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GS Mikami is short for Ghost Sweeper Mikami, which is short for Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi ha Nice Body. Joreishi means roughly exorcist. It’s based on a manga that also got an anime adaptation and even a movie, which was licensed in North America, and it’s about ghosts and yokai losing their homes to overdevelopment and having to haunt people instead. Reiko Mikami is the star of the show. It’s kind of like Ghostbusters but Japanese.
there’s no translation patch for this game that I can find on the interbutt but there are videos with translated script so i have some inkling of what’s going on.
I’ll be playing on normal. I can’t find anything about missing levels, enemies, or anything else.
One day in Mikami's office...
“Excuse me. Special Delivery.”
Okinu: Is it a preset?
Mikami: Ooh, who’s it from? Yakuchindou!? Please accept this gift for all of your help.
You've won our grand prize drawing.
We look forward to your patronage.
Shopkeeper Yakuchin”
Yokoshima: "It's a shabby figurine."
Mikami "T-The legendary Aegis Goddess statue?! They say if you adorn it with 7 gems it will grant you a wish."
Mikami "The current market value for the set is 10 million."
Okinu "That's amazing."
Yokoshima "All set to go Ms. Mikami!"
Mikami "Without the gems that statue is no better than a paperweight! Come on, let's go gather those gems!"
The Ghost Train To Hell Departs At Midnight. Yep, 24, not 00, is midnight in Japan. At least, I think that’s how it works. I’m not Japanese. I’m British, Irish, and Italian. And French Canadian. And Albanian. And some sort of Levantine. And Spanish and Greek. And there’s even some Nigerian in there. I’m not sure where that came from, since it’s on my mom’s side.
The translation on the GS-Mikami wiki is a bit rough. It says the train departs in 24 hours.
The pink ghosts just float aimlessly.
Your main attack is a sweep with your pole. Holding up allows you to do a sort of half-circle slash.
You can also collect a limited number of talismans for a full-screen attack or something. You can only carry one type at a time.
I’ll take Zeta’s word on it not being the kana for coffee.
DIE!
The ghost girls just float at you. Zero threat. Zero effort.
The mudmen keep coming after you even when their torsos and heads are swept away.
You can find enhancements for your pole. Lightning gives you increased range.
Hit this poster of Emi and it will transform.
I just like the way the fountain looks.
Two way shot.
Yeah, you lose your power if you get hit.
Ghost sperm!
There’s a guy sitting there. To simulate transparency, he flickers, so I didn’t capture him. Spooooooky!
These hands jump at you.
This is a really big train.
These hands grope you.
“You can ride the train if you like, but it looks like you’ve gone a little too far.”
“I, Reiko Mikami, the Ghost Sweeper, am going to put your soul to rest!”
he’l pop out of the wall and spit blue stuff and some hands will try to grab you from below.
We get the first gem.
Do a victory pose.
And we get some armor for the statue.
Huh, it's changed appearance.
It transforms as each seal is lifted.
Let's keep up this pace!
What's next?
N prefecture's S area's hot spring hotel's...
A... Hot spring!
Come on, let's go.
... Annex.
Report 2: Is the Western-style mansion a haunted mansion?
Ah, good, you get health back when beating a level
Gamefaqs says any rod enhancements you still have upon completing a level are gone. Zetaplays’ playthrough says otherwise.
Water doesn’t hurt you but it does push you back.
The pink enhancement shoots a vertical wave with little range but maybe it does more damage, I dunno. This game is rather obscure outside of Japan, with only one guide on Gamefaqs.
In the pit, there’s a letter G, as in “This isn’t The Lost Word of Jenny. This isn’t important.” Most other pits in this level lead to death.
You have to hold up + attack and then press up again. I didn’t notice them on the first level but there’s nothing interesting up there anyway, just some cake, a talisman, and a rod powerup.
Pudgy demons function a lot like Rip Van Fish.
Bats fly at you.
we know all of your secrets.
