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[[caption-width-right:350:Not your average trio of Ghostbusters]]

->''"I, Ghost Sweeper Reiko Mikami, will send you all to paradise!!"''
-->-- '''Reiko Mikami, in pretty much every chapter/episode'''

Overdevelopment and crowding in Japan has forced many of its indigenous spirits and ghosts to lose their homes. Due to problems caused by the homeless spirits, a new profession was created, the Ghost Sweepers (GS). Private exorcists for hire, they serve only the highest bidder to survive in the cut-throat corporate world. The Mikami GS Company, run by Reiko Mikami with her two assistants, Tadao Yokoshima and Okinu, is said to be the best.

The manga and anime setup is scenario-to-scenario, with many plots intertwining classic and modern (by 1990's standards) Japanese culture, with occasional references to Western influences. In between these plots are some longer story arcs where new characters are introduced and the existing ones are developed further. There isn't one ongoing storyline; the plots are character-driven, serving to gradually develop characters, especially the main protagonists.

This manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]]'' magazine, where it was serialized from 1991 to 1999. It was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough, Takashi Shiina's later series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the movie, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]).

The TV series ''was'' licensed in North America by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] to their [=YouTube=] channel with Sentai's translation.

''There is a [[Characters/GhostSweeperMikami character page]], so please post character tropes there.''

