History Characters / GeGeGeNoKitaroKitaroFamily

* KickChick: Coupled with CombatStilettos, is one of the main differences between her past incarnations. 2018 Neko [[ShesGotLegs is way taller, with long legs, a minidress of power and high heels]], all put to good use in a combat style based on strong kicks and scratches.

* ShesGotLegs: Her 2018 incarnation highlights her long legs by giving her a MinidressOfPower.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: That silly little eyeball? When he shows his true form, he's even stronger than Kitaro is and effortlessly wrecks the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* LetsGetDangerous: In episode 14 of the 2018 series, when he resumes his old form to protect Kitaro? You know the bad guy isn't gonna know what hit them.

* PapaWolf: Once he gets a chance to briefly get his old body and powers back, Medama Oyaji makes the MonsterOfTheWeek regret messing with his son.

* AdultFear: His son has been injured, cursed, and almost killed multiple times in front of him without Medama Oyaji being able to do a single thing to protect him.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is purple in both the 90s and the 2018 anime.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasakoNozawa (1968-1971, ''Hakaba Kitaro''), Creator/NorikoHidaka (''Kitarou no Yuurei Densha''), Creator/KeikoToda (1985), Youko Matsuouka (1996), Creator/MinamiTakayama (2007), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (2018)

->'''Voiced by:''' Nana Yamaguchi (1968), Youko Kougushi (1971), Yuuko Mita (1985), Creator/HiromiKonno (2007), Creator/ChinamiNishimura (1996,''Daikaijuu'', ''Obake Nighter'', ''Youkai Toukyuu!''), Creator/UmekaShoji (2018)

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While still "odd", the earliest incarnations of Kitaro were {{gonk}}ish if not quite ugly. His 2007 and 2018 counterparts by comparison make him look like a fairly attractive ten-something kid with outdated clothes and PeekABangs over his blinded eye.

* SameCharacterButDifferent: In the first run of the manga, Kitaro was ''much'' different. He was basically a cynical, [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior chainsmoking]], [[Main/Cloudcuckoolander ditz]], and WalkingDisasterArea. His only powers given by his ancestral clothing, was the ability to freely enter and leave Hell and other demonic realms. [[ExecutiveMeddling Under pressure from his publisher]] and a bizarre copyright conflict, Kitaro became a "Superman-like character": a [[FriendToAllLivingThings heroic]] [[TheAce Ace]] with NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

* Sizeshifter: Nurikabe is able to change his size at will, becoming large enough to fight against Gasha-Dokuro and to cover a cracked dam.

* BornFromADeadWoman: He was still healthy and in his mother's womb at the time of her death, but it took until she and hie father were as good as buried in the ground for Kitaro to finally be born.

* {{Tsundere}}: Her 2018 self is this, ramping up her mercurial, cat-like personality. She moves from aloof abrasive to warm affectionate in mere second, depending from who's addressing, and even the same person can buy her affection with a bit of kindness. This is played up in her interactions with Kitaro and Mana; it's obvious she likes them well enough, but blushes and denies it when asked. Lampshaded in the EyeCatch for episode 7, where an emoji-drawn Nezumi Otoko describes her as "the Tsundere character" and ends up tied and hanged.

An old yokai from the ancient lore, with the power of turning himself into an heavy statue of himself.

* TheAlcoholic: He's always seeing drinking sake, often bringing himself to a deep alcholic stupor.

* {{Kiai}}: Owing to the source materials, Konaki Jijii loudly wails a distorted version of a child's cry every time he activates his powers. He's not stranger to badass oneliners too.

** His main power, turning himself into heavy, superdense stone to be used as a battering ram against enemies.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's harmless and even friendly, especially to pretty womam. When pressured enough, he will choke his enemies to death. But only to deserving, blatantly evil foes.
* ChivalrousPervert: Despite being a living cloth of cotton, he hits on every woman or girl he happens to see. He stops himself at doing remarks about how soft and pretty they look.
* MagicCarpet: Ittan Momen role is carrying around the rest of the Kitaro family, more often Neko Musume and Kitaro.
* PungeonMaster: In the 2018, he likes throwing around puns about his nature as living cloth.

* DishingOutDirt: Has the power to control sand she contains in a jar.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: In most continuities she's mistrustful about human adults. Still, she believes that children are naturally innocent and deserve to be protected and cared for.

