''Gregory Horror Show'' (stylized as ''GREGORY HORROR SHOW'') is a Japanese
CGI anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
television series created by Naomi Iwata and televised by
Asahi National Broadcasting Company.
Story
The first series, "The Nightmare Begins", is a set of 25 stories about a businessman arriving at the hotel after taking a train home from work. He encounters the mysterious owner of the hotel, an old mouse known as Gregory, who suggests that he stay awhile in Room 205. Gregory gradually erodes away his individuality, denouncing the first guest as nothing more than a small part of himself. The man soon becomes drawn into a bizarre series of events taking place within Gregory House as he tries desperately to escape from this purgatory. Though he escapes back to his wife and son, he finds reality too boring, and returns voluntarily. It is heavily implied that he becomes an empty shell, Haniwa Salaryman.
The second series, "The Second Guest", is similarly set with 25 stories, except this time the main victim is a woman who has just taken a taxi home from her best friend's wedding ceremony. She has had to endure many failed relationships and careers. It is also implied that her old flame was once the first guest, but their relationship went disastrously wrong. Due to her insanity from the degrading events, she starts a fire, burning down the house - however, the Gregory family survive, and welcome her into their family.
The third series, "The Last Train", is set with 26 stories during a bizarre train ride that Gregory embarks upon. It differs from the previous two series in that there is no guest, nor is the hotel the central setting. Instead, Gregory himself is the protagonist, and the series takes place on the previously mentioned train as Gregory tries to escape from his own home and his role as the innkeeper. However, unlike the previous two protagonists, he fails, and the train only takes him back to Gregory House.
The fourth series, "The Bloody Karte", is a set of 12 stories about Catherine working in a mysterious hospital.
Characters
;
:Voiced by:
Chafurin
, better known by his stage name is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who is affiliated with Office Osawa. After graduating from Toyo University
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(Japanese);
Dave Pettitt
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Career
Since 1995 he has voiced roles for over ten television series and at least five video games.Database (undated)."Filmo ...
(English)
:Gregory is the Innkeeper of the hotel and also the narrator, a slightly creepy old anthropomorphic rat with an obsession for keeping guests at his hotel. He loves to mess with one's mind and has a habit of appearing out of nowhere. It is strongly implied that Gregory is a manifestation of the hidden dreams and desires that people suppress, and his hotel the same. Although how several different people can manifest the exact same apparition is unknown, and it is highly probable that Gregory is in fact a spirit of dreams and desires, instead of a single person's manifestation. Gregory's aims seem unclear in both the game and the series, but he seems to be subservient to his mother, who is thoroughly and unambiguously wicked, unlike Gregory, consuming wayward souls to remain young. Gregory himself is more morally ambiguous, since he never overtly harms the guest, though he never makes any attempt to prevent harm coming to them. This may be because everyone in the hotel is effectively immortal, however. While enigmatic, he is, if nothing else, polite and sincere. To the unseen guest of the first series, he always refers to him as "My friend" and to female guest of the second series, as "My dear". One thing is clear though, Gregory is indestructible and inescapable. Even if the guest tries to flee the purgatory of his hotel, or attempt to destroy him, they'll still somehow return, and Gregory will still be there, keeping their room ready for them. In the third series, Gregory is more unambiguously sympathetic, trying to escape from his role as the keeper of Gregory House and enduring as many strange and bizarre events as either of the previous protagonists. Like them, he ultimately fails to escape, suggesting that even he is a prisoner in his strange world despite his ostensible mastery and ownership of it. In the game, a player can overhear him talking about how they would not be in any danger if they simply accepted the purgatory of Gregory House, but several times in both the series and the game, Gregory is seen to be an antagonistic force, putting his guests, and even himself, quite literally through hell.
