(01-22-2015, 04:34 AM)Super Wrote: Bummer, Thanks for the info Gerisplarail1. My doctor is not going to be happy about this. Rats...stickers, unfortunate.
No I didn't see a video of the real Kitaro but since you mentioned it I searched for one on YouTube and saw this one. Its much longer than I assumed. I was picturing it more like a street car, Trolley car size. That paint is awesome though.
Yes that is the exact video to which I refer after seeing that there was no way I wasn't gonna have that in my collection such a gorgeous train! also Super you didn't say if you were familiar with the previous Kiha's released, or are you mostly interested in this Kitaro Kiha due to it's wrapping?
Yes Kitaro started as a comic or in Japan Manga, it is a very strange cartoon having to do with ghosts and eyeball father haha.
Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族 yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter. When questioned in the 2007 movie, Kitarō responds that he is three hundred and fifty years old.
GeGeGe no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎?) is a manga series created in 1960 by mangaka Shigeru Mizuki. It is best known for its popularization of the folklore creatures known as yōkai, a class of spirit-monster to which all of the main characters belong. It has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action and video games. A new anime series has been made every decade since 1968.
The title of the original story is Hakaba no Kitarō (墓場の鬼太郎?), literally meaning "Kitarō (of the) Graveyard". This story was an early 20th-century Japanese folk tale performed on kamishibai. The name "Ge Ge Ge..." was applied to Mizuki's particular telling of the Kitarō story when a Toei Animation series based on the characters of his comic was created. In January, 2008, the original comic was finally adapted into an animated series, running in Fuji TV's Noitamina slot.