Every so often I see it brought up as being so edgy and funny, but it's really not. There are a few moments that are funny, but they're packed between racism, ableism, and really any kind of -ism you can imagine. It gets defended as "just a shitpost" from the same crowd that talks about the glory days of people not being so easily offended. I rewatched a compilation before posting this just to be sure of my critique and it's exactly as I remembered lol. Nothing but attack helicopter tier jokes. Some people say if you didn't watch it in the 2000s you won't get it, but I've seen shows from the 2000s that are actually good and funny shrug-outta-hecks

Anyway, I'm convinced most people who talk about how funny it is haven't seen anything beyond clips. It's just lazy and boring

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    2 months ago

    I've seen like four episodes of the Ghost Stories dub and honestly yeah. I did make a note that I wanted to continue Ghost Stories "eventually", for some unknown reason, but it did stand out to me that the Ghost Stories dub is considerably less funny or interesting outside of the handful of most shared clips.

    While on the subject of anime that are better enjoyed as clips, I think I also gave this label to Nichijou and Wataten: the former basically because it's already structured as a series of largely disconnected vignettes, so it might've been even more GOATed if the pacing was left up to the viewer; the latter because if your only knowledge of Wataten comes from clips, you get to live blissfully unaware of the fact that the main character is a pedophile.