:In the exclusive Gregory Gallery Tour series, Gregory seems to have vast knowledge about the guests in the hotel, as he gives a tour to an unseen audience. He also seems to have the ability to impersonate each of their personalities and certain parts of their appearances. As is typical for a man his age, Gregory also has a secret, although it is not a secret among the other residents of the hotel - a liking for dirty magazines. He often reads them when he thinks he is alone; in the game, his secret place for reading the magazines is the storeroom.
;
:Voiced by:
Erina Yamazaki
is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce.
Voice roles
Anime
* Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! MAX (Keichi Saijou)
*Gregory Horror Show (James)
*Hanaukyo Maid Team (Joshou (episode 7))
*Let's Dance With Papa (Fukko Amachi)
* Panyo Pa ...
(Japanese);
Brett Bauer (English)
:He is Gregory's grandson, a mischievous young mouse who loves to play pranks on anyone he can find. He drives Gregory to despair and distraction. In the videogame, he is the one who allowed the guests to steal bottled souls from Gregory's Mama. He hates being alone, so he hopes the wandering guest in the game will stay forever so that they can get into all kinds of trouble together.
;
:Voiced by:
Nao Nagasawa
is a Japanese actress, voice actress, former singer and model. She is known for her roles in various tokusatsu series, film, and drama, such as "Nanami Nono / Hurricane Blue" in the series Super Sentai '' Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger''.
Filmogra ...
(Japanese);
Onalea Gilbertson
Onalea Gilbertson is a Canadian voice actress and musician from Calgary, Alberta. Gilbertson is most known for her own creations; Blanche: ''The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame'' and ''Requiem for a Lost Girl''.
Aside from her work in th ...
(English)
:He is a zombie cat who once lived with a family that stayed in Gregory's Hotel. Once a glossy beautiful cat, it escaped from a normal world and ended up at the hotel where Gregory stitched up its eyes, mouth and ears as act of revenge, possibly against cats in general due to their inter-species conflict. His room is nothing more than a prison cell, revealing the true nature of this strange place.
:He is the character who seems the most supportive of the protagonist in both the game and the series, as he is constantly giving them hints on how to battle their inner demons. More than anything, Neko wants the guest to escape this hell-like place. He also attempts to kill Gregory and his mother during the Great Fire of Gregory House (during the series, this fire is caused by him). He ends up turning to ash, when Gregory House is burned down, however the attempt failed when Gregory's sister reincarnated the hotel along with the other guests being resurrected. Neko Zombie however is killed off and never to be seen again.
:He is a manifestation of a broken heart, stitched together by anger and misery.
;
:Voiced by: Ayana Inoue (Japanese, TV series),
Minako Ichiki (Japanese, ''Bloody Karte'');
Elinor Holt (English)
:She is a pink lizard
nurse
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health c ...
with a giant
syringe
A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel. The plunger can be linearly pulled and pushed along the inside ...
. She has an obsessive desire to steal blood from guests, and searches for any excuse she can find to do so. One suck of her syringe appears to drain almost all of a person's blood. She easily falls in love with people with nice veins, but she is also shown to take blood for no reason other than personal pleasure, suggesting that it may be fetishistic in nature. She has had relationships with many characters throughout the house, although all of them have ended badly - usually for the other person.
;
:Voiced by: Naochika Hayashida (Japanese);
Brendan Hunter (English)
A set of anthropomorphic scales balanced between love and money. He passes judgment on all of the troubled souls of the hotel, and can see through anyone's lies. His skills at determining the truth are slightly questionable. When he's not judging others, he usually sings to himself ''about'' himself ("Do you know who I am? They call me Judgement Boy!").
;
:Voiced by: Naochika Hayashida (Japanese);
Steve Olson (English)
:He is a solid gold Judgment boy and the boss of all other judgment boys. In the game, he trains all the other judgment boys for the final judgment and is the last guest to visit the hotel. In ''Bloody Karte'', it is revealed that he isn't really gold; he's just gold-plated.
