Toei started streaming a brand new trailer for Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo Shinsei-ban (True Beginning Model), the recut model of the Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe) anime film, on Wednesday.
The trailer highlights the bonds with Kitaro’s father.
The brand new model has about 327 retaken cuts, in addition to some re-dubbed traces. The brand new model is rated R15+.
The movie’s unique screening run had a PG12 score.
The brand new version of the movie will open in theaters in Japan on October 4.
The unique model of the movie opened in Japan in November 2023, and offered 111,500 tickets for 160,106,620 yen (about US$1.07 million) in its first three days. The movie earned a cumulative complete of two,472,410,610 yen (about US$16.79 million) as of January 28.
Gō Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) directed the movie at Toei Animation, and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 13 episodes in 2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō) wrote the screenplay. Tōko Yatabe (2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō‘s third ending sequence unit director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director) designed the characters.
The movie is a part of 4 “massive initiatives” commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki‘s beginning. Mizuki died in 2015 at 93 years outdated. One other undertaking is the Akuma Kun anime that premiered on Netflix in November 2023.
The most recent GeGeGe no Kitarō anime — the sixth tv anime incarnation — premiered in April 2018 and changed Dragon Ball Super in the identical timeslot. The present ended its run in March 2020 after 97 episodes.
The 2018 anime starred Miyuki Sawashiro as Kitarō and Masako Nozawa as Medama Oyaji. Each reprised their roles for the movie, though Nozawa is credited as “Kitarō’s Father” as an alternative of Medama Oyaji.
Mizuki’s manga, which started in 1959 below the title Hakaba Kitarō, has spawned seven tv series (together with one Hakaba Kitarō anime), a number of animated movies, and two live-action movies. The tales middle on an inhuman boy who straddles the road between the human and supernatural worlds.
