Ghost Stories
Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 8/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 8/10RaunchyExplicit, adult, boundary-pushing humor.This show: 7/10CampyKnowingly over the top and enjoying every minute of its own excess.This show: 7/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 7/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Takako HondaKurumi MamiyaTomoko KawakamiMakoto TsumuraKumi SakumaMonica Rial
Starring
Takako HondaKurumi MamiyaTomoko KawakamiMakoto TsumuraKumi SakumaMonica Rial
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| S1 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 8.3 |
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"A serious horror anime hijacked by its own dub"
A group of school kids team up to investigate and banish ghosts tied to old campus legends, arming themselves with charms and rituals against wandering spirits. The original Japanese version played this as fairly earnest kids' horror, but what actually made the show famous is its English dub: writers and voice actors were given free rein and turned it into a raunchy, self-mocking comedy full of ad-libs and pop-culture jokes. Watching it feels like two completely different shows overlapping, tonally chaotic, and carried almost entirely by the dub's gleeful, unhinged energy.
Watch it for
the anarchic, ad-libbed English dub that turns earnest ghost-hunting horror into gleeful chaos.
Maybe skip if
you want the original spooky tone rather than wall-to-wall adult jokes and pop-culture riffs.
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Season 12000
8.03K207h 59m
When nearby construction disturbs a spiritual resting place, its disgruntled denizens do what any supernatural being would do after a rude awaking - they terrorize the local school. And that means it’s up to a scruffy band of young ghost hunters to expel their satanic schoolmates before everyone gets sent to permanent detention! Meet Satsuki, her crybaby brother, the resident class stud, the school nerd and “psychical researcher,” a born again beauty, and a resentful, demon-possessed cat in the funniest, scariest school you’ve ever enrolled in
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Tonight, the Spirits Will Be Resurrected! Amanojaku | 7.6 | 276 | 23 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | The Hand that Came Out of the Toilet... Red Paper, Blue Paper | 7.6 | 213 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Raise the Curtain!! Cursed School Arts Festival Kutabe!! | 8.1 | 202 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Requiem from the Dead - Elise | 8.0 | 182 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | The Bloody Sports Festival - Datto!! | 8.2 | 182 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | The Demon's Hand Splits the Door - Night of Tragedy | 7.5 | 152 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | The Soul-Stealing Mirror!! Utsushimi | 8.1 | 149 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | The Circuit Connects to Hell - Demon of the Underworld | 7.4 | 145 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | The Corpse that Roams in the Night - Shirotabi | 8.8 | 225 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 10 | The Tunnel with No Exit - Anamaneki | 8.0 | 145 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 11 | The Talking Merry Doll!! Shadow of Terror | 8.2 | 139 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 12 | The Nurse Who Tells Your Death - Mother's Feelings | 8.4 | 160 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 13 | The Picture that Swallows People - Da Vinci | 7.9 | 129 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 14 | The Life-Taking Psychic Photo - Railway Crossing of Evil | 7.7 | 127 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 15 | The Devil's Spell - Rite of Darkness | 7.8 | 130 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 16 | The Apartment That Eats People! Nest of Evil Spirits | 7.5 | 129 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 17 | Terror at Bloodstain Lake!! Apparition in the Snow | 8.1 | 127 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 18 | Akane-san of the Broadcasting Room!! Voice of the Dead | 8.3 | 135 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 19 | The Headless Horsemen!! Curse of Death | 7.7 | 116 | 24 min | |
| ▶ | 20 | Farewell, Amanojaku - The Descent of Ohma | 8.3 | 127 | 24 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Takako Honda Hajime Aoyama
Kurumi Mamiya Keiichirou Miyanoshita
Tomoko Kawakami Satsuki Miyanoshita
Makoto Tsumura Leo Kakinoki
Kumi Sakuma Momoko Koigakubo
Monica Rial Momoko Koigakubo
Ryusei Nakao Amanojaku, Kaaya, Amanojaku; Kaaya
Rob Mungle Amanojaku
Yutaka Aoyama Sakata-sensei, Janitor
Takehiro Murozono Reiichirou Miyanoshita
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