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Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro. The birth of Kitaro / Shigeru Mizuki.

by Mizuki, Shigeru, 1922-2015.

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Drawn & Quarterly, 2016.

Yōkai (Japanese folklore) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Monsters -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Spirits -- Comic books, strips, etc.

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9781770462281 (pbk.)

1770462287 (pbk.)

Kitaro. Selections. English.

Alternate title:

Birth of Kitaro

First paperback edition.

187 p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.

Reads right to left.

Translated from the Japanese.

"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."--From publisher

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