What Made the Ghost Stories Dub so Different 

Hiiiii

Nice.

Cool

No se inglés.

now do us a favor and force the director to dub ex arm lol

In fairness he was right.

@@MrSinthan Not really.

@@animegraveyard776 No, of course not.

@@MrSinthan Actually, I changed my mind.

@@animegraveyard776 Yeah me too. Isn't this just orgasmic?

"JUST IMAGINE A BIG BLACK MAN CHASING YOU" *gets down on all fours soon after*

@@aaronlandry3934 he never said no homo therefore he is gay

@@reddytoplay9188 Fuck, I forgot to say no homo myself! I should probably ask my husband if take backs are allowed for this whole marriage thing

To be fair imagined you are being chased by a big naked black man at night.

@@cheeseburgersuperior1874 I have that dream it's a wonderful dream.

hue hue hue hue

🅷🅴 🅷🅴 🅷🅴

Lmaooo

Reminds me of the rabbit scene

THE BUNNY SKSJND

my favorite part in this episode is in the chase scene in the same episode, the ghost floats up the stairs and goes "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

😂

Same. Guy voicing the cat did a great delivery.

Oh that’s just Jesus girl! She normally dose that.

I got a PTSD flashback from when this happened to me on vacation in the South.

“No i’m jewish!”

ohmygodwhatishappeningiveneverhadtolipsyncsofast

Lmaoooo

No You True

ironically the funniest anime ive seen

If it's animated I always prefer the dub. If it's live action, I'll never watch the sub.

I mean subs over dubs- but for this IM FOR DUB ALL THE WAYYY

I’m a sub watcher so it’s rare that I watch dubs but holy shit ghost stories was absolutely an exception

you wanna be an airforce ranger you wanna live a life of danger you dont wanna get raped by strangers

*bends over*

@@nunyabiznes33 BBC 😫😫

@@bestgore.comsss "Well at least he's not racist"

@@bestgore.comsss the news is hot

Japan: "No, you did just what we were hoping -- you America'd the shit out of it. Good job."

@@Tolinarjust as Aizen planned

America: "oh very poor choice of words."

so it wasnt a mistake

"There are no accidents" -Master Oogway

@@killmecanic9391 I was waiting for someone to say that

It’s “haveyouacceptedjesusasyourpersonalsavior?”

@@killmecanic9391 ONLY MEMES!!! NO IM INKLING

Adrian Naranjo That was my favorite part

it still haunted me how deep the rabbit's voice was

that’s how i found ghost stories lol

My favorite part of the series

I started uncontrollably laughing just simply from this comment.

mutantmaster1 man i love 4th wall breaking

Yess

@@asterrie I love that they call it third wall breaking in the series because they're 2D

"first we do a geographical pan over to make it look like were going a long way to get there"

LMAOO

@@disastermidi1990 how does that make them a snowflake?

@@disastermidi1990 if you’re gonna pull the snowflake shit try being original lmao

@@disastermidi1990 That's pretty cringe bro

Don’t forget the black jokes

@@WEED-SMASH not really

I heard the VA couldn't stop laughing her ass off to that line

@@Cairo40000 Why, its true.

"stop it, this man isnt black" "What"

that line gets me. every. damn. time. i cant even say it without laughing, its so good

@@Cairo40000 if tha IS true I feel like you can kinda hear it in her read. Like she's barely able to read it without that "gafah" in her voice which is really a stifled laugh.

It sure is.

😂😂 I say that now

Not surprised

No fucking way lmaoo

Was that from the first episode lol

Luke Schwiebert Could you imagine writing a RU-vid Poop or Abridged series and getting paid for it now? . . . Is this being done?

Whatever... jackass.

ADV: "License to go nuts, you heard it straight from the source. Alright everyone, HIT IT!"

R/malicious compliance the anime.

@@Harmonia96 Does getting the oppurtunity to lend your voice to an officially licensed game count?

Oh yeah. And it’s so good.

*you're

What is your avi from?

That's Brittney Karbowski who said that.

@@AlphaDog26 It's either Zara or Honolulu from Azur Lane

*touch me harder*

"thanks a lot man."

that episode is great because it still manages to be terrifying. i mean a piano ghost who chases you with a literal piano and plays Fur Elise and can take over any electronic with a speaker to play that piece, scary as hell

@@bradchadchaderson gay Pajamas is a surprisingly efficient way to describe the Jojo character design

Big if tru

I always thought he was mentioning a band lol.

