GeGeGe no Kitaro
GeGeGe no Kitarō |
Kitarō and his yōkai friends. |
ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 |
Genre |
Supernatural, Horror |
Manga |
Written by |
Shigeru Mizuki |
Published by |
Kodansha |
Demographic |
Shōnen |
Magazine |
Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Original run |
1959 – 1969 |
Volumes |
9 |
TV anime |
Directed by |
Isao Takahata |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8)) |
Original run |
January 3, 1968 – March 30, 1969 |
Episodes |
65 (List of episodes) |
TV anime |
Directed by |
Isao Takahata |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8)) |
Original run |
October 7, 1971 – September 28, 1972 |
Episodes |
45 (List of episodes) |
TV anime |
Directed by |
Osamu Kasai
Hiroki Shibata |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8)) |
Original run |
October 12, 1985 – March 21, 1988 |
Episodes |
115 (List of episodes) |
TV anime |
Directed by |
Daisuke Nishio |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8)) |
Original run |
January 7, 1996 – March 29, 1998 |
Episodes |
114 (List of episodes) |
Game |
Platform |
PlayStation |
Released |
2003 |
TV anime |
Directed by |
Yukio Kawazu |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8) and JOCX-DTV (Tokyo Tower Channel 21)) |
Original run |
April 1, 2007 – March 29, 2009 |
Episodes |
100 (List of episodes) |
Live-action film |
Directed by |
Katsuhide Motoki |
Produced by |
Chihiro Kameyama |
Written by |
Katsuhide Motoki
Daisuke Habara |
Music by |
Yūta Nakano
TUCKER |
Studio |
Shochiku |
Released |
April 28, 2007 |
Runtime |
103 minutes |
TV anime |
Hakaba Kitarō |
Directed by |
Kimitoshi Chioki |
Studio |
Toei Animation
Toei Company |
Network |
Fuji Television (JOCX-TV (Tokyo Tower Channel 8) and JOCX-DTV (Tokyo Tower Channel 21)) |
Original run |
January 10, 2008 – March 20, 2008 |
Episodes |
11 |
Anime film |
GeGeGe no Kitarō 2: 1,000 Year Old Cursed Song |
Directed by |
Katsuhide Motoki |
Written by |
Mitsuhiko Sawamura |
Studio |
Shochiku |
Released |
July 12, 2008 |
Anime and Manga Portal |
GeGeGe no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎?) is a manga series created in 1959 by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. It is best known for its popularization of the folklore creatures known as yōkai, a class of spirit-monster to which all of the main characters belong. It has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action and video games. A new anime series has been made every decade since 1968.
The title of the original story is Hakaba no Kitarō (墓場鬼太郎?), literally meaning "Kitarō (of the) Graveyard". This story was an early 20th century Japanese folk tale performed on kamishibai. The name "Ge Ge Ge..." was applied to Mizuki's particular telling of the Kitarō story when a Toei Animation series based on the characters of his comic was created. In January, 2008, the original comic was finally adapted into an animated series, running in Fuji TV's noitaminA slot.
Characters
- Kitarō (鬼太郎, Kitarō?)
- Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族, yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter. When questioned in the 2007 movie, Kitarō responds that he is three hundred and fifty years old.
- Kitarō has an assortment of strange weapons at his disposal, including:
- remote-controlled geta sandals
- a detachable hand, also remote-controlled
- a magic chanchanko vest which can protect its wearer from danger; it occasionally seems to act of its own accord, wrapping around enemies or aiding friends, even when Kitarō is not available to command it
- spiny hairs which can be shot like arrows
- another hair which can serve as an antenna for detecting spirit activity
- longer locks of his hair can be used as a spear or sword
- a magical ocarina (usually used for calling Ittan Momen), which contains a baton, a whip and occasionally music which has the power to damage certain ghosts.
