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When I was five or six years old, sometime around 1994, I pestered my mother
to buy me a VHS tape about three little ghosts from the stand next to the
checkout at the grocery store. I watched that video over and over again, then
forgot about it until recently, when I remembered it, recalled how much the
art style looked like early Pokemon, and suddenly realized that that was
probably the first anime I ever saw.

In preparation to write an id request, I did some searching, and I now think
the show I saw was probably [Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi,
Socchi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ghosts,_There,_Here,_and_Where).
The timeframe is right, the plot sounds similar, and the picture seems
familiar. The character names listed for the Spanish and Polish dubs on [Anime
News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1042)
sound familiar and both Anime News Network and [My Anime
List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/310/Chiisana_Obake_Acchi_Kocchi_Socchi)
give the show the English title _Three Little Ghosts_. Anime News Network even
lists English language script staff. But there's nothing under "English cast"
or "English companies", and I can't find any hard evidence that it was
actually released in the United States.

Was Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi ever released in the US, and if so,
when and by whom?


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Was Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi ever released in English?


The [article that senshin
found](http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TV+made+Saban+rich,+selling+falafels+makes+him+secure.-a012251839)
indicates that Saban Entertainment, the infamous anime mutilator and "creator"
of Power Rangers, co-produced Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi, so it
seems incomprehensible that they wouldn't have produced an English dub. I also
found an [English-dubbed video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9cts_P1H0I) of
Three Little Ghosts which I am quite sure is the show I saw. The [Anime News
Network page](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1042)
gives the three ghosts' English names as Sally, Bumper, and Cutter, which is
exactly what I remember their names being in the show I saw. The ANN page
doesn't list any English voice actors, but [this TV Tropes
page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NowWhichOneWasThatVoice)
mentions that Saban and other dubbing studios around this time frequently
didn't credit the voice actors, so it's possible that the compilers of the ANN
page couldn't find any information on the English voice actors and decided to
leave it blank.

Given all that, I'm quite satisfied that Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi
was released in the US and that it was the show I saw.


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