Audience reviews
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joemaamah
One of those animes that flies under the radar, although it's been around for decades under different iterations. It deserves far more attention than it gets. When I first gave it the 3 eps test, I almost dropped it as being too cartoony, but the characters made me decide to give it a few more shots. And while this is geared towards kids, as the series progresses, it explores lots of deeper subjects, and might even get too intense for the little bits.
The character designs are rather simple, and there isn't tons of development, although they are not completely static. The artwork kind of rambles around. Sometimes it is outstanding, and other times it's little better than Saturday Morning Kid Vid. It's the same with the animation. Some action scenes were darned impressive, but overall the…
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Gegege no Kitarou is one of those anomalies in anime where, despite massive success in Japan and airing a new season ceremoniously every decade, it is practically unheard of in the western community. However, when you think of it in terms of marketability for the West, it does make sense. The entire franchise is filled to the brim with Japanese social commentary, and the very foundation of the series is based on Japanese Youkai and folktales, which is why it’s so fascinating to see the most recent iteration, in 2018, simulcast on Crunchyroll. What’s more fascinating is how it happens that this season is so radically different from its predecessors in representing its era. It makes perfect sense that this season is the first to be brought overseas, as it not only signifies a new era for the…
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One of the few shows i truly, genuinely consider perfect. Even with its imperfections.
A mix of genres, something for everyone, and amazingly done too. Supernural, comedy, horror, slice of life, mystery, action... Overall you'd think its for kids, but theres episode definitely aimed at older people, with topics like toxic internet presence, crime, abuse, stalking, colonization and land theft, racism and much more. The art is very individual, fitting each character and story.
Its mostly episodic, theres a deeper storyline in the background. You could compare it to MP100 or YYH, if you liked those, youd probably like GNK. Please give it a try, its worth it!!
You also do NOT need to know anything about yokai, like others said. They introduce and explain everything well in an entertaining a…
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Came for Nekomusume, endured for Mana, stayed for the yokai shenanigans. Oh and Kitaro was fine, I guess.
This was a ridiculously long series and I was surprised I managed to finish this within a few weeks of casual watching. Gegege no Kitaro 2018 is a reboot of the traditionally famous Kitaro series which has been running since the first age of Japanese animation. I vaguely remembering the theme song from glancing a few episodes when I was a kid in Animax but somehow the song stuck to me. On 2020, amidst the abundance of freetime and quarantine, I caught up to a random doujinshi featuring a girl character from this show. She was hot, her design was striking, and I had spare time. Ofcourse I had to check on her show, expecting nothing but a kid show from the synopsis and ready to ignore t…
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When I first started the show my gut reaction was "this is not for me, it's clearly for kids. Ones that are already familiar with yokai lore at that."
Because quite a few people recommended this AND because Halloween was coming up I gave it a second chance and I'm glad I did so I'm changing my initial review of (eh, it's a kids show. not for me).
The first dozen or so episodes seem to be directed at children all be it a million times darker than some horror anime out there. If you keep going though the target audience changes. This show uses traditional yokai lore as a vehicle for social commentary. The writing is top shelf and there are episodes here that are beyond haunting.
Some are clearly targeting japanese practices like office workers that literally keel over and die at their…
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I just finished this series last night and after it having been in my list for 2 years, waking up and realizing that it would no longer be there wounded me deeper than I ever thought it would.
I started this series thinking it would be more of a slice of life. An anime to calm down with during a period in my life that was less than stellar. But that wasn't exactly the case. The anime can make you feel better, but there are arcs and episodic episodes alike that will break your heart. And as perhaps the masochist I am, I craved more!
This series does have a storyline but it is mostly episodic episodes. So if your looking for a heavy story anime, this won't be for you. If you like learning about different yokai, both popular and not so, you'd enjoy this.
The series is fun, wholesome, dark,…
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Shows like this don't tend to get much attention. On MAL, we tend to pay more attention to the anime aimed at an older audience, and the only way a series aimed at a younger audience tends to break through is if it was part of our own childhoods like Pokemon or Digimon. So by that standard, Gegege no Kitaro 2018 is astonishing for even finding an audience in the first place. And part of that is the fact that while it's a children's anime ostensibly, it has plenty here for an older audience as well.
Gegege no Kitaro is a very episodic show. It has overarching plots that vary in how prominent they are, but the meat of it is individual episodes. And luckily for Gegege no Kitaro, those are consistently good with occasional real standouts. There's a good number of episodes I'd probably recomm…
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GeGeGe isn't a show for most people. It's long and unless you're really into Japanese yokai and folktales you most likely won't like this series that much. However it still is really good and fun to watch.
This series is a mixture of a sort of overall main plot of trying to get humans and yokai to get along, while also having many sub stories that take a few episodes to just being episodic of one episode stories. In all, each of the stories were interesting with few exceptions, and have some relevance to the main plot. I both laughed, felt extremely sad, and really happy while watching the series and while it's not one of my favorite shows of all time it has a close place in my heart.
The characters are all pretty interesting and our main cast get some good character development while t…
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Taking this one out of the queue is an odd feeling. To have something so constant in your life for so long to be gone. It's making cry thinking about it being over honestly. Kitaro was something I'd never even heard of until this anime was announced. Had not a clue it was the 6th Kitaro or anything about it other than dealing with yokai. Just saw that something was replacing Dragonball Super at its time so why the hell not see what could possibly have the prestige to pull that off.
Didn't think I'd get this invested in the show really. Kitaro with Daddy Eyeball, Catchick, Sand Witch, Wally Wall, Oldman Crybaby, and even Ratman, were such a solid heart to this show. When it started I still couldn't wrap my brain around the whole thing but these characters and how the world looked with thi…
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