- the power of electrocution, usually employed when an enemy has pinned or restrained him and he can no longer kick or use other weapons
- Medama-oyaji (目玉のおやじ, or 目玉親父?, Lit. "Eyeball Father")
- Medama-oyaji is Kitarō's father. Once a fully formed adult ghost, he perished of a disease, only to be reborn out of his decayed body as an anthropomorphic version of his own eyeball. He looks small and fragile, but has a strong spirit and a great love for his son. He is also extremely knowledgeable about ghosts and monsters. He enjoys staying clean, and is often seen bathing in a small bowl. He has a great love for sake.
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Daddy Eyeball.
- Nezumi Otoko (ねずみ男?, "Rat Man")
- Nezumi Otoko is a rodent-like yōkai-human halfbreed. He has been alive for three hundred and sixty years, and in that time has almost never taken a bath, rendering him filthy, foul-smelling, and covered in welts and sores. While he is usually Kitarō's friend, Nezumi Otoko will waste no time cooking up vile schemes or betraying his companions if he thinks there's money to be had or a powerful enemy to side with. He claims to be a college graduate of the University of the Bizarre (怪奇大学, Kaiki Daigaku?). He can immobilize even the strongest yokai that accost him with a pungent flatulence attack. And akin to cats and mice, he and Nekomusume cannot stand being around each other.
- Nezumi-Otoko first appears in the story The Lodging House (Rental manga version) as Dracula IV's minion.
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Ratman.
- Neko Musume (猫娘 or ねこ娘?, "Cat Girl")
- A normally quiet yōkai girl, who transforms into a frightening cat monster with fangs and feline eyes when she is angry or hungry for fish. Predictably, she does not get along well with Nezumi Otoko. She seems to harbor a slight crush on Kitarō, who sees her only as a friend. In recent iterations (possibly due to the recent anime phenomenon of fanservice), she is very fond of human fashion and is seen in different outfits and uniforms. She bears some resemblance to the bakeneko of Japanese folklore.
- Neko-Musume first appears in the story Neko-Musume and Nezumi-Otoko (Weekly Shōnen Magazine version), however another cat-girl named Neko (寝子?) appears in the earlier stories The Vampire Tree and the Neko-Musume and A Walk to Hell (Rental version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, she is referred to as Catchick.
- Sunakake Babaa (砂かけ婆?, "Sand-throwing hag")
- Sunakake Babaa is an old yōkai woman who carries sand which she throws into the eyes of enemies to blind them. She serves as an advisor to Kitarō and his companions, and manages a yōkai apartment building. The original sunakake-baba is an invisible sand-throwing spirit from the folklore of Nara Prefecture.
- Sunake-babaa first appears in a cameo as one of many yōkai attending a sukiyaki party in the story A Walk to Hell (Rental version) before making a more prominent appearance in The Great Yōkai War (Shōnen Magazine version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, she is referred to as The Sand Witch.
- Konaki Jijii (子泣き爺?, "Child-crying Old Man")
- Konaki Jijii is a comic, absent-minded old yōkai man who attacks enemies by clinging to them and turning himself to stone, increasing his weight and mass immensely and pinning them down. He and Sunakake Babaa often work as a team. The original konaki jijii is a ghost which is said to appear in the woods of Tokushima Prefecture in the form of a crying infant. When it is picked up by some hapless traveller, it increases its weight until it crushes him.
- Konaki-jijii first appears in a cameo as one of many yōkai attending a sukiyaki party in the story A Walk to Hell (Rental version) before making a more prominent appearance in The Great Yōkai War (Shōnen Magazine version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Old Man Crybaby.
- Ittan Momen (一反木綿?, "Roll of Cotton")
- Ittan Momen is a flying yōkai resembling a strip of white cloth. Kitarō and friends often ride on him when traveling. The original ittan-momen is a spirit from Kagoshima Prefecture myth which wraps itself around the faces of humans in an attempt to smother them.
- Ittan Momen first appears in the story The Great Yōkai War (Shōnen Magazine version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Rollo Cloth.
