Publication

2016 - Drawn & Quarterly Publications, Montreal, Québec (Province)

Language

English

Word Count

46,750 words, Guess

Page Count

187 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781770462281
  • Open LibraryOL27209287M

Classifications

  • DDC741.5
  • LCCPN6790
  • LCCPN6790.J33 M599813 2016

Alternate Titles

  • Birth of Kitaro

Description

The Birth of Kitaro collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, kid-friendly format. These stories are from the golden era of the late 1960s, when Gegege no Kitaro truly hit its stride as an all-ages supernatural series. Mizuki's Kitaro stories are both timelessly relevant and undeniably influential, inspiring a decades-long boom in stories about yokai, Japanese ghosts, and monsters. "Kitaro's Birthday" reveals the origin story of the half-yokai boy Kitaro and his tiny eyeball father, Medama Oyaji. "Neko Musume versus Nezumi Otoko" is the first of Mizuki's stories to feature the popular recurring character Neko Musume, a little girl who transforms into a cat when she gets angry or hungry. Other stories in The Birth of Kitarodraw heavily from Japanese folklore, with Kitaro taking on legendary Japanese yokai like the Nopperabo and Makura Gaeshi, and fighting the monstrous recurring villain Gyuki.

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