Season 1 • Episode 100
LatestThe classic tale of Gegege no Kitaro told yet again. The story is the usual in the Gegege no Kitaro series. Kitaro is a boy living in the Gegege Forest/Cemetery (lands where many Yokai roam) with his mostly dead father (who survives only in his eye), Sunakake Babaa, NekoMusume, and Konaki Jiji. One difference between this Kitaro and all of the others that came before him, is that this one has brown hair instead of the standard grayish silver.
Production
Brown-haired Kitaro: the most controversial redesign in anime history.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn yokai designs that put modern CGI to shame.
Writing
Classic folklore retold with surprising emotional bite.
Creator
Shigeru Mizuki
Minami Takayama
Kitaro
Ai Nonaka
Zanbia
Bin Shimada
Chi
Chikao Ohtsuka
Hakusanbou
Daisuke Gori
Enma-Daiou
Daisuke Kishio
Po
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Tofu-Kozou
Eiji Takemoto
Asasabonsan/Soutei-Ou
Fumihiko Tachiki
Akamata
Haruna Ikezawa
Amabie
Hidekatsu Shibata
Bakkubeado
Hideyuki Tanaka
Bakero
Hikaru Midorikawa
Black Crow
Hiro Shimono
Kai
Hiromi Konno
Child-Nurikabe/Neko Musume
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mizuki's yokai designs pulled directly from his encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese folklore, making this essentially animated anthropology.
The brown hair controversy was so fierce that later adaptations returned to silver—this remains the 'blonde Bond' era of Kitaro.
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