- Nurikabe (ぬりかべ?, "Plastered Wall")
- Nurikabe is a large, sleepy-eyed wall-shaped yōkai, who uses his massive size to protect Kitarō and his friends. The original Nurikabe is a spirit which blocks the passage of people walking at night.
- Nurikabe first appears in a cameo as one of many yōkai attending a sukiyaki party in the story A Walk to Hell (Rental version) before making a more prominent appearance in The Great Yōkai War (Shōnen Magazine version).
- In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Wally Wall.
Media
Kamishibai
The Kitarō story began life as a kamishibai in the 1930s written by various performers. This story was called Kitarō of the Graveyard (Hakaba no Kitarō) and Mizuki was not the only one involved in its retelling. However, after World War II no other kamishibai artist was interested in making a manga version.[1]
Manga
Hakaba no Kitarō was published as a rental manga in 1959 but it was considered too scary for children. In 1966, renamed to GeGeGe-no-Kitarō, it appeared in Shōnen Magazine and ran through 1970. The series continued on Shōnen Sunday, Shōnen Action, Shukan Jitsuwa and many other magazines.
In 2002 GeGeGe-no-Kitarō was translated by Ralph F. McCarthy and compiled by Natsuhiko Kyogoku for Kodansha Bilingual Comics.[2]
- Volume 1 ISBN 4-7700-2827-X
- Volume 2 ISBN 4-7700-2828-8
- Volume 3 ISBN 4-7700-2829-6
TV series
Gegege no Kitarō was broadcast on Fuji Television in five different iterations:
- 1968-1969
- 1971-1972
- 1985-1988
- 1996-1998
- 2007-2009
All of the above were animated by Toei Animation.
- Music
The opening theme to all five series is "Gegege no Kitarō". It has been sung by Kazuo Kumakura (1st, 2nd), Ikuzo Yoshi (3rd), Yūkadan (4th), Ichirou Mizuki In January 2008, an all new anime (also produced by Toei) premiered on Fuji TV during the late night hours in the noitaminA block. This anime uses the original manga title (Hakaba Kitarō), and unlike the usual anime versions, it is closer to the original manga and is not part of the existing remake canon. It also features a completely different opening ("Mononoke Dance" by Denki Groove) and ending theme song ("Snow Tears" by Shoko Nakagawa). Toei's website for the series can be found here.
Movies
Anime
- July 21, 1968: Gegege no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎?) (Retelling of Anime 1, Episodes 5~6)
- July 12, 1980: Gegege no Kitarō: The All Seeing Eye (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 地相眼,, Gegege no Kitarō Chisōme?) (Retelling of Anime 2, Episode 37)
Based on the third anime, the following have original plots:
- December 21, 1985: Gegege no Kitarō
- March 15, 1986: Gegege no Kitarō: The Great Yōkai War (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 妖怪大戦争,, Gegege no Kitarō Yōkai Dai Sensō?)
- July 12, 1986: Gegege no Kitarō: Strongest Yōkai Corps!Dismebark to Japan!! (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 最強妖怪軍団! 日本上陸!!,, Gegege no Kitarō Saikyō Yōkai Gundan! Nihon Jōriku!!?)
- December 20, 1986: Gegege no Kitarō: Crash!! The Great Rebellion of the Multi-Dimensional Yōkai (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 激突!! 異次元妖怪の大反乱,, Gegege no Kitarō Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Yōkai no Dai Hanran?)
Based on the 4th Anime, the following have original plots:
- July 6, 1996: Gegege no Kitarō: The Great Sea Beast (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 大海獣,, Gegege no Kitarō Dai Kaijū?)
- March 8, 1997: Gegege no Kitarō: The Obake Nighter (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 お化けナイター?)
- July 12, 1997: Gegege no Kitarō: Yōkai Express! The Phantom Train (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 妖怪特急! まぼろしの汽車,, Gegege no Kitarō Yōkai Tokkyū! Maboroshi no Kisha?)
Based on the 5th Anime:
- December 20, 2008: Theater Edition GeGeGe no Kitarō: Japan Explodes!! (劇場版 ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 日本爆裂!!, Gekijōban GeGeGe no Kitarō Nippon Bakuretsu?)
