The BEST episodes of GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018)
Every episode of GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018)!
Spooky Kitarō focuses on the young Kitarō—the last survivor of the Ghost Tribe—and his adventures with other ghouls and strange creatures of Japanese mythology. Along with: the remains of his father, Medama-Oyaji (a mummified Ghost tribesman reincarnated to inhabit his old eyeball); Nezumi-Otoko (the rat-man); Neko-Musume (the cat-girl); and a host of other folkloric creatures, Kitarō strives to unite the worlds of humans and Yōkai.
#1 - Tofu-Kozo's Mold Pandemic
Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 6/23/2019
One night, Nickel Kana, of idol group the Batteries, meets Tofu-kozou. Kana is surprised, but he's a weak youkai that can only carry tofu around. When Tofu-kozou asks, Kana tells him exactly why she's working as an idol. "It's not like it's enough if I just carry tofu around like you do," says Kana as she leaves. The next day, Tofu-kozou appears before Kana again. Seeing that carrying tofu is Tofu-kozou's duty, Kana begins to wonder what her own role is. Tofu-kozou says he'll help her look and becomes her manager, but...!
#2 - The Yamata-no-Orochi of Greed
Season 1 - Episode 73 - Aired 9/15/2019
A rumor silently spreads on the internet, that Yamata no Orochi on Mount Oguro with grant any 8 wishes. Hearing this, Kitaro goes to hear the details from Yobuko, who knows everything that goes on in the mountains. Meanwhile, Saitou, who laments his terrible luck, hears the rumor. He immediately heads for Mount Oguro where he meets the uncanny Yobuko. When Yobuko hears that Saitou wants to meet Yamato no Orochi, she passes him a large diamond. It begins to shine brightly, and before he knows it, Saitou is sealed inside it. Face-to-face with the enormous Yamato no Orochi, Saitou tries desperately to run away. Then, Yamato no Orochi...!?
#3 - Iyami the Yokai's Great Love Project
Season 1 - Episode 72 - Aired 9/8/2019
Cat-girl takes some of her home-cooked food to Kitaro's house, but ends up disappointed to find him not at home. He's gone out to gather mushrooms with Child's-cry Old Man. The youkai Iyami appears and blows a pink breath at Child's-cry Old Man. Kitaro goes on guard when he sees Child's-cry Old Man spacing out, but he gets hit with the breath the same way. Meanwhile, at Kitaro's house, Cat-girl is sharing the food she brought with the Sand-throwing Hag. Kitaro returns and suddenly takes Cat-girl's hand, inviting her on a date. Surprised by the unexpected turn of events, Cat-girl accepts the invitation, but...!?
#4 - Karakasa's Umbrella Troubles
Season 1 - Episode 71 - Aired 9/1/2019
Lately, Karakasa has grown jealous of the beautiful, modern umbrellas. One rainy day, Karakasa goes into town with Ratman and sees a young man take the wrong plastic umbrella. Thinking it a dire situation, Karakasa picks up his umbrella and chases after him, but finds the umbrella the young man picked up forgotten along the way. After many twists and turns, Karakasa manages to return the umbrellas to the young man, but the next day, he discards both of them. Karakasa is hurt by his careless treatment of the umbrellas, and thinks up a plan to beat some character into the young man...!?
#5 - Spirit Affliction: Mysterious Footprints
Season 1 - Episode 70 - Aired 8/25/2019
On the mountains where no one can enter lives a god called Taitanbou-sama. The watchman of the mountains has the duty of going to the sacred rock every four days and praying that no one other than the villagers may enter the mountains. It is said that if the watchman ever shirks in this duty, a terrible curse will befall the village. The Agata family has served as watchmen, but Kenta, born into that family, tries to break the sacred rock in an attempt to escape his duty. He and his friends try to go into the mountains, but Kitaro and his father stop them. That night, undeterred, Kenta goes to try to break the stone again, but Kitaro appears and warns him of the curse. What is the truth Kitaro speaks of events from 13 years ago...?!
