Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories (Japanese: ?????, Gakk? no Kaidan, "School Ghost Stories") is a twenty-one-episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Aniplex for Fuji Television. The series has recently been licensed for the North American market by ADV Films. Though considered a fairly series by many critics and fans, it has become recently controversial for its upcoming dubbed release.

Dub Controversy

On the weekend of August 19, 2005, at the 2005 Otakon anime convention, ADV Films announced an October 2005 release of Ghost Stories on DVD. The controversy stems from the dubbed version, which completely dismisses the original dramatic script in favor a comedic one written by ADV scriptwriter Stephen Foster. While the original show will still be available on the DVD release via subtitles, a growing number of fans are crying out against the ADV dub, charging that the company made too many edits for the dub simply for the sake of potential successful sales. This in turn, was rebutted by the favorable reviews that ADV's preview at Otakon has received to date, and the news that the original Japanese licensor, Aniplex, approved the changes.

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August 19 - 2005 - 2005 Otakon - Convention - October 2005 - DVD - Drama - Comedic - Scriptwriter - Stephen Foster - Subtitles - Rebutted

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