Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 4

More ghostly doings in Japanese schools. Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 4, is much like volume 3: six segments of about the same length, both animation and live-action.

The six segments in volume 4 are:

1. Death Doll (animated). The beloved doll of a girl killed in World War II brings destruction on anyone who hurts her, accidentally or otherwise.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Behind Me (live-action). Ever hear the story about how to summon a ghost at school. If you do, you'll never hear another...
   
   
   
   
   
3. The Animal Spirit That Saved My Life (animated). A girl is brought back from the brink of death by her determined dog, who refuses to let her cross the Sanzo River to the afterlife.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Wandering Feet (live-action). A pair of detached legs in geta haunts a school where she was separated from her mother in a flood and drowned.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Boy at the Crossroads (live-action). There's a ghostly boy at an intersection. You must never, never, never make eye contact with him.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Jogging Old Man (live-action). A newbie jogger receives encouragement and jogging companionship from a cheerful old man. After he calls to say goodbye, the newbie finds out that the old man had been bedridden for a year...
   

I like the fourth and sixth stories best, because they end well, but they're all fairly routine. The animation in segment 3 is very cheap, with lots of still frames instead of motion.

The voice actors in the animated segments are:

• Ikezawa Haruna played Nagisa in CLAMP School Detectives, Christine in Daa! Daa! Daa!, Luna in the Gravion series, Noriko in Gravitation, Momoka in the Sgt. Frog franchise, Yoshino in the Maria Watches over Us franchise, Caimie in One Piece, and Broye in the Uma Musume series.
  
• Watanabe Misa played Akeginu in Basilisk, Eriko in Gilgamesh, and Mattsu in Mattsu to Yama to Moburi-san.
  
• Yamaguchi Kappei played the lead character in the Detective Conan franchise, Ranma in the Ranma 1/2 franchise, Inuyasha in all the Inuyasha properties, Usopp in the One Piece franchise, Sakuma Ryuichi in Gravitation, Arslan in the first OVA series, and the title role in Mouse, among many others. He played Billia in Tottoi, Matsuoka Eiji in Chameleon, Shibuya in Zetsuai 1989 and Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989, and Tooru in Boyfriend, all Orphan releases.
• Yamazaki Takumi played Hans in A.D. Police, Kasugaigarasu in Demon Slayer, Kayneth in Fate/Zero, Yata in the .hack franchise, Isamu in Macross Plus, Jyoji in Monkey Turn, and Ferio in the Rayearth franchise. She appeared in Tottoi and Wolf Guy, both Orphan releases.
  
• Katsuhisa Houki played Gamo Bicchunokami Yorisato in Sanada 10, an Orphan release. He appeared in Hand Maid Mai; Tiger & Bunny, Babylon, Burst Angel, Fire Force, Ghost Talker's Daydream, and House of Five Leaves.
• Hikami Kyouko played Momoko in Wedding Peach, Pastel in Megami Paradise, Momo in Ultra Nyan, and Sara in Hand Maid May. The last three are Orphan releases.
  
• Hisakawa Aya played the title roles in Mamono Hunter Youko, Voogie's Angel, and Iria: Zeiram, Skuld in the Ah! My Goddess franchise, Cerberus in Card Captor Sakura, Sailor Mercury in the Sailor Moon franchise, Yuki in Fruits Basket, Haruka in RahXephon, Youko in The Twelve Kingdoms, and Storm in X-Men. She played Yoshiko in Ushiro no Hyakutaro, Natsuki in Kimama ni Idol, Marine in Nana Toshi Monogatari, Shizuka in Sotsugyou: Graduation, Mishima Misako in Yume Tsukai, Shana in Al Caral no Isan, Sonia in Ziggy Sore Yuke! R&R Band, Tomoko in Sensou Douwa: Boku no Boukuugou, and Koneko in Ear of the Golden Dragon, all Orphan releases.
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• Takagi Wataru played the title role in Great Teacher Onizuka, Nezumi in the 1996 and 2007 versions of GeGeGe no Kitarou, his namesake, as well as other recurring roles, in the Detective Conan franchise, old man Gorou in the recent Godzilla S.P., and Takeshi in Kakyuusei (1995), an Orphan release.
  
• Tsuboi Tomohiro played Shinpachi in the Hakuouki franchise, Ichirou in the Knights of Sidonia properties, Toshii Maeda in the Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings shows, and Shima in Zegapain, and appeared in the first volume of Gakkou no Yuurei, an Orphan release.
  

The director, Yazaki Shigeru, also directed the animated segments in volume 3 as well as Kyuuketsuki, an h-anime.

The staff is the same as for volume 3. Perevodildo translated and did initial timing. ninjacloud fine-timed. I edited and typeset. Nemesis and Topper3000 QCed. Our caffeinated encoder went under the pseudonym of "cappucino" this time.

So here's volume 4 of Gakkou no Yuurei. Nothing really new or groundbreaking, and I'm concerned about the decline in the animation production values. Time will tell. You can get this volume from the usual torrent site or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #news in irc.rizon.net.