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Gakkô no kaidan: Raise the Curtain!! Cursed School Arts Festival Kutabe!! (2000)
Things come to a head (heheheh)
After the first two episodes were passable, if a bit middling on shock, "Raise the Curtain" feels like the first proper entry where everything is firing off on full cylinders. Perhaps that's because of the leniency that the plot offers, being far more character-driven than the past two episodes; that ensures that the characters can all get the sort of weird lines out that give the dub life. Either way, this comes across as the introduction of what I was promised out of the show: weirdness, crudity, and some delightfully, oh-so-wrong one-liners. Dig it!
Gakkô no kaidan: The Hand that Came Out of the Toilet... Red Paper, Blue Paper (2000)
Slowly gathering confidence
This episode was a step up from the last, but it's still far from the show at maximum potential. At the very least, the ghost the episode was centered around fit more nicely around the generally crude writing. We're just not yet at a point where the show has begun to tear into itself, causing the narrative to come across like a slightly crasser take on the original without really crystallizing into its own thing.