Gakkou no Yuurei

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 tostop. 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, virtually unchanged. Again, fortunately it only happens once. But that also brings me to the only drawback of the show - its novelty wears out rather fast. After a certain point, you start to realize very soon where the story is going and the intrigue is gone. Still, I was moved by a lot of stories from here even after there was no longer any mystery in the plot. Unfortunately, because it says "school ghosts" in the title, the stories are limited to school / school students, which shows, like the mountain lodge episode where the characters could be just about anyone, but they introduce themselves as Higashi High School just to put down this checkmark. I also remember another story where the actress looked like she was in her 30s, but still wore a serafuku and pretended to be a high schooler. It's also quite hilarious, thanks to the live action sections going back to back with animation, to observe as the schoolgirls' skirt lengths go from mini in animation to "you can barely see her socks" in live action.