#Hakaba Kitarou

[crescentmoonrider]

hakaba kitarou may be a horrible child, but he is my horrible child (gets dissolved in acid water)

[duesternis]

somno

arrives million years late with a can of beer and a niche pairing (who woulda thunk) dear anon you get hakitamizu of hakaba no kitarou fame (i also wrote this on my phone instead of sleeping)

It's late, Kitarou knows this, took the last train home. And yet he's miffed when he finds Mizuki tucked in, comforter up to his chin and chest rising and falling evenly.

It's gloomy in the flat, but bright enough with the light coming through the thin curtains that Kitarou can take his time studying the relaxed face of the old man. Not something he gets to see often, at least not without the usual wrinkle to his eyebrows.

He lights a cigarette. Puts a hand under the comforter, feeling for skin.

Finds an ankle. Up the leg and there's nothing but skin. He reaches as far as his long arm will permit without crawling under the blanket outright. And still he finds nothing but skin.

Kitarou grins. "Pervert," he whispers, stubs his cigarette and sticks his head under the blanket, into the warmth, the smell he's so used to it only makes itself known by absence or thick concentration.

He inhales deeply against a soft leg, revels in the twitch of skin, the slight stirring against him.

It makes him hard. A foot brushes against his growing erection and Kitarou moans into the humid dark under Mizuki's blanket.

It's a bit of a chore to get out of his clothes and fully on top of Mizuki without waking him, but well worth the trouble, as his warm body shifts and relaxes under Kitarou's weight.

Mizuki sighs in his sleep, warm breath like a touch on Kitarou's cheek.

Kitarou rolls his hips for another touch, is rewarded with a sleepy moan, a longer sigh and the fluttering of asleep limbs against him.

He grinds down, rubs his hard dick against Mizuki's flaccid length, the crook of his hip.

The blanket slides down and Kitarou pulls it up again, liking the illusion, the mockery it makes of thousands of people having sex like this every night. Prim and proper.

He presses his open mouth to Mizuki's shoulder, teeth against skin, as he ruts his own precome into Mizuki's hip, feeling his dick stir sleepy and slow against him.

"Pervert," he repeats, voice tight with his impending orgasm.

And oh, how sweet it will be to hear Mizuki gasp in the morning, the come dried sticky on his skin, his blanket. How he will rush to the bath to clean up, how he'll do the laundry with that tight expression and avoid Kitarou's eye like the plague.

How sweet to feel the heat rising from his cheeks now and hear his breath so harsh in the dark room, feel his body shudder as Kitarou comes on Mizuki's stomach.

His eyelids flutter but he doesn't wake up.

Kitarou grins to himself and rolls off the old man, getting comfortable on his side of the futon.

"Good night, uncle," he says and listens to the harsh breathing even out with a whimper and a sigh.

[thenextcelestialchapter]

Anyone else always think of Kitaro whenever they hear the song "My Boy Builds Coffins"? XD

[canmom]

Animation Night 113: Belle

Hi friends, happy Thursday!

It’s going to be a short animation night tonight, since I’ve got an art piece to urgently finish for a fan exchange. But since we didn’t manage to watch it back on Animation Night 107, tonight we’ll be watching Mamoru Hosoda’s film Belle to really give the video encoder a workout.

So, let me quote what I wrote about it last time:

The occasion is of course the release of Hosoda’s latest movie Belle (竜とそばかすの姫, Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime - lit. The Dragon and the Freckled Princess). This film reprises a theme that was very prominent in Hosoda’s early films such as Summer Wars and in fact the franchise film Digimon Adventure: young people going into an immersive digital world. It’s finally escaped the film festivals and, of course, landed in the hands of fansubbers.

(...)

Then at last we have Belle - once again coming to a digital world, this time just slightly more than ten years on! Hosoda’s latest film follows a seventeen-year-old girl Suzu who lost her ability to sing after the death of her mother, but rediscovers her passion for performance as an avatar in a colourful virtual world. Here, she gets drawn into the intrigue surrounded by a mysterious figure called the ‘Dragon’ after he disrupts one of her concerts. This time, the digital world spills out into the real in a different way: a vigilante named Justin starts threatening both Suzu and the ‘Dragon’ with doxxing, essentially.

The film is notable for being one of Hosoda’s first films to make heavy use of CG; the scenes inside the virtual world use 3DCG to attempt to hit that sense of overwhelming spectacle, while more usual usual cel animation is used outside. It also breaks a little from strict kagenashi with some use of digital compositing and filters, although the designs still carry that familiar simplicity and direct, childlike appeal. This change proved a little controversial for fans of Hosoda, and I’m going to be interested to see how well it holds up…

I should correct myself a bit here: Hosoda has worked in 3DCG on another digimon film... and also in another short film associated with the venerable GeGeGe no Kitarō series. That series began life before manga was even a thing in 1933, as a kamishibai called Hakaba Kitarō (墓場奇太郎) written by Masami Itō and illustrated by Keiyō Tatsumi.