I think each hand has its own health bar.
i know it’s supposed to be a doll because dolls are the Japanese played-for-horror innocent thing, much like in the west, clowns or dolls are that thing. I say clowns but then I realize there’s no dearth of possessed and/or murderous dolls in Western media. But it reminds me of the Simpsons Village of the Damned parody. I was thinking it was Children of the Corn for some reason.
hey, a flying nun.
So according to the Wiki, Moga-Chan was a popular dress up doll, sort of like Jenny or more accurately Takara’s Licca-Chan. And the backstory is that Mikami had one of these dolls as a kid and her powers passed into the doll and gave her life and she used that life to gather up all the other Moga-Chan dolls and create an unholy army of the night by setting all of their switches to evil.
the evil is defeated.
Well, that face doesn’t look ominous at all. It came with a free Frogurt, though, so it’s all good.
There's no way that's not
a haunted mansion, is there?
That's why I said it's the annex. The hot spring was decommissioned 20 years ago.
You're a liar Ms. Mikami.
Quit complaining.
Paradise Micro Death Zone (It is a pretty tough stage and the character for death does appear)
or
Heavenly Fantastic Voyage (which makes more sense)
Either she’s embarrassed or she’s chasing after the guy.
Lucky she landed on this passing cat.
It’s an autoscroller and you don’t have much room to maneuver or grab items.
Not the bees!
You can see the swifts in the background before they attack.
This is Ja Seirei, a jungle yokai.
when he jumps, shrapnel falls from the sky.
He’s pretty easy though.
The frogurt may also be cursed but it came with my choice of toppings.
The translation is also kind of incomplete and skips over this scene entirely.
The giant greenhouse is full of dangers.
I swear these butterflies with human faces are a sort of yokai but I can’t find anything with my google-fu.
Okay, yeah, there are Bitterflies in Symphony of the Night, also known as Chonchon, which is a Mapuche folkloric creature, a human head with bird wing shaped ears. And Mapuches are almost as far from Japan as you can get. Yeah, they’re just across the ocean but the Pacific is a big ocean.
I swear, if I had a nickel for every video game I’ve played that references the chonchon, I’d have twenty cents. Which isn’t a lot but it is weird that it’s happened four times.
Rogue tomatoes are easily dispatched with up+attack
The tree spider you can see in the corner moves up and down.
Bananas work like boomerangs here.
The treants, who do look like actual Final Fantasy enemies, vomit mushrooms at you and walk around on just their stumps if you hit them once.
looks like i got careless here. Either that, or I had some motivation in mind and forgot.
Maybe there’s a better alternate route somewhere.
you can attack Meiko but she’s invincible
and she summons that thing.
So don’t do it.
Kojirou will fly around trying to hit you.
he turns back into a regular dog.
and you can pet the dog.
What's with the broom Ms. Mikami?
It's a magic broom right?
I'm not riding on that am I?
Get real. The rental fee for this is more than you could earn in 100 years.
So you're taking to the sky next?
Yeah. Take care of things while I'm gone okay?
Paradise Air Force Grand Operation
It’s time for Unexpected Shmup Level.
You can’t turn around while riding the broom.
This is Count Bloodeau
He’s Count Dracula’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
The guide on Gamefaqs cals him Pete AKA Pietro de Bloodeau, who is basically Alucard.
And now he’s absolutely nothing.
It just gets worse and worse.
It hasn't gotten very cute.
No, it hasn't really.
It's your imagination Ms. Okinu.
If we get everything in order it will definitely become a beautiful goddess, won't it, Ms. Mikami.
That's right. Let's get the next one
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-...
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-...
I wonder about that.
Something Coming Down The Road
Now she’s dressed as Poison Ivy.
Hey, mouse, say cheese.
With a dry cool wit like that, I could be an action hero.
If you’re wondering why I’m getting hit when I say that, the mice come in really fast.
The metool ghosts throw anvils at you.
in soviet japan, pillow fights you.
