The Birth of Kitaro by Mizuki, Shigeru

The Birth of Kitaro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770462281)

Vendor: Shigeru Mizuki
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Birth of Kitaro by Mizuki, Shigeru

The Birth of Kitaro

$12.95
The Birth of Kitaro by Mizuki, Shigeru

The Birth of Kitaro

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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Meet one of Japan's most popular characters of all time-Kitaro, the One-Eyed Monster Boy

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 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 Kitaro draw heavily from Japanese folklore, with Kitaro taking on legendary Japanese yokai like the Nopperabo and Makura Gaeshi, and fighting the monstrous recurring villain Gyuki.

With more than 150 pages of spooky and often funny comics about the titular yokai boy, The Birth of Kitaro is the perfect introduction to the award-winning author Mizuki's most popular series, seminal comics that have won the hearts of Japanese children and adults for more than half a century.

Author: Shigeru Mizuki
ISBN-10: 1770462287
ISBN-13: 9781770462281
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2016
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2016
Booklist 08/01/2016 pg. 52
School Library Journal 09/01/2016
By Shigeru Mizuki
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Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan's most respected artists. A creative prodigy, he lost an arm in World War II. After the war, Mizuki became one of the founders of Japan's latest craze--manga. He invented the yokai genre with GeGeGe no Kitaro, his most famous character, who has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action, and video games. In fact, a new anime series has been made every decade since 1968, capturing the imaginations of generations of Japanese children. A researcher of yokai and a real-life ghost hunter, Mizuki traveled to over sixty countries to engage in fieldwork based on spirit folklore. In his hometown of Sakaiminato, one can find Shigeru Mizuki Road, a street decorated with bronze statues of his Kitaro characters.

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