The Trial of Kitaro, Paperback

The final showdown for the legendary yokai

In the seventh volume of Shigeru Mizuki's defining series, our beloved hero Kitaro stands accused of beating up his fellow yokai to protect the human populace. He is put on trial for crimes against yokai. Witnesses are called from both sides, but when Nezumi Otoko takes the stand, all bets are off. Will Nezumi Otoko be for Kitaro or against him? Only the biggest bribe will tell

The Trial of Kitaro features five bizarre and amusing adventures. In every story, Kitaro has his hands full. He faces off against Kasha, a vicious demon cat; tries to quell a magical cooking pot; battes a sea monster; and solves the mystery of a three-eyed bird.

This volume features comics from the late 1960s, which was the golden age of GeGeGe no Kitaro. These stories appear in English for the first time in a kid-friendly edition, with translations by the Mizuki scholar and series translator Zack Davisson. The Trial of Kitaro also concludes Davisson's "History of Kitaro" essay and offers another round of "Yokai Files," which introduce the folklore of Japan's monsters and supernatural beings. This final volume of Mizuki's renowned Kitaro series is not to be missed

Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan's most respected artists ever. An artistic prodigy, he lost an arm in World War II. After the war, he became one of the founders of Japan's latest craze--manga. He invented the yokai genre with GeGeGe no Kitaro, his famous one-eyed character, who has been adapted for the screen several times as anime and live action, and in video games. A new anime series has been made every decade since 1968 and has captured the imagination of generations of Japanese children. A real-life ghost hunter, Mizuki traveled to more than sixty countries to engage in fieldwork based on spirit folklore.