English script was written by Steven Foster and Lucan Duran and allowed for ad-lib by the English voice actors. According to Foster, whoever showed up to the recording studio first for any given episode could improvise anything they wanted, those that came later had to build upon the tone and jokes established earlier. On the weekend of 19 August 2005, at the 2005 Otakon anime convention, ADV Films announced a North American DVD release of Ghost Stories for the following October. The original Japanese audio and literal subtitle translation are also included. Volume 1 was released on 22 October 2005. On 28 August 2013, Discotek Media announced that they acquired the series' license and would release it in 2014 with the ADV dub and the Japanese audio with English subtitles. The complete series was released on a three-disc set on 25 March 2014. Ghost Stories was also released on the anime streaming platform RetroCrush in February 2021. Reception Dhruv Sharma of Screen Rant praised the characters of Ghost Stories and their developments as "well-written", though he wrote that the animation style was "a bit dated". /Films Hoai-Tran Bui called the dubbed version of Ghost Stories the "best and worst anime dub", describing it as "raunchy, wildly inappropriate, [and] self-aware". Music Opening theme "Grow Up" Music and lyrics: Takuya Arrangement: Sakuma Masahide, Hysteric Blue Artist: Hysteric Blue Ending theme "Sexy Sexy" Lyrics: MASASHI, TAMA Composer: MASASHI Arrangement: CASCADE, Cozy Kubo Artist: CASCADE See also School Ghost Stories, the film from which the series was adapted List of ghost films References External links Gakkō no Kaidan 2000 anime television series debuts ADV Films Aniplex Dark comedy anime and manga Discotek Media Fiction about urban legends Fuji TV original programming Horror anime and manga Pierrot (company) Supernatural anime and manga