;
:Voiced by:
Ryuzaburo Otomo (Japanese);
Byron Close (English)
:He is the chef of Gregory Hotel that looks very much like a dark-faced candle with glowing red eyes and a giant knife that is said to cleave elephant bones like butter. He often butchers/poisons the guests that don't eat or refuse his meals (even if they are just not hungry), and then serves them to other guests. He speaks with a dark, sinister, evil voice.
:He is apparently very particular and passionate about his food preparation, and refuses to eat anyone's cooking but his own. He hates smokers/smoking because "They are the enemy of cuisine!" (he hates that it eventually numbs the taste buds). The candle on his head is almost always seen burning because it somewhat acts as his life spark - if it's blown out, he stops moving and his eyes stop glowing, and when it is re-lit, he continues as if nothing had happened.
;
:Voiced by:
Naoko Matsui
is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Hakodate, Hokkaido. Matsui was a member of Production Baobab for 20 years before becoming a freelancer.
Matsui is most notable for the roles of Uru Chie in '' High School! Kimengumi'', Rem Ayanokō ...
(Japanese);
Angie Beers (English)
:She is a poor girl looking forever for her doll. At first, she looks harmless but when approached or picked up, she becomes violent and turns blue. She herself is in fact the doll she is looking for. She has a good friendship with Cactus Gunman. Her name may have once been 'Katie'. Her only friend was a doll which was her constant companion, but one day, her parents decided to dispose of the doll. The girl searched endlessly for her lost doll, until she happened upon the place known as Gregory House, where she became a permanent resident.
;
:Voiced by:
Hitoshi Takagi
was a Japanese voice actor. He died 15 days before his 79th birthday at the age of 78 due to partial ischemic heart disease.
He was best known for providing the voice of Totoro.
Notable voice roles
Anime
*''Moomin'' and ''New Moomin'' (Moomi ...
(Japanese);
Jonathan Love (English)
:He is a father dog with bandaged body and his skull partly cloven by a
saber
A sabre (French: sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the ...
which does not affect him at all apart from a headache. He is a proud hypochondriac with a loving son.
;
:Voiced by: Natsumi Sakuma (Japanese);
Sean Broadhurst (English)
:He is Mummy Papa's son, a smaller dog in dungarees and bandages with his skull partly cloven by an
axe
An axe ( sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has ma ...
. He is also a proud hypochondriac like his father. As he suffers from constant migraines, Mummy Dog is very empathetic to those who look or feel poorly, by getting them help. Unfortunately, that medical attention usually comes in the form of Catherine.
;
:Voiced by:
Yoshiyuki Kono (Japanese);
Roger Rhodes
Roger Rhodes (born August 2, 1965) is a Canadian voice artist who works with Blue Water Studios. He is well known for having voiced Vegeta in the Canadian version of ''Dragon Ball GT''.
Rhodes lives in Calgary with his wife Alice and daughter A ...
(English)
:He is a cactus in bandit clothes and sombrero who loves to challenge guests into fights. He was once a leader of revolutionaries and is infamous for his terrible aim. He is also quite the macho man, playing tough while any real danger would easily scare him away.
;
:Voiced by: Mikako Sato (Japanese);
Carol-Anne Day
Carol-Anne Day (born March 26, 1986) is a Canadian voice actress.
Filmography Western series
*''The Little Prince'' - Rosetta (The Planet of the Trainiacs)
Anime series
*'' Ceres, The Celestial Legend'' - Chidori Kuruma
*'' Betterman'' - Kaori ...
(English)
:She is Cactus Gunman's younger sister. She is fiercer than her brother and uses a
lasso
A lasso ( or ), also called lariat, riata, or reata (all from Castilian, la reata 're-tied rope'), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the Spanish an ...
to steal other's clothes, confident of their lack of fashion sense.
;
:Voiced by:
Yoko Asada
Yoko may refer to:
People
* Yoko (name), a Japanese feminine given name; variants include Yōko and Yohko
* Yoko Gushiken (具志堅 用高, born 1955), Japanese professional boxer
* Yoko Taro (横尾 太郎, born 1970), Japanese video game di ...
