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Graveyard Kitaro
2008 8.5 (10 votes) 1 Seasons
Official Website
Genres
Animation Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
Fuji TV
Created By
Kimitoshi Chioka

Graveyard Kitaro (墓場鬼太郎)

Overview

Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. 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.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Masako Nozawa
Masako Nozawa

Kitarō (voice)

Chikao Ohtsuka
Chikao Ohtsuka

Nezumi Otoko (voice)

Isamu Tanonaka
Isamu Tanonaka

Medama Oyaji (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2008)

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.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Birth of Kitaro
2008-01-10

A 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 be the "last survivors of the Ghost tribe".

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 2: Yasha vs Dracula IV
2008-01-17

The 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 victim is the president of a certain company, the person who ordered Mizuki to investigate the cause of the ghost patient. Because of Mizuki's disappearance, the president's company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 3: The Vampire Tree
2008-01-24

Trump 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's frightened body gradually turns into a tree.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 4: Neko
2008-01-31

Neko 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. However, someone releases a rat onto her stage.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 5: The Fake Kitaro
2008-02-07

Kitaro'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 walks around Hell with the chanchanko and plots with Nezumi-Otoko to obtain a large sum of money. Kitaro's father, Medama-Oyaji goes to hell and tries to bring Neko back.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 6: The Water God
2008-02-14

Kitaro 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," Kitaro doesn't know where he is hiding. He is helpless.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 7: The Wolfman and the Ghost Train
2008-02-21

A 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, that night, a package from Kitaro arrives with a curse. But where did it come from? That's when the ghost train starts moving.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 8: The Bizarre Showdown
2008-02-28

A 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 take revenge. It begins to wander around the house in the darkness of the night.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 9: Johnny in the Mist
2008-03-06

The 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 Kitaro with ease but his spirit is still there.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 10: Brigadoon
2008-03-13

The 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 joys they could not have in the impoverished human society. Thus begins a period of strange unrest.

Runtime: 23 min
Episode 11: A Foolish Man
2008-03-20

Kitaro 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 another. What is the happiness of life - and the story ends.

Runtime: 23 min

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