- In 2009, William Winckler Productions produced two all new English dubbed movie versions edited from the 1996 TV series, titled Kitaro's Graveyard Gang and Kitaro's Graveyard Gang 2. Producer William Winckler, known for Tekkaman the Space Knight, wrote, produced and directed the English films, which are seen on broadband in Japan. Actor Butch Patrick who portrayed "Eddie Munster" on the classic TV series The Munsters provided one of the voices.
Live Action
2007 Movie (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎)
CG Character Voices
Yokais of Gegege no Kitarō
Video games
- Gegege no Kitarō: Youkai Dai Makyou for the Famicom (1986, Bandai)
- Gegege no Kitarō 2 for the Famicom (1987, Bandai)
- Gegege No Kitarō: Fukkatsu! Tenma Daiou for the Super Famicom (1993, Bandai)
- Gegege no Kitarō for the Game Boy (1996, Bandai)
- Gegege No Kitarō: Gentōkaikitan for the Sega Saturn (1996, Sega)
- Gegege No Kitarō: Youkai Donjara for the Super Famicom (1996, Bandai) (requires Sufami Turbo)
- Gegege no Kitarō: Noroi no Nikuto Katachi Tachi for the PlayStation (1997, Bandai)
- Hissatsu Pachinkostation now 5 Gegege No Kitarō for the PlayStation (2000, Sunsoft)
- Gegege no Kitarō for Microsoft Windows (2003, Unbalance)
- Gegege no Kitarō: Ibun Youkaitan for the PlayStation 2 (2003, Konami)
- Gegege no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Youkai Rettou for the Game Boy Advance (2003, Konami)
- Gegege no Kitarō: Gyakushuu! Youkai Daichisen for the PlayStation (2003, Konami)
- Gegege no Kitarō: Youkai Daiundoukai for the Wii (2007, Namco Bandai)
- Gegege no Kitarō Pachislo slot machine made by Sammy
- Gegege no Kitarō: Youkai Daigekisen for the Nintendo DS (2008, Bandai)
Cast
1968~1969
- Guest: Hiroshi Sugiura, Masao Imanishi, Kenji Utsumi, Kōji Yada, Yoshiko Asai, Keiko Yamamoto, Sumiko Shirakawa, Shuichi Kazamatsuri, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Nana Yamaguchi, Kōsei Tomita, Ichirō Nagai, Toshiya Ogata, Sachiko Chijimatsu, Akiko Tsuboi, Kiyoshi Komiyama, Sanji Hase, Tsuyako Yuki, Kazuko Sugiyama, Kiyoko Yajima, Ryūji Saikachi, Keiichi Noda, Mitsuko Asō, Hiroshi Ōtake, Noriko Ohara, Gisho Wakao, Jōji Yanami, Mari Tsuda, Kazue Takahashi, Katsue Miwa, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Takeshi Minami, Katsuyuki Jinnai, Miyoko Asō, Youko Satou, Osamu Ichikawa, Reiko Katsura, Midori Katō
1971~1972
- Kitarō: Masako Nozawa
- Medama Oyaji: Isamu Tanonaka, Hiroshi Ōtake (ep. 4 only, although he was credited only as a guest and Tanonaka was still credited for the role)
- Nezumi-Otoko: Chikao Ōtsuka
- Neko Musume: Yoko Kogushi (credited for every episode, though she did not appear in eps. 3, 9, 16, 20, 21, 36, & 44)
- Sunakake Babaa: Yoko Kogushi (ep. 2 only), Keiko Yamamoto
- Shinigami: Takazō Kamiyama (ep. 30, 34, 38, 42, 45)
- Konaki Jijii: Kōji Yada, Sanji Hase (ep. 29 only)