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!!This series provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Mikami, Emi, Shōryuki, Maria the combat android, [[spoiler: and Shiro]].
* ActionMom: Mikami's mother, she can even travel through time!
** She has appeared in the war-against-Ashtaroth arc....and has shown that her methods are quite...unethical, to put it mildly, showing to be willing to go to any length to defeat Ashtaroth. [[spoiler: Even willing to at least ''consider'' killing Mikami if she can't get strong enough, and ''actually going through with a strategy that involves sacrificing Yokoshima's life.'' Granted, she couldn't quite bring herself to finish it, but...]]
** And later on Yokoshima's, even Mikami admits she more then a match for her. She apprehends a planejacking terrorist in her first appearance, raise the stock value of the company she works for ''just by showing up'', and outfoxes Mikami into revealing her feelings for Yokoshima...well, almost.
* AdaptationDistillation: The manga takes about 6 chapters to deal with "the piper"; which gets kind of boring. The anime, takes one episode.
* AdjectiveNounFred
* AfterlifeExpress: One report is dedicated to a hijacked one.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The very last two chapters involves this; the far-future situation is revealed to be a dream in the end of second part. However, it appears to be a ''shared'' dream of Yokoshima and Mikami, with this quality making them briefly wonder if it actually was a sort of [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue peering-into-the-future vision.]]]]
* AlphaBitch: Yumi. What makes it worse is that she can't even stand the other students looking up to ''a successful GS like Mikami''. Keep in mind that she's at a school where Ghost Sweepers are trained--she'd keep them from having ''role models'', apparently.
** Yumi's anger in that situation came from the fact that she idolized Mikami as much any of them, and was jealous that Ichimonji was getting noticed by her idol rather than her. Her hate also stems from the fact that she went through TrainingFromHell since the day she was born to be a worthy successor to her ghostbusting family's name while Ichimonji apparently is just so gifted that she starts out at a point where she's already about equal to Yumi's level without needing much training.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Zig-zagged, the 2003 Italian dub of the TV series initially used a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE7gbHFgVg completely different song]] performed by Music/CristinaDAvena, but from episode 22 onwards they reverted to the original Japanese opening and ending
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Emi Ogasawara, who seems to share Mikami's background and training, with the exception of using voodoo for her exorcisms.
* AndIMustScream: A good chunk of the cast was at risk of this when they tried and failed to exorcise a cursed Crane Game. If you play it, and you fail to snag something, ''you'' become a doll prize. Inside the cursed game. Meaning that the only escape is for someone to successfully "win" you...and thus, risk getting trapped themselves.
* AnimeThemeSong: both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EloWc8_L5CY opening]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyV_jM8uS8Y ending]]. They're even used in the manga in a sing-off battle against a siren.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Subverted with Erito Kanenaruki, who's in actually in denial about the existence of ghosts thanks to his grandmother telling him scary stories as a child.
* BadBoss: Ashtaroth. He thought little of wrecking Dogura in his fury after the loss of the energy crystal. Of course, Dogura, being a sort of golem, could be easily restored. However, [[spoiler: he claims to have "disposed of" the bug sisters after they proved unable to find Mephistopheles/Mikami, even though he suggests that in the end, he might have been the only one who could have found her anyway. [[BerserkButton Yokoshima takes this poorly.]]]]
* BattleCouple: Yumi and [[spoiler:Yukinojou]] seem to be being set up as this. [[spoiler: Future Mikami and Yokoshima probably has this dynamic as well.]]
* TheBeastmaster: Meiko Rokudo is a ''shikigami'' tamer and can control a full twelve of them. However, her control over them relies heavily on her own self-control...and she has essentially ''none'' due to her insecurity.
** Meiko's mom, however, plays it more straight. Being much more experienced and level-headed, Mrs. Rokudo can even make the shikigami drink tea with her easily.
** It should be noted, however, that under Meiko's wing, they only lose control when she loses it. Anyone else who has had control of them (Emi and Mikami, among others) lose control of them on the instant they are summoned. A fellow shikigami tamer who was presented as being better than her even lost control and they started to attack him after he took control of more than three.
* BeautifulAllAlong: [[spoiler: [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801219/v18/c176/13 Shiro]] when we find out that [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801216/v18/c179/17 he is actually a she]], [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801207/v19/c183/6 not to mention she's hot]]]].
* BigBad: Ashtaroth.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Shizumo-hime basically has Mikami at her mercy, and Okinu trapped herself in a dummy root. All is lost, right? [[http://www.onemanga.com/Ghost_Sweeper_Mikami/201/17/ Nope]].]]
** [[spoiler: Ashtaroth's final attack was deflected thanks to the timely intervention of Satan and God.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Yumi. In her case, they're constantly sparkling, which makes for an unsettling experience of their own. It's actually a dig at 60's & 70's shoujo comics which feature such eyes prominently. Yokoshima even sports them when he came to the school and try to pick up girls.
* BrattyHalfPint: The Dragon Prince.
* BreakingTheFourthWall / NoFourthWall: Usually just the Narrator. At other times a character may reference an volume/episode or address the audience directly, much as a theater comedy would.
* {{Butt Monkey}}: Yokoshima, even when he's not trying.
-->'''Dr. Chaos:''' The boys and girls who're watching this show already know what's going on, so I'm going to skip on the explanation!
** Lampshaded in that Dogura and the bug sisters--villains, mind you--treat him ''more nicely'' than the good guys.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Yokoshima gets into quite a scrap with his father early on--he's sick to undeath of Daishuu's philandering (remember that Yokoshima is actually honest about his overagitated sex drive), and his trying to trick Mikami into his bed is the last straw. This kind of confrontation also happens with [[spoiler: Mikami, whose past life Mephistopheles was created/"fathered" by [[BigBad Ashtaroth]].]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Emi, to Pete.
* CombatPragmatist: Saijou, which makes for an...interesting...juxtaposition with his proclaimed [[HypocriticalHumor dedication to justice]]. One could argue, though, that he's more concerned with just ends than just means.
* CosmicPlaything: Yokoshima, seriously. If he's not in some unpleasant situation by the end of a chapter due to Mikami's neglect or abuse (if it's not his own fault of course), then it's a whole chapter made to screw him over. Poor guy.
* CrapSaccharineWorld
* CrashIntoHello: Yokoshima and [[spoiler: the resurrected Okinu]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yokoshima when he actually puts his mind to it. Even Mikami begins to realize it in later chapters. [[spoiler: He's the one who delivers the final blow to [[BigBad Ashtaroth]], by the way.]]
* CurbStompBattle: The [[spoiler: restored Medusa and Kankuro]] don't even last a full ''chapter's'' worth against the heroes. Actually, [[spoiler: Kankuro]] didn't even last more than a ''page''.
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: {tense prelude close-up} [[spoiler: Kankuro]]...{next frame shows [[spoiler: Yukinojou]] victorious without even a scratch on his armor} I'm way out of your league now! I'm in a hurry, bye! Catch you later!
--> [[spoiler: '''Kankuro''']]: [[LampshadeHanging Characters in shounen manga are always gaining strength too fast!]]
** Another version of the translation:
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: *Tense close up* [[spoiler: Kankuro...]]
--> *Next frame*
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: You've been dead for a long time, man. I'm way out of your league now!
--> [[spoiler: '''Kankuro''']]: I hate the power inflation rate of shonen manga!
** This was justified by Luciola mentioning that the resurrected characters only come back with the strength they had when they were still alive. The heroes are ''much'' stronger at this point, so the restored spirits are pretty much just annoyances to the heroes. Nonetheless, it was cool [[spoiler: seeing Medusa get owned by Yokoshima. Especially since it's the ''second'' time she lost to him]].
* CuteGhostGirl: Okinu, arguably Aiko?[[spoiler: She's actually the spiritual essence of an old schooldesk, but consistently manifests as a ghostly schoolgirl]]
* CuteMonsterGirl: Likewise with a few of various youkai the characters encounter.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The masoujutsu, or Demon Armor Art. Gives you amazing strength and resilience, but use it for too long, and ''you'' become a demon. [[spoiler: Yukinojou has the presence of mind to disengage it before that can happen. Innen doesn't, and one gets the feeling Kankuro ''welcomed'' it.]]
* DeathSeeker: Believe it or not, this was [[spoiler: the whole intent behind Ashtaroth's schemes--to get himself killed, at least if he couldn't make it impossible for himself to ever be held as a villain. It doesn't help he thought that the latter would be inevitable so long as the god/demon equipoise persisted.]])
** Later on, there's [[spoiler: Kimihiko Amatsuga, a man who's cursed with uncontrollable telepathy--he can't avoid reading others' memories, and it is ''agonizing''. He finally finds a way to die meaningfully when he uses his telepathy to draw the demon Tubular Bell into himself, expecting Michie and Karasu to kill them simultaneously. Not that it happens this way, since Kimihiko is ''Reiko's future father''...]]
* DemotedToExtra: Most of the cast after the tournament arc. Meiko, Dr.chaos, Pete, Emi, just to name a few.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: In some cases, specially [[spoiler: Yukinojou]].
* Dubtitle: The now out of print DVD release of Manga Entertainment's awful dub of the movie has this rather than a proper subtitle translation. This is ''thankfully'' averted with [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai]]'s release of the TV series, granted those DVD releases were sub-only to begin with.
* EasternZodiac: The basis of Meiko's shikigami retinue.
* EmptyQuiver: Part of how Ashtaroth tries to blackmail Mikami to his lair. In ''this'' case, [[spoiler: Papilio's hijacked several nuclear submarines, and if Our Heroes start making things difficult for him, the missiles will ransack ''the entire world''. He ''actually launches them'' when Yokoshima saves Mikami and Luciola from certain death, and indirectly saves Michie by saving Luciola...]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Mikami's beauty is remarked on by both males and females, and Meiko is pretty much in love with her.
* EvilWeapon: [[spoiler: The posessed shaving razor that carried out the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper killings]]. Early on in the series, there's also a demonic sword that tries to kill Mikami while possessing Yokoshima, but runs afoul of her [[CombatPragmatist concealed ceramic armor]].
* {{Fanservice}}: It's written by Takashi Shiina, so it really isn't surprising, but it's done in a tasteful manner, but seriously you have to expect it by [[http://img1.cdn.crunchyroll.com/i/spire3/6052da867b10ebc01e53a8fbc034841a1227141904_full.jpg just looking at Mikami]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] a few times too.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: Features Mikami and the gang going up against feudal BigBad UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga and his loyal henchman Ranmaru.
