Fridge Brilliance
- In the 2018 rendition of the Ghost Train, while the original story has Kitaro pranking a couple of disbelievers that hit him on the head because they couldn't believe in yokai and only Nezumi Otoko as a supporting character, the remake still starts with Kitaro being beaten by a bragging disbeliever, but then Nezumi Otoko gets out of the picture and Neko Musume takes his place. In the original manga Neko Musume wasn't still in the main cast, but as this time the disbeliever was the dead soul of a Bad Boss cursed to death by his dead employees and refusing to reach Hell makes sense for Kitaro get Neko Musume's assistance. Afterall, the Bakeneko, the yokai class that Neko Musume belongs to, are born from grudges and curses with the singleminded goal to see them enacted: Kitaro just called upon the resident expert of the Kitaro Family.
- Again, Neko Musume is shown as the least affected by and the most effective against Kubireoni, a yokai born from the grudge of a suicidal human being after his death dragging the living in his despair: a Kubireoni is the selfish grudge of a single human, the average Bakeneko is the very concept of avenging a grudge given flesh.
- How come Amefuri-Kozo wasn't burned by Takuro-Bi despite having flesh like most humanoid yokai? Simple, because his powers involve water, specifically rain summoning, thus his skin would be moist enough to not burn.
- Neko-Musume in the 2018 is a tall young woman wearing high heels, and moving mostly on tiptoes in her scant barefoot appearances. Neko-Musume is partly a cat, a digitigrade: her heels enable her to move as a cat would, while looking completely human on the outside.
Fridge Horror
- In the 2018 anime Kitaro meets Sunekosuri, a cat-like yokai thriving on human lifeforce in a small village in the mountain. While when the village was thriving and full of life he was able to live a full and healthy life without harm, unaware even of his powers, when everyone but a few old people were left he started sapping too much life force, causing the death of elder denizens. Kitaro manages to convince him to go away for their sake, and Sunekokusuri, wounded and hungry because he expended the last of his powers to protect an old woman who did care for him, complies going in the wilderness. Where there's no human lifeforce to replenish his stamina...
- Luckily Averted. Sunekosuri is shown to be still alive two episodes later.
Fridge Logic