#6 - General of the Underworld: The Kido, Ibukimaru
Season 1 - Episode 69 - Aired 8/18/2019
When he learns that Mana and Isurugi Rei have met, Kitaro grows even more wary. On the way back from GeGeGe Forest, one of the Four Generals of Betrayal, Kidou, Ibukimaru, appears before Mana and Cat-girl. He calls Mana a vessel and kidnaps her. Kitaro starts searching for her immediately, but, unfortunately, requests start pouring in. All of them are about the ghost of a headless woman appearing at the dam. Kitaro asks Kagami-jiji and the others to handle Mana's case for a little while and heads to the dam, but when he gets there he's attacked by Ibukimaru. Then, Rei shows up...!?
#7 - Capital Punishment! Exiled to the Underworld
Season 1 - Episode 68 - Aired 8/11/2019
On the run after robbing a convenience store, Kakeru happens upon a strange bus. To escape the police, he reluctantly boards the bus and asks where it's headed. The driver simply replies, "to the place you are meant to go." The bus ends up somewhere so eerie it hardly seems part of our world. Frightened by the scene, Kakeru speaks to one of the passengers who tells him, "we have been chosen to be sent to Hell while still living." Overwhelmed by terror, Kakeru tries to stop the bus, but the bus doesn't stop. In a frenzy, Kakeru jumps out a window of the bus, but...!?
#8 - The Social Media Addict Versus The Jomon Man
Season 1 - Episode 67 - Aired 8/4/2019
College student Christine Minato is very popular on social media with over a million followers. She uploads photos and videos that make everyone around her jealous. But a man from the Jomon era that Ratman has brought to the city begins to threaten her position. Chris asks Kitaro for help, but he declines because it isn't a youkai. Panicked, She tries all kinds of things to battle the Jomon man. Her actions go too far, causing a societal issue. Those around her start distancing themselves. Having lost her friends, her money, even her standing in social media, Chris' hatred towards the Jomon man grows...!?
#9 - The Shinigami and Sakaiminato's Hidden Village
Season 1 - Episode 66 - Aired 7/28/2019
Kitaro and the others celebrate the fishing festival with everyone from Sakaiminato. Then, Mana hears a strange voice calling her and disappears. At the same time, the door to the hidden village of Yumigahama opens. The voice calling to Mana leads her across a bridge and through that door. When she regains her senses, Mana is in a place overgrown with beautiful flowers. There, she meets children dressed in Japanese clothes. The boy who leads them, Ichinoshin, tells her she can't return from that place. He also tells her that they are from the second year of Bunsei, which means they're children from the Edo era. Will Kitaro and the others be able to find Mana? And what about the children...?!
#10 - Nation Founding?! Mabyo's Great Tottori Empire
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 7/21/2019
Mana, Kitaro, and the others visit Tottori for the first time in a long time, and learn the shocking truth that Tottori has become the Great Tottori Empire and has become an independent nation. Then, they are sent to a rehabilitation facility for the crime of saying a certain phrase, slandering Tottori. Meanwhile, Mana's uncle, Shouji, suspects that the governor is a fake. The governor senses his doubt and has him arrested as a traitor. After escaping, Mana and the others hear from Shouji about the governor being a fake. The governor extends his evil influence. The Special Assassination Squad, Kani-tarou and Nashi-tarou, close in on Mana and Shouji! Kitaro and the others are...?!
#11 - The Heart's Darkness: The Suiko Reflects
Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 7/14/2019
The bankruptcy of the company her husband worked at causes Shouko and her family to move to a new town, but that town is controlled by the family of the president of Onikubo Foods. Her husband is forced to do work he isn't used to and is constantly yelled at by the president of the company. Her son is bullied by the son of the president and his lackeys. Shouko herself is tormented by the president's wife, and before they know it, their family stops smiling. One day, One day, Shouko heads to the Women's Society. There, in front of a crowd of people, she is criticized for being late, and forced to kneel and apologize. She screams in hatred and rage, and, as if in reply, Suiko appears. "I have come to keep my promise," says Suiko, and Shouko responds by...?!