* FireIceLightning: Nuru's favored means of personal combat.
* FreudianTrio: Lust-addled Yokoshima would be the id, workaholic, money-obsessed Mikami the superego, and calm-tempered Okinu the ego.
* AGodAmI: Ashtaroth certainly likes to think of himself as one, at least as far as his creations are concerned. In addition, he plans to displace ''all'' the current gods and take their place as a sole god without any peers, his idea of putting an end to the god/demon wars.
* {{Gonk}}: Mega-hime, in ''immense'' contrast to her noble, self-sacrificing nature. And ''that's'' in contrast to her somewhat classist father. Ugliness is only skin-deep, indeed...
* {{Greed}}: Mikami, of course.
** This actually got her into major trouble when [[spoiler: Ashtaroth used it to his advantage to lure her into a trap.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Yokoshima's past self actually inflicts one on himself when Mikami's demonic past self offers herself to him. He insists that despite his tendency toward perversion, he wants there to be real love when it comes time to do the deed. Naturally, Mikami's past self wonders WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove?]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Michie. She's still oscillating back and forth a bit on this, but...
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Yukinojou when he becomes disenchanted with Medusa's win-at-all-costs mentality, Luciola when she falls for Yokoshima and thus becomes open to the idea of keeping humanity in one piece, Papilio when Mikami explains why Yokoshima held back on her (even if Mikami's explanation was at least somewhat fictitious).]]
* HeelRealization: Yumi, on finding out Ichimonji was not as lazy as she had thought her to be.
* HeroicSacrifice: Yokoshima jumping in front of Luciola to protect her from a blast from Vespa that would surley kill her. Keep in mind that Luciola was intercepting Vespa in a Heroic Sacrifice of her ''own'' so Yokoshima would have an opportunity to release Mikami from Ashtaroth's clutches.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Yakuchin, to absolutely JerkAss degrees.
* [[spoiler: HumanPopsicle: Inverted in that Okinu was actually killed by the sacrifice ritual that froze her into a block of ice, but the ritual was actually designed so that after the purpose of the the sacrifice was fulfilled, her body would be perfectly prepared for quick resurrection.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: Pietro aka Pete is actually half-vampire, half-human. And yes, he hates his father Count Vlado.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Like in any other battle manga, this happens a lot. Specially when Mikami is involved, and she can cheat someway or another.
* InsultedAwake: When Mikami had her HeroicBSOD after getting recruited by Saijo into the G-men and forced to work for fixed pay and free charity events, the thing that snaps her back is Yokoshima making a move on her like he usually does.
* UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: An interesting version in this series. [[spoiler: There ''was'' no single person known as Jack the Ripper. Instead, a razor became possessed with a bloodthirsty spirit, and controlled its victims in turn. In other words, each prostitute had been slain by the ''previous'' dead prostitute.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Mikami most of the time, especially when money is involved. The thing of it is she doesn't even realize it, and when told directly about it she tries to deny it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the flipside though, Mikami does have a few rare moments of "humility", where she can be kind enough when she feels like it.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kankuro, Beelzebub, Medusa, Luciola, Ashtaroth]].
* LethalChef: The binboukami has a pretty good sense of nutrition. Unfortunately, he forgets that "nutritious" and "delectable" or even ''"edible"'' aren't always the same thing. To give an idea, the "nutritious" burger he made are later used to perform soul-body seperation, simply by biting it once. To the uninitiated, this means that the burger has the ability to make you ''lose consciousness'' in one bite. They had to use metal bats prior to that...
* LickingTheBlade: There's a serial killer in the Shiro vs. Tamamo arc who does this. [[spoiler: Although this takes on some curious overtones, since the ''razor itself'' is the killer, possessing its victims...]]
* LockedInAFreezer: In one episode, Okinu gets trapped in a bottle by Dr. Chaos, then stashed in a refrigerator.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: Mikami falls prey to one designed by Ashtaroth, Vespa, and Dogura, meant specifically to get her to lower her guard so Ashtaroth could yank out the energy crystal. One unique feature of this one: While Mikami experienced two months inside of it, only three days had passed in reality. Also, the dream-come-true that Ashtaroth used to manipulate Mikami was the resuscitation of her old, normal, ridiculously-high-profit business schedule.]]
** Actually happened several other times during the series.
* LouisCypher: Ashi Yuutarou, a man similar in looks to Ashtaroth. Mikami even thinks at first that this is a PaperThinDisguise for Ashtaroth, but it turns out he's an ordinary human with unfortunately similar name and looks. [[spoiler: Then it turns out he ''is'' Ashtaroth, and his Ashi stint was just to get Mikami to lower her guard inside the galaxy egg.]]
* LovableSexManiac: Yokoshima, but you can't blame him, Yokoshima's a typical 17-year-old guy with a healthy libido, and it doesn't help that Mikami is a hot and sexually attractive 20-year-old.
** It makes even more sense when you consider that his father, Daishuu, is an unrepentant [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. Looks like he inherited a measure of that...
*** It gets better. It turns out that Daishuu acts very much like Yokoshima does when trying to woo the woman who would be Yokoshima's mother ... and the latter acts ''exactly'' like Mikami does when rebuffing his over-the-top advances. Yokoshima's probably just taking a few notes from his parents' experience. Mikami was, quite understandably, disturbed.
** Later on, it turns out that Yokoshima's past life, Takashima, was a womanizer on par with Daishuu. If you were a woman in Heian-era Kyoto, no matter your class, Takashima was probably interested in you.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Medusa, despite being a dragon god in her own right, is a member of Astaroth's faction of demons. She lets this slip when she refers to the possibility of being given an order to assassinate Mikami or her mother.]]
* MediumAwareness: Not to the point that the FourthWall is non-existent, but it happens quite a bit. Some notable examples include Mikami snarling that Yokoshima's lasciviousness is pushing the boundaries of shounen manga; commenting that she's gone the course of the manga without killing anyone living (and that she wouldn't mind interrupting that if she gets to take down Medusa and/or Kankuro); and engaging in a singing contest with a siren using the ''anime's opening song''. There's even a point where Yokoshima disparaged the ''author'', who immediately [[DeusExMachina sends down a bolt of lightning to fry him, on a sunny day, and in broad daylight]]. The frequency rises somewhat as the series goes on.
* {{Miko}}: Okinu, until her death. Now she's a lovable ghost girl.
* MoodWhiplash: Has a habit of going from tense to comedy and back again. Lampshaded on a few occasions.
* MurderousMannequin: In Chapter 38 and Episode 33, a youkai takes a mannequin as body when, for aesthetic reasons, it's placed on a pentagram that under a certain angle of light completely throws off the feng shui of the store. The mannequin goes on the run, donning various disguises and turning whoever it can into non-living mannequins. (In the anime, it specifically targets the ghost sweepers.) Mikami manages to destroy it with Okinu's help.
* MyBelovedSmother: Yokoshima's mother, Yuriko. She's a general ControlFreak who will not suffer ''anything'' to not go her way. This includes Yokoshima not wanting to live with her ''or'' Daishuu, ''and'' him working with Mikami. Thing is, she's actually one of, if not ''the'' most rational person in the series, as admitted by Mikami herself. There's a ridiculously short supply of rational thought and behavior in the manga.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Dr. Chaos has a continuously solved version of this. Because of his lifespan and studies, his brain is ''literally'' full with information. Whenever he learns something new, his brain just overwrites something earlier. This leads to a spotty form of amnesia, to the point where even though he can understand the nature of the Tenshi Luopan, he completely forgets that 2+2 is 4, not 5...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Mikami unbinding Okinu from Mt. Orochi had a rather unpleasant side-effect. Namely, de-sealing the earth vein that a demonic plant was barred from draining. Why? The seal was ''Okinu's own soul.'']]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Mikami thinks that Ashtaroth is ''finally'' out of her hair after [[spoiler: he and Vespa get pounded with a swarm of nuclear missiles that Papilio called back]]. However, the fact that Hyakume still isn't getting any better makes Saijou think that this isn't the case. There's also the scene of Dogura (who admittedly thrives on radioactive material anyway) making its own escape...
* TheOjou: Meiko.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Ashtaroth, who considers the whole cosmos to have been rotten with death and decay from the start, and so plans to not merely conquer the cosmos, but erase and [[InTheirOwnImage rewrite it to match his (in his eyes) rot-proof will.]] Although, Mikami had [[ShutUpHannibal called him out a bit ''before'' he uttered as much]], after sensing that intent in the galaxy egg. "You're no different from an immature child who hates school and thus decides to burn down his school!"]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Almost every single possible type. [[spoiler: Though in the [[AllJustADream Dream of the future]] the three end up to be type 6.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The inukami, of a sort. They're also [[spoiler: descendants of Fenrir]]. The main traits they keep in human form are the tail and the fangs. There's also Tamamo, a kyuube no kitsune whose hair in human form resembles the nine tails of her fox form.
* OutWithABang: After the Mephistopheles incident, Ashtaroth decided to prevent a repeat occurrence by installing several failsafes in his later created servants that would kill them if they took any similar steps. Bedding a human? Breaks failsafe #7. [[spoiler: Once he learns about that, Yokoshima can't bring himself to bed Luciola, at least until Ashtaroth and his failsafes are dead and gone.]]
* PerpetualPoverty: Dr. Chaos is ''the'' epitome of this. No matter what he does to try to get his rent money, it backfires on him. Kobato and her mother were also caught in this, until Yokoshima lifted the curse attached to the binboukami. It's taking some time to properly wane, though. Yokoshima also suffers from this, due the absurdly low salary Reiko pays him, though that seems to be changing after he developed his own spiritual powers.
* PetTheDog: After Meiko [[AdrenalineMakeover temporarily shreds]] [[LetsGetDangerous her shyness]] to [[spoiler: save Mikami from a LotusEaterMachine]], Mikami pets the exhausted Meiko and decides ''for once'' to care more for her than for the money prize. She's also shown to care about Yokoshima a ''lot'' more than she'll ever admit.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Hinome, Mikami's new baby sister]] and Tamamo.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Shiro is accelerated from about six to about twelve or thirteen by adsorbing a lot of ki from Mikami and Yokoshima to heal the wounds inflicted by Inukai. [[spoiler: As a result, we discover that [[SamusIsAGirl Shiro isn't a boy, but a girl]].]]