(Japanese);
Mariette Sluyter (English)
:He is a small red-faced child with a roulette wheel on his head. He loves to play games and challenges guests to test their luck, usually ending in terrible mishaps and accidents for the players. For this reason, Gregory absolutely hates Roulette Boy as he's always haplessly landing on unlucky squares.
;
:Voiced by:
Masashi Hirose
is a Japanese voice actor from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He works at Production Baobab.
He is known for the roles of Ramba Ral (''Mobile Suit Gundam''), Rikishiman (''Kinnikuman''), Gosterro (''Blue Comet SPT Layzner'') and Nakano-sensei (''Lov ...
(Japanese);
Mike Shepherd (English)
:He is the God of Death who visits guests in their dreams with his
scythe
A scythe ( ) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing. The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor m ...
. He seems to be manic-depressive, considering the fact that in the anime he speaks darkly with a grim voice, while in the game he has a funky and cheery presence. He wears a
Swedish flag on his head in reference to the
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...
movie ''
The Seventh Seal
''The Seventh Seal'' ( sv, Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of ch ...
''. Death personally intervenes with the first guest, enabling him to evade Gregory, but forewarns that he may never truly escape for reality is no paradise, but a dull monotonous cycle.
;
:It is a skeletal floating fish able to swim in the air and through walls. It has a TV for a face and projects the memories of any guests nearby passively. However, because all guests at Gregory Hotel are uncertain of themselves, the TV shows distorted images. In the anime, there are multiple TV Fish, including one with a Gregory TV satellite.
;
:Voiced by:
Katsumi Suzuki
is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Kagome's grandfather in ''Inuyasha'' after Ginzo Matsuo's death, and as the voice of Diddy Kong in many of Nintendo's video games since 2004 starting with '' Mario Power Tennis''. He ...
(Japanese);
Meredith Taylor-Parry (English)
:She is a green frog residing in the hotel. . She appears before people from a white mist, telling people of their fortunes, never seen without her booth or crystal ball. All of her fortunes come true, but how long it takes before it does can very greatly.
;
:Voiced by:
Jin Yamanoi
is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.
Voice roles
Anime
Video games
*''Flash Hiders'', (1993) Horow
*'' Mega Man: The Power Battle'', (1995) Proto Man, Guts Man
*'' Street Fighter Alpha 2'', (1996) Rolento
*'' Mega Man 2: The Pow ...
(Japanese);
Jonathan Love (English)
:He is a man with the face of a clock residing in the hotel. He has the ability to control time, although he has grown old and can't travel that far in time anymore. He usually drinks his problems away. He's a very civil and jolly fellow. However, if he catches anyone he even remotely suspects of picking on his child, My Son, he flies into a fit of time-warping rage.
;
:Voiced by:
Maiko Ito (Japanese);
Mike Thiessen (English)
:He is the son of Clock Master, who is currently learning the art of time control. He greatly admires his father.
;
:Voiced by: (Japanese);
Roger Rhodes
Roger Rhodes (born August 2, 1965) is a Canadian voice artist who works with Blue Water Studios. He is well known for having voiced Vegeta in the Canadian version of ''Dragon Ball GT''.
Rhodes lives in Calgary with his wife Alice and daughter A ...
(English)
:He is a skeleton character that resides under the cemetery in front of Gregory Hotel. "Drinks his cares away" with wine until he can find a body to replace his own fragile form. He is weak to wind and water because his powdery bones can easily blow away or melt in the rain.
; /
:Voiced by:
Rei Sakuma
is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator from Tokyo, Japan. She is best known in Japan for her voice work in the long running children's series ''Soreike! Anpanman''; her most famous role in the English-speaking world, however, i ...
(Japanese);
Chris Simms (English)
:She is a canine with an angelic appearance that invites you to be near her. She has somewhat of a split personality, however, and frequently changes into the Devil Dog and invites you to hell. Gregory, being the embodiment of eternal
Purgatory
Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. The process of purgatory ...