"You know how sometimes the man totally screw the woman over?" *y e a h.*

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Ok

Doesn’t it accurately translate what dyslexia looks like in speech form

@@catsinwonderland7473 not really

“No it can’t be..😟”

Laughed at that so hard

my favorite quote is "Run! She's a ghost and a bitch!"

The origin story of "ur mom gay".

I SAID JUMP

Yes i know 💀💀💀

😂😂😂😭😭😭🤚

Cause the bible told me so TwT

Laughs in Christian

I can HEAR IT.

HAHA

Id like this if the like count wasnt on 420

@@ravenznest3822 Not all heroes wear capes my friend

@@ravenznest3822 now you can help us reach 6969 likes :)

@@Ghost3210 694201337

Just like that rabbit.

@@Jeronous 🐈

@@DEFxRECON what's that supposed to mean?

@@JeronousSo was the rabbit

@@Jeronousit was very dark

"Just fill the hole, hole filler!"

yes! jackass

"Fucking noisy."

Look out, Ted

"Just move the boards, boards mover"

As a Texan I swear to god this line did make me laugh as hard as it did

You're as blue as daggerknife is dead. -Sarge (Red vs Blue)

He said I swear to god bitch, the lake is blue 😂

"Monsters only get evil people like Republicans and we're not old enough to vote!"

Mine is "ding order up"

It is my favorite line

I'm sorry Goku Black

It actually sounds more emotional than the sub.

Tooty McGroody you can tell the actors really got caught up and let their emotions control them in this heart-wrenching but beautifully written scene. I shed a tear every time.

go move boards over there board mover

Imagine the joy its genuine fans would feel.

@@CrystalGreymon And then imagine the utter horror they would feel when they learned what the dub actually was like

Why am I not surprised that she worked on Panty and Stocking, lol.

@@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog fun fact: she also voiced the religious girl in Ghost Stories

And luckily they struck gold.

Yep! Chris Ayers told similar sorties since his little brother worked on it, but also worked a lot in voice directing and I believe he was friends with the voice director of Ghost Stories too (small circle and all).

@@samusai does anyone remember negima

This ain't no abridge series. This my friend, is art.

when next araki forgot moment coming out

Shuck why are you here?

Why are we all here... Just to suffer....

i was going to like your coment, but it had 666 likes and i didnt want to ruin it

Holy fuck what is that font

@@arbi9506 Copy-paste from Word

@@omarvi280 can you tell me where I can get it or search it up and name-

@@MargaritaApologist If you haven't figured it out yet, just search up "font generator"

@@Arloooooooo_ nice thank you!

Let's get off sisters, since I just got off *yours!*

Nick DeGugs oh god without context that DBZ scene is bizzare

Mr Bruh what’s the context for it I just assumed it was racist

Corytheodst there’s a villain character called goku black and the police mistake goku for goku black the funny thing is they could’ve just said “don’t shoot this man isn’t goku black” but they decided to keep it the way it is because it’s funny that’s all I know I don’t even watch the show or any dragon ball z shows for that matter

@@Kmn2 Yeah they definitely did that shit on purpose XD, but there is nothing wrong with dark meta humor.

Not because you're a rabbit, but because you're black.

@@merrittanimation7721 Truly, one of the greatest tragedies in fiction.

The shit of legends

Probably my favorite line from the dub

"Come on, jump. ISAIDJUMP!!!!!!"

That's when I knew. That whole scene. ❤

Wasn't she in conversion therapy as well?

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Huuuuuge user.

"that's my mom" "What? I'm sorry. I mean bless you"

I love how in the last episode they are fully aware they're in the anime and just want the series to end "it's the last episode you think i'm gonna die?"

broo that hilarious this is golden

"this is like the 6th time we've done the Ring" is a line I remember from the last few episodes

“I’m starting to like you, this must be the final and touching episode” - the final episode

so was Jesus

darkhorseman90 Exactly what I was thinking XD

*personalsavior. Not Lord and savior. And you call yourself a weeb. 🤦‍♂️

😂

Joshua Crain forgive him, he has much to learn

Whatever, jackass

Lesbian in bed with some random man seconds before sex just to make a baby for her and her girlfriend but he started talking about some dumb shit

grindr be like:

Lazy Ambitions drive the bus, bus driver

“Shut up. You are here, and you’re an idiot”

Oh, that's cool!

