The official website for the new GeGeGe no Kitarō anime series revealed on Sunday that the Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kintarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) anime film will open in Japan in fall 2023. The site also revealed a new visual for the film. The visual features the full form of Kitarō’s father, and includes the tagline, “The man of the ghost clan, here.”
Gou Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) is directing the film at Toei Animation, and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 13 episodes in 2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō) is writing the screenplay. Touko Yatabe (2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō‘s third ending sequence unit director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director) is designing the characters.
The film is part of four “big projects” commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki‘s…
