The Birth of Kitaro (Paperback)

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, 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. The Birth of Kitaro is the perfect introduction to award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's most popular series, seminal comics that have won the hearts of Japanese children and adults for more than half a century.

General

Imprint:	Drawn & Quarterly
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Kitaro
Release date:	May 2016
Authors:	Mizuki Shigeru • Zack Davisson
Dimensions:	192 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-77046-228-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels
LSN:	1-77046-228-7
Barcode:	9781770462281

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