* ThePowerOfLust: Tadao Yokoshima has always been [[AllMenArePerverts driven for girls]] and that's the main reason why he works for [[{{Stripperiffic}} Reiko Mikami]] despite her abuse and the low payments. But later it's discovered that he has spiritual abilities that are powered by lust. They're seen for first time early on in the manga, and in one episode of the anime series, in which he serves as "spirit battery" for [[TheRival Emi Ogasawara]]. He eventually develops this power and becomes a proper ghost sweeper, even rivalizing in power with Mikami herself.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Yokoshima uses one of his [[spoiler:Monju beads]] to make a demon fall in love with him. Time will tell whether he uses it that way again. The possibilities are endless, and a LovableSexManiac of his caliber wouldn't let them go untried.
** It happens in the very next story arc--he tries to use one to peer into the showers of a school while some of the students are in there. Only running into an emerging Okinu stops him.
* PureIsNotGood: Or rather, Pure Is Not Good Enough, when it comes to Marin's arts. She thinks it's enough to cleanse a place of all its current taints, but all that does is let weaker wraiths flock in with all the competition gone. In other words, the purity she induces can actually make things ''worse''.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Thanks to Hyakume, Yokoshima and Mikami get to learn about the past existences of three characters. Saijou/Saigou is as straight-arrow as ever, Yokoshima/Takashima is as lust-ridden and antagonistic towards Saijou/Saigou as ever, and Mikami...[[spoiler: was originally ''A FRESHLY CRAFTED DEMON NAMED MEPHISTOPHELES.'']]
** Medusa pulls off a rather impressive one during the space arc. [[spoiler: On the verge of being defeated after taking hit from both Makami and Yokoshima, she resort to a desperate tactic of kissing Yokoshima and implanting some of her essence in him. Yokoshima later spits it out where it grows into a younger (or, in his words, "fresher") version of her.]]
** And then, at the close of the War-Against-Ashtaroth arc, [[spoiler: there's the promise that Luciola can be reincarnated early--as Yokoshima's child. For once, his lust overdrive can have ''good'' fruit, so long as he [[ParentalIncest avoids the obvious problem]].]]
** It is also said that in a future (which is not shown in the manga) [[spoiler: Luciola will Reincarnate into Yokoshima's daughter]]
* RetGone: Dr. Chaos tried to feed a P.E.T. poison that was supposed to do this to Mikami. Yokoshima was hit instead, and his history was steadily erased from present to past. [[spoiler: It was only stopped when his history regressed to his being a months-old baby, and a five- or six-year old Mikami passed by, cooed at the adorable kid, and kissed him on the cheek--a repeat of the {{Accidental Kiss}} that was seared into his memory just before getting poisoned. That repeat of "fate" undid the poison's effects.]]
* TheRival: Yukinojou feels this way towards Yokoshima. Yokoshima is somewhat oblivious to this, something that becomes way funnier when its revealed that [[spoiler: both of them had dueled before...while they were children...in an RC car tournament..and Yokoshima won]]
** Reika and Emi of course
** And there's a story where a popular movie star shows up and Yokoshima very much threats him like this because in school he was always super popular while he kept being harassed by the girls over his friendship with him, and as a final twist of the knife, the day before Yokoshima was left the school they went to together, he had been planning to ask out the girl he had a crush on, but saw his pal making the love confession to her already. Of course at the end came the twist where the Movie Star recalled that when he made said confession, the girl had told him she actually liked Yokoshima better, and there was ''fierce competition''.
* RomanticFalseLead: Saijou, the former apprentice of Mikami's mother. Yokoshima just gets more resolutely desperate to win Mikami back to his side (via keeping the agency in the black, of course).
* RPGEpisode: There was one chapter/episode where they were sucked into a possessed {{RPG}}.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Shiro, who started off looking like a small boy till she absorbed some power from Mikami and revealed her true gender]].
* ShoutOut: ([[ShoutOut/GhostSweeperMikami see the subpage]])
* ShrinkingViolet: Meiko. Oh God, ''Meiko''
** And it's ''hereditary''. [[spoiler: The original Rokudou]] is, if anything, even more childish and spookable. Meiko's mother manages to keep a cap on it most of the time, at least as long as she can keep her aggressive demeanor going.
* SmokingIsCool: If his demeanor then is anything to go by, that's why Karasu was smoking back in 1978. On the other hand, getting winded trying to climb up the Sunshine building does convince him that quitting's a smart move...
* SupervillainLair: The War-Against-Ashtaroth arc has fun with this one. The heroes are trying to figure out just where on Earth Gyakutengou has been docked for repairs, and are checking every desolate and/or hard-to-reach place for this. [[spoiler: In reality, the bug sisters and Dogura are operating out of a cheap, cozy, unassuming house on the outskirts of Tokyo, and Gyakutengou has been shrunk to the size of a real-life Hercules beetle, and repairs itself by [[LivingShip feeding on tree sap, just like a real Hercules beetle]]. Yokoshima [[LampshadeHanging isn't sure this is in accord with the rules of shounen manga.]]]]
* SissyVillain: Ashtaroth. In appearance only.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Medusa and Ashtaroth]] ''really'' detest losing.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The fate of Yodogawa, an author ghost who isn't defeated by Mikami, but rather a female author who had tagged along with them. Both authors get into an argument on writing styles (Yodogawa sounds like he takes after Creator/YukioMishima while his name is based on EdogawaRanpo, Anna is general popular mystery-thriller) and Yodogawa ''exorcises himself'' when he finds out how many books the female author sold, proclaiming "Literature is dead!".
* TarotMotifs: Each character has a Trump card in the manga, while only a few are shown in the anime as AdBumpers, and use French for the card names. The full list can be found [[http://gs-mikami.wikia.com/wiki/Tarot_cards here.]]
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: Mikami's past life being a created demon name Mephistopheles. Explaining why demons are after her as she has a powerful artifact bound to her soul due to Mephistopheles swallowing it. This also explains why she was able to travel through time as well.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Yokoshima during the GS tournament arc. [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801308/v11/c104/2 Just look at that face]]. He continues to take several as the story goes on, culminating in him ''defeating the BigBad''.
* TournamentArc: We get one of these just a bit after the anime cuts off. Yokoshima and Mikami are there just to flush out Medusa's infiltrators. [[spoiler: This is where Yokoshima also gets ends up ''gaining spiritual powers of his own''.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Apparently par for the course for Touryu exorcists. It seems to be a big part of why Yumi [[AlphaBitch acts like she does]]--she can't stand the thought that all her effort and suffering were somehow unnecessary, if compared to the likes of Okinu and Ichimonji.
** Then there's what Michie puts Mikami through in order for her to be able to defeat Ashtaroth and Dogura...
** Before that there was Shouryuuki and Hanoman's training...though the latter consists of [[IKnowMortalKombat playing a fighting game for months on end]]. It's the test after that latter training that constitutes the "hell" part.
* TrickedOutTime: [[spoiler: After the war against Ashtaroth, Michie takes advantage of her last time jump to merely fake her death from five years ago. She reappears with a ''much'' calmer temper...[[BabiesEverAfter and a coming-along sibling for Mikami]]...]]
* VoicesAreMental: Averted when Dr. Chaos traded bodies with Yokoshima to eventually snatch Mikami's body. Creator/ShigeruChiba and Creator/RyoHorikawa did a marvelous job playing each other's characters.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Suzume, the last pixie alive, is introduced and made part of Mikami's crew for a grand total of two chapters, then is inmediately forgotten and unspoken of for the remainder of the series, with only a vague cameo indicating she's still around.
** [[spoiler: After Luciola performs her HeroicSacrifice and gives the rest of her energy to Yokoshima, Papilio and Vespa try to collect enough "soul fragments" to revive her (similar to the way Vespa was revived), but it turns out they're not enough. Adding part of another soul is not possible, as the result would not be Luciola. They can only find one solution: Yokoshima can father a child, passing the essence and the collected soul fragments down, but he needs to do it ''quick'' because the essence is not going to be with him forever. After mentioning this, it's never brought up again for the rest of the series. For a series like this, one would think they would be able to make a clone or homunculus of Yokoshima.]]
* WhipItGood: [[spoiler: What Mikami's shintsukon becomes after she powers up during Demian's attack on Myoushinzan.]]
* WhoYouGonnaCall: It's set in a world where several different ghost sweepers are available for hire.
* WigDressAccent: How Mikami infiltrates the tournament without Medusa catching on. Although, you'd think ''someone'' would have noticed how familiar her alias name--[[PaperThinDisguise Mika Rei]]--sounded.
** Well, Kankuro did...
* WithFriendsLikeThese: At least, with regard to how Okinu thinks that Mikami and Emi are friends, and their fervent business rivalry is actually fueled by it. No one else seems to share her opinion, though. Least of all Mikami and Emi.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Okinu. Kobato would probably be one if she wasn't so goddamn poor...
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: This seems to be Shiina's preferred understanding of time travel for this series. Spoilered examples from various points in the manga: [[spoiler: Mikami saving Yokoshima from getting skewered by Nuru; present Mikami interfering with Ashtaroth recapturing his super-demon's power core from her past life Mephistopheles; and present Mikami using forgetfulness monju to make herself and Yokoshima forget about the arrival of future Yokoshima, complete with his revelation that ''Yokoshima and Mikami will marry in the future''. The point about this last bit is that present Mikami did that to prevent herself from deliberately sabotaging her eventual marriage to Yokoshima because Future Mikami had written a letter to her past self impressing upon her how happy she was with the wedding; not to mention that she didn't seem to cure herself of the poisoning that necessitated her husband to time travel back into the past to save her in the first place (and the memory erasure prevented her from knowing about it until they discover it in the future), and Future Yokoshima is the only person who can time travel of his own volition.]] One thing to keep in mind, though, is that small changes to the past ''can'' occur, but will inevitably be reversed almost at once. So not so much as a single, unchanging, infinite, strand of thread as a single, unchanging, infinite thread with a few knots here and there. Multiple lines at a point, but still the same single chain of causality.
* YouCantFightFate: Dovetails with YouAlreadyChangedThePast above, a little. Mikami points out that the reason [[spoiler: things have gone so horribly, slapstically wrong for Ashtaroth since the Cosmo Processor was de-powered]] is because the universe is ''actively retaliating'' for the attempt to sway it from the shape it was trying to take and maintain from the beginning. Her example for how it works is her going back in time and [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct assassinating Hitler.]] As she points out, the cosmos wouldn't let its shape be altered like that for long; it'd just arrange for the Nazi movement to re-manifest. Amusingly, in her example, the new Nazi archon was ''John F. Kennedy''...
* YouKilledMyFather: Why Shiro is pursuing Inukai, even though the inukami elders think exiling Inukai would be both commensurate punishment for him ''and'' for [[GaiasVengeance harmful-to-nature humanity]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not your average trio of Ghostbusters]]

