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Gakkou no Kaidan

Title:Gakkou no Kaidan
Ghost Stories
学校の怪談
Overall:Rent
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Notables: Animation - Studio Pierrot
Music - WADA Kaoru
R1 License - ADV

Satsuki and Keiichiro move into a new town from Tokyo. Together with their father, they move back into the home town that their parents met. In fact, they attend the old elementary school that their parents taught at (Father-teacher, Mother-Principal). But this school holds a secret, a long time ago it was haunted by a bunch of ghosts, Satsuki's mother (a Miko) sealed them all away into the trees in the hills above, but developers have destroyed all the trees, freeing the ghosts. They return to the only place they called home, the elementary school, and to take revenge on the girl who bears the name and face of the person who banished them, Satsuki.

Note : ADV completely reworked the script. They took out almost all Japanese references and replaced with an entire American script. Example Momoko (The local Miko) is a Jehova Witness (who believes in Jesus & Ghosts) and Leo (computer expert) is a Jewish Star Trek nerd. This disk features 3 Subtitle tracks, Original Japanese Script, Limited Titles, or New ADV Script.

Big Note: The new script is very racist, sexist, perverted and pretty much as Politically Incorrect as it comes. They frequently break the 4th Wall (wiki) and portray 10 year olds as a bunch of undersexed College students. If you are offended by racist jokes, do not watch this.


Animation by Studio Pierrot.
R1 Licensed by ADV Films.
20 Episodes - 23mins each.

1:29min Series Opening - YouTube Video

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Ghost Stories - Complete Collection
New:$29.92
Used:$31.50
Ghost Stories, Vol. 5: Graduation Ghoulies
New:$8.96
Used:$6.00
Ghost Stories, Vol. 3: Junior Jitters
New:$6.99
Used:$6.00
A Chinese Ghost Story (The Tsui Hark Animation)
New:$99.95
Used:$23.05
Ghost Stories, Vol. 4 - Senior Screams
New:$6.31
Used:$4.00
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, Vol. 2 - Yotsuya Ghost Story
New:$12.84
Used:$10.49
Ghost Stories, Vol. 1: Freshman Frights
New:$10.80
Used:$10.00
Ghost Stories, Vol. 2: Semester 2 - Sophmore Scares
New:$5.99
Used:$4.88
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Rent Forbin #

Drama : Low
Comedy : HIGH
Action : Low
SciFi : High
Ecchi : None


All 20 Episodes Watched
You know when I picked this up I was thinking, 'Oh this is a scary title.' After watching I was like 'WTF? How they heck do they know about Fox TV?'

So I did some research and realized that ADV thought the original Script sucked so much that they just took the staff of Full Metal Panic (Minus Chidori) gave them some Cheetos and a whole bunch of Cocaine, and said 'If It fits the lip flap and it's funny, we go for it!'. In one scene the word (One more) was written in blood and they even got the Subtitle to draw the little blood lines. It was neat!

I was laughing, a lot. I switched to the Japanese track and went, this sucks. So went back to English. This might even earn a BUY because of the redo.

I still wonder about some of the localization jokes. They mention that they should all go to Knotts Berry Farm , but ADV is in Texas and Knotts is next to Disneyland in California.

Favorite Lines

  • 1 : Satsuki - Damn why do all Principals look like lesbians..Looks closer...MOM?
  • 3 : Damn Leo has got a big head. Yeah he makes Chris Patton look humble. (Chris Patton is the VA for Sousuke Sagara)
  • 13: The kids line up to fight a painting ghost. 'Thunder Cats Ho!'

Ok all 20 episodes watched and now I understand why this is 20 episode show (Instead of 24/26). Because after episode 13, the show SUCKED! Even with all the re-engineering ADV did to the script you can tell just by looking that the graphics that they were cancelled midseason and had to put the end out without explaining half of the ghosts they featured.

If this was a real dub, it would be a watch. With the new and improved dub, it is a Rent. It's a low rent, but still a rent. It's very funny and probably will offend most of the people watching it.



Last updated Sunday, September 24 2006.

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