@@mightypurplelicious3209 he's been like that ever since he worked on the dub... 😂

Bs

@@rafaelcampuwork Bro that's the legit voice actor...

So, you were rated an A in size but a D in endurance. How does that feel?

ADV: *yes*

The English voice actors were actually like “We don’t have a script?”

They didn’t need a script

They had a script? Lol

The english voice actors INVENTED the script. They even invented and ran with each other's running gags, such as the super christian girl having previously been a drug addicted slut. (The following episode, the boy mishears "momoko collapsed!" as "Momoko relapsed!")

More dark comedy anime? I agree lol

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

@@twixxsticks2806 PSG isn't exactly "dark" comedy, but more juvenile

Abridged SAO comes close to this

Abridged series: Allow me to introduce myself. (Notable examples: Team Four Star's DBZ Abridged, YuGiOh Abridged and Something Witty's Sword Art Online abridged just to name of few.)

Iconic scene

The best line in that scene is "DROP THE KRISPY KREMES, SERPICO"

me too!!!!

D R O P T H E K R I S P Y K R E M E S S E R P I C O !

There's a similar fast-talking scene in Episode 5 (Sports Festival) where Greg Ayres spits _this_ line out: "OHMYGODOHMYGODWHATTHEHELLISHAPPENINGHERETHESEARETHEFASTESTLIPFLAPSI'VEEVERHADTOSYNC!!"

I think they did? I do know the the creators of the series actually did get a kick out of the gag Dub or at least appreciated the weird spin on the dialogue.

I think they actually did. Not 100% sure though.

@@ShadowWolfRising Suppose they toned it down quite a bit?

@@DoctorDisasterDracula Wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

@@ShadowWolfRising Well you said "Not 100%", so I assumed that was the case.

🦘🦘🦘🦘

fuck that username it got to me

so that is how i died and became edgy after not hearing it again

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@@tribunealpha1059 got me to *cringe*

Strain42 suicide boys

Don't forget Golden Boy!

Actually Samurai pizza cats did it first

@@lobodefuego69vr2 BINGO! Just as I kept saying to others! These whippersnappers need their facts to straighten up!

Yugioh GX season 3 exists and it was clear that 4kids were trying to make an official abridged series ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w98OsmVaUbE.html

There is new official abridged series - My First Girlfriend is a Gal

As sad as it makes me, I don't think this would work again in modern times.

Please do it with Ex-arm it needs saving

@@WhySoPrettyJinsoul. the dub alone couldn't carry ex-arm animation style weirdness

I'd love to see it with the Azur Lane anime. It's not exactly a bad anime, it just struggles from being really uninteresting

Here's 500

adult shows today are the same

Agreed.

Makes me all the more glad they did it then and not now

We need another dub like this 😔

People are too sensitive these days 😒 Btw: I'm black

When I feel confident about my grasp on the French language, the first thing I'm doing is making videos about the French dubs for Fist of the North Star and City Hunter (Nicky Larson en français)

@@RedBardIsCool some are hard to translate (hokuto de cuisine = kitchen knife) but "who built this fence ? Call the architect !" when Yuria jump off the building is my favorite :)

@@RedBardIsCool did you know that France made a foreign within a foreign live action City Hunter (or Nicky Larson) movie, and some of the fans criticized for casting Ryo Saeba as a French person instead of a Japanese person

damn gotta watch that once i can actually speak french

@@RedBardIsCool yes ! Nicky Larson dub is legendary aswell you are very well informed

Potato Gaming 101 No I’m Jewish

Jesus will have to pry elmos soul from elmos cold dead hands

you mean "HaveyouacceptedJesusasyourpersonalsavior?!"

Potato Gaming 101 haveyouacceptedjesusasyourpersonalsavior?

Yes. Yes, I have. Best decision of my life.

That scene aged poorly

@@milesduff7593 The director fucking predicted the future. Like on the fucking dot.

@@joshstephens413a true prophet.

it's alright, they get to do it, and these clips will stay immortal I guess

Deadbeat dads are not cool! *starts laughing arkwardly*

Good to know nothing has changed in the 20 years since this came out

This feels so relevant now

@Upcycle Shoes All. A stacked Supreme Court is every president’s wet dream.

@@dashamm98 Every ruler in history with a supreme court will try to do this.

@Upcycle Shoes I'm seriously wondering the context of that joke.

*jackass

Ok fill the hole hole filler

Source ?

