The website also notes that Gegege no Kitarō is the “originator of the yōkai [supernatural enttiy] boom” typified by Yo-kai Watch.
A website opened for the 50th anniversary of the first television anime of Shigeru Mizuki’s Gegege no Kitarō manga on Wednesday.
Characters from the franchise recently appeared in the Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu (Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King) anime film, which opened last month.
The manga, which began in 1959 under the name Hakaba Kitarō, has spawned seven television series (including one Hakaba Kitarō anime), several animated movies, and two live-action films.