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“Look at this, Chang! Aliens in Nevada? Papers will print anything nowadays. Unbelievable!”

“Well, the yeti exists.”

A story idea I’ve had in my head for some time, it’s the late 50s and poorly researched stories of alien sightings are flooding the tabloids. A middle aged Tintin and Chang have a pretty severe midlife crisis and decide the best thing to do to clear up the narrative is to travel to Nevada and break into Area 51. 

Will they uncover aliens, or some sinister cold war secrets? Haunted by the previous world war and a greater understanding of their responsibilities as journalists, Tintin and Chang struggle to decide what to do with their discoveries.

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【Gegege no Kitaro】On 10/7, The Duo is Returning! “The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe” True Birth Version is Coming Soon!

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I think the silly is genetic <3

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Yeah. I concur - it looks like maybe Kitaro will be this type of character that starts as portrayed to be menacing (one of the "evil" yokai) but later turns out that he is, in fact, on the side of a player? I mean "karan koron" of his getas was used as a thing people got spooked by in the animes frequently. It IS a menacing sound to hear in the middle of the night. I'm not really a gamer so I doubt I'll be a good companion to play a co-op, especially a horror game... also Steam really messed up game prices in my country so I doubt I'll be able to buy the game full-price upon release, but I'd definitely be interested in watching a stream of other Kitaro fans play this game!

I think Genazo got a big chunk of it's ranking due to gore, as most of the disturbing themes were more implied than actually shown, but it went dark in many places and some of those places I wasn't expecting - Sayo's backstory was really intense in it's vagueness. Not to mention Gegege no Nazo, in overall, shared similar vibe to the series it is a prequel to - 6th series - which, I believe, leaned more towards darker, bleaker, side of humanity more than previous TV series' did. I enjoyed how certain episodes ended on a more somber note or had a much darker undertones with humans/yokai not learning their lessons/refusing to change. The plot twist of the train episode (the schoolgirl being a bully), kawaii culture/face stealing yokai, bamboo forest, WWII-centric story (imagine this episode if Mizuki already had his Genazo makeover as a WWII vet :O) or the cursed app episode to name a few. I also read that 2018!anime wasn't as much liked among the fans since it had a tonal shift comparing to previous entries. So it's safe to assume there was an intention to make GGGNK more "mature" earlier on but the creators were still bound by shounen anime rules.

Hakaba Kitaro could be seen as a test run of sorts but maybe Gegege no Nazo might be the actual entry point to a branch of a more serious, horror-centric look at the yokai and Kitaro himself.

It's definitely an interesting time to be Gegege no Kitaro fan!

Hello!

I'm sending you this ask since I consider you the scholar and a spearhead of GGGNK Tumblr fandom and I'd really love to read your opinion on that matter!

I'm not sure if I get "NOROI KAGO: the Grudged Domain" trailer (on Toei's Youtube channel) right... it looks like a trailer to a Gegege No Kitaro video game due to last couple of seconds of the video, but also I think Kitaro won't be the focus point of the plot but rather a cameo or recurring character at best.

It looks interesting because it doesn't seem like a child friendly title and especially since GeGeGe no Nazo movie is rated 15+. It seems like we might be entering some sort of period of GeGeGe no Kitaro franchise that is geared towards more mature audience or at least creators are toying with the idea of branching out to make Kitaro like... scary.

Do you think it's possible or maybe it's just me reading too much into things?

hello! thank you kindly for the ask! it means a lot that you think of me that way. i really love kitaro and i'm very happy to connect to other people who love it, too!

onto your question... i don't think you're overthinking it! i think the kitaro franchise as a whole has been open to trying new things. every series has a different mood to it, and the fact that it's remade at all shows that they want to explore the franchise in a variety of ways.

i took another watch of the trailer, and i think you make a good point that kitaro won't exactly be the star of the game. i like that it seems to be making a point of showing off how scary yokai can be. it seems like it's going a lethal company route? which sounds super fun. (if any followers want to play with me when it releases, let me know.) i was also shocked that it appears to be getting an english release! maybe there's hope of a genazo eng release too...? haha... i can dream at least... in any case, horror is obviously a key element to kitaro, but i don't think it's really leaned into it this heavily before... like. i'd describe some kitaro episodes as creepy, atmospheric, but this is a different kind of horror that i really enjoy.

i really do think genazo's success is going to shape the future of the franchise, in a good way! i don't think we should expect anything as tonally heavy as genazo for the main series, but i think it shows that there's a very passionate audience for kitaro to be... grounded, maybe? there's a lot of whimsy in other series that i love, but genazo really hammers in the point of kitaro's yokai nature and humanity and how that intersects in the circumstances of his birth. i love that genazo seems so bleak at the surface, but it's really a movie about love and hope for what comes next. life can be cruel, but we keep going, for the people we love and the people we'll meet...

i'm incredibly curious on what angle they'll go for season 7. i have my own self indulgent hopes... a different mizuki, a dai-kaiju arc (with yamada!!), toco as a character designer again... regardless, i promise i'll be there to watch!

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Medics have the hardest job (Dont worry guys it's strawberry jam)

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animation from chief production director / character designer toco yatabe.

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Baby's first soulgazing (and also probably human dad's first soulgazing too)

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Ge Ge Ge...

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Gave up halfway thru ¯\_(•_•)_/¯

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I care a lot.

Hey. hi. They gave mizuki puffy red eyelids after sobbing. If you even care

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mystical adventure!

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I need all the motivation I can get!

Art request from my Twitter account: the bad batch motivating your work

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Since he shaves that also means Goku with a 5 o'clock shadow exists! Also... I wonder who taught him how to shave?

The fact that Goku canonically shaves always fucks me up to think about

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I like to think that Shin did the destroyer's job in his own god of creation way.

Imagine him not being able to annihilate planets by brute force, because it's not within his skillset... but he can create a deadly virus or new species that dominates/alter the ecosystem that throws stuff off balance making planets die out/reset. It could be something other supreme kais both admire and fear as the idea of taking matters into their own hands, never crossed their minds - they had their destroyers to work with.

Imagine that part just popping-up during random tea time, leaving other kais utterly petrified with Shin being like "what? what's wrong?"

I have this idea in my mind that Supreme Kai (our “Shin”) is stronger than all the other universe’s Supreme Kais because Beerus was so monumentally bad at his job that Shin basically had to take up the role of destroyer when everything went to shit.

As far as we know, beings like Majin Buu didn’t exist in any of the other universes (he might have existed in universe 6 but it doesn’t look like it. Maybe Champa actually did his job or he was just never created)

Idk, I just think it would be really interesting to see the power levels/fighting power of all the Kais. We know Beerus is one of the strongest destroyers; maybe Shin is one of the strongest Kais?

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"How to make a Ponytail"

I made five backgrounds and didn't like any of them) -_-