, has a negative relationship with her, as she is the manifestation of
Heaven
Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...
and
Hell
In religion and folklore, hell is a location in the afterlife in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hell ...
. She acts like a teenager, arguing with Gregory about how he is always cleaning when she wants to watch football.
Video game
The anime was adapted into a
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, and in Australia on 3 ...
game by
Capcom Production Studio 3 and published by
Capcom
is a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher. It has created a number of List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil' ...
on August 7, 2003 in Japan and December 15, 2003 in Europe. The general premise of the game involves the player (who can choose to be male or female) trying to escape from Gregory House, a deranged hotel run by the old mouse Gregory. The game involves having to steal bottled souls from twelve guests, and returning them to Death before going to sleep in Room 101.
In the game, Neko Zombie helps explain the gameplay and introduces the player to
mental health
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. Mental health acts like a health gauge of the player's mental fortitude. The player must maintain a good level of mental health by sleeping, reading books, or using special "herb" items reminiscent of the ''
Resident Evil
''Resident Evil'', known in Japan as is a Japanese horror game series and media franchise created by Capcom. It consists of survival horror, third-person shooter and first-person shooter games, with players typically surviving in environments ...
'' game series. If the player's mental health completely runs out, then the character goes insane, and becomes a permanent guest at Gregory House.
While the bizarre cube-esque graphics (which were a staple of the 'anime') give the game an unusual look for a survival horror game, there is still an element of tension and unease because the player must creep around the hotel, avoiding detection by the various guests. If the player gets caught by one of them, then the guest will attack them by forcing them to watch some 'Horror Shows', a bizarre vision of violence set in a traditional Japanese theatre in which the guest will inflict severe harm upon you.
The game features a goldmine of Easter eggs and many backstory which either reference or expand upon certain events of the series. For example, in the 'Bloody Karte' arc, Catherine develops an attraction for Hell's Chef; in the game, the player can find a signed trading card of him in the psychotic nurse's treatment room. Also, if a player takes the time to follow the guests around the building at various points in the game, they will often divulge interesting tidbits about the hotel and each other. For example, if the player follows Gregory around early in the game, a huge amount of how Neko Zombie came to be the way he is can be learned.
Mobile game
Milky Cartoons and Unframe, Inc. launched a mobile game based on the show in October 2018 for
Android and
iOS
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, titled ''Gregory Horror Show: Lost Qualia''. So far, the game is only available in the Japanese app store. An English version has yet to appear in the United States and Europe.
''Gregory Horror Show: Lost Qualia'' is a
Gacha
Gacha may refer to:
* Gashapon, a kind of toy that originated in Japan which is sold inside a plastic capsule. Commonly sold in vending machines
** Gacha game, video games that are monetized via a concept that is similar to gashapon. Comparable to ...
-based RPG mobile game that combines the elements of dungeon crawling with a Gacha card system. ''Lost Qualia'' uses the original 3D cube-esque graphics and style that the series is known for.
The main storyline tells of the player showing up at Gregory House, where Gregory the manager himself meets the player and tells him about a previous guest known only as "that man". Gregory further explains that the guests delusional beliefs has gotten far too powerful, and that he is able to take over the hotel, turn it into a dungeon, and distort the surreal world around it. Gregory wants the player to help him and the other guests on a quest to take back Gregory House and defeat the man, who is mad with delusional power. The main quest also takes the player and company outside the hotel to the cactus sibling's homeland, (seen in volume 3) which is called Cactus Land. The quest also takes the player & co. to Roulette boy's casino.
Like the PS2 video game, The player has a hotel room that serves as the central hub when they finish the tutorial or start up the game. They are able to customize their room with items they get either in a quest or in the Gacha cards from the fortune teller, level up their characters, and manage their Gacha cards and deck to us in a quest. Occasionally and randomly, Gregory, Neko Zombie, Catherine, Hell's Chef, and other playable characters will drop by to visit the player in their room talking to them and offer their support in a quest where the player is able to optionally choose them and play as them in any level. If the player has a playable character unlocked from either in a quest or found in Gacha card pack they can engage in conversation with the other visiting characters in the player's room, usually giving their commentary on the player, the current situation, and chat among themselves based on relationships they have with the other characters, or different topics.
