{"id":7654,"date":"2016-09-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:54:40","slug":"birth-of-kitaro-by-shigeru-mizuki-book-review-japanese-supernatural-yokai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Birth of Kitaro, by Shigeru Mizuki (book review) – Japanese supernatural Yokai!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookLast of the ghost tribe yokai<\/a>,
\nhelped by his magic hair (and dead eyeball dad),
\nfighting evil beings in Japan!<\/p>\n

While I didn’t meet any (obvious) supernatural beings during my recent trip to Japan, I am delighted to share this first volume in a new English translation of Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series. The Japanese manga master died in December 2015, leaving a legacy of yokai tales and other graphic novels, which Drawn & Quarterly is bringing to western readers.<\/p>\n

Visit the publisher’s page here<\/a> to download a free excerpt of Kitaro’s adventures. Next book in the series arrives soon!<\/p>\n

Any supernatural folk in your neck of the woods?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Birth of Kitaro (Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro) \/ Shigeru Mizuki; text translated by Zack Davisson. Drawn & Quarterly, 2016. [artist’s obituary<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Fighting evil creatures is Kitaro’s specialty, but the one-eyed spirit boy and his eyeball-father aren’t always sure that the people of Japan are worth battling monstrous beings of legend.<\/p>\n

Single-eyed newborn Kitaro digs out of his mother’s grave and quickly finds himself embroiled in struggles with malicious yokai who want to overrun modern Japan.<\/p>\n

Can half-cat, half-girl Neko Mutsume help him outwit greedy Nezumi Otoko?
\nHow long will his late father’s spirit animate the eyeball?
\nWhat’s the best way to banish a frightful buru-buru haunting the mountain highway?<\/p>\n

Kitaro’s wooden geta sandals clip-clop away from each supernatural encounter, and a letter in just the right forest postbox will always bring him back, as these 7 episodes from his earliest manga appearances show. First in a series, with new English text by Zack Davisson complementing manga master Shigeru Mizuki’s well-loved illustrations.<\/p>\n

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Last of the ghost tribe yokai, helped by his magic hair (and dead eyeball dad), fighting evil beings in Japan! While I didn’t meet any (obvious) supernatural beings during my recent trip to Japan, I am delighted to share this first volume in a new English translation of Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series. The Japanese manga […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,80,30,41],"tags":[90,22,11,20,5,70,37,16,40,44,46,103,38,49,111,31,15,21,66,35,33,6,28],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-japan","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-travel","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}