – December 23, 2004
Episodes4

Ghost Talker's Daydream, known in Japan as Vulgar Ghost Daydream (低俗霊DAYDREAM, Teizokurei Daydream), is a shōnen manga written by Saki Okuse and illustrated by Sankichi Meguro, set in modern Japan. There are 10 volumes in total, and the series was also adapted as a four episode OVA. The English version released by Geneon changed the title to Ghost Talker's Daydream, which is not a direct translation of the formal manga title.

The protagonist is the virgin albino woman Saiki Misaki holding down three jobs, none of which she finds herself particularly happy with; as a dominatrix in a BDSM club, as a writer of a column for a porno magazine, and as a civil servant in the employ of The Livelihood Preservation Group as a necromancer able to perceive and to communicate with ghosts, sometimes allowing them to speak through her with the living. Her government job usually entails exorcism. Misaki considers her shamanic civil service position even more tawdry and less respectable than her sex work.

Subplots, often of one or two chapters in length, include such as introduce important characters, and others to help develop motivations of leading characters.

There are three major characters, at least one of whom appears in every chapter with the exception of chapter 16 "Dead Man's Hand." In order of introduction they are: Saiki Misaki, Mitsuru and Souichirou. Various recurring and often important characters also populate the series.

Fan service, nudity and sexual themes are all integral to motivation and backstory, along with insight into Japanese suicide culture and sexual dysfunction with sexual and physical abuse, such carnal troubles of the soul from which even death may guarantee no release.

The Japanese title translates as teizoku = vulgar + rei = ghost. However, there is a pun on the word rei, which can also refer to a companion. In other words, it can be said either Vulgar Ghost or Vulgar Companion, for Misaki Saiki is indeed a vulgar companion in contending with vulgar apparitions.

Characters

Manga

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 02-26-2001404713398107-29-20081593079508
Ghost Talker's Daydream is a horror anime created by Saki Okuse and Sankichi Meguro. It tells the story of Misaki Saiki, a young woman with a troubled past, who is a professional dominatrix in one of Tokyo's most exclusive S&M clubs. However, her real money is something she likes even less than being a dominatrix. Ever since childhood, Misaki had the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, and that talent is put to use by the Livelihood Protection Agency, who has Misaki paired with Souichiro Kadotake, a martial-artist who happens to be deathly afraid of ghosts. Using her gifts, Misaki is able to help troubled spirits to resolve what is troubling them and allow them to move on to the afterlife. If all that isn't odd enough, Misaki is an albino and a virgin!
2 07-27-2001404713445711-11-20081595821864
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.
3 04-25-2002404713493701-27-20091595822348
After a young lesbian mysteriously dies, her spirit begins to haunt her lover. Who do you call when the ghost of your ex-lover keeps terrorizing you? Saiki Misaki, the albino dominatrix necromancer, of course! The highly sexualized, and eerily suspenseful tale of Ghost Talker's Daydream hits a provocative high point. Follow Saiki as she uses her powers to solve another nail-biting mystery filled with terrifying twists.
4 10-29-2002404713512709-21-20091595822607
If having hallucinations is scary, then seeing them at school would be terrifying. But when the hallucinations talk back to you, that's the kind of fright you've come to expect from the world of Ghost Talker's Daydream. Come join Saiki Misaki, the albino dominatrix necromancer, as she jumps head-first into another supernatural mystery. This time around the case becomes more personal, as the power that gives Saiki the ability to see and talk to the dead is the very thing terrorizing her client. Prepare yourself for an anything-but-typical "speaks to ghosts" manga that will blow you away with beautiful and sensual art coupled with a terrifying story. Dark Horse Manga continues to deliver top-notch Japanese horror manga at its finest. From writer Saki Okuse (Twilight of the Dark Master) and artist Sankichi Meguro.
5 05-01-2003404713560702-15-20111595826661
Saiki Misaki, our albino dominatrix necromancer hero, can't seem to get away from dead people. Even while on vacation! Far from home, resting at a spa resort, Misaki still seems to be a magnet for tragic stories and creepy scenes. And sometimes the creepy stuff just comes looking for her! In volume five of Ghost Talker's Daydream, Misaki's partner from back home is racing to find her with a few colorful characters in tow, namely the young stalker who's obsessed with Misaki, and a young girl who is also a budding necromancer. The result is a long trip to the world of the dead.
6 07-01-2004404713645X06-07-20111595827153
Three words: virgin, albino, dominatrix. But wait! One more word: necromancer. Yes, Japan has its fetishes, but not often does one find so many of them packed into one storyline, especially one with good writing. Enter Ghost Talker's Daydream. Suicide never goes on vacation, and our heroine can't seem to get a break, either. Back from a short time away, Misaki gets thrown right back into it, attempting to exorcize a particularly nasty, evil presence from an apartment building, before it kills all the tenants!
7 06-25-20054047137308TBA—
8 01-26-20064047137790TBA—
9 09-21-20064047138584TBA—
10 01-29-2008404713953XTBA—

