Review of Ghost Stories

Now if you're confused why I gave this a ten that's understandable if you watched the Japanese version but the dub is a COMPLEATLY different story. In short this anime did mediocre in Japan and they gave the rights for most aspects of the show over to a western studio and they produced this masterpiece of a show. Basically changing every character into something horribly raunchy or offensive like making one a born again Christian and another a fickle Jew If you'd like to know more Scamboli Reviews has a fantastic video about it. Anyway review time. So you can tell even from the dub thatthis show is incredibly formulaic but that doesn't really matter in fact the dub actively starts pointing this out and making fun of it. The plot is still the same but not super coherent as a result of most of the dubbing being ad-libbed and a focus on making it funny.

I feel the main draw of watching this is witnessing a very unique thing would never happen in anime today. This came out in the early 2000's and you can tell with references to George Busch and humor that would NOT fly today but is very funny nonetheless.

If an edgy abridged of a mediocre Scooby-Doo rip off anime sounds enticing to you 10/10 would recommend I was laughing my ass off at last once an episode. (Special shout outs to 5,9, and 15.) but if that edgy humor isn't your thing than this won't interest you but I can assure you they rip on everyone and I mean EVERYONE equally. They go for Republicans, Democrats, Christians, Jews, Mexicans, Indians and everything in between. So don't be to apprehensive to at least give it a try!