#2003-7

A young boy with ghost powers accepts responsibility for protecting his home town and occasionally the world from ghosts.

Most of the characters are amusing and likeable enough and there’s plenty of variety for both the humans and ghosts. The way the technology works and the rules that the ghosts have is interesting and surprisingly consistent. The animation is also engaging and colourful with some effective designs.

A few of the characters were obvious archetypes who don’t get much back story or development but that’s not unusual for a kids’ cartoon. They repeat a few of the tropes a few times and even several of the fights that are used just to demonstrate how busy the protagonist’s life is.

Some of the humour works rather well as there’s a range of slapstick, satire, and even a few adult jokes hidden in there. There’s some amusing gay subtext between Danny and Dash in the earlier series which was unexpected as it was a little overt at times with Dash calling him a twink in the first episode and later even making Danny eat his used underwear.

Not all of the jokes work out especially well as a few of them are a little too juvenile even accounting for the target audience. They sometimes present Danny as being less intelligent that some of his peers and adversaries but his plans are often reasonably smart and he is shown to apply himself on occasion.

6/10 -Just a cut above average-

-Vlad Masters was initially intended to be a vampire but was changed to a ghost because the sudio believed vampires to be too violent.

-Danny’s father is named Jack. In the novel The Shining, the father and some are also Jack and Danny.