->''"I, Ghost Sweeper Reiko Mikami, will send you all to paradise!!"''
-->-- '''Reiko Mikami, in pretty much every chapter/episode'''

Overdevelopment and crowding in Japan has forced many of its indigenous spirits and ghosts to lose their homes. Due to problems caused by the homeless spirits, a new profession was created, the Ghost Sweepers (GS). Private exorcists for hire, they serve only the highest bidder to survive in the cut-throat corporate world. The Mikami GS Company, run by Reiko Mikami with her two assistants, Tadao Yokoshima and Okinu, is said to be the best.

The manga and anime setup is scenario-to-scenario, with many plots intertwining classic and modern (by 1990's standards) Japanese culture, with occasional references to Western influences. In between these plots are some longer story arcs where new characters are introduced and the existing ones are developed further. There isn't one ongoing storyline; the plots are character-driven, serving to gradually develop characters, especially the main protagonists.

This manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]]'' magazine, where it was serialized from 1991 to 1999. It was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough, Takashi Shiina's later series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the movie, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]).

The TV series ''was'' licensed in North America by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] to their [=YouTube=] channel with Sentai's translation.

''There is a [[Characters/GhostSweeperMikami character page]], so please post character tropes there.''

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!!This series provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Mikami, Emi, Shōryuki, Maria the combat android, [[spoiler: and Shiro]].
* ActionMom: Mikami's mother, she can even travel through time!
** She has appeared in the war-against-Ashtaroth arc....and has shown that her methods are quite...unethical, to put it mildly, showing to be willing to go to any length to defeat Ashtaroth. [[spoiler: Even willing to at least ''consider'' killing Mikami if she can't get strong enough, and ''actually going through with a strategy that involves sacrificing Yokoshima's life.'' Granted, she couldn't quite bring herself to finish it, but...]]
** And later on Yokoshima's, even Mikami admits she more then a match for her. She apprehends a planejacking terrorist in her first appearance, raise the stock value of the company she works for ''just by showing up'', and outfoxes Mikami into revealing her feelings for Yokoshima...well, almost.
* AdaptationDistillation: The manga takes about 6 chapters to deal with "the piper"; which gets kind of boring. The anime, takes one episode.
* AdjectiveNounFred
* AfterlifeExpress: One report is dedicated to a hijacked one.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The very last two chapters involves this; the far-future situation is revealed to be a dream in the end of second part. However, it appears to be a ''shared'' dream of Yokoshima and Mikami, with this quality making them briefly wonder if it actually was a sort of [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue peering-into-the-future vision.]]]]
* AlphaBitch: Yumi. What makes it worse is that she can't even stand the other students looking up to ''a successful GS like Mikami''. Keep in mind that she's at a school where Ghost Sweepers are trained--she'd keep them from having ''role models'', apparently.
** Yumi's anger in that situation came from the fact that she idolized Mikami as much any of them, and was jealous that Ichimonji was getting noticed by her idol rather than her. Her hate also stems from the fact that she went through TrainingFromHell since the day she was born to be a worthy successor to her ghostbusting family's name while Ichimonji apparently is just so gifted that she starts out at a point where she's already about equal to Yumi's level without needing much training.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Zig-zagged, the 2003 Italian dub of the TV series initially used a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE7gbHFgVg completely different song]] performed by Music/CristinaDAvena, but from episode 22 onwards they reverted to the original Japanese opening and ending
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Emi Ogasawara, who seems to share Mikami's background and training, with the exception of using voodoo for her exorcisms.
* AndIMustScream: A good chunk of the cast was at risk of this when they tried and failed to exorcise a cursed Crane Game. If you play it, and you fail to snag something, ''you'' become a doll prize. Inside the cursed game. Meaning that the only escape is for someone to successfully "win" you...and thus, risk getting trapped themselves.
* AnimeThemeSong: both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EloWc8_L5CY opening]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyV_jM8uS8Y ending]]. They're even used in the manga in a sing-off battle against a siren.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Subverted with Erito Kanenaruki, who's in actually in denial about the existence of ghosts thanks to his grandmother telling him scary stories as a child.
* BadBoss: Ashtaroth. He thought little of wrecking Dogura in his fury after the loss of the energy crystal. Of course, Dogura, being a sort of golem, could be easily restored. However, [[spoiler: he claims to have "disposed of" the bug sisters after they proved unable to find Mephistopheles/Mikami, even though he suggests that in the end, he might have been the only one who could have found her anyway. [[BerserkButton Yokoshima takes this poorly.]]]]
* BattleCouple: Yumi and [[spoiler:Yukinojou]] seem to be being set up as this. [[spoiler: Future Mikami and Yokoshima probably has this dynamic as well.]]
* TheBeastmaster: Meiko Rokudo is a ''shikigami'' tamer and can control a full twelve of them. However, her control over them relies heavily on her own self-control...and she has essentially ''none'' due to her insecurity.
** Meiko's mom, however, plays it more straight. Being much more experienced and level-headed, Mrs. Rokudo can even make the shikigami drink tea with her easily.
** It should be noted, however, that under Meiko's wing, they only lose control when she loses it. Anyone else who has had control of them (Emi and Mikami, among others) lose control of them on the instant they are summoned. A fellow shikigami tamer who was presented as being better than her even lost control and they started to attack him after he took control of more than three.
* BeautifulAllAlong: [[spoiler: [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801219/v18/c176/13 Shiro]] when we find out that [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801216/v18/c179/17 he is actually a she]], [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801207/v19/c183/6 not to mention she's hot]]]].
* BigBad: Ashtaroth.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Shizumo-hime basically has Mikami at her mercy, and Okinu trapped herself in a dummy root. All is lost, right? [[http://www.onemanga.com/Ghost_Sweeper_Mikami/201/17/ Nope]].]]
** [[spoiler: Ashtaroth's final attack was deflected thanks to the timely intervention of Satan and God.]]
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Yumi. In her case, they're constantly sparkling, which makes for an unsettling experience of their own. It's actually a dig at 60's & 70's shoujo comics which feature such eyes prominently. Yokoshima even sports them when he came to the school and try to pick up girls.
* BrattyHalfPint: The Dragon Prince.
* BreakingTheFourthWall / NoFourthWall: Usually just the Narrator. At other times a character may reference an volume/episode or address the audience directly, much as a theater comedy would.
* {{Butt Monkey}}: Yokoshima, even when he's not trying.
-->'''Dr. Chaos:''' The boys and girls who're watching this show already know what's going on, so I'm going to skip on the explanation!
** Lampshaded in that Dogura and the bug sisters--villains, mind you--treat him ''more nicely'' than the good guys.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Yokoshima gets into quite a scrap with his father early on--he's sick to undeath of Daishuu's philandering (remember that Yokoshima is actually honest about his overagitated sex drive), and his trying to trick Mikami into his bed is the last straw. This kind of confrontation also happens with [[spoiler: Mikami, whose past life Mephistopheles was created/"fathered" by [[BigBad Ashtaroth]].]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Emi, to Pete.
* CombatPragmatist: Saijou, which makes for an...interesting...juxtaposition with his proclaimed [[HypocriticalHumor dedication to justice]]. One could argue, though, that he's more concerned with just ends than just means.
* CosmicPlaything: Yokoshima, seriously. If he's not in some unpleasant situation by the end of a chapter due to Mikami's neglect or abuse (if it's not his own fault of course), then it's a whole chapter made to screw him over. Poor guy.
* CrapSaccharineWorld
* CrashIntoHello: Yokoshima and [[spoiler: the resurrected Okinu]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yokoshima when he actually puts his mind to it. Even Mikami begins to realize it in later chapters. [[spoiler: He's the one who delivers the final blow to [[BigBad Ashtaroth]], by the way.]]
* CurbStompBattle: The [[spoiler: restored Medusa and Kankuro]] don't even last a full ''chapter's'' worth against the heroes. Actually, [[spoiler: Kankuro]] didn't even last more than a ''page''.
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: {tense prelude close-up} [[spoiler: Kankuro]]...{next frame shows [[spoiler: Yukinojou]] victorious without even a scratch on his armor} I'm way out of your league now! I'm in a hurry, bye! Catch you later!
--> [[spoiler: '''Kankuro''']]: [[LampshadeHanging Characters in shounen manga are always gaining strength too fast!]]
** Another version of the translation:
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: *Tense close up* [[spoiler: Kankuro...]]
--> *Next frame*
--> [[spoiler: '''Yukinojou''']]: You've been dead for a long time, man. I'm way out of your league now!
--> [[spoiler: '''Kankuro''']]: I hate the power inflation rate of shonen manga!
** This was justified by Luciola mentioning that the resurrected characters only come back with the strength they had when they were still alive. The heroes are ''much'' stronger at this point, so the restored spirits are pretty much just annoyances to the heroes. Nonetheless, it was cool [[spoiler: seeing Medusa get owned by Yokoshima. Especially since it's the ''second'' time she lost to him]].
* CuteGhostGirl: Okinu, arguably Aiko?[[spoiler: She's actually the spiritual essence of an old schooldesk, but consistently manifests as a ghostly schoolgirl]]
* CuteMonsterGirl: Likewise with a few of various youkai the characters encounter.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The masoujutsu, or Demon Armor Art. Gives you amazing strength and resilience, but use it for too long, and ''you'' become a demon. [[spoiler: Yukinojou has the presence of mind to disengage it before that can happen. Innen doesn't, and one gets the feeling Kankuro ''welcomed'' it.]]
* DeathSeeker: Believe it or not, this was [[spoiler: the whole intent behind Ashtaroth's schemes--to get himself killed, at least if he couldn't make it impossible for himself to ever be held as a villain. It doesn't help he thought that the latter would be inevitable so long as the god/demon equipoise persisted.]])
** Later on, there's [[spoiler: Kimihiko Amatsuga, a man who's cursed with uncontrollable telepathy--he can't avoid reading others' memories, and it is ''agonizing''. He finally finds a way to die meaningfully when he uses his telepathy to draw the demon Tubular Bell into himself, expecting Michie and Karasu to kill them simultaneously. Not that it happens this way, since Kimihiko is ''Reiko's future father''...]]
* DemotedToExtra: Most of the cast after the tournament arc. Meiko, Dr.chaos, Pete, Emi, just to name a few.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: In some cases, specially [[spoiler: Yukinojou]].
* Dubtitle: The now out of print DVD release of Manga Entertainment's awful dub of the movie has this rather than a proper subtitle translation. This is ''thankfully'' averted with [[Creator/SentaiFilmworks Sentai]]'s release of the TV series, granted those DVD releases were sub-only to begin with.
* EasternZodiac: The basis of Meiko's shikigami retinue.
* EmptyQuiver: Part of how Ashtaroth tries to blackmail Mikami to his lair. In ''this'' case, [[spoiler: Papilio's hijacked several nuclear submarines, and if Our Heroes start making things difficult for him, the missiles will ransack ''the entire world''. He ''actually launches them'' when Yokoshima saves Mikami and Luciola from certain death, and indirectly saves Michie by saving Luciola...]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Mikami's beauty is remarked on by both males and females, and Meiko is pretty much in love with her.
