Graveyard Kitaro

8.5
200823m

Production

Logo for Toei Animation

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.

Seasons

11 Episodes • Premiered 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.

Still image for Graveyard Kitaro season 1 episode 1: The Birth of Kitaro

1. The Birth of Kitaro

10.0

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".

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2. Yasha vs Dracula IV

10.0

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.

Still image for Graveyard Kitaro season 1 episode 3: The Vampire Tree

3. The Vampire Tree

10.0

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.

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4. Neko

10.0

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.

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5. The Fake Kitaro

10.0

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.

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6. The Water God

10.0

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.

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7. The Wolfman and the Ghost Train

10.0

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.

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8. The Bizarre Showdown

10.0

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.

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9. Johnny in the Mist

10.0

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.

Still image for Graveyard Kitaro season 1 episode 10: Brigadoon

10. Brigadoon

10.0

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.

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11. A Foolish Man

10.0

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.

Cast

Photo of Masako Nozawa

Masako Nozawa

Kitarō (voice)

Photo of Chikao Ohtsuka

Chikao Ohtsuka

Nezumi Otoko (voice)

Photo of Isamu Tanonaka

Isamu Tanonaka

Medama Oyaji (voice)

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