#12 - The Star Festival of Love: The Youkai Flower
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 7/7/2019
On Tanabata, after receiving a letter from Ratman, Kitaro and the others visit a bamboo forest. In the strange bamboo forest where the bamboo flowers bloom in disarray, they get separated from the Plastered Wall. As they worry, Kitaro and the others spot a girl who is all alone. The girl attacks them and warns them to get out of the forest before leaving. Meanwhile, separated from Kitaro and injured, the Plastered Wall can't move. That same girl passes by. She intends to attack the Plastered Wall the same way she did Kitaro and the others, but...
#13 - The Four Generals of the Underworld: Kurobozu's Trap
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 6/30/2019
When Mana visits GeGeGe Forest, she finds Kitaro and Ratman arguing over something trivial. They each declare for the I-don't-know-how-many-th time that they're cutting ties with each other. Meanwhile, in town, the water has been contaminated sending everyone running around looking for drinking water. No one knows why the water is polluted, and no attempts at purifying it work. Kitaro believes that the one behind the pollution incident is one of the Four Generals of Betrayal. Kitaro begins an investigation, but doesn't know how to stop the pollution of the water. Meanwhile, a survivor of the Way of the Demon Society, Isurugi Rei, begins to move again...!?
#14 - The Fall of the Underworld ?! Tamamo-no-Mae's Trap
Season 1 - Episode 74 - Aired 9/22/2019
King Enma demands that Kitaro apprehend the nine-tailed fox, Tamamo-no-mae. The spirits of the Four Generals of Betrayal are necessary to maintain the balance of spiritual energy in Hell. There can be no more delay. Amidst all this, the Plastered Wall and Child's-cry Old Man haven't returned from trying to resolve the request that came in a letter, and the Sand-throwing Hag, who went to look for them, has disappeared too... Meanwhile, a battleship approaches a certain area of Japan. Behind these events, a beautiful, eerie woman is pulling the strings...?!
#15 - Pitch-Black Coldness: The Youkai Buru-Buru
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 6/16/2019
Mana has gone camping with Souma, Hiroto, Yuuta, and their father Yuuichi. Though Souma and Hiroto's horseplay is exasperating, Mana enjoys her holiday. But that night, Yuuichi suddenly disappears. When Souma and Hiroto go looking for him, they are attacked and kidnapped. As an eerie laugh echoes through the space, Mana and Yuuta wonder if it might be the work of a youkai. They hurry to tell Kitaro, but...!?
#16 - Promise to The Female Yokai Ushirogami
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 6/9/2019
Kitaro and Cat-girl investigate a case after receiving a request from a young man who's lover disappeared exactly two weeks ago. Strangely, there have been a number of disappearances in town. Kitaro is convinced that the string of incidents are the work of a youkai. After receiving a warning from Cat-girl, Mana discovers a strange rule in the disappearances. That night, Mana receives a message from Miyabi saying, "help me." Mana races to Miyabi's house and cautiously heads inside...!
#17 - The Han-Gyojin's Strange Kamaboko Tale
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 6/2/2019
To investigate a shipwreck, Kitaro visits a port city alone, but none of the residents will talk to him. Kitaro pushes ahead with his investigation, but Ratman's betrayal causes him to be caught by a giant squid. Merpeople appear! The shipwreck was their doing. Kitaro fights desperately, but the merpeople use deep sea youkai techniques to change their form and...!?
