Gegege no Kitaro
Yōkai folklore by Shigeru Mizuki, a manga since 1960
The work
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- Published
- 1960–1969
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- Anime & Manga
Forms
- Manga · 1960–1969 · 4 products
- Anime · since 1968
- Videospiel · since 1986
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Medama-Oyaji · Neko Musume · Kitaro's Father · Sunekosuri · Mana Inuyama · Mizuki (Gegege no Kitaro)
Figures, Nendoroids and manga from Shigeru Mizuki's yōkai classic Gegege no Kitaro, which began as a rental manga in 1960.
More about Gegege no Kitaro
Gegege no Kitaro goes back to Shigeru Mizuki. At its centre is Kitaro, a boy of the Ghost Tribe who was born in a graveyard. The story began as a kamishibai (paper theatre) tale and appeared from 1960 as a rental manga titled Hakaba Kitaro, "Kitaro of the Graveyard". "Gegege" is Mizuki's childhood nickname, which came from his own way of pronouncing his name.
The series made yōkai, the spirit creatures of Japanese folklore, familiar to a wide audience. In 1968 Toei Animation adapted it as an anime for the first time, and a new series has followed roughly every decade since. The sixth began in 2018, marking the 50th anniversary of the first anime.
This page lists figures of Kitaro and his circle, including Nendoroids, as well as the German-language manga edition.