If you hit a balloon, it counts down from three and then explodes in a six way shrapnel shot.
Okinu has a box and sometimes it will contain cake and talismans and sometimes it will contain enemies.
Cave In! I love that band!
Die, bad monsters, die!
with a dry cool wit like that, I could be an action hero.
The bouncing rock is unkillable but you can freeze him in place. He still does damage, though.
Ach! Sinky sand!
Hiya Mikami! Want a balloon?
This is Piper. He has the ability to control people with his music.
Now I’m wondering if i’m still shrunk after level three or if those are just unusually sized rodents.
Occasionally these three clowns will come in from behind you and play a little ditty on their trumpet.
When they finish playing, you turn into a child or a doll or something and can’t attack and you don’t jump as high. While it doesn’t do any damage (though you will take damage), it still counts as a hit for the purposes of taking away your power.
Only one more gem to go.
It's still not very attractive.
It's just your imagination.
I wouldn't call this a "beautiful goddess" however.
The important part is the 10 mil price tag.
Come on, Yokoshima, help me out!
The final opponent is inside a dream. Sweet dreams.
Okay, last stage. To the dream world!
Dream on Dream
oddly, they attempt to render the English word Dream in Japanese writing rather than using the Japanese word yume 夢.
There’s a gimmick here. Well, two gimmicks. One is that your wand shoots platforms.
Two is that when the background is red, you jump much higher than normal.
The coins split into smaller and smaller denominations.
When the background is blue, you jump normally. Good thing there’s no time limit.
The statues come to life and hop around.
This is either Wonderland or the Playboy Mansion.
Only two platforms allowed at a time.
Oh yeah, just so you know, if your platforms are too close to anything, they won’t appear.
I see you’ve woken up from your nap.
I came to be your knight in shining armor but I’m afraid this one is too much for me, though I did manage to weaken it…
Sure you did. Sure.
After this is all over, and we are rich on some far off beach, you can make it up to me with a kiss and a little fun in the
Nope.
It's okay Yokoshima.
Ms. Mikami. The real Ms. Mikami right?
That was mean.
Entering my dream like that.
I'll pay you a proper bonus.
A bonus won't heal my heart.
What I need right now is your love
Ms Mikami!
I don't really care since it's Yokoshima's dream but, you've gone a bit overboard.
I Reiko Mikami will send you to heaven!*
*before I send you to Hell
and a two and a three and a
We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty!
We are sober men and true, and attentive to our duty.
Oh yeah, Nightmare. Because it’s a horse. It’s kind of a coincidence that the word for a female horse is the same as the word for a spirit that can invade dreams.
In the show, Mikami used her past forms to fight Nightmare but he’s on to you now and has turned them against you. When she does land a hit on you, Nightmare claps.
Give him a smack and he’ll land on the floor.
Then spam attack and he’ll be destined for the glue factory.
You did it! Now we can complete the statue and take a breather!
No thanks to you
Maybe now she’ll actually look lovely
Hot summer tans, smooth massages, and endless drinks, here we come!
Who said you were coming?
The statue is complete.
This is the Goddess' true appearance.
Yeah, 10 million worth.
I think we should stop this Ms. Mikami.
We've come this far, the appearance doesn't matter.
We'll have a wish granted.
Come on, let's go!
It’s time for the real final battle against Medusa, who is, like, a dragon goddess and has a long-standing grudge against Mikami. I just don’t know.
You want to stand in between the lightning bolts so you can get some easy hits.
hello, Mikami. Did you enjoy your prize?
You are incredibly lucky to have won such a gem, you know.
LUCKY? You sent me a worthless hunk of junk for a lot of work, old man!
How are you feeling? You’ve had quite an adventure. Even if the statue was worthless, the experience itself is worth something, ya know? Your journey to complete that statue only made you stronger against future foes.
Whatever. Next time I take a job, I’ll make sure the reward is worth it. And then I’ll really be able to get a nice vacation away from all this.
The end.
burning question: You think your dirty socks can stop me?