I’m Japanese and I want a link to it

@@commandershepard1791 Some factoids about Ghost Stories US Dub: The ADR Script WAS translated and was originally going to be line for line, but in November 2005, Director George Manley told the VAs "Fuck it. Make up anything. Forget the script". The ADR production was dubbed in just 6 weeks time. All ADV Dubs at the time were done at the Jersey Village/North Central Houston based "Industrial Smoke and Mirrors" Studio. Seraphrim is all dubbed in the Yorktown Galleria area of Houston. Each Episode's Original ADR Plot was thrown out each time the VAs entered the Recording Both. Things DID go off the gotdamn rails by the 12th and 13th Episodes. It was Rob Mungle's idea to use Shock Value Humor in each rewritten script. Greg Ayers personally enjoyed mocking and self depreciating the anime. I met All of the original Voice Actors Hillary Haag,Monica Rial, Chris Patton,Rob Mungle,Greg Ayers, Christine Auten, George Manley at the now defunct Alamo Drafthouse in Mission Bend,West Oaks. They admitted that they rewrote the entire original Ghost Stories script from scratch. I got a personal photo with Hillary and Monica with my then 23 year old self via Old Fashioned Disposable Kodak Taken Tuesday May 30,2006. They're BFFs. Hillary WAS dating a Black Man at the time. He was one of the ADR Supervisors. Ghost Stories' dub was coincidencently completed about 2 months after the Cast completed dubbing the 2003 Hit Anime Spinoff of Full Metal Panic called Fumoffu. The Ghost Stories DVD Singles sold rather poorly. ADV viewed them from the get go as a lost cause.

4:55

@@RedBardIsCool Dame...

Yeah, she's the main character learning about what happened to her mother and why her mother fought ghosts during her years in the same school.

Her mother is also a former lesbian who met Born Again Betty at the (in her words) "Wonderful Exodus Homosexual Conversion Camp" and is the reason why the Evangelical member is also the most spiritually sensitive. This show goes places I would have never imagined AND I LOVE IT!!!

Her mother being a lesbian is one of the funniest running jokes XD

Oooo

The bell curve

Yea.

I declared war on your french ass How edgy.

My absolute favorite line was the one where they legitimately accepted and talked about stereotypes and penis sizes. SO goddamn funny.

"You have only 9 seconds left to live" "What ?? Oh no, that's not enough, give me at least 2 more"

Name please

@@longhai6458 Ken Le survivant

Wonder how Raoh speaks.

Difference being HnK was made more childish and ridiculous, whereas Ghost Stories turned into adult-oriented satire.

Markus Mattson Not only a abridged series but a extremely crass one

European Portuguese dub of Dragon Ball Z in the late 90s is an even earlier one, just look up "Portuguese Vegeta talks for nonstop while beating Miss Ginyu", you'll find it hard to believe it's an actual dub.

_Samurai Pizza Cats_ English dub was also basically an abridged series.

@@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl Or the Vegetta death which is hilarious because he sounds like another thing due to the constant moans xD

Memento Mori HUOOOOOOOO

No I'm Juish

@Kill Me the reply is a joke

Only ghost stories dub

If this dub is ever considered unholy for any reason then all I'll say is. HAIL SATAN.

NOT

15 years and that line is still relevant today.

After turning 21 a few months ago in Colorado, never has that line been more relevent

It aged like fine wine 👌

@Janeiro I dude relax...

Janeiro I i wouldn’t have even WATCHED ghost stories if it wasn’t for him. the whole reason i watched it was because it was comedic.

@Janeiro I the dude fucking saved ghost stories worldwide , it did so well in its english dub that japanese fans were expecting a second season

Janeiro I White Knight incel weeb

iirc ADV rebranded themselves after they declared bankruptcy. So while ADV Films as we knew them are no longer a thing, the core of the original company is still intact I believe. I haven't looked into them in a while now, though, so my info may be heavily outdated.

Omfg I knew that she sounded familar

Cool

She also voiced Mirajane from Fairytale. It’s weird hearing Mirajane talk about homosexuality being bad 😂😂😂😂

@@MikanBaldmiki And Tsuyu from MHA :P

Monica Real?

Yeah.... jackass.

