The WORST episodes of GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018)

Every episode of GeGeGe no Kitaro (2018) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 11/3/2024Network: Fuji TVStatus: Ended
Capital Annihilated! The Terrifying Yokai Beast
star
6.93
15 votes

#1 - Capital Annihilated! The Terrifying Yokai Beast

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/17/2018

Japan has fallen under the control of the Tanuki. Anti-Tanuki citizens are caught one after another and people must monitor each other's behavior in order to stay safe. Meanwhile, in order to save Kitarō who had been turned to stone by the Gyōbu-Danuki's curse, Mana, Neko-Musume, and the others head for the underground again. Prepared to risk it all, Sunakake-Babaa, Konaki-Jijii and the others stay behind to hold the Tanuki back. Mana was left remaining, however, the curse placed on her by the Gyōbu-Danuki triggered, causing abnormalities to her body. At last, the Yō-Kaijū begins to destroy Japan. How will Kitarō and the others deal with this crisis!?

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The Fox's Wedding and Hakusanbō
star
7.09
11 votes

#2 - The Fox's Wedding and Hakusanbō

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/18/2018

Kitaro and the others head toward a large estate on a certain mountain. According to the letter in the Yōkai Post, it is said that a girl named Yayoi is being targeted by the yōkai Hakusanbō. Sunakake-Babaa prepares a barrier that neutralizes all yōkai activity and spirit power to protect Yayoi. However, Hakusanbō appears with no intention of attacking her. Hakusanbō did not come to eat Yayoi, but rather to claim her as his bride. While Kitarō was confronting Hakusanbō, Yayoi suddenly begins to suffer. The Ring of Arcana has appeared within her body. Adél, aware of this, appears and abducts Yayoi!

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The Disaster of the Electric Yokai
star
7.13
16 votes

#3 - The Disaster of the Electric Yokai

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2018

In this modern society, humans act like Kaminari no longer exists, making fear unfeasible for him. Just as Kaminari was losing all hope, Nezumi-Otoko gets an idea. When Nezumi-Otoko starts up the BiBiBi Electric Company together with Mr. Ameyama and Kaminari, they hit the jackpot. This business had the perfect money-making system! The company's mascot, Kaminari, became popular and Nezumi-Otoko was smiling with a bundle of cash in hand, but when his control gradually vanishes, what will happen?!

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Terror! Miage-Nyudou
star
7.21
34 votes

#4 - Terror! Miage-Nyudou

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2018

At the dome concert of the popular idol group, The Batteries, tens of thousands of visitors vanished in the blink of an eye! Behind the scenes of the incident, the entertainment office that Nezumi-Otoko recently launched, BiBiBi Promotion, was involved. When Kitarō and Neko-Musume rush to the venue, they coincidentally meet Mana. Although Kitarō tries to keep Mana away by saying humans should not get involved with yōkai, she refuses to go home since her friends have gone missing as well. When they entered the venue, they find the yōkai responsible for the disappearances. This yōkai is...!

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The Taboo of the Mysterious Forest
star
7.27
15 votes

#5 - The Taboo of the Mysterious Forest

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2018

An elementary school student named Yūta hears stories about Kitarō from his neighbor, Mana, and finally ended up visiting the GeGeGe Forest. It was the first time in a few hundred years that a human last wandered into the forest. Kitarō tried to return the boy back to the human world but was urged by his father and Sunakake-Babaa to show Yūta around the forest. He unwillingly obliged, along with Neko-Musume. Yūta, who is familiar with yōkai, is delighted when he gets to meet various yōkai on his tour. However, the state of the forest suddenly changes! One after another, Kitarō and his friends get attacked. Medama-Oyaji says that Yūta is the cause...!?

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The Day Yokai Awoke
star
7.30
43 votes

#6 - The Day Yokai Awoke

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2018

A forest suddenly appeared in Shibuya. There was a mysterious phenomenon... people going to the city were suddenly transforming into trees! Meanwhile, Mana, a junior high school student, dubiously wrote a letter and put it in the Yōkai Mailbox. Soon after, Kitarō came with a "clip, clop." After hearing Mana's story, Kitarō and his father, Medama-Oyaji, were convinced that this was the work of a yōkai that should have been sealed hundreds of years ago. To find the cause, they traveled to the city's underground facility. The one that was awaiting them is...!?

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Zunbera Spirit Surgery
star
7.46
13 votes

#7 - Zunbera Spirit Surgery

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/8/2018

Kirara Fusano aspires to be an idol, however, she despises her own face and desires a cute one. One night, she encounters a mysterious old woman who is soon revealed to be the yōkai Zunbera. Zunbera offers to perform Spirit Surgery, which would grant Kirara with the beauty she wishes to have. Kirara accepts; she receives the treatment and becomes a beautiful girl. However, it is revealed that she was paying a great price. Being a beautiful girl consumed her with the envy of those in her surrounding, but this pleasure was brief. Suddenly, Kirara is struck by suffering. She has become faceless!