GS Mikami is short for Ghost Sweeper Mikami, which is short for Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi ha Nice Body. Joreishi means roughly exorcist. It’s based on a manga that also got an anime adaptation and even a movie, which was licensed in North America, and it’s about ghosts and yokai losing their homes to overdevelopment and having to haunt people instead. Reiko Mikami is the star of the show. It’s kind of like Ghostbusters but Japanese.
there’s no translation patch for this game that I can find on the interbutt but there are videos with translated script so i have some inkling of what’s going on.
I’ll be playing on normal. I can’t find anything about missing levels, enemies, or anything else.
One day in Mikami's office...
“Excuse me. Special Delivery.”
Okinu: Is it a preset?
Mikami: Ooh, who’s it from? Yakuchindou!? Please accept this gift for all of your help.
You've won our grand prize drawing.
We look forward to your patronage.
Shopkeeper Yakuchin”
Yokoshima: "It's a shabby figurine."
Mikami "T-The legendary Aegis Goddess statue?! They say if you adorn it with 7 gems it will grant you a wish."
Mikami "The current market value for the set is 10 million."
Okinu "That's amazing."
Yokoshima "All set to go Ms. Mikami!"
Mikami "Without the gems that statue is no better than a paperweight! Come on, let's go gather those gems!"
The Ghost Train To Hell Departs At Midnight. Yep, 24, not 00, is midnight in Japan. At least, I think that’s how it works. I’m not Japanese. I’m British, Irish, and Italian. And French Canadian. And Albanian. And some sort of Levantine. And Spanish and Greek. And there’s even some Nigerian in there. I’m not sure where that came from, since it’s on my mom’s side.
The translation on the GS-Mikami wiki is a bit rough. It says the train departs in 24 hours.
The pink ghosts just float aimlessly.
Your main attack is a sweep with your pole. Holding up allows you to do a sort of half-circle slash.
You can also collect a limited number of talismans for a full-screen attack or something. You can only carry one type at a time.
I’ll take Zeta’s word on it not being the kana for coffee.
DIE!
The ghost girls just float at you. Zero threat. Zero effort.
The mudmen keep coming after you even when their torsos and heads are swept away.
You can find enhancements for your pole. Lightning gives you increased range.
Hit this poster of Emi and it will transform.
I just like the way the fountain looks.
Two way shot.
Yeah, you lose your power if you get hit.
Ghost sperm!
There’s a guy sitting there. To simulate transparency, he flickers, so I didn’t capture him. Spooooooky!
These hands jump at you.
This is a really big train.
These hands grope you.
“You can ride the train if you like, but it looks like you’ve gone a little too far.”
“I, Reiko Mikami, the Ghost Sweeper, am going to put your soul to rest!”
he’l pop out of the wall and spit blue stuff and some hands will try to grab you from below.
We get the first gem.
Do a victory pose.
And we get some armor for the statue.
Huh, it's changed appearance.
It transforms as each seal is lifted.
Let's keep up this pace!
What's next?
N prefecture's S area's hot spring hotel's...
A... Hot spring!
Come on, let's go.
... Annex.
Report 2: Is the Western-style mansion a haunted mansion?
Ah, good, you get health back when beating a level
Gamefaqs says any rod enhancements you still have upon completing a level are gone. Zetaplays’ playthrough says otherwise.
Water doesn’t hurt you but it does push you back.
The pink enhancement shoots a vertical wave with little range but maybe it does more damage, I dunno. This game is rather obscure outside of Japan, with only one guide on Gamefaqs.
In the pit, there’s a letter G, as in “This isn’t The Lost Word of Jenny. This isn’t important.” Most other pits in this level lead to death.
You have to hold up + attack and then press up again. I didn’t notice them on the first level but there’s nothing interesting up there anyway, just some cake, a talisman, and a rod powerup.
Pudgy demons function a lot like Rip Van Fish.
Bats fly at you.
we know all of your secrets.