- Guest: Ichirō Nagai, Sachiko Chijimatsu, Osamu Katō, Shingo Kanemoto, Sumiko Shirakawa, Kōsei Tomita, Shinji Yamada, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Keiichi Noda, Hidekatsu Shibata, Akiko Tsuboi, Kazuko Suigyama, Noriko Watanabe, Michiko Hirai, Junichi Chiba, Michiko Nomura, Noriko Ohara, Hiroshi Masuoka, Toshiaki Okamoto, Taeko Nakanishi, Rihoko Yoshida, Miwako Yanagisawa, Yoshiko Matsuoka, Rokurō Naya, Katsuji Mori, Ryōichi Tanaka, Haruko Kitahama, Takako Kondō, Taimei Suzuki, Masao Imanishi, Jōji Yanami, Shūichirō Moriyama, Ryūji Saikachi, Keita Nishi, Shōji Aoki, Kazuya Tatekabe, Kōhei Miyauchi
1985~1988
- Guest: Yuri Nashiwa, Yasurō Tanaka, Kōzō Shioya, Mayumi Shō, Chie Satō, Hiroshi Takemura, Hiroyuki Taira, Mami Matsui, Yuko Mizawa, Banjō Ginga, Keiichi Noda, Ryōichi Tanaka, Tōru Furuya, Akimasa Ōmori, Kōji Totani, Nana Yamaguchi, Katsue Miwa, Kyōko Tongū, Naoko Watanabe, Nobuyo Tsuda, Hiromi Tsuru, Sanji Hase, Harumi Īzuka, Kazumi Tanaka, Hideyuki Tanaka, Ryūji Saikachi, Tamio Ōki, Toshio Furukawa, Keiko Han, Masato Yamanouchi, Taeko Nakanishi, Yoshito Yasuhara, Junichi Chiba, Sumiko Shirakawa, Eiko Yamada, Shigeru Chiba, Masahiro Anzai, Kinpei Azusa, Kaneto Shiozawa, Eiko Masuyama, Yuriko Yamamoto, Katsuji Mori, Shigeru Nakahara, Naho Yoshida, Eken Mine, Takkō Ishimori, Yumi Nakatani, Kazuyo Aoki, Chika Sakamoto, Ikuya Sawaki, Yumi Nagahata, Kiyoshi Komiyama, Masao Imanishi, Masaya Onosaka, Issei Futamata, Naoki Tatsuta, Hisako Kyōda, Kōji Yada, Michiko Abe, Minori Matsushima, Toku Nishio, Kazuko Yanaga, Kenji Utsumi, Kōhei Miyauchi, Kazuaki Koide, Tomiko Suzuki, Kōichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Sumi Shimamoto, Hiroshi Masuoka, Shōzō Iizuka, Maya Okamoto, Mika Doi, Bin Shimada, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Kazuo Oka, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Masako Ikeda, Mariko Mukai, Eiko Miura, Hiroyuki Satō, Kan Tokumaru, Mariko Takigawa, Noriko Uemura, Reizō Nomoto, Yukitoshi Hori, Yōichi Hayashi, Midori Aoki, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Reiko Suzuki, Yukimasa Kishino, Sakae Kawakita, Michiyo Yanagisawa, Shūichirō Kizaki, Michie Tomizawa, Tomoko Maruo, Kimie Hanya, Satoko Yamano, Motomu Kiyokawa, Miyoko Aoba, Harumi Akimoto, Mitsuko Horie, Shino Kakinuma, Asami Mukaidono, Gara Takashima, Shingo Kanemoto, Mami Koyama, Yumi Tōma, Ichiro Murakoshi
1996~1998
Special Appearances
- Guest: Shigezō Sasaoka, Michitaka Kobayashi, Tamie Minami, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Ryōichi Tanaka, Sanae Takagi, Junko Noda, Machiko Toyoshima, Masaharu Satō, Kōichi Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Kōno, Tomohisa Asō, Kaori Harada, Eiji Maruyama, Kazumi Tanaka, Yasunori Masutani, Junko Shimakata, Shinobu Satouchi, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Jin Domon, Nanae Sumitomo, Toshio Kobayashi, Ikuko Tatsu, Takkō Ishimori, Ginzō Matsuo, Bin Shimada, Shōgo Sakamoto, Miho Aoyama, Yoshio Kawai, Shiho Niiyama, Hiroyuki Satō, Yasuhiro Takato, Mizue Ōtsuka, Yuri Shiratori, Shōzō Iizuka, Yūsaku Yara, Asako