Ignoring people's personal motivations in a job where the large chunk of your forces are made up out of the people out to save or avenge their loved ones is stupid. That's exactly how you end up with your group turning into a rigid mass of the unflinching hardasses that will slowly crack apart...
From my knowledge of they Japanese mythology, the haunt looked like the ikiryo, the living ghost, aka part of the person's soul haunting the others. That makes the damage transfer make 100% sense.
I feel like the issue with the little sister is that so far, she has been nothing but a roadblock for the main plot. She doesn't introduce any interesting dynamics beyond extra cock blocking and denying us cute home dates. My greatest worry is that she will continue her "snip snip" cringe ways...
NGL, I still fear that the squirrelly little sister will end up becoming just another roadblock to slow down their relationship. All that fanatical fangirl talk seems like a bad omen for what will happen later.
Being fair, the Old Man was a barely mobile pile of bloated flesh. It's the first time ever that they witnessed the hunter stage or even learned that it existed in the first place.
The grading is relative to the danger for normal explorers, so it gets weird sometimes just like that. The uber ghost who usually only kills one person from the group is ranked lower than a ghost who will attack the whole group who is in turn ranked lower than ghost whose curse will follow you...
I mean, we are still relatively early in the escalation, only dealing with the local gang, and even now we are dealing with the fact that the people around Asura are being targetted. I'd say, it's still to early to call.
Yeah, Ojiro is a true believer. He will literally and figuratively charge into the fire to save the people he wishes to protect and he will turn on these hunting bozos the first chance he gets.
Concave bricks arched upwards towards the strike? This is the exact opposite of how the brick smashing trick is usually done, meaning that it's profiled to be harder rather than easier.