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Yōkai of Obebe Swamp is the 40th episode of the 1968 GeGeGe no Kitarō anime.
Cast[]
- All cast members are listed in order as they appear in the episode's credits.
- All main cast members were credited only for their first role listed.
- All guest cast members were not credited for any specific roles.
- Main
- Guest
- Keiko Yamamoto as Kawauso
- Kōsei Tomita as Fisherman, Man with Glasses
- Yonehiko Kitagawa as Dam Foreman, Bucktooth Man
- Seishichi Mukai as Fat Man
- Uncredited
- Ichirō Nagai as Next Episode Preview
Synopsis[]
Kitarō and Medama-Oyaji head to the Yōkai Onsen in the mountains to escape the pollution in the city. When the two get there, rocks start to explode, crumble, and tumble, and the ground shakes. Medama even gets splashed with the onsen's hot water! Eventually, Kitarō goes inside a nearby hut and asks Medama-Oyaji if another war has started. The hut starts to shake too, and a bulldozer appears from the walls! The foreman tells Kitarō that he already paid the eviction fee of his hut for the construction of a dam, but the boy has no recollection of this. The foreman recounts how there was a man near the Yōkai Onsen demanding for it not to be destroyed, but he immediately changed his mind after the driver gave him some money. Kitarō walks away to look for the man (obviously Nezumi-Otoko) and finds the envelope of the eviction fee, which is specifically 30,000 yen, after looking at a small spring. Kitarō notices Nezumi looking for the envelope, and pranks him by going inside a nearby shrine and pretends to be a God. After Nezumi-Otoko accidentally steps on a rock, the "god" tells him to do one good deed a day for three days so that he can get paid 10,000 yen a day as well.
Nezumi decides to go to Obebe swamp to start his good deeds, however a local tells him it's too dangerous to go, as a yōkai lives in it. Nezumi-Otoko excitedly says his first good deed will be defeating the yōkai. While looking for the yōkai, Nezumi sees a young boy fishing alone while sitting on a bridge. The boy tells Nezumi-Otoko that his mother his sick, his father is missing, and that he doesn't have enough money to support him and his younger brother. Nezumi also agrees to catching turtles in the river, boasting how he's the strongest yōkai, but ends up getting bit by one of them. The boy attempts to hit the turtle with a rock, but it hits Nezumi-Otoko's head instead. The young boy visits a village nearby, and is asked by Kitarō if he can buy croquettes from him. The boy manages to change Kitarō's order into fish from a river after saying he doesn't have enough money to buy his mother medicine. Since Kitarō doesn't have 500 yen to buy the fish (head and tail included), he gives 1000 yen from the eviction fee to the young boy, making him gleefully smile and not give any change. As Kitarō is just about to unwrap the fish to roast on the fireplace, he finds out it's not "including the head and tail"- it's "ONLY the head and tail"! Everything else is just bone! Kitarō soon runs with a group of angry villagers who were also ripped-off by the boy, but he manages to escape after diving into the river. Kitarō realizes the young boy might be a yōkai, terrifying the other villagers, and making the boy pop up again to tease them.
Nezumi-Otoko, now badly injured and using a stick to walk, returns to the shrine to ask the god if he could still get his money. The god reveals itself as Kitarō, and so Nezumi asks for his eviction fee back. Kitarō points out how Nezumi-Otoko didn't do anything good to warrant being paid after being told the story of the young boy tricking him. When angrily swearing vengeance on the boy, Nezumi accidentally stubs his toe with his walking stick! Nezumi-Otoko notices the young boy, now eating a cake, a clump of brown sugar, and a slice of pineapple, with a fork and plate, and immediately goes back to helping him after being fed one of the food and being given 1,000 yen. The boy reveals himself to be the yōkai of Obebe Swamp, but this only strengthens his relationship with Nezumi. After three days, Kitarō decides to go home, thinking that Nezumi-Otoko did at least one good deed during that time he left him alone, but the villagers call him back to defeat the swamp yōkai. One of the villagers says that on the first night Nezumi and the yōkai stole carp from a fish farm, stole soba noodles from a motorcycle by scaring its driver the next day, and blocking the water from the swamp with a rock to block its path to the rice fields earlier this day, only planning to remove it if the village pays them 1 million yen.
Nezumi-Otoko and the boy hide in the swamp once Kitarō is seen nearby. Kitarō calls out to Nezumi, but is hit by the young boy's water gun, and is dragged in the pond. Kitarō forcefully grabs the boy's hand, turning it dark, but he manages to break free and hops on land to through a large boulder at Kitarō. After Nezumi-Otoko, who was watching everything behind a tree, goes to check up on him, the young boy's hand starts to choke himself. Nezumi realizes Kitarō might've choked the boy's hand like Nurarihyon, and double crosses him by tieing his hands and feet while slapping him! As the villagers lift up the rock blocking the water, Kitarō digs out of the boulder in the water and is grabbed by Nezumi-Otoko, who shows him the young boy is toed up to a tree upside-down. After Nezumi is told to cook up carp on a fireplace, the smoke reveals the boy is actually a Kawauso! Kawauso tearfully says all he wanted to do was build a dam. Kitarō offers Kawauso the eviction fee, shocking Nezumi-Otoko, but the yōkai decides to actually work to get it. Kawauso then removes the rock blocking the water, and goes back to the mountains as everyone cheers and says goodbye.
Characters in order of appearance[]
- Kitarō
- Medama-Oyaji
- Dam Foreman (First appearance)
- Nezumi-Otoko
- Fisherman (First appearance)
- Kawauso (First appearance)
- Salaryman Yamada
- Fat Man (First appearance)
- Bucktooth Man (First appearance)
Differences from manga[]
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