* EvilWeapon: [[spoiler: The posessed shaving razor that carried out the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper killings]]. Early on in the series, there's also a demonic sword that tries to kill Mikami while possessing Yokoshima, but runs afoul of her [[CombatPragmatist concealed ceramic armor]].
* {{Fanservice}}: It's written by Takashi Shiina, so it really isn't surprising, but it's done in a tasteful manner, but seriously you have to expect it by [[http://img1.cdn.crunchyroll.com/i/spire3/6052da867b10ebc01e53a8fbc034841a1227141904_full.jpg just looking at Mikami]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] a few times too.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: Features Mikami and the gang going up against feudal BigBad UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga and his loyal henchman Ranmaru.
* FireIceLightning: Nuru's favored means of personal combat.
* FreudianTrio: Lust-addled Yokoshima would be the id, workaholic, money-obsessed Mikami the superego, and calm-tempered Okinu the ego.
* AGodAmI: Ashtaroth certainly likes to think of himself as one, at least as far as his creations are concerned. In addition, he plans to displace ''all'' the current gods and take their place as a sole god without any peers, his idea of putting an end to the god/demon wars.
* {{Gonk}}: Mega-hime, in ''immense'' contrast to her noble, self-sacrificing nature. And ''that's'' in contrast to her somewhat classist father. Ugliness is only skin-deep, indeed...
* {{Greed}}: Mikami, of course.
** This actually got her into major trouble when [[spoiler: Ashtaroth used it to his advantage to lure her into a trap.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Yokoshima's past self actually inflicts one on himself when Mikami's demonic past self offers herself to him. He insists that despite his tendency toward perversion, he wants there to be real love when it comes time to do the deed. Naturally, Mikami's past self wonders WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove?]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Michie. She's still oscillating back and forth a bit on this, but...
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Yukinojou when he becomes disenchanted with Medusa's win-at-all-costs mentality, Luciola when she falls for Yokoshima and thus becomes open to the idea of keeping humanity in one piece, Papilio when Mikami explains why Yokoshima held back on her (even if Mikami's explanation was at least somewhat fictitious).]]
* HeelRealization: Yumi, on finding out Ichimonji was not as lazy as she had thought her to be.
* HeroicSacrifice: Yokoshima jumping in front of Luciola to protect her from a blast from Vespa that would surley kill her. Keep in mind that Luciola was intercepting Vespa in a Heroic Sacrifice of her ''own'' so Yokoshima would have an opportunity to release Mikami from Ashtaroth's clutches.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Yakuchin, to absolutely JerkAss degrees.
* [[spoiler: HumanPopsicle: Inverted in that Okinu was actually killed by the sacrifice ritual that froze her into a block of ice, but the ritual was actually designed so that after the purpose of the the sacrifice was fulfilled, her body would be perfectly prepared for quick resurrection.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: Pietro aka Pete is actually half-vampire, half-human. And yes, he hates his father Count Vlado.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Like in any other battle manga, this happens a lot. Specially when Mikami is involved, and she can cheat someway or another.
* InsultedAwake: When Mikami had her HeroicBSOD after getting recruited by Saijo into the G-men and forced to work for fixed pay and free charity events, the thing that snaps her back is Yokoshima making a move on her like he usually does.
* UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: An interesting version in this series. [[spoiler: There ''was'' no single person known as Jack the Ripper. Instead, a razor became possessed with a bloodthirsty spirit, and controlled its victims in turn. In other words, each prostitute had been slain by the ''previous'' dead prostitute.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Mikami most of the time, especially when money is involved. The thing of it is she doesn't even realize it, and when told directly about it she tries to deny it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the flipside though, Mikami does have a few rare moments of "humility", where she can be kind enough when she feels like it.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kankuro, Beelzebub, Medusa, Luciola, Ashtaroth]].
* LethalChef: The binboukami has a pretty good sense of nutrition. Unfortunately, he forgets that "nutritious" and "delectable" or even ''"edible"'' aren't always the same thing. To give an idea, the "nutritious" burger he made are later used to perform soul-body seperation, simply by biting it once. To the uninitiated, this means that the burger has the ability to make you ''lose consciousness'' in one bite. They had to use metal bats prior to that...
* LickingTheBlade: There's a serial killer in the Shiro vs. Tamamo arc who does this. [[spoiler: Although this takes on some curious overtones, since the ''razor itself'' is the killer, possessing its victims...]]
* LockedInAFreezer: In one episode, Okinu gets trapped in a bottle by Dr. Chaos, then stashed in a refrigerator.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: Mikami falls prey to one designed by Ashtaroth, Vespa, and Dogura, meant specifically to get her to lower her guard so Ashtaroth could yank out the energy crystal. One unique feature of this one: While Mikami experienced two months inside of it, only three days had passed in reality. Also, the dream-come-true that Ashtaroth used to manipulate Mikami was the resuscitation of her old, normal, ridiculously-high-profit business schedule.]]
** Actually happened several other times during the series.
* LouisCypher: Ashi Yuutarou, a man similar in looks to Ashtaroth. Mikami even thinks at first that this is a PaperThinDisguise for Ashtaroth, but it turns out he's an ordinary human with unfortunately similar name and looks. [[spoiler: Then it turns out he ''is'' Ashtaroth, and his Ashi stint was just to get Mikami to lower her guard inside the galaxy egg.]]
* LovableSexManiac: Yokoshima, but you can't blame him, Yokoshima's a typical 17-year-old guy with a healthy libido, and it doesn't help that Mikami is a hot and sexually attractive 20-year-old.
** It makes even more sense when you consider that his father, Daishuu, is an unrepentant [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. Looks like he inherited a measure of that...
*** It gets better. It turns out that Daishuu acts very much like Yokoshima does when trying to woo the woman who would be Yokoshima's mother ... and the latter acts ''exactly'' like Mikami does when rebuffing his over-the-top advances. Yokoshima's probably just taking a few notes from his parents' experience. Mikami was, quite understandably, disturbed.
** Later on, it turns out that Yokoshima's past life, Takashima, was a womanizer on par with Daishuu. If you were a woman in Heian-era Kyoto, no matter your class, Takashima was probably interested in you.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Medusa, despite being a dragon god in her own right, is a member of Astaroth's faction of demons. She lets this slip when she refers to the possibility of being given an order to assassinate Mikami or her mother.]]
* MediumAwareness: Not to the point that the FourthWall is non-existent, but it happens quite a bit. Some notable examples include Mikami snarling that Yokoshima's lasciviousness is pushing the boundaries of shounen manga; commenting that she's gone the course of the manga without killing anyone living (and that she wouldn't mind interrupting that if she gets to take down Medusa and/or Kankuro); and engaging in a singing contest with a siren using the ''anime's opening song''. There's even a point where Yokoshima disparaged the ''author'', who immediately [[DeusExMachina sends down a bolt of lightning to fry him, on a sunny day, and in broad daylight]]. The frequency rises somewhat as the series goes on.
* {{Miko}}: Okinu, until her death. Now she's a lovable ghost girl.
* MoodWhiplash: Has a habit of going from tense to comedy and back again. Lampshaded on a few occasions.
* MurderousMannequin: In Chapter 38 and Episode 33, a youkai takes a mannequin as body when, for aesthetic reasons, it's placed on a pentagram that under a certain angle of light completely throws off the feng shui of the store. The mannequin goes on the run, donning various disguises and turning whoever it can into non-living mannequins. (In the anime, it specifically targets the ghost sweepers.) Mikami manages to destroy it with Okinu's help.
* MyBelovedSmother: Yokoshima's mother, Yuriko. She's a general ControlFreak who will not suffer ''anything'' to not go her way. This includes Yokoshima not wanting to live with her ''or'' Daishuu, ''and'' him working with Mikami. Thing is, she's actually one of, if not ''the'' most rational person in the series, as admitted by Mikami herself. There's a ridiculously short supply of rational thought and behavior in the manga.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Dr. Chaos has a continuously solved version of this. Because of his lifespan and studies, his brain is ''literally'' full with information. Whenever he learns something new, his brain just overwrites something earlier. This leads to a spotty form of amnesia, to the point where even though he can understand the nature of the Tenshi Luopan, he completely forgets that 2+2 is 4, not 5...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Mikami unbinding Okinu from Mt. Orochi had a rather unpleasant side-effect. Namely, de-sealing the earth vein that a demonic plant was barred from draining. Why? The seal was ''Okinu's own soul.'']]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Mikami thinks that Ashtaroth is ''finally'' out of her hair after [[spoiler: he and Vespa get pounded with a swarm of nuclear missiles that Papilio called back]]. However, the fact that Hyakume still isn't getting any better makes Saijou think that this isn't the case. There's also the scene of Dogura (who admittedly thrives on radioactive material anyway) making its own escape...
* TheOjou: Meiko.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Ashtaroth, who considers the whole cosmos to have been rotten with death and decay from the start, and so plans to not merely conquer the cosmos, but erase and [[InTheirOwnImage rewrite it to match his (in his eyes) rot-proof will.]] Although, Mikami had [[ShutUpHannibal called him out a bit ''before'' he uttered as much]], after sensing that intent in the galaxy egg. "You're no different from an immature child who hates school and thus decides to burn down his school!"]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Almost every single possible type. [[spoiler: Though in the [[AllJustADream Dream of the future]] the three end up to be type 6.]]
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The inukami, of a sort. They're also [[spoiler: descendants of Fenrir]]. The main traits they keep in human form are the tail and the fangs. There's also Tamamo, a kyuube no kitsune whose hair in human form resembles the nine tails of her fox form.
* OutWithABang: After the Mephistopheles incident, Ashtaroth decided to prevent a repeat occurrence by installing several failsafes in his later created servants that would kill them if they took any similar steps. Bedding a human? Breaks failsafe #7. [[spoiler: Once he learns about that, Yokoshima can't bring himself to bed Luciola, at least until Ashtaroth and his failsafes are dead and gone.]]
* PerpetualPoverty: Dr. Chaos is ''the'' epitome of this. No matter what he does to try to get his rent money, it backfires on him. Kobato and her mother were also caught in this, until Yokoshima lifted the curse attached to the binboukami. It's taking some time to properly wane, though. Yokoshima also suffers from this, due the absurdly low salary Reiko pays him, though that seems to be changing after he developed his own spiritual powers.
* PetTheDog: After Meiko [[AdrenalineMakeover temporarily shreds]] [[LetsGetDangerous her shyness]] to [[spoiler: save Mikami from a LotusEaterMachine]], Mikami pets the exhausted Meiko and decides ''for once'' to care more for her than for the money prize. She's also shown to care about Yokoshima a ''lot'' more than she'll ever admit.
