Television Summary IV (Tonight, the Spirits Will Be Resurrected! Amanojaku)


So I have an ought a little history with the show. Which is a weird thing to say given that I've only known about the existence of said show for about 40 minutes.

I first heard about this shows existence from a guy known as ''Phantom reviews' or 'Quantum reviews''. I can't entirely remember what the hell I was watching.
It was some YouTube recommended algorithms show that popped up on my feed, after I finished listening to a music video of The Last Laser Master.

Usually I don't bother to stay on the videos that get recommended to me.
But this one wasn't a right wing pseudo-intellectual nuts trying to tell me about the death of the western world because a bunch of supposed ''feminists'' want to give equality to half the population.
So I decided to watch the guy.
He mainly talked about the popularity of Dragon Ball Z abridged and that Yu-Gi-Oh abridged show that were prominent some years ago.
And it was mainly on the history of how these things came to be after the expansion and popularity of Japanese cartoons.
But while watching this he brought up some weird little show I have never heard before. That show being ''Ghost Stories''.
He showed weird little clips of a small child muteringto himself and an awkward teenage girl exposing Christian dialogue straight out of a Fundies handbook.
I've got to admit, it got me chuckling.
So I decided to look into this silly little show.

There were two things that immediately came to my mind. One that the show was clearly made buy a bunch of people who couldn't care less about the product they had.
Maybe there was a dispute with the original company about how the story was supposed to be perceived.
Maybe nobody cared about production of the show and decided that the English audience for it would have no interest in the original Source material.
Whatever the case the final script and Voice work for the show created this oddly comedic episode. That spent more time mocking its source material then trying to transfer whatever it originally said from Japanese to English.
The second thing of note is that the opening song for this show was familiar to me.
I had a copy of this song on my computer for years. And it was really weird to hear it in a cartoon show.

I won't bother trying to summarise the actual story because I consider it a wasted effort.
It's clear that the people who were dubing over this thing didn't care and they simply looked at the actions of the cartoon and made up their own story for it.
It reminds me of how certain comic book artist would design a story, then they'd draw out a bunch of random scenes and then have a writer pencil in a story after the fact.
That's kind of what happens here.
Really there's nothing interesting to see. It's a haunted school that a bunch of kids wander into and then they have to spend most of their time running away from Ghost and discovering that one of their parents has some weird connection to the school. Interlaced with all of this are jokes about Catholicism, Lesbians and an idiot child who mutters to himself when putting extremely stressful situations.

If you're looking for something to make you laugh for 20 minutes then I'd recommend the first episode of Ghost Story.
I'm really hoping that the rest of the show follows in the same pattern and gives us this incredibly awkward experience of what I can only perceived was a semi-serious ghost story in Japan being turned into a farce in America.

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