I could go into more detail, but I think the only way to really understand Ghost Stories is to experience it yourself. It can also get highly offensive, but in a sort of hilarious train wreck kind of way. The result is this hilarious mishmash that barely makes any sense. Most of the show, if not all of it, was completely improvised. Okay so basically, the dubbers were just like 'screw this' and said whatever the heck they wanted. very good is because it is very, very bad. Note this review only applies to the English dub. Okay, if this review is confusing, blame it on the anime, which is also confusing.

Even if it's bad, it's incredibly enjoyable. I'm an idiot,' this is the most genre-savvy anime with the most potty-mouthed cast of grade-schoolers you'll ever see.It still fails, but it does it magnificently. I also think that it's this familiarity and connection with the script that makes the acting some of the most natural and fluid I've heard in a dub.With lines like 'What in the world is going one here? These are the fastest lip flaps I've ever had to sync!' and 'School-girl all alone in a creepy, abandoned, haunted school house. The actors even take a crack at one another behind the mic. For fans of Abridged series: this is the Abridged Series of English Dubbed Anime as a whole. If you got the Japanese references, you were in heaven if not, it was still hilarious. The VOs had enough experience to have fun with the script and original story, and still make it accessable to the general public. The studio had the brilliant idea to hand the script to a cast of allstar voice actors and let them tear it apart, on one condition: they couldn't change the plot.It worked like a charm.

So what do you do with something like that? You kill it more. It was practically GIVEN to the studio that handled it in America. This is mixed with the fact that, at the time, it was SO Japanese it just couldn't be marketed to Americans. I mean, seriously, this thing has plots revoloving around killer web sites, man eating benjo (Japanese-style toilets), and possesed pianos that stalk helpless main characters down dark alleyways- all because of a demonically possesed cat and the diary of someone's long passed ghost-hunting mother. Basically, this anime goes in the realm of 'so bad it's brilliant.' My friend and I actually watched this on the recomendation from GREG AYERS (VO for one of the 5 main characters) that it was so bad, we HAD to see it.OK, so it's isn't really that bad, per say it's just distinctly not good.

Especially when a poor subbie like me LOVES the dub. I used to be a math major, so when four '4's average to 7, I know something's up.

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