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Hinome, Mikami's new baby sister]] and Tamamo.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Shiro is accelerated from about six to about twelve or thirteen by adsorbing a lot of ki from Mikami and Yokoshima to heal the wounds inflicted by Inukai. [[spoiler: As a result, we discover that [[SamusIsAGirl Shiro isn't a boy, but a girl]].]]
* ThePowerOfLust: Tadao Yokoshima has always been [[AllMenArePerverts driven for girls]] and that's the main reason why he works for [[{{Stripperiffic}} Reiko Mikami]] despite her abuse and the low payments. But later it's discovered that he has spiritual abilities that are powered by lust. They're seen for first time early on in the manga, and in one episode of the anime series, in which he serves as "spirit battery" for [[TheRival Emi Ogasawara]]. He eventually develops this power and becomes a proper ghost sweeper, even rivalizing in power with Mikami herself.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Yokoshima uses one of his [[spoiler:Monju beads]] to make a demon fall in love with him. Time will tell whether he uses it that way again. The possibilities are endless, and a LovableSexManiac of his caliber wouldn't let them go untried.
** It happens in the very next story arc--he tries to use one to peer into the showers of a school while some of the students are in there. Only running into an emerging Okinu stops him.
* PureIsNotGood: Or rather, Pure Is Not Good Enough, when it comes to Marin's arts. She thinks it's enough to cleanse a place of all its current taints, but all that does is let weaker wraiths flock in with all the competition gone. In other words, the purity she induces can actually make things ''worse''.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Thanks to Hyakume, Yokoshima and Mikami get to learn about the past existences of three characters. Saijou/Saigou is as straight-arrow as ever, Yokoshima/Takashima is as lust-ridden and antagonistic towards Saijou/Saigou as ever, and Mikami...[[spoiler: was originally ''A FRESHLY CRAFTED DEMON NAMED MEPHISTOPHELES.'']]
** Medusa pulls off a rather impressive one during the space arc. [[spoiler: On the verge of being defeated after taking hit from both Makami and Yokoshima, she resort to a desperate tactic of kissing Yokoshima and implanting some of her essence in him. Yokoshima later spits it out where it grows into a younger (or, in his words, "fresher") version of her.]]
** And then, at the close of the War-Against-Ashtaroth arc, [[spoiler: there's the promise that Luciola can be reincarnated early--as Yokoshima's child. For once, his lust overdrive can have ''good'' fruit, so long as he [[ParentalIncest avoids the obvious problem]].]]
** It is also said that in a future (which is not shown in the manga) [[spoiler: Luciola will Reincarnate into Yokoshima's daughter]]
* RetGone: Dr. Chaos tried to feed a P.E.T. poison that was supposed to do this to Mikami. Yokoshima was hit instead, and his history was steadily erased from present to past. [[spoiler: It was only stopped when his history regressed to his being a months-old baby, and a five- or six-year old Mikami passed by, cooed at the adorable kid, and kissed him on the cheek--a repeat of the {{Accidental Kiss}} that was seared into his memory just before getting poisoned. That repeat of "fate" undid the poison's effects.]]
* TheRival: Yukinojou feels this way towards Yokoshima. Yokoshima is somewhat oblivious to this, something that becomes way funnier when its revealed that [[spoiler: both of them had dueled before...while they were children...in an RC car tournament..and Yokoshima won]]
** Reika and Emi of course
** And there's a story where a popular movie star shows up and Yokoshima very much threats him like this because in school he was always super popular while he kept being harassed by the girls over his friendship with him, and as a final twist of the knife, the day before Yokoshima was left the school they went to together, he had been planning to ask out the girl he had a crush on, but saw his pal making the love confession to her already. Of course at the end came the twist where the Movie Star recalled that when he made said confession, the girl had told him she actually liked Yokoshima better, and there was ''fierce competition''.
* RomanticFalseLead: Saijou, the former apprentice of Mikami's mother. Yokoshima just gets more resolutely desperate to win Mikami back to his side (via keeping the agency in the black, of course).
* RPGEpisode: There was one chapter/episode where they were sucked into a possessed {{RPG}}.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Shiro, who started off looking like a small boy till she absorbed some power from Mikami and revealed her true gender]].
* ShoutOut: ([[ShoutOut/GhostSweeperMikami see the subpage]])
* ShrinkingViolet: Meiko. Oh God, ''Meiko''
** And it's ''hereditary''. [[spoiler: The original Rokudou]] is, if anything, even more childish and spookable. Meiko's mother manages to keep a cap on it most of the time, at least as long as she can keep her aggressive demeanor going.
* SmokingIsCool: If his demeanor then is anything to go by, that's why Karasu was smoking back in 1978. On the other hand, getting winded trying to climb up the Sunshine building does convince him that quitting's a smart move...
* SupervillainLair: The War-Against-Ashtaroth arc has fun with this one. The heroes are trying to figure out just where on Earth Gyakutengou has been docked for repairs, and are checking every desolate and/or hard-to-reach place for this. [[spoiler: In reality, the bug sisters and Dogura are operating out of a cheap, cozy, unassuming house on the outskirts of Tokyo, and Gyakutengou has been shrunk to the size of a real-life Hercules beetle, and repairs itself by [[LivingShip feeding on tree sap, just like a real Hercules beetle]]. Yokoshima [[LampshadeHanging isn't sure this is in accord with the rules of shounen manga.]]]]
* SissyVillain: Ashtaroth. In appearance only.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Medusa and Ashtaroth]] ''really'' detest losing.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The fate of Yodogawa, an author ghost who isn't defeated by Mikami, but rather a female author who had tagged along with them. Both authors get into an argument on writing styles (Yodogawa sounds like he takes after Creator/YukioMishima while his name is based on EdogawaRanpo, Anna is general popular mystery-thriller) and Yodogawa ''exorcises himself'' when he finds out how many books the female author sold, proclaiming "Literature is dead!".
* TarotMotifs: Each character has a Trump card in the manga, while only a few are shown in the anime as AdBumpers, and use French for the card names. The full list can be found [[http://gs-mikami.wikia.com/wiki/Tarot_cards here.]]
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: Mikami's past life being a created demon name Mephistopheles. Explaining why demons are after her as she has a powerful artifact bound to her soul due to Mephistopheles swallowing it. This also explains why she was able to travel through time as well.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Yokoshima during the GS tournament arc. [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801308/v11/c104/2 Just look at that face]]. He continues to take several as the story goes on, culminating in him ''defeating the BigBad''.
* TournamentArc: We get one of these just a bit after the anime cuts off. Yokoshima and Mikami are there just to flush out Medusa's infiltrators. [[spoiler: This is where Yokoshima also gets ends up ''gaining spiritual powers of his own''.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Apparently par for the course for Touryu exorcists. It seems to be a big part of why Yumi [[AlphaBitch acts like she does]]--she can't stand the thought that all her effort and suffering were somehow unnecessary, if compared to the likes of Okinu and Ichimonji.
** Then there's what Michie puts Mikami through in order for her to be able to defeat Ashtaroth and Dogura...
** Before that there was Shouryuuki and Hanoman's training...though the latter consists of [[IKnowMortalKombat playing a fighting game for months on end]]. It's the test after that latter training that constitutes the "hell" part.
* TrickedOutTime: [[spoiler: After the war against Ashtaroth, Michie takes advantage of her last time jump to merely fake her death from five years ago. She reappears with a ''much'' calmer temper...[[BabiesEverAfter and a coming-along sibling for Mikami]]...]]
* VoicesAreMental: Averted when Dr. Chaos traded bodies with Yokoshima to eventually snatch Mikami's body. Creator/ShigeruChiba and Creator/RyoHorikawa did a marvelous job playing each other's characters.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Suzume, the last pixie alive, is introduced and made part of Mikami's crew for a grand total of two chapters, then is inmediately forgotten and unspoken of for the remainder of the series, with only a vague cameo indicating she's still around.
** [[spoiler: After Luciola performs her HeroicSacrifice and gives the rest of her energy to Yokoshima, Papilio and Vespa try to collect enough "soul fragments" to revive her (similar to the way Vespa was revived), but it turns out they're not enough. Adding part of another soul is not possible, as the result would not be Luciola. They can only find one solution: Yokoshima can father a child, passing the essence and the collected soul fragments down, but he needs to do it ''quick'' because the essence is not going to be with him forever. After mentioning this, it's never brought up again for the rest of the series. For a series like this, one would think they would be able to make a clone or homunculus of Yokoshima.]]
* WhipItGood: [[spoiler: What Mikami's shintsukon becomes after she powers up during Demian's attack on Myoushinzan.]]
* WhoYouGonnaCall: It's set in a world where several different ghost sweepers are available for hire.
* WigDressAccent: How Mikami infiltrates the tournament without Medusa catching on. Although, you'd think ''someone'' would have noticed how familiar her alias name--[[PaperThinDisguise Mika Rei]]--sounded.
** Well, Kankuro did...
* WithFriendsLikeThese: At least, with regard to how Okinu thinks that Mikami and Emi are friends, and their fervent business rivalry is actually fueled by it. No one else seems to share her opinion, though. Least of all Mikami and Emi.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Okinu. Kobato would probably be one if she wasn't so goddamn poor...
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: This seems to be Shiina's preferred understanding of time travel for this series. Spoilered examples from various points in the manga: [[spoiler: Mikami saving Yokoshima from getting skewered by Nuru; present Mikami interfering with Ashtaroth recapturing his super-demon's power core from her past life Mephistopheles; and present Mikami using forgetfulness monju to make herself and Yokoshima forget about the arrival of future Yokoshima, complete with his revelation that ''Yokoshima and Mikami will marry in the future''. The point about this last bit is that present Mikami did that to prevent herself from deliberately sabotaging her eventual marriage to Yokoshima because Future Mikami had written a letter to her past self impressing upon her how happy she was with the wedding; not to mention that she didn't seem to cure herself of the poisoning that necessitated her husband to time travel back into the past to save her in the first place (and the memory erasure prevented her from knowing about it until they discover it in the future), and Future Yokoshima is the only person who can time travel of his own volition.]] One thing to keep in mind, though, is that small changes to the past ''can'' occur, but will inevitably be reversed almost at once. So not so much as a single, unchanging, infinite, strand of thread as a single, unchanging, infinite thread with a few knots here and there. Multiple lines at a point, but still the same single chain of causality.
* YouCantFightFate: Dovetails with YouAlreadyChangedThePast above, a little. Mikami points out that the reason [[spoiler: things have gone so horribly, slapstically wrong for Ashtaroth since the Cosmo Processor was de-powered]] is because the universe is ''actively retaliating'' for the attempt to sway it from the shape it was trying to take and maintain from the beginning. Her example for how it works is her going back in time and [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct assassinating Hitler.]] As she points out, the cosmos wouldn't let its shape be altered like that for long; it'd just arrange for the Nazi movement to re-manifest. Amusingly, in her example, the new Nazi archon was ''John F. Kennedy''...
* YouKilledMyFather: Why Shiro is pursuing Inukai, even though the inukami elders think exiling Inukai would be both commensurate punishment for him ''and'' for [[GaiasVengeance harmful-to-nature humanity]].

