Graveyard Kitaro
Mizuki, a low-rung company employee in early 60s Japan, becomes the unwitting caretaker of Kitaro, a mysterious boy who is born of two worlds: the living and the dead. As Kitaro navigates the strange dealings of humanity, the yokai that have been sleeping for time immemorial begin to make their appearance...
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Born in a cemetery, Kitaro is the last survivor of the ghost tribe. Raised by a human father, Mizuki, and accompanied by his biological father reincarnated as an eyeball, Medama Oyaji, the young Kitaro will have to learn to live in this world governed by science where yokai no longer have a place in popular belief.
1.The Birth of Kitaro
10.010-01-200823 minA patient at a hospital has become a ghost. Mizuki, a company employee, is entrusted with the task of investigating the cause. His investigation leads him to a couple who claim to...
2.Yasha vs Dracula IV
10.017-01-200823 minThe grave of Yasha, who had been sleeping for a long time, has been uncovered. At the same time, the vampire Dracula came to Japan. Yasha and the vampire compete for one prey. The...
3.The Vampire Tree
10.024-01-200823 minTrump Omoi, a singer who meets Mizuki by chance, learns of the existence of a sinister child named Kitaro. One night, Nezumi-otoko plants the seeds of a vampire tree in Omoi. Omoi'...
4.Neko
10.031-01-200823 minNeko is a girl Kitaro is in love with. Neko dreams of becoming a singer. Kitaro will do his best to make it happen. With the support of Trump Omoi, she quickly becomes a celebrity....
5.The Fake Kitaro
10.007-02-200823 minKitaro's first love, Neko, is dead. Kitaro is devastated and tries to go to Hell to see her, but someone steals his chanchanko. The culprit is the fake Kitaro. The fake Kitaro walk...
- Ep 6
6.The Water God
10.014-02-200823 minKitaro insults the Water God, who is worshipped as a deity. The Water God follows Kitaro to Tokyo and throws modern society into panic. Furthermore, since the Water God is "water,"...
- Ep 7
7.The Wolfman and the Ghost Train
10.021-02-200823 minA mysterious gentleman and a mouseman are in love with a toad lady. Kitaro interferes in their love story and is sunk to the bottom of the sea by the two men. Kitaro dies. However,...
- Ep 8
8.The Bizarre Showdown
10.028-02-200823 minA ghost moves into Kanemaru's house, he locks Kitaro, who was the ghost, in the refrigerator and exterminates him. It is then that Kitaro's hand, which he had cut off, begins to ta...
- Ep 9
9.Johnny in the Mist
10.006-03-200823 minThe government asks Kitaro to exterminate the vampire Johnny. Meanwhile, Nezumi-Otoko is hired by Johnny and is ordered to exterminate Kitaro. Nihilistic and cold, Johnny kills Kit...
- Ep 10
10.Brigadoon
10.013-03-200823 minThe Brigadoon, a supernatural phenomenon similar to a typhoon, has struck Tokyo. There is a world where only yokai live. Shigeru Mizuki's family, the only humans left, experience j...
- Ep 11
11.A Foolish Man
10.020-03-200823 minKitaro starts an insurance scam called "Afterlife Insurance". Nezumi Otoko sells a medicine for immortality. The powerful, the rich, and the poor are driven to hell one after anoth...
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