Decades later, with a world war in between, it became a manga by Shigeru Mizuki. At first deemed too scary for kids, it found a home in shōnen magazine and a whole series of others, before eventually landing in  with one of the oldest TV anime, first adapted by Toei in 1968 just a few years after Astro Boy, where it became a big part in helping to re-popularise the concept of yōkai in modern times.

Since that point, it continued to get another five new series and a few films at intervals of years to decades - the basic premise of graveyard-dwelling Kitarō, last of the ‘ghost tribe’, encountering various mythological monsters from not just Japan but other countries such as China proved very flexible!

Hosoda’s entry came in 1999, released within a month of his Digimon short film that we viewed last time. It was a short 3D film called ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 鬼太郎の幽霊電車 GeGeGe no Kitarou: Kitarou no Yuurei Densha (Kitarou’s Ghost Train), and it’s not exactly easy to acquire; the only wide release came from a DVD called CG Toei Animation Festival which is not exactly widely available. The same, unfortunately, seems to be true of his CG Digimon short, which was on the same DVD. I have been able to find a couple of torrents of it on nyaa, but none seem well seeded, so if anyone has any ideas how to track it down I’d be all ears.

The other piece of Hosoda CG, much more relevant to Belle, is his short advert film Superflat Monogram with Takashi Murakami - yes, the superflat guy himself! This film is designed to promote the French fashion brand Louis Vuitton, who had a Murakami-themed collection; Hosoda worked on it right after his departure from Ghibli and shortly before Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (and on that front, lemme link kVin’s article again). The result was this short film, in which a girl outside a clothing store suddenly falls into an elaborate fantasy world...

This has what may by now be familiar Hosoda motifs for a virtual/fantasy world: a white void, big circles, lots of particle effects. As far as superflat goes, we can certainly see Hosoda’s characteristic flat kagenashii (unshaded) designs on his characters, but as for how it fits into Murakami’s broader ‘superflat’ project, I don’t really have time to dig into tonight. In any case, it demonstrates a combination of 3DCG for the setting and traditional animation for the protagonist girl, so we might even consider it a prototype for Belle in a way.

So tonight: keeping things short and sweet. I’ll show you Belle, and a couple of little Hosoda tidbits like the CG digimon film and Superflat Monogram. We’ll be on Picarto.tv/canmom again at about 8pm UK time (20 minutes), and after the film ends I’ll go straight into an art stream hope to see you there either way!~

[holy-cucumber01]

Gegege no Kitarou

Genre : adventure, fantasy, comedy, horror, mystic, shonen, seinen

Category : Аnime series / Аnime film / Special

Episodes : (Gegege no Kitarou (1968)) 65 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (1971)) 45 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (1985)) 108 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Jigoku Hen) 7 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (1996)) 114 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (2007)) 100 duration 25 min, (Hakaba Kitarou) 11 duration 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (2018)) 97 duration 25 min / (Gegege no Kitarou (1968)) 50 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Chisougan) 12 min, (Gegege no Kitarou (1985, Movie) 23 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Daisensou) 40 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Saikyou Youkai Gundan! Nihon Jouriku!!) 50 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Youkai no Daihanran) 50 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Daikaijuu) 55 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Obake Nighter) 30 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Tokkyuu! Maboroshi no Kisha) 25 min, (Gegege no Kitarou: Kitarou no Yuurei Densha) 12 min, (Gekijouban Gegege no Kitarou: Nippon Bakuretsu!!) 75 min, (Kitarou Tanjou: Gegege no Nazo) (2022) / (Gegege no Kitarou: Kitarou Tanjou-hen) 3 min

[tachiikoma]

[dailykitaro]

Animal Crossing x Kitarou

[chiricocuvie]

[spineflowers]

ghost stuff

[dazzelmethat]

Inktober 12: Kitarou and Nezumi Otoko (and also Medama-oyaji)

I wanted to use a brush pen and try some yokai work. I feel like the manga was done in brush pen but I’m not completely sure. 

[scherbetsart]

Hakaba Kitaro 24

hey!

here you go!!

[crescentmoonrider]

げろげろ 🐸

[gegege-no-blog]

Why Everyone Should Watch: Hakaba Kitaro by RogerSmith2004

[weird0nerdo]

- People are funny. His life is ending and he thinks of his company. - You’re the one who took the ticket. - K-Kitarooo!  - My son!

[forgottenspring]

Personal Headcanon: Kitaro is aroace. He’s a good boy who genuinely just wants to fish, take care of his father, and make poetry. Anything else is helping his friends. Flirt with this boy and he just stares at you concerned.

[tachiikoma]