Dodo, Wakana Yamazaki, Yutaka Aoyama, Chiaki Maeda, Nobuhiko Kazama, Jōji Yanami, Atsushi Kisaichi, Kōji Yada, Ikue Ōtani, Yūko Sumitomo, Masato Hirano, Megumi Urawa, Kōichi Kitamura, Chie Katsuragawa, Hitoshi Masuda, Yūko Nagashima, Yuka Ono, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Taiki Matsuno, Makiko Ōmoto, Emi Uwagawa, Shino Kakinuma, Osamu Saka, Mariko Suzuki, Asako Satō, Chie Satō, Hisao Egawa, Reiko Suzuki, Shinichi Yamada, Takashi Matsuo, Takeshi Aono, Rihoko Yoshida, Rumi Kasahara, Hiromi Nishikawa, Chiyoko Kawashima, Kinpei Azusa, Takeo Yoshida, Kenji Nojima, Masako Miura, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Chafurin, Ryūzaburō Ōtomo, Kae Araki, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazunari Tanaka, Ryō Horikawa, Isshin Chiba, Yuri Amano, Reiko Mutō, Takeshi Kusao, Nana Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Kan Tokumaru, Hōko Kuwashima, Kimiyoshi Kibe, Wataru Takagi, Ai Maeda, Michiko Neya, Miki Nagasawa, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Chikao Ōtsuka, Tesshō Genda, Tetsu Inada, Yoshiko Kamei, Ikuya Sawaki, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Sakura Tange, Yūko Mita, Ayumi Furuyama, Yukana Nogami, Yōko Kawanami, Kazue Ikura, Akiko Hiramatsu, Shunsuke Shima, Toshiya Ueda, Nobuo Tobita, Kaneto Shiozawa, Tsutomu Kashiwakura, Fū Suzuki, Kazuo Oka, Hiroko Emori, Hiromi Tsuru, Yōko Tebbōzuka, Michiko Ishii, Katsue Miwa, Hidenari Ugaki, Tomoko Naka, Konami Yoshida, Akemi Okamura, Yukitoshi Hori, Misao Kitagawa, Airi Takeda, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Marina Ōno, Fumihiko Tachiki, Michiko Abe, Yūko Tsuga, Takuma Suzuki, Eri Morigami, Tomoko Fujino, Saori Kaneda, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kujira, Kanako Okada, Atsushi Ii, Maria Kawamura, Tomokazu Seki, Rika Komatsu, Tōru Furuya, Mahito Ōba, Aya Hisakawa, Nobuyo Tsuda, Reizō Nomoto, Madoka Sakamoto, Masaya Takatsuka, Issei Futamata, Shinichirō Ōta, Takeshi Endō, Yōko Sōmi, Takashi Nagasako, Yoshiko Okamoto, Miki Inoue, Tomoko Sugiura, Shin Aomori, Airi Yoshida, Manami Yamamoto, Nobuo Tanaka, Makiko Mizogami, Takayuki Inoue, Sayuri Fujita, Miina Tominaga, Yukari Hikida, Sumie Baba, Ryūji Nakagi, Junpei Takiguchi, Masako Katsuki, Daisuke Gōri, Toshio Furukawa
2007~2009
Special Appearances
- Hakusanbō: Chikao Ōtsuka
- Male Actor, Preview Narration: Eiji Wentz
- Yamada: Noboru Maeda (Harikenzu)
- Tanaka: Yoshiyuki Arai (Harikenzu)
- Herself: Midori Matsuo (Fuji TV Announcer)
- Themselves: The 50 Kaitens
- Guest: Megumi Urawa, Mami, Kimiko Saitō, Aiko Hibi, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Tōru Ōkawa, Hiromi Nishikawa, Keichirō Yamamoto, Hirofumi Tanaka, Masaharu Satō, Fumiko Orikasa, Kenta Miyake, Keiji Hirai, Takeshi Mori, Yūsei Oda, Ryūzaburō Ōtomo, Satsuki Yukino, Ryōhei Nakao, Kōta Nemoto, Kōhei Matsumoto, Ikuya Sawaki, Ryōichi Tanaka, Kenji Nomura, Chigusa Ikeda, Nanaho Katsuragi, Miyuki Kawashō, Yūsuke Numata, Kyōsei Tsukui, Ryo