Gakkou no Yuurei

Introduction

This OVA is a live-action/animation mixed collection of short school ghost stories. (Source: AniDB)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.07/10 · 526

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Audience reviews

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Cristina_G

“Gakkou no Yureei” is one of the best series of the genre I’ve watched, way scarier than the “Junji Ito Collection” (which is one of my top titles of the genre but leans more to creepy than scary). Some of the scenes are truly horrific when the ghosts died violently. The stories are based on real life events that took place on Japanese school grounds, told by the people to whom they happened, or who know/knew them. Each episode has several stories. It is incredibly hard to find it in its completed form. Most places only uploaded the first episode - I suspect this is because they’re animé sites and this series is a mix of animation and live action. This first episode is the only one that’s 100% animation and no site bothered to clarify this on the story description. It’s even harder to…

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Perevodildo

This show is a very well calculated work. Separate stories within episodes last for no more than 15 minutes, which is a perfect timeframe for the purposes of the show - enough to get to know the characters, not enough to overstay its welcome. Overall, it has the same feel to it as "Tales from the Crypt", but without a charismatic host and with a genuine intention to scare you. I personally found the live-action sequences more touching than animated ones, but a lot of those felt sincere and dramatic too. Another thing that earned this show my respect is that they knew when to stop. It had good ratings, so they probably could do more than 6 episodes, but it's at the 6th one when their crisis of ideas becomes apparent - they reused the same story as in one of the previous episodes, virtuall…