#18 - The Bloody Noble La Siene
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 5/26/2019
In town, there have been a series of incidents where young women have had all the blood drained from their body while they are still alive. Kitaro can't believe it could possibly be another vampire, and if it is, he wonders why vampires keep appearing. Then he learns from the witch Agnes, a European youkai, that Backbeard made use of lifeblood and there are signs of his resurrection. That's why all the blood-draining youkai are trying to gather blood. She also hints that a vampire even stronger than Vampire Elite, la Seine, might have come to Japan. Kitaro is convinced that he is the one behind the recent incidents and goes to investigate. Who is this vampire la Seine?!
#19 - The Bewitching Melody Elite the Vampire
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 5/19/2019
A suspicious man playing a guitar offers to form an alliance with Ratman. His name is Vampire Elite. He is a youkai who only targets boys who will one day serve as pillars of the country, turning them into his servants and returning them to society so that he can control the world from the shadows. He plans to turn Kitaro into his servant to prevent Kitaro from interfering with his scheme. Dazzled by the exorbitant reward, Ratman agrees to help, but...?
#20 - Hihi's Harassment Hell
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 5/12/2019
Ever since Hihi, the youkai, learned tennis from a human, he's been enraptured. An athlete he trained even reached fourth in the world. Bored with training monkeys to play, Hihi decides to train an athlete to win the gold medal at the next Olympic games. Excited, he heads into town and runs across Mana's friend Yuumi. The two hit it off, and right away start intense daily training, but soon crack begin to appear in their relationship.
#21 - Dorotabo, life and Earth
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 5/5/2019
The youkai Dorotabou appears at the construction site of Mega Solar, attacking the construction workers one after another. Thirty years earlier a string of the same events occurred on the same site. Plans to remove the rice fields to build a golf course caused Dorotabou to run rampant. Back then, Kitaro defeated Dorotabou after a hard fight. When Kitaro heads to the construction site to issue a warning, he runs into the company president, Kurosu.
#22 - Narcissism Overload! Nuke-Kubi's Close Call!
Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 4/28/2019
Charatomi was once well-known as a U-tuber, but his job hunting isn't going well. He makes a comeback as a U-tuber in an attempt to escape from his job search. He meets Nuke-kubi, a youkai who has no doubt about his popularity. Zeroing in on his ability to create bursts of hot and cold air, Charatomi partners with him to stream videos. In a flash, the two become popular. Charatomi schemes to reach even greater heights of popularity, but...!?
#23 - Runaway Girl! The Forest of the Kinoko
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 4/21/2019
Mana's friend Miyabi has quarreled with her mother over something trivial. When she wishes she could go back to when she was little, she suddenly finds herself lost in a forest. There live mysterious children, forest spirits, the Kinoko. They invite Miyabi to play, and Miyabi innocently joins them. In the Kinoko forest, there are no adults, no school. It's a world with nothing to tie her down. Miyabi begins to wish she never had to leave. But, slowly, Miyabi's mind and body mature while the Kinoko around her stay the same, leaving her baffled. That's when Kitaro appears after receiving a request from Mana. Will Miyabi return to her old world, or will she stay in the forest?
#24 - Enma-Diao's Secret Bargain
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 4/14/2019
The Nue which had appeared in Touhoku was a fake, a tanuki transformed. Kitaro hurries back, but the Nue raises its ominous cry in Tokyo. The secret agreement Kitaro made with King Enma for Cat-girl's resurrection is revealed to the Sand-throwing Hag and the others - to capture the Four Generals of Betrayal who have escaped from Hell. If he fails, Cat-girl must return to Hell, and Kitaro's spirit will be bound there forever. The Nue appears in Tokyo again, and Kitaro goes to confront it. Will Kitaro be able to capture the Nue? What is the Way of the Demon Society, and what is the aim of the mysterious boy, Rei?!
#25 - Messenger From the Underworld Nue
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/7/2019
An abandoned town in north-east Japan. When night falls there, eerie black clouds rise and from them resounds a terrifying cry. Everyone who hears it falls ill and becomes unable to move. Kitaro receives a letter from Kanji, a boy who lives there, and heads for the town immediately. A mysterious man watches Kitaro from afar...!?