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Book cover for 'Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro: Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon' featuring bold black title text and illustrated characters on a white background with diagonal green stripes.
A black and white comic strip print featuring multiple panels with expressive illustrated faces, bold sound effects, and speech bubbles on a white page against a light gray background.
A black and white comic strip print featuring a hand reaching out of water, with sound effects like 'GLUB', 'SHIRRRK', and 'CHUCK CHUCK'.
A black and white manga-style comic print featuring a large truck in a grassy outdoor scene, with two smaller panels below showing a person falling into water and a speech bubble reading 'OH NO! OH NO! OH NO!'.
Book cover for 'Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro: Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon' featuring bold black title text and illustrated characters on a white background with diagonal green stripes.
A black and white comic strip print featuring multiple panels with expressive illustrated faces, bold sound effects, and speech bubbles on a white page against a light gray background.
A black and white comic strip print featuring a hand reaching out of water, with sound effects like 'GLUB', 'SHIRRRK', and 'CHUCK CHUCK'.
A black and white manga-style comic print featuring a large truck in a grassy outdoor scene, with two smaller panels below showing a person falling into water and a speech bubble reading 'OH NO! OH NO! OH NO!'.

Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon by Shigeru Mizuki

$ 12.95 USD
Softcover, black & white, 192 pages. Measures 5 x 7.5 inches.

"Kitaro is a fun, eerie romp into Japan's supernatural world." --School Library Journal, YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens

The second in a seven-volume series of the best of Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro comics, designed with a kid-friendly format and price point!

Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon is the second volume in the adventures of Shigeru Mizuki's bizarre yokai boy Kitaro and his gaggle of otherworldly friends. These seven stories date from the golden age of Gegege no Kitaro, when Mizuki had perfected the balance of folklore, comedy, and horror that made Kitaro one of Japan's most beloved characters.

In Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon, Kitaro and his father, Medama Oyaji, face off against one of their most powerful enemies--the self-styled Yokai Supreme Commander known as Nurarihyon. Over the course of this volume, Kitaro takes on the swamp-dwelling Sawa Kozo, the mysterious Diamond Yokai, and the sea giant called Umizato, and wages a double feature of battles against the bizarre Odoro Odoro. Finally, Kitaro journeys to hell itself in the infamous and surreal story "Hell Ride."

In addition to more than 150 pages of Mizuki's all-ages monster fun, Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon includes bonus materials: "Yokai Files" that introduce Japan's folklore monsters and a "History of Kitaro" essay by the translator Zack Davisson. If you found the world of yokai fascinating in The Birth of Kitaro, you will find even more to love in Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon!

Translated by Zack Davisson.

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