What I've always heard was that it was a contract issue that when they purchased the rights to distribute the anime, somehow they fucked up and that didn't include any of the script so they weren't allowed to use that to translate it and thus had to create a script all on their own so each day it was whoever came in first dictated how a scene went and they just had to base on something related to ghosts to fit the shows theme
many actors have the director to blame for poor performances, and the director usually gets away with it Scott free. Jake Lloyd comes to mind.
Steven Foster, a Sentai Filmworks director, was so awful at his job that he got himself blackballed from the business.
But people continue to sing his praises, because he just happened to be the director of Ghost Stories.
Also wasn't "the Japanese studio let us dub however we wanted because they weren't expecting the show to perform well anyway" a big fat lie?
No idea, but it's what I've always heard.
What I've always heard was that it was a contract issue that when they purchased the rights to distribute the anime, somehow they fucked up and that didn't include any of the script so they weren't allowed to use that to translate it and thus had to create a script all on their own so each day it was whoever came in first dictated how a scene went and they just had to base on something related to ghosts to fit the shows theme