#hakaba kitaro

[daily-op-ed]

Hakaba Kitarō (Toei Animation, 2008)

Mononoke Dance - Denki Groove (Opening 1) Kenji Nakamura (Storyboard, Director)

[miooak]

Im js going to let it stay here

I like the franchise sm but barely anyone knows it outside japan💔💔💔

[noclco]

"I’m kinda fed up with this modern world where money solves everything"

「墓場鬼太郎」 水木しげる

"Hakaba Kitaro" by Shigeru Mizuki

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

son n father

[guacatos]

MizuMizu 👔💧

Hakaba Mizuki x GeNazo Mizuki

[seanthedracunyan]

Torbek: Torbek knows this isnt going well. Torbek thinks we should park the tank where the cars are.

Nezumi otoko: no we are parking on the grass.

Rango: does anyone know where the slime guy went.

Time wizard: forget em. We dont even like the guy anyways so why worry about him. Come on let's park and get into the mall. I got merch to buy

*meanwhile back in a sands in flordia st the perma year 1984*

Rimuru: they left me in this place can you believe that. They ditched me !

Crab girl: h-... Hi, im crab girl

Rimuru: i know right ugh... im just start pretending I know what your talking about but yeah, I totally agree... why im i stuck here of all the dimensions why the Florida ! dang that nezumi otoko !

[will-vesper]

Part of a larger batch of research scribbles for a gegege no kitaro fanfic I've been writing...

The first steps. I had a hard time figuring out the proportions or volumes I wanted him to have. The buck-teeth were there from the beginning tho, with the sleeve patches following soon after.

I was attempting to loosely follow his design from the manga, while for the most part taking inspiration from Hakaba and the 90's series since they're my favorite iterations.

I cleaned that last sketch to do some color tests. They all look fucking awful to me now and so does the drawing.

A more finalized representation of Kitaro's design on the left. Most of the colors had been nailed down and I was rather proud of how the hair and everything came out... then I decided it wasn't good enough just yet. Which leads us to the ACTUAL final design I went with.

More to follow soon most likely. In the meantime here's a link to the first chapter I wrote. It's still kinda rough but I'm happy with it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/61003537/chapters/155843053

[opencharacters]

[ID: image of a young boy with a disheveled hair, one bulging eye and one eye partially shut. his hands are claw like and he's wearing tattered clothing. he's in a cemetary in front of an officer with a sword. the image is in black and white END ID]

Today's Public Domain Character: Hakaba Kitaro

Kitaro originates from 1930s kamishibai, which were so called paper theaters where traveling storytellers would mix oral storytelling with illustrations.

Kitaro was born in a cemetary after his parents died and is an adaptation of earlier yokai folklore Kosodate Yūrei or the candy-buying ghost about a woman who appears and buys candy, turns out to be dead and when the shopkeeper digs up her grave she has a live baby in her arms.

This folklore is similar and most certainly inspired by the Chinese story of "the woman who buys rice cakes" which first appeared in print in 1198 in Yijian Zhi, a compilation of Chinese stories put together by Hong Mai of the Southern Song dynasty.

These days Kitaro is known primarily because of the manga and anime GeGeGe no Kitarō and also its crossover with Yokai Watch where he appears as a character in some games and other media.

I've tried to find a thing that pinpoints that Kitaro is public domain. From what I can gather kamishibai stories were not registered for copyright at the time due to that just not being really a priority given the time, culture of the time and the medium and therefore does not fall under the retroactive copyright of the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1996 (which is the act that put the movie Metropolis back into copyright until 2023)

The manga and anime appearance of Kitaro is still under copyright as is any appearance of him that isnt the kamishibai one.