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Menace! Kagami-Jijii´s Plot
star
7.50
14 votes

#8 - Menace! Kagami-Jijii´s Plot

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2018

Mana arrives at a village for a social studies field trip along with the rest of her class. When she chases her classmates around for not cleaning like they were supposed to, they inadvertently knock over an old stone monument. After that, her classmates' physical conditions collapsed and were both hospitalized. Strange things start happening around Mana as well. When Kitarō and the others investigate after sensing powerful yōkai activity, they discover Mana trapped in a mirror! Is Kagami-Jijii responsible? What was the purpose of bringing Mana into the mirror world? When Kitarō and his friends find Kagami-Jijii and question him, they get attacked with a mirror!

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The Kappas´ Work Reform
star
7.54
13 votes

#9 - The Kappas´ Work Reform

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/27/2018

There is a national cucumber shortage! Where could they have possibly disappeared off to? The president of an IT company is now suffering from a shortage of workers. Light salaries, hard labor. It's only natural that employees have started to quit. Nezumi-Otoko, who happened to be nearby, proposed the use of yōkai. The Kappas from the Tono mountains are hard workers, and the president is pleased that he could secure such employees with a cheap salary of three cucumbers an hour. The Kappas are also very satisfied with the all-you-can-eat cucumber workplace. However, the Kappas gradually began to get suspicious that they were being exploited. Finally, they stood up and demanded their rights!

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The Mad Frankenstein
star
7.55
11 votes

#10 - The Mad Frankenstein

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/21/2018

Backbeard puts the "Brigadoon Project" into operation to transform humans into yōkai slaves so he can rule them. In order to prevent this, Agnès hurries to the city where the ring's presence was detected. Agnès flies around the city on her broom without worrying about her surroundings, which throws the town into chaos. Although Kitarō is angered by her actions, Mana, who was in the vicinity, becomes interested in Agnès. After getting caught up in the positive Mana's pace, it was soon decided that Agnès would stay at her house. While she enjoyed the temporary comfort, Agnès leaves Mana's house before dawn without a word. There, the Western Yōkai Victor appears...!

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Demon Belial: The Hundred-Year Grudge
star
7.55
11 votes

#11 - Demon Belial: The Hundred-Year Grudge

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/11/2018

Mana happens to pass by Agnès, who laments over not being able to locate the ring. In order to cheer her up, Mana decides to take the disheartened Agnès to her beloved Sakaiminato. They coincidentally bump into Kōjiro the Karasu-Tengu that Mana has met before. Suddenly, Agnès detects the ring's presence nearby and flies away, leaving the two to themselves. Kōjiro eagerly brings Mana to a place with a nice view, and shows off his power to create gale-force winds. In that moment, he accidentally destroys the mound that sealed away the terrifying Akuma Belial. With his magical power restored, he lets out a war cry and approaches the Karasu-Tengu's village to exact revenge on the Elder that had sealed him away!

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Komori-Neko's Halloween Pandemonium
star
7.56
9 votes

#12 - Komori-Neko's Halloween Pandemonium

Season 1 - Episode 79 - Aired 10/27/2019

As the city prepares for Halloween, Ratman walks down an alley and a strange shadow appears before him. A voice declaring itself the true son of the emperor of the European Youkai, Backbeard, Backbeard Junior, belongs to the European youkai Bat-cat. Bat-cat asks Ratman to help him collect blood for the ressurection of Backbeard. He has a reason for wanting to achieve something great. Ratman turns him down, but when the huge reward is set in front of him, he changes his mind and offers to help. But there's no way Ratman will simply do as he's told and collect blood, is there...?!

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Runaway Girl! The Forest of the Kinoko
star
7.56
9 votes

#13 - 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?

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The Mystery of the Tide! Umizatō
star
7.58
12 votes

#14 - The Mystery of the Tide! Umizatō

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/15/2018

Mana visits Sakaiminato, where her aunt and uncle live. She was looking forward to the festival, but loses her enthusiasm after finding out that it might not be held this year. In order to cheer Mana up, Uncle Shōji decides to go fishing so he can feed her the most fresh and liveliest fish he can catch. However, he doesn't return. Mana and the town's fishermen set out by boat to find the missing men, to soon be attacked by Funa-Yūrei. These Funa-Yūrei were recognized to be the missing fisherman, including Uncle Shōji. Mana is the only one to survive the attack and washes up on shore. Kitarō arrives and heads to sea by boat to investigate. There, he encounters the Funa-Yūrei and the yōkai Umizatō that was supposed to have been sealed away!

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Azuki-Arai, Azuki-Hakari, Azuki-Babaa
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7.60
10 votes

#15 - Azuki-Arai, Azuki-Hakari, Azuki-Babaa

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/4/2018

On a certain riverside, there lived three yōkai: Azuki-Arai, Azuki-Hakari, and Azuki-Babaa. Modern people, who have never even touched an azuki bean, pay no attention to them. Nezumi-Otoko happens to pass by the troubled trio who want to suppress western confectionery​ and restore the azuki beans to their former glory. Nezumi-Otoko comes up with yet another money-making idea: he tells the trio that they can make azuki beans popular again, but they first need to become famous enough to be advertising pillars. As the producer, he becomes delighted when their silly videos become very popular. However, the three get into an argument about the true way to show their love for azuki beans, and their Azuki Union fellowship begins to crack!