AHAHEULGHHUGLHUH

KissMyAspergers exactly

Little bit of both

Of course there was a script for the general plot of each episode. If each voice actor would just say the first random joke it came to their minds then the plot would have eventually got lost in the first 5 minutes of each episode. The script just helped to stablish some "sense" And parameters in each character. Then, of course most of the jokes and dialogues were improvises by the voice actors.

you can't adlib all of that while following the plot and being limited by the animation. of course it was scripted... how would you adlib while maintaining the original plot? or when the scene changes abruptly? or if you simply don't know what is going to happen visually? plus, the dub is only great because it was limited by the plot. it's the perfect example of creative limitation.

It was a bit of both

@@theoneitself iirc I actually spoke (or wrote to Steven in the comments, if you will) to Steven Foster, he said that they'd first watch the episode in japanese with english subtitles, and then gather around his desk to write a script, where they'd write the plot down and any jokes they could make around that, they'd then go into the recording booth 1 by 1 and record their lines. The first one into the studio that day/period got to set the general tone of several scenes of dialogue.

Actually the inspiration was "Yu-Gi-Oh in a Nutshell"

Ha! Both are wrong... The 1st one that started EVERYTHING would be *_"Samurai Pizza Cats,"_* a must watch and a glorious accident that became to be (after no translated scrip was available when they bought its rights.) Check it out and enjoy yourselves!

@@geoleo965 Well no, Yu-Gi-Oh in a nutshell inspired the first Abridged Series Yu Gi Oh abridged which became the inspiration of all subsequent abridges.

@@geoleo965 Yes, indeed!

@@玉ねぎ-z3h Seriously, I don't understand his stubbornness, despite the evidence and all. Let's cross fingers that Red Bard makes a vid of it. I mean, we're talking of actual history here!

It would have to be something that did horrendous in Japan in terms of ratings or reception to have another situation like Ghost Stories.

@@EPunkOfficial Not just that but you would also need a company willing to pickup a show with horrendous ratings which is unlikely these days because of how much the industry has grown.

@@ViviSectia True, the industry is a lot bigger than it was when ADV got the rights to Ghost Stories. It does depend on the company though.

Just imagine if they added a fanservice handholding episode. Riots everywhere!!

The backlash THEN was great. A thing many people forget is that as far as I remember, this came out on VHS. Back in the VHS days, you didn't get a choice of Dub or Sub, you got what Sam Goody got in...which was the dub...and there was *NO* indication it was a parody dub. People were fucking LIVID at how disgusting and disrespectful the dub was. Heck, I still am and every time people rave about the Ghost Stories dub it makes me angry.

How about i dont

No, it’s: “you had my Curiosity, but now you have attention” you nitwit. AND DONT YOU FAKING WOOOSH ME

@@cbadefghijklmnopeyt1799 "...now you have MY attention." Quote it right peasant.

@@cbadefghijklmnopeyt1799 quote it right, quote-quoter.

It's a shame the series is bombed (I'm not making a dark humor) in Japan.

Seriously we need more runs like this can you imagine if TFS had full reign on a comedic redub?

To abridge is to shorten but I understand your gist :) I guess the plot was abridged.

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Abridged series in anime tends to mean "let's make everything completely ridiculous and change everyone's personality to be funnier" and the aspects here - all that has to stay the same is names and basic plot; it is now a comedy instead of the original genre - is stereotypical of anime abridged series on RU-vid, and while these abridged series are shortened, it's not by as much as you would think. As such, referring to this dub as essentially an official Abridged series would be perfectly normal among fans of the actual abridged series.

@@Maria-chan5863 technically ghost stories isn't abridged because it's dub is licensed by studio perriot and it is the official English dub

By definition, an abridged series has to be cut for time. This is just a comedy dub.

That's gonna be everyone at my funeral when they remember I demand that there's an epic dance party afterwards

Sub before dub but this is an exception

@@zve6 Idk, I don't get why yall love sub so much?

@@r.s.fletcher7066 because characters sound more natural with the actual voice actors? More like why YOU guys like dub so much

@@zve6 Tbh I don't hear it. Dub seems pretty natural to me(usually) and it's annoying to have to read the subtitles all the time. Honestly who even cares if they sound more natural when you can't even speak japanese🤔

@@r.s.fletcher7066 Sub imprinted in me first so dub feels weird to me So ye that's that If you like dub better sure why not But for me sub is the one

And lunchtime bj? I’m in dude 🤣🤣🤣

Where can I view this masterpiece?

@@cornmaized crunchyroll

I know I'm a year late, but I agree. My favorite construction worker line is: *worker points at map* "You're here... And you're an idiot."

you mean *official*

Trolmaster - good point, edit made

Invented? Pfft