“Kiitarou, a spirit-sensitive boy, befriends a house spirit and encounters various Japanese folkloric creatures in his new home.”
Kiitaro's yokai picture diary
奇異太郎少年の妖怪絵日記
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Synopsis
Kiitarou, a spirit-sensitive boy, befriends a house spirit and encounters various Japanese folkloric creatures in his new home.
This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next? (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.87 · split reception
5.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 2.0
↑ 0.00
Running avg · Dec 2016 → Dec 2021
- 7 “*Spoiler Free *Enjoyment Rating: 7 Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki, or Kiitaro's Yokai Picture Diary, is a short and straightforward anime. If you're into watching short time duration anime and...”
- 2 “The show is twelve episodes composed of a five minute sketch each. Outside of the first episode that is... random silliness. Each episode Kiitarou runs into a yokai or two, we get a snippet of info...”
- 5 “The title of this series of anime shorts speaks for itself – it’s a show about a boy named Kiitaro, and the memories that he makes meeting lots of different Youkai. The first episode of the show...”
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- Format 12 × 4′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 48m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2016 – Dec 2016 Fall 2016
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-11430 catalog
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- Cloud22 Producer