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'' Ghost Stories'' (Japanese language Japanese: 学校の怪談, ''Gakkō no Kaidan, "School Ghost Stories"'') is a 21 (number)twenty-one-episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Aniplex for Fuji Television. The series has recently been licensed for the North American market by ADV Films. Though considered a fairly Wiktionary:subparsubpar series by many critics and fans, it has become recently controversycontroversial for its upcoming dubbed release.
Storyline - ''Ghost Stories'' tells the tale of Satsuki Miyanoshita (宮ノ下さつき ''Miyanoshita Satsuki''), who moves with her family to a new neighborhood. On her first day of school, Satsuki; her brother Keiichirou Miyanoshita (宮ノ下敬一郎 ''Miyanoshita Kei'ichirō''); their neighbor Hajime; Mokoko, a classmate; and Reo, a friend of Hajime's with a penchant for the paranormal visit the abandoned school building adjacent the current school complex and discover that the building is haunted.It is soon after revealed that Satsuki's mother was the school principal, and was responsible for sealing a ghost named Amanjaku, who has been released due to the urbanization taking place in the surrounding area. Satsuki's mother left behind a book detailing how to exorcismexorcize the ghosts once and for all, but in the process, Amanjaku is sealed within Satsuki's pet cat. Though the group does not want to get involved at first, the danger soon threatens to envelop the town and it is left up to Satsuki (with her friends) to stop the ghosts once and for all and to send Amanjaku to the next life.
Dub Controversy - On the weekend of August 19, 2005, at the Otakon2005 Otakon anime convention, ADV Films announced an October 2005 release of ''Ghost Stories'' on DVD. The controversy stems from the dubbed version, which completely dismisses the original dramatic script in favor a comedycomedic one written by ADV scriptwriter Stephen Foster (screenwriter)Stephen Foster. While the original show will still be available on the DVD release via subtitles, a growing number of fans are crying out against the ADV dub, charging that the company made too many edits for the dub simply for the sake of potential successful sales. This in turn, was rebuttalrebutted by the favorable reviews that ADV's preview at Otakon has received to date, and the news that the original Japanese licensor, Aniplex, approved the changes.Ultimately, response to the dub has been overall positive, due to the addition of humor, mainly through multiple popular culturepop culture references. For example, in the first episode, a perverted character sees a pretty young girl. In the Japanese version, he says "She's beautiful," but in the English dub, he says "Giggidy giggidy!" a reference to Glen Quagmire from the animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. The English dub also makes references to Wal-Mart and Charmin toilet paper rather than the Japanese version's "store" and "toilet paper".
External references - animeondvd.com - AnimeonDVD.com preview of ''Ghost Stories'', August 22, 2005animenewsnetwork.com - Anime Preview: Ghost Stories Anime News Network, August 21, 2005Category:Anime seriesCategory:ADV Filmsja: 学校の怪談
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