I think each hand has its own health bar.
i know it’s supposed to be a doll because dolls are the Japanese played-for-horror innocent thing, much like in the west, clowns or dolls are that thing. I say clowns but then I realize there’s no dearth of possessed and/or murderous dolls in Western media. But it reminds me of the Simpsons Village of the Damned parody. I was thinking it was Children of the Corn for some reason.
hey, a flying nun.
So according to the Wiki, Moga-Chan was a popular dress up doll, sort of like Jenny or more accurately Takara’s Licca-Chan. And the backstory is that Mikami had one of these dolls as a kid and her powers passed into the doll and gave her life and she used that life to gather up all the other Moga-Chan dolls and create an unholy army of the night by setting all of their switches to evil.
the evil is defeated.
Well, that face doesn’t look ominous at all. It came with a free Frogurt, though, so it’s all good.
There's no way that's not
a haunted mansion, is there?
That's why I said it's the annex. The hot spring was decommissioned 20 years ago.
You're a liar Ms. Mikami.
Quit complaining.
Paradise Micro Death Zone (It is a pretty tough stage and the character for death does appear)
or
Heavenly Fantastic Voyage (which makes more sense)
Either she’s embarrassed or she’s chasing after the guy.
Lucky she landed on this passing cat.
It’s an autoscroller and you don’t have much room to maneuver or grab items.
Not the bees!
You can see the swifts in the background before they attack.
This is Ja Seirei, a jungle yokai.
when he jumps, shrapnel falls from the sky.
He’s pretty easy though.
The frogurt may also be cursed but it came with my choice of toppings.
The translation is also kind of incomplete and skips over this scene entirely.
The giant greenhouse is full of dangers.
I swear these butterflies with human faces are a sort of yokai but I can’t find anything with my google-fu.
Okay, yeah, there are Bitterflies in Symphony of the Night, also known as Chonchon, which is a Mapuche folkloric creature, a human head with bird wing shaped ears. And Mapuches are almost as far from Japan as you can get. Yeah, they’re just across the ocean but the Pacific is a big ocean.
I swear, if I had a nickel for every video game I’ve played that references the chonchon, I’d have twenty cents. Which isn’t a lot but it is weird that it’s happened four times.
Rogue tomatoes are easily dispatched with up+attack
The tree spider you can see in the corner moves up and down.
Bananas work like boomerangs here.
The treants, who do look like actual Final Fantasy enemies, vomit mushrooms at you and walk around on just their stumps if you hit them once.
looks like i got careless here. Either that, or I had some motivation in mind and forgot.
Maybe there’s a better alternate route somewhere.
you can attack Meiko but she’s invincible
and she summons that thing.
So don’t do it.
Kojirou will fly around trying to hit you.
he turns back into a regular dog.
and you can pet the dog.
What's with the broom Ms. Mikami?
It's a magic broom right?
I'm not riding on that am I?
Get real. The rental fee for this is more than you could earn in 100 years.
So you're taking to the sky next?
Yeah. Take care of things while I'm gone okay?
Paradise Air Force Grand Operation
It’s time for Unexpected Shmup Level.
You can’t turn around while riding the broom.
This is Count Bloodeau
He’s Count Dracula’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
The guide on Gamefaqs cals him Pete AKA Pietro de Bloodeau, who is basically Alucard.
And now he’s absolutely nothing.
It just gets worse and worse.
It hasn't gotten very cute.
No, it hasn't really.
It's your imagination Ms. Okinu.
If we get everything in order it will definitely become a beautiful goddess, won't it, Ms. Mikami.
That's right. Let's get the next one
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-...
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-...
I wonder about that.
Something Coming Down The Road
Now she’s dressed as Poison Ivy.
Hey, mouse, say cheese.
With a dry cool wit like that, I could be an action hero.
If you’re wondering why I’m getting hit when I say that, the mice come in really fast.
The metool ghosts throw anvils at you.
in soviet japan, pillow fights you.
If you hit a balloon, it counts down from three and then explodes in a six way shrapnel shot.
