History YMMV / GhostStories

** Also Jews, blacks, born-again Christians, lesbians, and the mentally disabled. It might be easier to list targets that aren't acceptable in the dub.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Leo's voice actor in the GagDub, Creator/GregAyres, is well known for his jokes about Christian Slater's acting career and it even became a slight RunningGag in the dub, as he mentioned "Christian Slater's career" when listing the people boarding the ferry to River Styx.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The joke with Reiichirou and the Mary doll becomes a lot less funny when you learn that his voice actor Illich Guardiola was arrested in 2014 for sexual assault on a 16 year old.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It did pretty meh in Japan, the gag dub made it more loved in the US.
* GrowingTheBeard: ADV's GagDub is all right early on, actually mostly staying close to the original script. Episode 5 and afterwards is where they really start to improvise and where the dub hits its stride.
* HilariousInHindsight: English dub episode 19, "Please stay tuned for probably ''the'' hottest homosexual newscaster on the planet, my friend, Anderson Cooper." This came out six years before Cooper's actual revelation.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: Regardless what you think about the English dub, on the other hand the Colombian Spanish dub not only is a literal straight dub, but [[SoOkayItsAverage also a relatively mediocre one]] due of the [[DubNameChange changed names compared with the English dub]] and wooden performance.[[note]]Althrough that was because in Colombian Spanish it's very difficult to pronounce some Japanese words and names, compared with other Spanish dialects.[[/note]]Also the dub was done in Argentina.

* EarWorm: Given the songs the chapters are all named for, there's an actual pop music soundtrack that might get into a reader's head.

* AcceptableTargets: Monsters supposedly only attack evil people like republicans.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Leo's voice actor in the GagDub, GregAyres, is well known for his jokes about Christian Slater's acting career and it even became a slight RunningGag in the dub, as he mentioned "Christian Slater's career" when listing the people boarding the ferry to River Styx.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: Regardless what you think about the English dub, on the other hand the Colombian Spanish dub not only is a literal straight dub, but [[SoOkayItsAverage also a relatively mediocre one]] due of the [[DubNameChange changed names compared with the English dub]] and wooden performance.[[note]]Althrough that was because in Colombian Spanish it's very difficult to pronounce some Japanese words and names, compared with other Spanish dialects.[[/note]]Also the dub was done in Argentina.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: Regardless what you think about the English dub, on the other hand the Colombian Spanish dub not only is a literal straight dub, but [[SoBadItsGood also a relatively mediocre one]] due of the [[DubNameChange changed names compared with the English dub]] and wooden performance.[[note]]Althrough that was because in Colombian Spanish it's very difficult to pronounce some Japanese words and names, compared with other Spanish dialects.[[/note]]Also the dub was done in Argentina.

* NightmareFuel: The original [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this (or attempts to) and builds its appeal around this. The ghosts of the later episodes are noticeably more menacing and scarier, to the point that some viewers are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids surprised that it's made for children]]. The GagDub, of course, isn't as scary as the original, but the character designs and paranormal vagaries are still present to unnerve the viewer.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: Regardless what you think about the English dub, on the other hand the Colombian Spanish dub not only is a literal straight dub, but [[SoBadItsGood also a relatively mediocre one]] due of the [[DubNameChange changed names compared with the English dub]] and wooden performance.[[note]]Althrough that was because in Colombian Spanish it's very difficult to pronounce some Japanese words and names, compared with other Spanish dialects.[[/note]]

* MisBlamed[=/=]MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.

* NightmareFuel: The original [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this (or attempts to) and builds its appeal around this. The ghosts of the later episodes are noticeably more menacing and scarier, to the point that some viewers are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids surprised that it's made for children]]. The GagDub, of course, isn't as scary as the original, but the character designs and paranormal vagaries are still present to unnerve the viewer.

* GrowingTheBeard: ADV's GagDub is all right early on, actually mostly staying close to the original script. Episode 5 and afterwards is where they really start to improvise hits its stride.

* NightmareFuel: The original [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this (or attempts to) and builds its appeal around this. The ghosts of the later episodes are especially more menacing and scarier, to the point that some viewers are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids surprised that it's made for children]]. The GagDub, of course, isn't as scary as the original, but the character designs and paranormal vagaries are still present to unnerve the viewer.

* NightmareFuel: The original [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this (or attempts to) in order to build its appeal. The ghosts of the later episodes are especially more menacing and scarier, to the point that some viewers are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids surprised that it's made for children]]. The GagDub, of course, isn't as scary as the original, but the character designs and paranormal vagaries are still present to unnerve the viewer.

* GrowingTheBeard: The GagDub is okay early on, but episode 5 is where it really hits its stride.

* MisBlamed[=/=]MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.

* ClicheStorm: ''Every'' horror cliche gets used at some point in this series, naturally lampshaded in the GagDub.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: There are many people who complain that the dub isn't an accurate translation of the original Japanese.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The dub. See CrowningMomentOfFunny below.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Even in the gag dub, the series has more than its share of nightmare-inducing moments.

* MisBlamed[=/=]MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.
* NightmareFuel: let's see, Episodes 1-20.

* MisBlamed[=/=]MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Dub: "I know now that it could never work between us! As much as we wanted to it could never be! Not because you're a rabbit, but because you're ''black''..."
** Most of the episode 9 dub makes it count as a Crowning EPISODE of Funny.
** The ADV dub version of the letter from Kayako in episode 12 turns a potential TearJerker scene into this (while still being at least a bit sad.)
* FridgeHorror: What ever happened to the one shot ghost victims we see during the prologue sequences, or sometimes in the middle of the episode? Sure we are told a few times that someone got sick or was too scared to say anything. But come to think of it, we never really SEE them again, and quite a few times, it seems VERY unlikely that the victim actually survived. Made even scarier by the fact that nobody seems to care too much.
** Lampshaded in the Dub with Hajime offhandedly saying Keita (the victim of the week) died and it not being brought up again.

* MemeticMolester: Babasare. Seriously what is the reason of him appearing ''only'' to children?
** Her, originnaly.
* MisBlamed[=/=]MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.
* TearJerker: The backstory of the ghost taxi driver from episode 10, plus [[spoiler: the above mentioned Heroic Sacrifice of the watchman from episode 16]].
** And the episode where [[spoiler: Keiichirou and Amanojyaku set off to the old hospital where Kayako died of illness.]]

* MisBlamed/MisaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the personality changes in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.

* MisBlamed/MiasaimedFandom: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the CharacterDerailment in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.

* MisBlamed: ADVFilms occasionally catches flak for the CharacterDerailment in their GagDub of this series. Actually, ADV was told to do whatever it took to make the series sell... so they did.