Clockwise from top left - Ginta, Scar-mouthed woman, Rabi, Jiminken, Ben, Hanako, Kinjiro, Totem Paul
Gakkou no Kaidan SP is an animated series which was presented in 2005 - 2009, as a bonus video included with the August and September issues of monthly magazine Comic Bun Bun (コミックブンブン "Gekkan komikku bunbun") by publisher Poplar[1]. It supplemented the Ghost School stories by Kyoumi Ogawa which appeared in some issues of the magazine. The August and September issues of the magazine included a VHS tape in 2005, 2006, and a DVD from 2007-2009. Each had a 10-minute Gakkou no Kaidan episode. Some consider this as the second season of Gakkou no Kaidan. The series brings old ghosts from the original show, in a more lighthearted version as "Ghost Hosts" to introduce each segment. The segments consist of 5-minute short stories in which one of the schoolkids has a brief encounter with a ghost or spirit.
The 2005-2007 episodes were repackaged for television, and broadcast on Kids Station in August 2008. For this presentation, the opening theme "Another World" was added. For 2008, 2009, the videos with the magazine added the closing theme "Good Luck". Those two years' shows were not aired.
Ghost Hosts[]
- Rabi (seiyū: Yuko Gitake)
- Scar-mouthed woman (seiyū:Mie Sonozaki)
- Totem Paul (seiyū: Daisuke Kishio)
- Hanako (seiyū: Miyuki Matsuki)
- Ginta (seiyū: Daisuke Kishio)
- Jiminken (seiyū: Takuo Nakaguni)
- Kinjirō (seiyū: Makoto Naruse)
- Ben (seiyū: Takuo Nakaguni)
Episodes[]
1. The Ghost in Toilet, Parallel No-Return Dimension and The Haunted Camp shows that Beauty is Skin Deep.[]
VHS release August 2005
1.1. Ghost in Toilet[]
The girls discuss the legend Hanako-san, and dare each other to knock three times on the third stall, to summon her. A girl makes it as far as the washroom, but chickens out from knocking on the stall. Then a woman comes into the washroom, and gets the girl to hold her baby while she uses the toilet. The baby gets more and more heavy until the girl has to set it down. She realizes that the woman was an Ubume spirit.
1.2. Parallel No-Return Dimension[]
A boy accidentally breaks a clay statue. Later, he goes to the washroom on the 4th floor, to the 4th stall, and at 4:44 pm on April 4, he flushes 4 times. This comes from a pun between the word for death shi (死) and the word for 4 shi (四). Anyhow, the effect is that it transports him to the spirit world. There he finds the school empty, with endless hallways, but no exit. He is chased by the schools' clay statue collection, and a skeleton, which he smashes. Waking up back in the washroom, he finds his friends wondering why the science-class skeleton was smashed.
VHS release September 2005
1.3. The Haunted Camp[]
A boy is sleeping at summer camp when he wakes up needing to go to the washroom; on his way, he sees a strange woman wearing white, burying something. She follows him to where he is sleeping, and grabs his ankle.
1.4. Beauty is Skin Deep[]
One of the girls is obsessed with her hair; she combs it all the time. One day while in the school bathroom, the toilet-paper ghost shows up demanding more and more paper. It then reaches up from the toilet to grab her hair.
2. The Haunted House, The Ghastly Doll and The Temple Demon are all Airheads.[]
VHS release August 2006
2.1. The Haunted House[]
A group of friends go on a test of courage by walking through the cemetery. When one of them kicks over an urn, a pair of hands reaches out of the headstone and grabs him.
2.2. The Ghastly Doll[]
A girl who is late for school knocks a doll off the shelf, breaking off its head. She finds it behind the bookcase, now with an angry face.
VHS release September 2006
2.3. The Temple Demon[]
Two girls goes to a festival, and stay very late. When one of them is on the way home, it is the hour of the ox, and she meets the ushi no toki mairi.
2.4. Airheads[]
Two girls encounter the Sōgenbi - spirits which appear in the form of floating ghostly heads.
3. Are You Afraid of Ghosts? A House is not a Home! One Missed Call and Bad Dreams shows that It's Over![]
DVD release August 2007
3.1. Are You Afraid of Ghosts?[]
A group of friends get into a very scary and amazing adventure.
3.2. A House is Not a Home[]
A family moves into a new house. The house was very cheap! How can a wonderful house like that be so cheap? EASY. One of the house's rooms is HAUNTED!
DVD release September 2007
3.3. One Missed Call[]
A man employed at a school works overtime. Everything appears to be very tranquil. However, he is not alone in the school. There is someone - or something - calling for him on the phone all the time!
3.4. Bad Dreams[]
A man starts to have nightmares about being chased by a floating monster head in the middle of the night.
Theme Music[]
Opening for Kids Station version
- Another World (すぐそばに)
- Performance, lyrics by Lisa Takahashi (高橋)
- Music by Shogo Onishi
Closing for 2008, 2009 episodes
- Good Luck
- Performed by Merry Clover
- Vocals: Michiru Kaori (佳織みちる), Kotukimiya (コツキミヤ), Yuiko (ゆいこ)[2]
- Music & lyrics by Takashi Kamijo (上條貴史)
- The song was published as track 8 on their 2008 album Floweric (ふらわりっく, Fura wari kku)