Okinu has a box and sometimes it will contain cake and talismans and sometimes it will contain enemies.
Cave In! I love that band!
Die, bad monsters, die!
with a dry cool wit like that, I could be an action hero.
The bouncing rock is unkillable but you can freeze him in place. He still does damage, though.
Ach! Sinky sand!
Hiya Mikami! Want a balloon?
This is Piper. He has the ability to control people with his music.
Now I’m wondering if i’m still shrunk after level three or if those are just unusually sized rodents.
Occasionally these three clowns will come in from behind you and play a little ditty on their trumpet.
When they finish playing, you turn into a child or a doll or something and can’t attack and you don’t jump as high. While it doesn’t do any damage (though you will take damage), it still counts as a hit for the purposes of taking away your power.
Only one more gem to go.
It's still not very attractive.
It's just your imagination.
I wouldn't call this a "beautiful goddess" however.
The important part is the 10 mil price tag.
Come on, Yokoshima, help me out!
The final opponent is inside a dream. Sweet dreams.
Okay, last stage. To the dream world!
Dream on Dream
oddly, they attempt to render the English word Dream in Japanese writing rather than using the Japanese word yume 夢.
There’s a gimmick here. Well, two gimmicks. One is that your wand shoots platforms.
Two is that when the background is red, you jump much higher than normal.
The coins split into smaller and smaller denominations.
When the background is blue, you jump normally. Good thing there’s no time limit.
The statues come to life and hop around.
This is either Wonderland or the Playboy Mansion.
Only two platforms allowed at a time.
Oh yeah, just so you know, if your platforms are too close to anything, they won’t appear.
I see you’ve woken up from your nap.
I came to be your knight in shining armor but I’m afraid this one is too much for me, though I did manage to weaken it…
Sure you did. Sure.
After this is all over, and we are rich on some far off beach, you can make it up to me with a kiss and a little fun in the
Nope.
It's okay Yokoshima.
Ms. Mikami. The real Ms. Mikami right?
That was mean.
Entering my dream like that.
I'll pay you a proper bonus.
A bonus won't heal my heart.
What I need right now is your love
Ms Mikami!
I don't really care since it's Yokoshima's dream but, you've gone a bit overboard.
I Reiko Mikami will send you to heaven!*
*before I send you to Hell
and a two and a three and a
We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty!
We are sober men and true, and attentive to our duty.
Oh yeah, Nightmare. Because it’s a horse. It’s kind of a coincidence that the word for a female horse is the same as the word for a spirit that can invade dreams.
In the show, Mikami used her past forms to fight Nightmare but he’s on to you now and has turned them against you. When she does land a hit on you, Nightmare claps.
Give him a smack and he’ll land on the floor.
Then spam attack and he’ll be destined for the glue factory.
You did it! Now we can complete the statue and take a breather!
No thanks to you
Maybe now she’ll actually look lovely
Hot summer tans, smooth massages, and endless drinks, here we come!
Who said you were coming?
The statue is complete.
This is the Goddess' true appearance.
Yeah, 10 million worth.
I think we should stop this Ms. Mikami.
We've come this far, the appearance doesn't matter.
We'll have a wish granted.
Come on, let's go!
It’s time for the real final battle against Medusa, who is, like, a dragon goddess and has a long-standing grudge against Mikami. I just don’t know.
You want to stand in between the lightning bolts so you can get some easy hits.
hello, Mikami. Did you enjoy your prize?
You are incredibly lucky to have won such a gem, you know.
LUCKY? You sent me a worthless hunk of junk for a lot of work, old man!
How are you feeling? You’ve had quite an adventure. Even if the statue was worthless, the experience itself is worth something, ya know? Your journey to complete that statue only made you stronger against future foes.
Whatever. Next time I take a job, I’ll make sure the reward is worth it. And then I’ll really be able to get a nice vacation away from all this.
The end.
burning question: You think your dirty socks can stop me?
