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''[[Ghost Stories]]'' (alt title: '''''School Ghost Stories''''' or '''''Gakkou no Kaidan''''') is a twenty -episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Pierrot and Aniplex for Fuji Television, loosely based on a book series by Toru Tsunemitsu. It tells the story of Satsuki Miyanoshita, who moves with her family to the hometown of her deceased mother, Kayako. On her first day of school, Satsuki; her brother Keiichirou, a first-grader; their neighbor Hajime Aoyama; Momoko Koigakubo, an older schoolmate; and Leo Kakinoki, a classmate and friend of Hajime's with a penchant for the paranormal visit the [[Old School Building]] adjacent to the current school complex and discover that the building is haunted.

It is soon after revealed that Satsuki's mother was responsible for sealing several ghosts who haunted not only the school but also the town, and [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|now they are released due to the urbanization taking place in the surrounding area]]. Kayako left behind a book detailing how to exorcize the ghosts once and for all. In her first confrontation, Satsuki faces a demon called Amanojaku, but in the process Amanojaku is sealed within Satsuki's pet cat, Kaya. Although Amanojaku does not want to help Satsuki at first, the danger soon threatens to envelop the town and it is left up to Satsuki, her friends and Amanojaku to stop the ghosts.

The ADV Films [[Gag Dub]] could be the most entertaining aspect of this series, making it [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]. Not to say that people didn't [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|complain about the changes]], though. A dub that stayed truer to the original was made by Animax later.

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: No kidding. The only adult characters that ever helped the protagonists were a bumbling teacher in episode 18, and a night watchman in episode 16, {{spoiler|who then turned to be another ghost, and in fact, anytime an adult IS useful, they usually turn out to be ghosts}}.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Momoko in the original version. Certain things that she says are impossible to have come from a sane person, sometimes she seems too oblivious to realize what is going on and in some episode she states that the sole reason of she having a cell phone is that [[No Sense of Direction|she gets lost easily.]]

* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Episode 15 is entirely about this.

* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: In episode nine after an [[Aesop]] about [[Gag Dub|paying child support on time]].

* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: ''School Ghost Stories'' is about... a school haunted by ghosts.

* [[Five -Man Band]]:

** [[The Smart Guy]]: Leo... sorta. He's got lots of booksmarts and technical knowledge, but is the one with MORE [[What an Idiot!]] moments due to [[What Were You Thinking?|his lack of common sense]]

** [[The Big Guy]] ''and'' [[The Chick]]: Momoko. She's a sweet [[Ill Girl]] ''and'' a [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]], but is also the tallest and oldest of the group ''and'' has channeled powerful spirits (specifically, Satsuki's mother's ghost) multiple times.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Satsuki.

* [[Game Face]]: Played with some ghosts, particularly {{spoiler|Shinobu}} and {{spoiler|the girl who Leo meets in Episode 8.}}

* [[Haunted Headquarters]] The Old School buildings.

* [[Hair -Raising Hare]]: Shirotabi

* [[Intercourse Withwith You]]: The ending theme. (I thought they made this show for kids?)

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: In the gag dub, the ghost of a rabbit and one of the crew members. She breaks up with him not because he's a rabbit, but because [[Where Da White Women At?|he's black.]]

* [[Names to Know Inin Anime]]:

** Satsuki: [[Tomoko Kawakami]] and [[HillaryHilary Haag]]

* [[Not -So -Innocent Whistle]]: Inserted in the dub, during {{spoiler|Shizuko's flashback to Momoko. The taxi driver does it after hitting her with the cab.}}

* [[Off -Model]]: Done deliberately in episode 7 with the mirror people, to make them look creepier.

* [[Precision F -Strike]]: Starting in episode 15 in the dub.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: It happens with the friendlier and more harmless ghosts of the old school building.

* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: All the ghosts who had been sealed away by Kayako get free after the construction sites destroy the places where they had been imprisoned.

* [[Self -Deprecation]]: Satsuki and Momoko diss [[Greg Ayres]] and [[Chris Patton]] in episode 3, guess who two members of the [[Five -Man Band]] are voiced by.

* [[Snarky Non -Human Sidekick]]: Amanojaku.

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Reo was changed to Leo in the dub. It's possible that his name was actually supposed to be Leo, considering that he writes it in katakana.

* [[Stringy -Haired Ghost Girl]]: Episodes 14 and 18 feature one.

{{quote| '''Keichiro''': AH...ABADABADA-<br />

** The DVD Release invokes this with the "Dubtitles" subtitles track, where Keichiro's dialogue is often listed as either {{[[[Fun Withwith Subtitles]] Gibberish}}] or {{[[[Inelegant Blubbering]] Keichiro Sob}}] and after about episode 4, [Keichiro Sob [[TradesnarkTradesnark™|™]]].

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Satsuki and Keichirou's grandparents. They appear in one very brief scene in episode 1, and then they aren't seen or mentioned in the further episodes. Funny enough since [http://i30.tinypic.com/23uskye.jpg they appear in the series' intro] along with the main characters and supporting characters like Sakata and the school principal.