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Title (English) Spooky Kitaro

Title (Japanese) GeGeGe no Kitaro

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Fantasy Novel

Notes b/w 65 eps.
From a manga by Shigeru Mizuki.
(Entry in Clements and McCarthy "Anime Encyclopedia")

Classification -

Synopsis Kitaro is a spirit boy who lives with a collection of spooks. His father, for instance, is an eyeball with tiny arms and legs, who sits in Kitaro's hair. Kitaro is essentially a nice ordinary Japanese boy, but being a ghost he doesn't have to go to school. In the first episode he battles with a malign spirit who lives in a mirror and has kidnapped a girl from a middle-class home.

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Credits Dir Yoshio Kuroda, Masao Murayama, Yoshio Takami
Scr: Susumu Takahisa, Masaki Tsuji
Des: Shigeru Mizuki
Ani: Mitsuo Hosoda, Masamune Ochiai
Mus: Taku Izumi

Episodes 65

Release

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Date 1968 Feb 21

Production Prod: Toei, Fuji TV

Broadcaster Fuji TV

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References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Spooky Kitaro
Title (Japanese)	GeGeGe no Kitaro
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	b/w 65 eps. From a manga by Shigeru Mizuki. (Entry in Clements and McCarthy "Anime Encyclopedia")
Classification	-
Synopsis	Kitaro is a spirit boy who lives with a collection of spooks. His father, for instance, is an eyeball with tiny arms and legs, who sits in Kitaro's hair. Kitaro is essentially a nice ordinary Japanese boy, but being a ghost he doesn't have to go to school. In the first episode he battles with a malign spirit who lives in a mirror and has kidnapped a girl from a middle-class home.
Review
Credits	Dir Yoshio Kuroda, Masao Murayama, Yoshio Takami Scr: Susumu Takahisa, Masaki Tsuji Des: Shigeru Mizuki Ani: Mitsuo Hosoda, Masamune Ochiai Mus: Taku Izumi
Episodes	65
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1968 Feb 21
Production	Prod: Toei, Fuji TV
Broadcaster	Fuji TV
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.