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Overview (Books + TV + Theatrical + Anime):

1-1990 Gakko no Kaidan (School Ghost Story) Children's Books: "In the mid-1980s, a schoolteacher named Toru Tsunemitsu began to share ghost stories with his young students. Tsunemitsu originally began his focus on ghost stories around town, but found an unusually large amount of them centered on school. He began to narrow his focus to school-based ghost stories, and asked his students for them, which led to his receiving over 160 stories in two weeks. In 1990, the first volume of these stories by Tsunemitsu was released under the title Gakkō no Kaidan. The stories were aimed at children and published by Kodansha and became very popular in Japan."

2-1994 Gakko no Kaidan TV Adaptation: The stories were later adapted into television where they were bought by Kansai Television" for 11 episodes (wikipedia article says 6 but this seems incorrect when compared with Japanese sources)." Various TV anthology specials were later spun-off this series not based on the books but moreso an experimental ground for telling School Ghost Stories by horror film makers.

3-1995-1999 Theatrical Adaptation: "the School Ghost Stories film was made" as a 4 part film series based on the books..."

4-2000 Anime Adaptation: "the books were also adapted as "an anime produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex in 2000."





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 Television Timeline for "Gakko no Kaidan" (translated as "School Ghost Story"):

*1965-1994: Hankyu Drama Series -The final airing of this program slot was the 1994 series entitled "Gakko no Kaidan".

*January 14th to March 25th 1994: "Gakko no Kaidan" (the airing the "Hankyu Drama series did). -On August 19th, 1994 all 10 episodes of this series appeared on VHS except the 11th one due to rights issues.

*July 1996: Gakko no Kaidan R -This was the 1st anthology TV special that was spun off of the 1994 series "Gakko no Kaidan". The "R" was simply for reference sake with no meaning.

*July 1997: Gakko no Kaidan F

*July 1998: Gakko no Kaidan G -This 1998 TV special included two prequel shorts that led to the Juon franchise in Japan entitled Katasumi and "4444444444".

*March 1999: Gakko no Kaidan Haru no Tatari (meaning School Ghost Story: Spring Haunting Special)

*March 2000: Gakko no Kaidan Haru no Noroi

*March 2001: Gakko no Kaidan Mononoke





Background Information pertaining to 1994 Television Series:

A) This link (run through Google Translate) provides information on the "Hankyu Drama Series" that ended with the 1994 series "Gakko no Kaidan":

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AA%E6%80%A5%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA

 B) This 2nd link (again run through Google Translate) provides information on the 1994 series "Gakko no Kaidan". I tried to input the IMDB entry for this series with VHS cover but this link gives more information:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E3%81%AE%E6%80%AA%E8%AB%87_(%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%93%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E)







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Theatrical Timeline for "Gakko no Kaidan" (this is theatrical unlike television entries cited above):

*1995: "Gakko no Kaidan"

*1996: "Gakko no Kaidan 2"

*1997: "Gakko no Kaidan 3"

*1999: "Gakko no Kaidan 4"

*2014: Kotodama – Spiritual Curse -This film was inspired by the 1995-1999 film series but wasn't a direct adaptation.



 Background Information pertaining to 1995-1999 Theatrical Film Series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Ghost_Stories





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Anime Adaptation: *22nd October 2000-25th March 2001: "Ghost Stories"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Stories_(Japanese_TV_series)

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Later Properties with Potential Loose Inspiration outside horror genre:

2015 TV Series: The Girls Speech

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