Hirohashi, Yūko Satō, Daisuke Matsubara, Masaru Suzuki, Mai Aizawa, Umeka Shōji, Akemi Satō, Hōko Kuwashima, Atsushi Kisaichi, Takashi Nagasako, Kōki Miyata, Hiroshi Okamoto, Yoshihiro Kanemitsu, Naoki Imamura, Yumiko Kobayashi, Mayumi Yamaguchi, Chie Satō, Kōzō Shioya, Keiichi Sonobe, Noriko Uemura, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Tomohisa Asō, Fumiko Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Shinichirō Ōta, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Hidehiko Kaneko, Mariko Tonomura, Ai Maeda, Kōichi Hashimoto, Wakana Yamazaki, Mitsuaki Madono, Saki Yasuda, Yukiko Hirotsu, Takehiko Watanabe, Mitsuaki Hoshino, Takahiro Yoshimizu, Yasuhiko Tokuyama, Eiji Maruyama, Hiroaki Miura, Shirō Saitō, Tetsu Inada, Taiten Kusunoki, Mai Nakahara, Reiko Takagi, Makiko Ōmoto, Kōhei Fukuhara, Aya Hisakawa, Kazuya Nakai, Isshin Chiba, Rika Komatsu, Mahito Tsujimura, Kōichi Tōchika, Kazuya Ichijō, Rie Tozuka, Hidemi Anzai, Tomomichi Nishimura, Ai Bandō, Yui Kano, Reiko Kiuchi, Satomi Satō, Taiki Matsuno, Kaori Nazuka, Naomi Shindō, Unshō Ishizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Hidenari Ugaki, Shunzō Miyasaka, Yasuo Muramatsu, Ryōko Shiraishi, Yumi Sudō, Rumi Kasahara, Masato Fukuen, Nobuo Tobita, Masakazu Morita, Jin Yamanoi, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Rie Kugiyama, Michie Tomizawa, Mami Kingetsu, Yumi Tōma, Takehiro Koyama, Yōko Sōmi, Yasunori Masutani, Kōji Haramaki, Kaoru Sasajima, Kumiko Nishihara, Takuma Suzuki, Kanae Itō, Chafurin, Yōko Kawanami, Akemi Kanda, Yūko Mita, Yūta Kasuya, Takahiro Sakaguma, Tomoko Kawakami, Shigeru Chiba, Atsushi Ii, Kenji Hamada, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Ryūsei Nakao, Junichi Suwabe, Machiko Kawana, Tarō Ishida, Kiyonobu Suzuki, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Minoru Inaba, Ako Mayama, Junko Shimakata, Keiichi Noda, Masami Suzuki, Yuka Komatsu, Daisuke Kishio, Mahito Ōba, Chō, Emiri Katō, Mitsuo Iwata, Hisayoshi Suganuma, Kae Araki, Mai Tōdoi, Ai Sasaki, Chiwa Saitō, Makoto Tsumura, Katsuhisa Hōki, Norihiro Inoue, Hiromu Miyazaki, Hiroshi Naka, Hitomi Nabatame, Yū Shimaka, Michitaka Kobayashi, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Motoko Kumai, Naoko Matsui, Kumiko Higa, Akio Ōtsuka, Misa Watanabe, Masaaki Tsukada, Yuka Saitō Shōzō Iizuka, Mitsuru Ogata, Sanae Takagi, Yūko Sasamoto, Mika Doi, Yui Makino, Kappei Yamaguchi, Shinichirō Miki, Tomoko Kaneda, Shinpachi Tsuji, Kenji Akabane, Mugihito, Ikuko Tatsu, Takehito Koyasu, Chinami Nishimura, Takahiro Sakurai, Kikuko Inoue, Masako Katsuki, Daisuke Sakaguchi
2003 PlayStation Game
2008 Anime (Hakaba Kitarō)
Airing in Fuji TV's Noitamina slot, Hakaba Kitarō shares an art director and animation techniques with Mononoke, and adapts the original manga version. This series also marks the return of Masako Nozawa and Chikao Ōtsuka to the roles of Kitarō and Nezumi-Otoko respectively for the first time since the 2nd "GeGeGe..." series.
