The Best Anime You’re Not Watching: Ghost Stories (ADV Dub)
Happy Halloween! In honor of this day of spooks and giggles, let’s honor an anime that’s a bit low on spooks and VERY heavy on the giggles: Ghost Stories!
Ghost Stories follows fifth-grader Satsuki and her little brother Keiichirou as they move to a new town and discover their school is haunted. Their late mother, who went to the same school as a child, apparently was an avid exorcist in her day and left behind a diary telling how to exorcise all of the ghosts and spirits. With their next door neighbor Hajime, self-proclaimed paranormal investigator Leo, responsible sixth-grade psychic Momoko, and a talking cat named Amanojaku, Satsuki and Keiichirou set out to get rid of all the ghouls plaguing their school and town.
Ghost Stories premiered in Japan in October 2000. And boy did it suck. The characters were bland and in some cases annoying, plot holes were abundant, multiple supernatural things happened with no rhyme or reason, and the soundtrack consisted of just 3 or 4 songs repeated over and over.
Needless to say, it bombed. HARD. In fact, it was selling so poorly the Japanese company that made it was losing money. At that point, they contacted anime dubbing company ADV Films and told them this:
“We literally don’t care what you do with this show; we just need you to make it sell so we can break even.”
ADV obliged and created the most hilarious thing ever to grace the anime dubbing world.
Oh, not because it was so badly dubbed it was good. In fact, it was an amazing dub. The English dub actors basically improvised almost all of their lines and turned the show from a sub-par horror series into a black comedy, which resulted in lines like this:
The show is basically like a professionally done abridged series. And it is brilliant. My personal favorite character from the dubbed version is Momoko, who they turned into a complete Jesus-freak who’s always trying to convert her friends every second she’s on screen.
Go find this dub on YouTube. Trust me; you won’t regret it. Fair warning though: the first half isn’t really as funny since the dub actors were probably still getting used to the type of dub they were doing. But during the second half, when they’re fully into it, it is HILARIOUS.
Once again, happy Halloween!
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