Review of Ghost Stories

Ok it gets a 5 for the original work but my review is about the translation. If you’re fine with it you’ll have no trouble finding the series online but if you’re after the real deal, after ep.4 the subs are horrible. There’s no translation that’s faithful to the original, subs or dubs, except for a version I found dubbed in Hindi but subbed in English (still preferable to said nonsense but only the first 10 eps were done) or unless you torrent it. They simply copied the dubs’ script and it sounds WRONG. It’s like bad Saturday morning kid’s TV dubbed by the “AmericanDad” crew. They replaced the dialogues with all sorts of sex & drugs’ allusions, bad Jesus and American celeb jokes and inappropriate, bad taste nonsense.

This usually doesn’t faze me if it’s original script but the series is rated PG-13 and I find it disgusting that they thought it’s funny to put such words in the mouths of the children (4 to 9yr-olds). It's like the English script was written by an over-hormonal teen trying too hard to act cool. They completely destroyed and took out all the heart and soul of the story, made the kids nasty, dirty mouthed and the adults a bunch of pervs and morons.

It gives a bad name to Japanese animé. Apparently it’s supposed to be funny but the only people this will appeal to are immature juveniles, people with the mental age of frat party boys, jocks & their groupies, and kids who just discovered they can swear when mom’s not around. It’s irritating and very distracting.
I’m disappointed that the Japanese owners threw this animé to the dogs without a care or respect for its integrity and for the creator’s work.

I already didn’t like dubs because they’re usually a watered down version of the above but this put me off them for good; honestly, the only reason I watched til the end was because I hate leaving things unfinished.

BTW❗️ Some sites have 20 episodes rather than the announced 19❗️This is because there’s a *Special episode* that was inserted on the main collection as ep.19 (*Gakkou no Kaidan: Kubinashi Rider!! Shi no Noroi / Ghost Stories: The Headless Horsemen!! Curse of Death*, 2001)