Special Appearances
Cultural impact
- Gegege no Kitarō is the mascot for the Gainare Tottori soccer club. Additionally, J.League Division 1 team F.C. Tokyo also holds "Gegege no Kitarō Day" every season.
- In Episode 6 of the Japanese drama Hana-Kimi, the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki (Horikita Maki) is quoted as saying that Izumi Sano (Oguri Shun) looks like "Kitarō", due to the way Sano's hair is styled. Sano then said that Mizuki must be "Medama Oyaji", since Mizuki always has 'his' eye on Sano. Also, in Episode 7, Noe greets the assembled couples on their way to the roof of the school on the evening of the delayed star festival (August 7) dressed as Kitarō and holding a figure of Medama Oyaji bathing in a rice bowl.
- The exclamation "GeGeGe no Ge!" is used by ShogunGekomon in Episode 15 of Digimon Adventure 02.
- In the last chapter of the manga, Ikujinashi Shiawase (Happiness of a Cowardly Boy) by Naono Bohra, character Kawada is embarrassed to look at the face of his lover, Mori, after Mori gets a haircut. Kawada complains that with his new haircut, Mori's handsome face is "too exposed" and attracts too much attention from other people. He states that Kawada used to have hair like "GeGeGe Kitarō", and he preferred it that way since his face was half-hidden most of the time.
- Japanese musician Miyavi has also described his hairstyle as a Kitarōu-cut many times (i.e.: official profile, diary, etc...).[4][5][6]
- Shigeru Mizuki has issued a series of limited-edition woodblock prints entitled "Fifty-Three Stations of the Yokaido Road", re-interpreting the famous Hiroshige series "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road" as "a haunted journey". Printed from Mizuki's original paintings, the "Yokaido Road" prints star Kitarō and his troupe, as well as many other yokai and weird creatures of folklore. Produced through the Japanese publisher Yanoman Corporation, in March 2008 the series went on display in the Information and Culture Center of the Japanese Embassy in Washington DC.
- In the Kamen Rider Den-O OVA spin off, Imagin Anime, Ryutaros refers to the show. When the other Tarōs attempt to sing the first part of the series' main theme, Deneb stopped them from getting sued from the mere mention of it by name.
- In The Great Yokai War, after Tadashi first realizes Sunekosuri is a Youkai, goes out to look at the yokai models, statues of Kitarō and Konaki-Jijii are shown. Later, after a Youkai meeting ends up with their supposed help deciding to aid them, Kawataro the Kappa an Ittan-momen to a pillar while chiding "You're always real brave with Kitarō in those comics!" Kitarō's creator Shigeru Mizuki also appears in a cameo role in the film near the end.
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- Tenna Monya Sousha (1998)
- Tsuribaka Nisshi Eleven (2000)
- Tsuribaka Nisshi 12: Shijō Saidai no Yukyū Kyūka (2001)
- Tsuribaka nisshi 13: Hama-chan kiki ippatsu! (2002)
- Drugstore Girl (2003)
- GeGeGe no Kitaro (2007)
- GeGeGe no Kitaro 2: Sennen Noroi Uta (2008)
- Kamogawa Horumo (2009)
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