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The Vampire's Halloween Party
star
7.60
10 votes

#16 - The Vampire's Halloween Party

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/28/2018

With Halloween in the air, the town was filled with excitement. Mana invites Neko-Musume to a Halloween event, and they visit an old movie theater together. The movie genre was horror. They put on VR goggles and waited for the movie to start. However, this event was arranged by Carmilla, a Western Yōkai. When the two noticed the abnormalities around them and removed their goggles, they were already surrounded with human-turned vampires who began to attack them one after another. On the other hand, Kitarō and Agnès who went into the city in search of the ring notice the crisis at the movie theater, but...!?

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Tantanbo's Yokai Castle
star
7.61
18 votes

#17 - Tantanbo's Yokai Castle

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2018

There's a rumor that children in the city are disappearing one after another. Upon hearing this, Mana contacts Kitarō in order to elucidate the truth. However, Kitarō bluntly states that "Yōkai and humans can't be friends." It turns out that children were kidnapped in order to resurrect the Yōkai Castle that was once sealed. This time, Mana was kidnapped as well. Kitarō's friends join him in the effort to rescue the human that saved his life!

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Diamonds of Greed! Wanyudo`s Trap
star
7.64
14 votes

#18 - Diamonds of Greed! Wanyudo`s Trap

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/24/2018

The cheap diamond company operated by Nezumi-Otoko is a huge success. Kitarō grows suspicious of him, which makes Nezumi-Otoko react sharply, declaring an end to their friendship. The truth is, he was partnering up with Wanyūdō. Nezumi-Otoko brings humans to Wanyūdō's cave, where the yōkai turns them into diamonds and feasts on their souls. He sells these diamonds and becomes a rich trailblazer. One day, A man of a diamond syndicate who has been robbed of business appears and takes Nezumi-Otoko away...!

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The Bewitching Melody Elite the Vampire
star
7.67
9 votes

#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...?

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Hihi's Harassment Hell
star
7.67
9 votes

#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.

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Infatuation: The Alluring Gahi
star
7.67
12 votes

#21 - Infatuation: The Alluring Gahi

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/30/2018

Yūna, a high school student, cannot date any boy even if she was interested in them due to her mother's strict disciplinary rules. Yūna's mother was once betrayed by her husband and got into a divorce. This incident made it impossible for Yūna's mother to trust men for the rest of her life. One day, Yūna was approached by her male childhood friend, and her mother saw this interaction. Yūna was rebuked and runs away to another location. There, Konaki-Jijii was passing by and drops a scroll. Within the scroll was a drawing of a beautiful man that left Yūna spellbound. As she admired the art, the young man slipped out of the scroll and into reality!

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Makura-Gaeshi and the Fantastic Dream
star
7.67
12 votes

#22 - Makura-Gaeshi and the Fantastic Dream

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/1/2018

Masashi, a boy who is worried about his father who fell asleep and has never awakened, seeks Kitarō out for help through Mana. According to Mana, there are many other adults who have fallen asleep in addition to Masashi's father. Medama-Oyaji states that a yōkai must have trapped the adults in the dream world and assumes Makura-Gaeshi may know something, but it turns out that he doesn't. Mana motivates Makura-Gaeshi to help, and he takes them to the Dream World with his ability. In the Dream World, anything you envision is capable of coming true. Mana and Neko-Musume quickly succumb to their own, fantastic dreams...

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The Transform All Japanese Yokai Project
star
7.70
10 votes

#23 - The Transform All Japanese Yokai Project

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/16/2018

The Ring of Arcana has appeared. Knowing that its manifestation means the European yokai will be coming again, Kitaro, Agnes, and the others search desperately for the ring. But it's Mana who finds the ring, just by chance. Not knowing it's the Ring of Arcana, she puts it on her finger. When she realizes she can't take it off, she panics. Kitaro clashes with Adele so that Mana can get away. As Mana tries to escape, she's attacked by Wolfgang, then Victor, then Camilla, and Child's-cry Old Man, the Plastered Wall, and Cat-girl step in to cover her. The struggle for the ring intensifies and sweeps Mana up in its wake!!

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Masquerade Nopperabō
star
7.70
10 votes

#24 - Masquerade Nopperabō

Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/17/2019

Kitajima Atsuhi, a member of the idol unit Paradise, which is experiencing a surge in popularity, is tired of playing the shallow party boy character the president of the production company told him to play. Atsushi's one source of support is Go Go Manjirou, a friend he met online and has never seen in person. Atsushi sends Go Go Manjirou a message saying he wants to meet. After receiving the message, Go Go Manjirou rushes over to Kitaro's place. The truth is that Go Go Manjirou is a Faceless youkai, Nopperabou. Nopperabou asks Kitaro to meet Atsushi in his place.

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The Shinigami and Sakaiminato's Hidden Village
star
7.71
7 votes

#25 - 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...?!

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