"The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe" to be broadcast on terrestrial TV for the first time

It has been announced that the sixth season of the TV anime " GeGeGe no Kitaro," based on the manga by the late Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe Shigeru Mizuki , will be broadcast on Fuji TV's Saturday Premium from 9:30 pm on July 12th. This will be the first time the series will be broadcast on terrestrial TV, and the full version will be shown uncut.

" Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe" was released in November 2023 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mizuki's birth. This is the first time in about 15 years that a feature film version of "GeGeGe no Kitaro" has been released since " GeGeGe no Kitaro . Kitaro's father (formerly Medama Oyaji) and Mizuki are the main characters, and "the story of Kitaro's fathers" is told for the first time.

The film is directed by Go Koga, who has worked on "Digimon Universe: GeGeGe no Kitaro" and the fifth season of "GeGeGe no Kitaro" movie " GeGeGe no Kitaro: Japan Explodes!!," written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, who has worked on "Macross Frontier" and "World Trigger," and character design by Yatabe, who served as assistant director on "Evangelion : 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time." It was also a hot topic when it was selected for the Outstanding Animation Award at the 47th Japan Academy Awards. The "real version," which involved retaking and re-dubbing 327 cuts, was released in October 2024.

It was also announced that Seki Toshihiko, who played Kitaro's father in "The Birth of Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe," and Hidenobu Kiuchi , who played Mizuki, will participate as episode selectors in the TV anime "Gegege no Shigeru Mizuki : My Beloved Gegege Series," currently airing on Fuji TV and other networks as part of a project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki's death. The project involves broadcasting episodes selected by famous people connected to Kitaro from the first to sixth seasons of the TV anime " GeGeGe no Kitaro," and the 14th episode from the sixth season, "Makura-gaeshi and Maboroshi no Yume," selected by Seki and Kiuchi, will be broadcast on July 6th. The ending video, which features the ending theme "Yami ni Goyoujin" sung by singer Yamauchi Keisuke, has also been released on YouTube.