Gakkou no Yuurei · review
“Gakkou no Yureei” is one of the best series of the genre I’ve watched, way scarier than the “Junji Ito Collection” which is one of my top titles of the genre but leans more to the creepy than to the scary side. Some of the scenes are truly horrific when the ghost/spirits died of horrendous injuries. The stories are based on real life events that took place on Japanese school grounds. They’re based on the accounts of the people to whom they happened, or of people who know/knew them. Each episode has several stories. It is incredibly hard to find it in its completed form. Most placesonly uploaded the first episode - I suspect this is because they’re animé sites and this series is a mix of animation and live action. This first episode is tgd inky one that’s 100% animation and none of the sites bothered to explain this on the description.
It’s even harder to find with English subs, and when we do find it, we only the option of auto-generated captions that we must set up manually. Half of the captions are missing because of this and they’re literal translations so you got to put your brain and common sense to work if you want to fill in the gaps.
It is a quest for the truly determined so don’t expect a session of spoon-fed subs.
But overall the stories are good so I settled for what I could find and counted myself lucky.