The ghost stories anime
Do you guys know about the hilarious and sorted history of the Ghost Stories dub? I feel like a lot of people have at least heard of it by reputation. In short, the Ghost Stories anime is a boring series that was supposed to be a huge hit but ended up as a flop. The source had been very successful and the adaptation went to Pierrot while the studio was in its heyday. They hired a fairly prestigious cast and were banking on huge numbers. When the ratings ended up rather poor, it was a huge embarrassment instead.
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A Possibly True Ghost Story from David Mitchell
Summer in Japan is the season for ghost stories. Scary movies, books, and other spooky media are commonly released in the summer season, and magazines and TV run special features on uncanny events and weird phenomena. For Japanese people, this season has the same eerie resonance as Halloween does in western countries.
This association of summer with spine-chilling tales has its roots in the Buddhist tradition. The Buddhist festival of the dead, called Obon, takes place in summer and during this season it is believed that the boundaries between the physical and spiritual worlds grow thin, allowing the spirits of the dead to revisit their families.
However, not all spirits that return at this time are benevolent and other beings of more sinister intent can also slip into our world. High summer in Japan is, therefore, a time when we should beware of lost souls, unquiet spirits and vengeful ghosts!
Another common belief, in the hot and humid Japanese summer, is that a really scary ghost story will induce enough chills and goose bumps to cool you down! In the Edo period — this belief led to a popular trend for summer ghost story gatherings and many of the classic stories of that era are still popular today. The traditional way to tell stories at these gatherings was to light a hundred lamps and then take turns telling a hundred creepy stories.
Many of these stories feature the vengeful spirits of wronged women, which is a reflection of the weak social position of women in those times.
Dependent on men for their wellbeing, women were powerless to defend themselves against betrayal and injustice, but in death, this situation could be reversed. Here are three such classic tales.
A particularly famous example is the story of Oiwa who is tricked by her husband, Iemon, into using a poisonous facial cream. Another story is that of Okiku, an innocent servant girl who is the victim of a wicked samurai. The samurai tricks Okiku into believing that she has lost one of a set of ten precious plates, but tells her that he will forgive her if she becomes his lover.
Okiku refuses and the angry samurai then kills her by throwing her into a well. In more recent times it has also been a major influence on the Ring novel and movie series, whose protagonist Sadako is also a vengeful female ghost climbing from a well.
The Peony Lantern is a more romantic tale which features a young couple: a student named Saburo and a beautiful girl called Otsuyu. Saburo and Otsuyu are very much in love but are kept apart by unfortunate circumstances, until one day Saburo is told that Otsuyu has died.
One night, during the Obon season, Saburo hears footsteps walking outside his residence, and looking outside notices a lady, whose face, clearly lit by the light of a peony lantern, is his lost love Otsuyu!
From then on Otsuyu spends each night with Saburo, but a servant spies on them and discovers… Otsuyu is a corpse! How does the story end? To find out, watch the movie adaptation by director Satsuo Yamamoto. It will definitely give you the chills! Season of Ghosts. Michael Lambe. Tags ghosts season. You may also like. Jun 25, — culture. Jun 12, — culture.
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In , I was living alone on the ground floor of a musty old house at the edge of a Japanese town called Kabe in Hiroshima Prefecture. Many died of their burns before they reached Kabe, and many died of radiation poisoning in the days and weeks that followed. The precise number of total casualties as a result of the bomb is impossible to reckon, but estimates range from 90, to ,, with about half the deaths—45, to 83,—occurring on the first day. By any measure, this is a hellish quantity of sudden death. In the Japanese context, this also means a vast number of restless ghosts denied the Buddhist funerary rites required for a smooth passage to the next world.
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Close menu. EN JP. Join now Zoro Group. Click to read Manga Version. Home TV Ghost Stories. Watch now. Years ago, all of the ghosts in a haunted schoolhouse were banished by a certain student. Now, they're back—and they want revenge Satsuki and Keiichirou Miyanoshita are two siblings recovering from the tragic loss of their mother. After moving to their mother's hometown, they learn that the local school they have transferred to is an old building—one said to be haunted.
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Truth be told, I kind of hate anime overall. It is this repetitive, inbred, formulaic approach many studios stick to which I hate. That said, Ghost Stories is not one of these decent shows. Watching it is submitting yourself to twenty episodes of tedious, uninteresting, Scooby-doo drivel. To summarize in short, the plot of the show revolves around a couple of high-school kids who stumble into an abandoned building and run into ghosts.
Ghost Stories (ADV dub)
Nearly every seasoned anime fan has heard of "Ghost Stories" and its infamous English dub loaded with a plethora of politically incorrect jokes and absurdist humor. How did such an intentionally insane script for the official English dub come out of what was originally a dramatic horror anime? As the story goes, when the original Japanese version of the anime "Ghost Stories" premiered in , it was a total flop. In fact, it was such a financial and critical failure in the Japanese market that Aniplex, the studio that owned the western distribution rights for the series, was more than willing to let ADV Films — a now-defunct American entertainment distributor — give the series a complete overhaul for the English dub. The result was one of the most wildly offensive, bizarre anime dubs ever made.
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Ghost Stories (2000)(TV Series)(Complete)
A new family arrives in a small town, ready to start a new life in a new place. The kids prepare for a new school and friends, while the father starts his new job. The older sister, Satsuki, and younger brother, Keiichirou are in for a surprise at school when they learn that the old schoolhouse, adjacent to the new building, is haunted.
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RELATED VIDEO: The Story Behind America's Most Offensive Anime DubSatsuki Miyanoshita moves into her parents' old neighborhood, where she soon runs into the ghosts haunting the old schoolhouse. With her friends and the unwitting help of one of the ghosts she reseals the spirits released by the effects of modern-day development. Though there is no alteration or editing of the video, the subtitled and dubbed versions of Ghost Stories are essentially two different shows. The original is a fairly straightforward, earnest, but largely unambitious take on the already tired "school ghost stories" cliches that have been covered in other shows like Haunted Junction and Hell Teacher Nube. The biggest difference between this and the other series is that the cast is in elementary school, and therefore younger than the average protagonists.
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Anime dubs are usually criticized if they're unfaithful. Change a line and you'll usually get fans of the original version yelling at you -- even if the line is accurately translated. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and Zombieland Saga both encountered controversy a couple of years ago for either localizing some lines or accurately translating material, thus making it different to how fans of the previous version remembered it to be.
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