Talk:Ghost Stories (Japanese TV series)

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* Support Rename to Ghost Stories (anime) The official name of the anime series given by ADV Films, the holder of the English language rights, is Ghost Stories. --TheFarix (Talk) 14:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: Well, I only saw this cartoon in Japanese, but this article made me wonder about the humor employed by ADV in their dub. I thought Americans were more sensitive to these kinds of racist jokes... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.38.101.16 (talk) 21:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We both are and aren't. As the South Park boys have pointed out, only black people can really get away with using the n-word, for one thing, but black comedians use it all the time. Jewish jokes are usually tolerated up to a point, I think largely because it's self-deprecating Jews that propagate a lot of them (for instance, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, or some o f Fran Drescher's humor on The Nanny). Also, poking fun at racists is almost universally acceptable, including poking fun at "Christian" fundamentalists who're well, a little less than tolerant (and who are a very vocal minority in the U.S., unfortunately. Just look at Jack Chick and Fred Phelps). It sounds like the latter two are the only "racist" or racism-related humor included in this dub, in which case it might very well not be considered offensive by American standards (depends on how horribly stereotypical "Leo"'s portrayal is). I mean, poking fun at anime cliches does not sound "racist" - it did just occur to me that poking fun at Japanese culture might seem "racist" to some, but to be frank, the Japanese themselves do it all the time in animation; and Americans will just as gleefully poke fun of American culture and cultural values (see: The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, South Park, Drawn Together, Daria and many more) in much the same way. So unless it goes past a certain limit, it probably would not be considered "racist" by current American standards. Especially when you keep in mind that it would probably be by people who like Japanese culture, and thus would be much like the South Park guys' parodies of many movies (like 300): irreverant, but still somehow affectionate. (I still haven't seen the series though, so I can neither confirm nor deny whether the series comes off as offensively racist to me)Runa27 09:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racist humor in the ADV dub? 

message: I do not agree with the creation of a separate article for the list of ghosts and would like to see it merged back into the article. The original size of 20 KB is only two thirds of the recommended article size limit. I see no benefit to the separate list. LittleOldMe 12:38, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-merging list of ghosts. 

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message: Greetings, people. I notice there is information about the Spanish dub of the series in this article. What I'll do after writing this is to merge that information to that of the Spanish version of the article; meanwhile, the information in the infobox still can be there. --Twicemost (talk) 13:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Transwiki

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It's pretty good I think.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuvaco (talk • contribs) 04:44, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: ANN's encyclopedia section is not a reliable source because the information is user-generated and there is little oversite to verify it on their end. —Farix (t | c) 10:32, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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message: The show actually wasn't a failure. This Reddit post with links by Shigofumi provides proof https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/4zabk4/i_read_somehwere_that_ghost_stories_was_actually/
I am going to remove text from the page that says the show failed in Japan. 86.41.149.16 (talk) 15:29, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Misconception that the show was a failure in Japan