* HappilyMarried: In the 5th adaption, he has a loving wife and kids.
* {{Nurikabe}}: The Nurikabe of Japanese myths is meant to block travelers, preventing them from following their path and causing them to lose their bearings.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While still "odd", the earliest incarnations of Kitaro were {{gonk}}ish if not quite ugly. His 2007 and 2018 counterparts by comparison make him look like a fairly attactive ten-something kid with outdated clothes and PeekABangs over his blinded eye.

* AgeLift: His chronological age really depends on what story's being told; sometimes he's decades older, sometimes he's as old as he presents himself in the modern day. For instance, the 2007 movie says he's 350 years old.

* CreepyChild: His original manga portrayal hit this on the spot. His 2007 and 2018 self can come across as this given his eerie behaviour, especially when he wants to be scary.
* DetachmentCombat: In the manga and several incarnations of the anime, Kitaro is able to sever his appendages and remote control them ''because of his powerful lifeforce''. Also, in the manga he's able to shoot his fingers against enemies (while in the anime he coalesces his life force into a FingerGun).

* EnhancedPunch: In the 2018 anime, every time Kitaro needs more strengh, the spirit hair Chanchanko wraps around his arm and fist, magnifying his punching power and protecting his knuckles and wrist.
* EyeScream: In his ''Kitaro Night Tales'' and ''Manga/HakabaKitaro'' incarnation he wasn't born half blind: when the human character Mizuki, startled by his looks, dropped him, he hurt his left eye on a grave, destroying the eyeball. Seeing him crying convinced Mizuki that Kitaro was just a helpless child needing someone to care for him.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Kitaro in the 2018 adaptation is a good boy who truly cares about humans, but he shows no mercy to yokai and humans who are blatantly evil. In that case, he'll be sure you're going to regret everything you did, and know how much he think you deserved your fate. He will even punish evil humans threatening other humans or at least making sure they'll get what they deserve in the afterlife and scaring high schoolers straight by telling them how Hell awaits all sinners, especially under his watch.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Kitaro was born the old-fashioned way (albeit out of his dead mother's grave), then aged from being an infant to a pre-teen adolescent who's remained that way ever since. Certain works of disputable canon have poked at the idea of Kitaro physically aging to adulthood, though.

* LastOfHisKind: The only Ghost Tribe survivor and inheritor of the Chanchanko, the source of the powers of the last tribesmen. There's still his father, but he techically died and shed his old body, being reborn as an enchanted eyeball.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: His race is outright called the "Ghost Tribe", but that doesn't mean Kitaro is in any form a spirit. The manga actually states that "Ghost Tribe" is a name his tribe got because at the dawn of mankind they choose to hide, moving in caves and woods too dark and secluded for humans. While they managed to reach their goals of avoiding any confrontation with mankind, their secretive activities led to most of the legends about ghost and ghouls that we know.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: While 2018 Kitaro will be willing to mediate between human and yokai, he'll literally beat evil yokai to death [[EvilGloating if they brag about the evil they just committed under his watch]]. Kitaro is also not above condemning malicious humans if he decides they deserve it. For example, sending the soul of a [[MeanBoss sinner]] to Hell and then, reporting to a high schooler who was secretly bullying another student, hinting that someday he'll take her soul to Hell too, as he may called to do for anyone dying under the grudge of people she wronged.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: His 2018 self has this. He presents himself as aloof, businesslike and dismissive to humans like Mana and Yuta. It soon becomes clear he's only worried that humans could get hurt if they stay close to him. Once he allows himself to relax, Kitaro is able to smile and show care for his friends.

* TranquilFury: In a subset of OOCIsSeriousBusiness, the usually mild mannered Kitarō does, and is able to get angry. When he does, even when he doesn't physically challenge his foes, he's so cold to hurt. Even his own allies, if they even seemingly step out of his moral boundary, usually gets the brunt of his fury and get horribly horrified, like [[spoiler: Nezumi Otoko refused and denounced as a friend for days when he proposed to fed humans to another yōkai, Agnès driven away from the [=GeGeGe=] Forest by his coldness and Mana viciously torn down in front of her dying mother because he suspected she committed murder on her own volition]].

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: In the 2018 anime. At least, he would not be very likeable to the villains. Just ask Backbeard—oh wait.

* AdultFear: His son has been injured, cursed and almost killed multiple times in front of him without Medama Oyaji being able to do a single thing to protect him.

* ThePatriarch: Despite his diminutive body, he's respected in all the [=GeGeGe=] Forest and beyond, and every good natured yōkai will unflinchingly obey his orders or hear his wise words.