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* TheRival: Yukinojou feels this way towards Yokoshima. Yokoshima is somewhat oblivious to this, something that becomes way funnier when its revealed that [[spoiler: both of them had dueled before...while they were children...in an RC car tournament..and Yokoshima won]]
** Reika and Emi of course
** And there's a story where a popular movie star shows up and Yokoshima very much threats him like this because in school he was always super popular while he kept being harassed by the girls over his friendship with him, and as a final twist of the knife, the day before Yokoshima was left the school they went to together, he had been planning to ask out the girl he had a crush on, but saw his pal making the love confession to her already. Of course at the end came the twist where the Movie Star recalled that when he made said confession, the girl had told him she actually liked Yokoshima better, and there was ''fierce competition''.


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** Reika and Emi of course
** And there's a story where a popular movie star shows up and Yokoshima very much threats him like this because in school he was always super popular while he kept being harassed by the girls over his friendship with him, and as a final twist of the knife, the day before Yokoshima was left the school they went to together, he had been planning to ask out the girl he had a crush on, but saw his pal making the love confession to her already. Of course at the end came the twist where the Movie Star recalled that when he made said confession, the girl had told him she actually liked Yokoshima better, and there was ''fierce competition''.


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** And then, at the close of the War-Against-Ashtaroth arc, [[spoiler: there's the promise that Luciola can be reincarnated early--as Yokoshima's child. For once, his lust overdrive can have ''good'' fruit, so long as he [[IncestIsRelative avoids the obvious problem]].]]

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This 1991 manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's [[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]] and was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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This 1991 manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's [[Magazine/ShonenSunday ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]] and Sunday]]'' magazine, where it was serialized from 1991 to 1999. It was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough enough, Takashi Shiina's most recent later series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Okinu embodies this literally. Emi, meanwhile, has dark green hair.
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The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the OVA, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]).

The anime ''was'' licensed in North America by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] on their [=YouTube=] channel with Sentai's translation.

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The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the OVA, movie, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]).

The anime TV series ''was'' licensed in North America by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] on to their [=YouTube=] channel with Sentai's translation.
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The anime ''was'' licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] on their YouTube channel with Sentai's translation.

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The anime ''was'' licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks, Creator/SentaiFilmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] on their YouTube [=YouTube=] channel with Sentai's translation.
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This 1991 manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's [[Creator/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]] and was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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This 1991 manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's [[Creator/ShonenSunday [[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]] and was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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The 1991 manga was adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the OVA, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]). Now the unthinkable has happened: [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2010-08-04/sentai-filmworks-ghost-sweeper-mikami-tv-license the anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks]].

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The This 1991 manga was created by Takashi Shiina for Shogakukan's [[Creator/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]] and was later adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

The anime series has a small fanbase in North America, leading Manga Entertainment to release the OVA, but it received a [[BlindIdiotTranslation terrible]] English dub; and strangely in the UK, Manga Entertainment decided to license the final episodes of the series. The [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American dub]], on the other hand, was fairly respectful and had good cast choices, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff helping the series reach cult status amongst anime fans]] ([[VindicatedByReruns reruns probably helped]]). Now the unthinkable has happened: [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2010-08-04/sentai-filmworks-ghost-sweeper-mikami-tv-license the

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anime has been ''was'' licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks]].
Filmworks, but the license has since expired and the DVD's have long since gone out of print. Fortunately, Toei uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx8BnXgzlajfwImPaXQj8IqKvj6yQ_0S the entire series]] on their YouTube channel with Sentai's translation.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Zig-zagged, the 2003 Italian dub of the TV series initially used a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE7gbHFgVg completely different song]] performed by Cristina D'Avena, but from episode 22 onwards they reverted to the original Japanese opening and ending

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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Zig-zagged, the 2003 Italian dub of the TV series initially used a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE7gbHFgVg completely different song]] performed by Cristina D'Avena, Music/CristinaDAvena, but from episode 22 onwards they reverted to the original Japanese opening and ending
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* SchoolgirlLesbians: Meiko is infatuated with Mikami [[LoveAtFirstPunch after she reprimands her for crying and letting her shikigami go loose.]]

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* FreudianTrio: Lust-addled Yokoshima would be the id, workaholic, money-obsessed Mikami the superego, and calm-tempered Okinu the ego.



* PowerTrio: Lust-addled Yokoshima would be the id, workaholic, money-obsessed Mikami the superego, and calm-tempered Okinu the ego.
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The 1991 manga was adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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The 1991 manga was adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' ''Anime/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.
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* BeautifulAllAlong: [[spoiler: [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333383/13 Shiro]] when we find out that [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333386/17 he is actually a she]], [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333390/6 not to mention she's hot]]]].

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* BeautifulAllAlong: [[spoiler: [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333383/13 [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801219/v18/c176/13 Shiro]] when we find out that [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333386/17 [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801216/v18/c179/17 he is actually a she]], [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333390/6 [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801207/v19/c183/6 not to mention she's hot]]]].



* BreakingTheFourthWall / NoFourthWall: Usually just the Narrator. At other times a character may reference an issue/episode or address the audience directly, much as a theater comedy would.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall / NoFourthWall: Usually just the Narrator. At other times a character may reference an issue/episode volume/episode or address the audience directly, much as a theater comedy would.



* TookALevelInBadass: Yokoshima during the GS tournament arc. [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333312/2 Just look at that face]]. He continues to take several as the story goes on, culminating in him ''defeating the BigBad''.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Yokoshima during the GS tournament arc. [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/333312/2 [[https://v2.mangapark.net/manga/ghost-sweeper-mikami/i1801308/v11/c104/2 Just look at that face]]. He continues to take several as the story goes on, culminating in him ''defeating the BigBad''.
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* [[spoiler: AllJustADream: The very last pair of files involves this; the far-future situation in the first file is revealed to be a dream in the second file. However, it appears to be a ''shared'' dream of Yokoshima and Mikami, with this quality making them briefly wonder if it actually was a sort of [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue peering-into-the-future vision.]]]]

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* [[spoiler: AllJustADream: The very last pair of files two chapters involves this; the far-future situation in the first file is revealed to be a dream in the end of second file.part. However, it appears to be a ''shared'' dream of Yokoshima and Mikami, with this quality making them briefly wonder if it actually was a sort of [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue peering-into-the-future vision.]]]]
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The 1991 manga was adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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The 1991 manga was adapted into an anime in 1993 by Creator/ToeiAnimation, and aired on Creator/TVAsahi from April 11, 1993 to March 9, 1994 on Sunday mornings [[note]]Its time slot is currently occupied by ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' and [[LongRunner has been since 2004]][[/note]] (strangely enough Takashi Shiina's most recent series ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'' ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' also aired on Sunday mornings). A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries movie]] was released in 1994, which features some great swordfighting choreography, as well as some face time for most of the main characters. There was even a [[NoExportForYou Japan exclusive]] platformer videogame that came out in 1993 on the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}. Meanwhile the manga continued on into 1999 with 39 volumes.

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