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Book cover for Shigeru Mizuki's 'Kitaro: The Trial of Kitaro' featuring illustrated characters on a cream and orange background.
A black and white manga-style illustration featuring a large cat-like face in the foreground with smaller illustrated faces and objects layered behind it, presented on a light gray background.
A black and white comic-style illustration printed in two panels, showing an outdoor movie studio scene with buildings, trees, and a meeting inside. Speech bubbles contain text, and the artwork is presented on a light gray background.
A single-page black-and-white manga-style comic panel layout with speech bubbles and illustrated characters, shown against a light gray background.
Book cover for Shigeru Mizuki's 'Kitaro: The Trial of Kitaro' featuring illustrated characters on a cream and orange background.
A black and white manga-style illustration featuring a large cat-like face in the foreground with smaller illustrated faces and objects layered behind it, presented on a light gray background.
A black and white comic-style illustration printed in two panels, showing an outdoor movie studio scene with buildings, trees, and a meeting inside. Speech bubbles contain text, and the artwork is presented on a light gray background.
A single-page black-and-white manga-style comic panel layout with speech bubbles and illustrated characters, shown against a light gray background.

The Trial of Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki

$ 15.95 USD
Softcover, black & white, 184 pages. Measures 5 x 7.5 inches.

The final showdown for the legendary yokai!

In the seventh volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s defining series, our beloved hero Kitaro stands accused of exposing the secret yokai world on television. He is put on trial for crimes against yokai. Witnesses are called from both sides, but when Nezumi Otoko takes the stand, all bets are off. Will Nezumi Otoko be for Kitaro or against him? Only the biggest bribe will tell!

The Trial of Kitaro features five bizarre and amusing adventures. In every story, Kitaro has his hands full. He faces off against Kasha, a vicious demon cat; tries to quell a magical cooking pot; battes a sea monster; and solves the mystery of a three-eyed bird.

This volume features comics from the late 1960s, which was the golden age of GeGeGe no Kitaro. These stories appear in English for the first time in a kid-friendly edition, with translations by the Mizuki scholar and series translator Zack Davisson. The Trial of Kitaro also concludes Davisson’s “History of Kitaro” essay and offers another round of “Yokai Files,” which introduce the folklore of Japan’s monsters and supernatural beings. This final volume of Mizuki’s renowned Kitaro series is not to be missed!

Translated by Zack Davisson.

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