The game has the player, Gregory, or other playable characters going through a labyrinth, where they battle through hostile mages and souls that lurk in the dungeons and can appear from anywhere. Using melee attacks, throwable or ranged items, or using Gacha cards to regain health, buff their attacks or speed, special abilities, and using "horror show" Gacha cards to even the odds with one or many hostile souls surrounding them. The objective is for the player to survive and reach the goal to complete the level, sometimes having to climb stairs to the next floor to get there. Optionally, the player can set the game in autoplay (similar to an idle RPG) where the AI takes over for the player on certain parts of the game or just taping the move button on-screen has the playable character temporarily moving through a corridor and resuming control back to the Player when they are in an area with more room. While reaching the goal is important, it also vital for the player to look for Kinko safes around the dungeon for items such as skull gems, soul energy, or gacha cards for the possibility of getting new customize hotel room items or unlocking a character to keep permanently and play as in a quest.
In addition to the main story quest, there are two types of quest offered in the game: event quests that can sometimes be holiday-based events, and special events that are added in the game during updates and have their own storylines. for example, the "Gregory Quest" events tell about the player, Gregory, Neko Zombie, and the other guests getting sucked up by TV fish and entering into a world based on fantasy RPG video games and became RPG characters based on character classes, each with their own quest in each Gregory Quest event. Depending on certain quest events and levels, both will automatically have the player play as specific characters as they have specific quests in the event storyline, or Ranked quests which are competitive survival quests where the player have to fight through hostile souls to reach the highest position of the leaderboard. Depending on the first, second, and third position when a ranking quest ends, the winning player earns a trophy to display in their hotel room.
Manga
A manga adaptation called ''Gregory Horror Show: Another World'' by Suzuki Sanami started in the November 1, 2007 issue of ''
Weekly Morning
is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as . The digital edition of the magazine is titled .
In 2006 a spin-off magazine called was launched (formerly bimonthly), featuring stories like ''Saint '' ...
'' magazine; it was then published as a graphic novel and released in Japan, on September 22, 2008.
It follows Tooru Takenozuka, a 22-year-old
freeter
In Japan, a is a person who is unemployed or lacks full-time employment, excluding housewives and students. Freeters average 15 to 34 years of age.
Freeters may also be described as '' underemployed''. These people do not start a career after ...
who comes to the city to follow his dreams. Thanks to his status he is unable to find an apartment to live in until a seedy real estate agent introduces him to Gregory House. He ends up in Room 404 and endures the nightmarish surroundings and residents. Over the course of chapters, it is revealed that Takenozuka's very form and spirit, is in a state of constant flux. He is, in reality, Tooru is a 94-year old man in the year 2078, though part of him could never accept the fact that he grew beyond his twenties without accomplishing anything extraordinary or wonderful with his life. All of his dreams and ambitions went unfulfilled.
As Gregory is a collector of the rare and unusual, he takes an instant liking to Takenozuka. The man battles between choosing his dreams and the reality that he has responsibilities as a father. Though he manages to destroy Gregory, but unlike all the protagonists, he eventually dies, as he was holding James's hand.
Mystery Holiday
The creator's website announced in 2016 that a new Gregory Show was to be produced. Little is known about it other than a plot synopsis and some redesigns. It seems that the main character will be a kid named Hiroshi who wanders into Gregory House on a whim hoping it will grant his wishes but has to stop Gregory's evil plan to destroy the world. No release date has been announced.
References
External links
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1999 anime television series debuts
2003 Japanese television series endings
Japanese animated horror television series
Japanese computer-animated television series
Geneon USA
Horror anime and manga
Dark comedy anime and manga