Ghost Stories (ADV dub)
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 Question: How do you make a bad anime worse?
Answer: You give it an even worse dub. | ||||||
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Ghost Stories is an anime series based on the manga by Tōru Tsunemitsu.
Summary
Five-grade school students fight the supernatural.
(Intentional) Bad Qualities
- As an anime dub, it hardly feels like a dub and more like an abridged series with no clever writing that is destined to just make people laugh with sexual references and random curse words.
- The constant offensive humor always taking up the focus makes it difficult to follow the story.
- Most of the humor is very cringeworthy and offensive, as it mostly involves insulting atheists, homosexuals, Jewish people, black people, and even Muslims. There are also moments when Keiichirou (A first grader) is described by everyone as retarded.
- Some of the voice acting, especially from Keiichirou can be very annoying.
- Tons of unnecessary and out-of-place pop culture references, like when the characters mention Stephen King, Scooby-Doo, Cartoon Network, and Back to the Future.
- Most of the cast is either annoying or just very unlikable. Momoko Koigakubo is especially very annoying as she never shuts up about being a Christian.
- The dialogue is very stupid, as it completely ignores the original Japanese script, and it is filled with gibberish quotes from Keiichirou that label him as retarded, and the characters talk about nothing but inappropriate content and insults towards certain groups.
Good Qualities
- Occasionally, the humor can be funny. There are some funny lines such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkGmuuPLby8
- The dub does have a cult following and can be considered "so bad, it's good." Additionally, the dub was meant to be a joke from the start.
- Some unintentionally funny moments.
- Most of the voice acting is great, despite BQ#4.
Trivia
- The reason why the dub is like this is that the anime did horribly in Japan, the original creators of the show told the Americans who were dubbing it to do what they wanted.
- This dub didn't have defined scripts, just general storylines; as a result, the dialogue here is entirely improvised.
- Hajime's line in episode 5, "Think of a big black man chasing you!", was later used as a popular meme on TikTok in November 2021.
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