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Re-Kan!(レーカン!,Rēkan!, lit. "Sixth Sense!") is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Hinako Seta, serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Jumbo magazine. Re-Kan! was first published as a one-shot in Manga Time Jumbo's December 2009 issue, and it later began serialization with the February 2010 issue. It has been collected into four tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Pierrot+ aired in Japan between April and June 2015.
High school girl Hibiki Amami has a sixth sense of perceiving and interacting with ghosts and supernatural beings as well as talking with cats and other animals. She transfers to a new school called Hanazuka Prefectural High School, but none of her peers share that ability. She becomes friends with some girls who put up with her antics. Class representative Narumi Inoue despises anything related to the occult but eventually becomes friends with Amami due to the latter's character. The story follows their everyday antics.
Humans
Hibiki Amami(天海 響,Amami Hibiki)
Voiced by: Ibuki Kido (anime), Aya Endō (drama CD)A beautiful yet slightly air-headed high school student who has the ability to sense and to interact with supernatural beings such as ghosts and spirits, passed down from her late mother. She is very polite and always treats both humans and ghosts alike with respect.
Narumi Inoue(井上 成美,Inoue Narumi)
Voiced by: Miku Itō (anime), Haruka Tomatsu (drama CD)Hibiki's classmate who becomes friends with her, despite being generally terrified of the ghosts surrounding her. She is usually not too honest with her feelings and is considered a "granny's girl", often being haunted by the spirit of her late grandmother.
Kana Uehara(上原 佳菜,Uehara Kana)
Voiced by: Riho Iida (anime), Kana Hanazawa (drama CD)Hibiki's classmate who is childhood friends with Kyoko. Her hobby is taking pictures of ghosts, which become visible when viewed through a cellphone, and uploading them to her top-ranked supernatural blog.
Kyōko Esumi(江角 京子,Esumi Kyōko)
Voiced by: M.A.O (anime), Eri Kitamura (drama CD)Hibiki's classmate who is childhood friends with Kana. She has a rough personality, usually the first to attack Kenta when he acts stupid, but is compassionate and helps those in trouble. She is a former delinquent, with the nickname "Red-haired Messiah" (灼髪の救世主,Shakuhatsu no Meshia), almost always getting angry when someone brings it up.
Makoto Ogawa(小川 真琴,Ogawa Makoto)
Voiced by: Erii Yamazaki (anime), Ayana Taketatsu (drama CD)Hibiki's classmate. A bright and cheerful airhead who has an obsession with creepily made zombie dolls, of which her friends are often fearful.
Kenta Yamada(山田 健太,Yamada Kenta)
Voiced by: Yoshitaka Yamaya (anime), Yusuke Shirai (drama CD)Hibiki's classmate, and the sole male in her group of friends. Often considered a doofus among his friends, his overly cheerful attitude and sometimes dimwitted remarks often get him clobbered by Kyoko.
Asahi Amami(天海 朝陽,Amami Asahi)
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (anime), Shin-ichiro Miki (drama CD)Hibiki's father. Similar to Narumi, he doesn't like ghosts, and the relationship with his wife supernatural ability made his hair turn prematurely white over a short duration of time.
Voiced by: Shuhei KajikawaKenta's older brother who works as a police officer. He has a crush on Kyoko, whom he had previously encountered during her delinquent days.
Ghosts
Roll Call Samurai(代返侍,Daihenzamurai)
Voiced by: Yoshihisa Kawahara (anime), Kenyu Horiuchi (drama CD)The ghost of a samurai who died of hunger and after Amami gave him food, he started to protect her and do anything for her in any way he can, such as answering to teacher for roll call when Hibiki falls asleep in class.
Hanako-san(花子さん,Hanako-san)
Voiced by: Mikoko Izawa (anime)A spirit who haunts one of the stalls in the school's girls' restroom.
Ero-neko(エロ猫,Eroneko)
Voiced by: Kujira (anime), Norio Wakamoto (drama CD)A cute but perverted cat that is constantly trying to peek on girls' panties, though is often thwarted by the ghosts protecting Hibiki.
Merry-san(メリーさん,Merī-san)
Voiced by: Eriko Matsui (anime)A ghost with long grey hair who haunts others, usually Kana, through phone calls.
Kogal Spirit(コギャル霊,Kogyaru-rei)
Voiced by: Aya Uchida (anime), Aimi Terakawa (drama CD)A ghost girl who is dressed in the kogal style. She initially possesses Hibiki in order to make peace with her mother, but chooses to stick around. She appears to have a rivalry with Roll Call Samurai.
Voiced by: Futaba Kino (anime)A ghost girl in a sailor uniform who carries a red umbrella, which she offers to those who need shelter from the rain. She has no neck in the manga and no face in the anime.
Bounded Spirit of the Park (公園の地縛霊,Kōen no Jibakurei)
Voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami (anime), Nobuo Tobita (drama CD)A jibakurei that protects the local park, bound to the sign at the entrance. His figure is never seen.
Yūhi Amami(天海 夕陽,Amami Yūhi)
Voiced by: Yūko Minaguchi (anime), Kyōko Hikami (drama CD)Hibiki's late mother, who died when Hibiki was born. While alive, her sixth sense was said to be much stronger than her daughter's, and occasionally made prophecies with her ability. She currently resides within Hibiki's memories, looking after a flower giving Hibiki her sixth sense.
Narumi's Grandmother (成美の祖母,Narumi no Sobo)
The spirit of Inoue's grandmother who is constantly watching over her.
Manga
The original manga by Hinako Seta was first published in Houbunsha's Manga Time Jumbo magazine in the December 2009 issue, and went onto serialization from February 2010. Six tankobon volumes have been released as of April 22, 2015. An anthology comic was released on May 7, 2015.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation by Pierrot+ aired in Japan between April 3, 2015 and June 26, 2015 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The opening and ending themes respectively are "Colorful Story" (カラフルストーリー,Karafuru Sutōrī) and "Kesaran Pasaran" (ケサランパサラン), both performed by every♥ing! (Ibuki Kido and Erii Yamazaki). Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime for digital and home video release in North America.
Reception
Anime News Network had three editors review the first episode of the anime: Theron Martin gave praise to the humor being mostly delivered by both Inoue and Amami, and the upbeat, sugary charm used throughout the episode; Rebecca Silverman found the episode confused with either being a comedic or slice-of-life supernatural show and preferred that it stick with the latter subgenre with its human moments and work out its comedy elements. The third reviewer, Jacob Hope Chapman, heavily criticized the show's cheap production for its workmanlike animation clashing with the shoddy CG backgrounds and felt the humor was undone by poor direction and writing. He concluded that there's similar anime with better writing and aesthetics compared to this, saying that, "There's just not anything unique or intriguing about this one."