Anime

Vulgar Ghost Daydream has also been produced as a short run OVA anime of four episodes in 2004. In Japanese, the title is still Teizokurei Daydream, but United States distributor Geneon Animation has re-titled the release Ghost Talker's Daydream. Of the four episodes, two follow the chapters from the manga decently, but the other two have very little relationship to the manga.

Episode list

No. Title
1"Ghost Talker"
Misaki Saiki is preparing for her S&M club job. The events of a mother who apparently killed her daughter Miku and herself are shown. Souichiro Kadotake of the Social Work Division picks up Misaki to deal with ghosts of the woman and her daughter, and then waits in the car outside. Inside the apartment Misaki finds a man about to rape the mother’s younger sister, Ai. Misaki intervenes, and is saved at the last moment by Souichiro, but the killer escapes. They receive some photos of the man escaping taken by Mitsuru Fujiwara who then texts them the man’s location. Misaki learns that the man was Koga, who was living with the woman, Po, and who murdered Miku. Misaki, Souichiro and Ai find Koga and his gang. In the ensuing fight, Koga flees, but Kinue, Misaki's mysterious demonic familiar and guardian, attacks and kills him, freeing the spirits of the mother and daughter. Ai sees Mitsuru leaving and recognises him as a student at her school.
2"Bindweed"
Misaki gets a message from Souichiro about mysterious phenomena in the Nakano district. Misaki as a child is shown being taken to live with her grandparents. Misaki encounters Ai in the subway who reveals that she can now see ghosts as well. Ai tries to talk to the ghost of a woman on a bridge against Misaki’s advice. Ai follows the ghost who tries to kill her and Mitsuru follows Ai. Souichiro takes Misaki to a house where an old couple and their grandchild disappeared. The house brings back memories of her childhood, and frees the ghost. Just as the ghost woman on the bridge tries to kill Ai, Misaki and Souichiro arrive and save her. Ai says she wants to be like Misaki, but she just tells Mitsuru to take her home.
3"Mad Bones"
Some children’s bones are found on a construction site. Yamazaki from the local police suggests that it is part of the Matsuda kidnapping incident 12 years ago. While on vacation Misaki encounters a van with the voices of children on a mountain road. Later, a man driving a van along the mountain road is blinded by children's hands on the windscreen and crashes. In Tokyo, Souichiro takes Ai to investigate a ghost sighting without success. At the scene of the van accident, Misaki sees ghosts of children, wanting to play, and is recognised by the Kanagawa police. Later, they question Misaki who admits seeing ghosts of children. Yamazaki tells her that a woman- Ichinose - was charged with abducting children, but no bodies were ever found. After release Ichinose supposedly committed suicide. Misaki agrees to help. At the construction site, she sees the ghosts of the children, but the construction proceeds anyway. Later that night, the construction boss is killed by a crane. Misaki accompanies the police to the site, and says the children did not cause the incident. Suddenly she is possessed by the spirit of Ichinose.
4"Water Spirit"
Souichiro is booked for speeding in his rush to find Misaki. Ai sees the ghosts of the children, and finds a ring attached to a necklace. As they start to drive back to Tokyo, Ai sees Fujiwara, who takes them to Misaki. Detective Yamazaki takes them all to the house where Ichinose lived with her uncle, a sexual predator, but Ichinose’s spirit is not there. Yamazaki reveals that Ichinose’s father tried to kill them both in the lake when she was a child, but Ichinose survived. Later that night Yamazaki convinces Misaki to try again to contact Ichinose at the house, while wearing the ring attached to the necklace, which belonged to her father. Ichinose possesses her and causes her to attack Yamazaki, and then drive them into the lake. They survive, and Misaki, possessed by Ichinose, reveals that she killed the children to save them from being abused by adults as she was. Misaki pulls Yamazaki from the car, but Ichinose’s ghost sinks with her father’s ring and her spirit is released. With Ichinose gone, the children’s spirits also depart in peace.

References

  1. ^ "Ghost Talker's Daydream Volume 1". Dark Horse Comics. Retrieved June 26, 2018.

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