Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki

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 about that specific yokai with some slapstick thrown in. Episode ends.


In a void this show is ok... But if you know what it is this will downgrade it to abysmal.


What it really is can be seen in the name and character design. This is a knockoff of a Japanese classic manga and anime (Gegege No Kitaro) down to the MC having the same clothes, hair cut, yokai radar ... strand of hair.


Up until the last anime adaptation of the show in 2018 - 2020 (this was the 6th adaptation, the show has been going on since the 60s!) Kitaro was known to be creepy and kindda ugly or malformed so the show makes a point of saying "oh no, I'm the handsome Kitarou."


If it had something to say that would have still been ok but it's really creatively bankrupted to were it just distills things from the old show into five minute vignettes without context or reason to cash in on characters recognition.