** In another episode he goes along with a scheme to turn people into diamonds until his accomplices start using refugees from war-torn countries for it. Greedy jerks were fine, but even him wouldn't do that to poor people trying to get a better life.
** Towards the end of the Great Yōkai in the 2018 he's convinced by Carmilla to betray Agnès, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim getting her kicked out the [=GeGeGe=] Forest in exchange for her safety]]. When Carmilla fails to uphold her promise, he turn his potent gas against Backbeard's Army, allowing Kitaro to take the young witch back.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a total {{Jerkass}} most of the time, but he can get a good moment here and there. At his best, he truly cares about Kitaro as a friend. He'll sometimes save Kitaro's life, even when it's not to his benefit, and he has a soft spot for pretty girls and will try to impress them anyway he can.

* ThePigPen: He's the filthiest character in the series underneath those robes. Most characters can't stand his stench, and apparently his gas is so potent it could ''kill a human'' (monsters only pass out). Mixed with his unscrupulous persona, it goes right into UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness territory.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Even more than Kitaro: while Neko Musume in the manga and the earliest anime is a chubby, gonkish girl with cat-slitted eyes and a big, fanged mouth, she got a couple of makeovers in the latest incarnations. 2007 Neko is a cute child, slightly shorter than Kitaro and quite fashionable, while 2018 Neko looks like a teenage girl with long legs under a MinidressOfPower, CombatStilettos and attractive TsurimeEyes.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair color went from dark brown in her earliest incarnations, to purple in the 90s, to red in the 2007 version and then to dark purple in the 2018 series.

* AnimalEyes: Being what she is, her eyes resemble a cat's in most of her incarnations, with a wide almond shape and small pupils. When she gets especially wild, her sclera turn yellow and her eyes look way more animalistic. Her 2018 incarnation trades it for TsurimeEyes in her human form.

** She's also highly belligerant with Wolfgang the werewolf, calling him a ''stray dog'' and getting likened to a ''stray kitten''.

* TheBerserker: Subverted. Her fighting style in the 2018 anime may look like mad feral rage, but she's always completely in control. She can use teamwork and traps perfectly well, and can stop whenever she wants to.

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* UnderestimatingBadassery: I don't think Rei Isurugi knows what happened to the last guy who earned Kitaro's hatred.

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* {{Psychopomp}}: In several occasions Kitaro's ability as the last heir of Ghost Tribe and holder of the Chanchanko to move freely between Earth and Hell extends to the ability to bring along souls or people. Kitaro can so be asked to bring lost souls to Hell, or willingly dump there his enemies.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: He might be two heads shorter than Neko-Musume, but there's not a shred of doubt that he's the most powerful yokai around

* EyeScream: In his ''Kitaro Night Tales'' and ''Manga/HakabaKitaro'' incarnation he wasn't born half blind: when Mizuki, startled by his looks, dropped him, he hurt his left eye on a graveyard, destroying the eyeball. Seeing him crying convinced the human Mizuki he still was a helpless child needing someone to care for him.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: He might be two heads shorter than Neko-Musume, but there's not a shred of doubt that he's the most powerful yokai around

* TranquilFury: In a subset of OOCIsSeriousBusiness, the usually mild mannered Kitarō does, and is able to get angry. When he does, even when he doesn't physically challenge his foes, he's so cold to hurt. Even his own allies, if they even seemingly step out of his moral boundary, usually gets the brunt of his fury and get horribly horrified, like [[spoiler: Nezumi Otoko refused and denounced as a friend for days when he proposed to fed humans to another yōkai, Agnès driven away from the [=GeGeGe=] Forest by his coldness and Mana viciously torn down in front of her dying mother because he suspected she committed murder on her own volition]].

* {{Nurikabe}}: The Nurikabe of Japanese myths is meant to block travelers, preventing them from following their path and causing them to lose their bearings.

* {{Youkai}}: The Nurikabe of Japanese myths is meant to block travelers, preventing them from following their path and causing them to lose their bearings.

* HairDecorations: Almost all her incarnations have a pink bow in her hair. The ribbon is always set to project a cat ears-like shape on her own shade.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: I don't think Itsugi Rei knows what happened to the last guy who earned Kitaro's hatred.

* UnderestimatingBadassery

I don't think Itsugi Rei knows what happened to the last guy who earned Kitaro's hatred.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry

In the 2018 anime. At least, he would not be very likeable to the villains. Just ask Backbeard—oh wait.

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UnderestimatingBadassery
I don't think Itsugi Rei knows what happened to the last guy who earned Kitaro's hatred.

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YouWouldn'tLikeMeWhenI'mAngry