Series 2 Episode 6

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Shibito-Tsuki
Series 2 Episode 6
Japanese Title	死人つき
Rōmaji Title	Shibito-Tsuki
Information
Air date	November 11, 1971
Manga Story	Shibito-Tsuki
Written by	Toyohiro Andō
Directed by	Kazukiyo Shigeno
Animation Director	Makoto Kuniyasu
Featured Yōkai	Mōryō Chimimōryō Dosei
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Shibito-Tsuki is the sixth episode of the 1971 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

• Masako Nozawa as Kitarō
• Isamu Tanonaka as Medama-Oyaji
• Chikao Ōtsuka as Nezumi-Otoko
• Yōko Ogushi as Neko-Musume

Guest

• Kōsei Tomita as Priest
• Noriko Watanabe as Daughter
• Kōji Yada
• Ichirō Nagai as Father

Synopsis

Nezumi-Otoko walks in the woods one night. Then, a mysterious young lady comes to him, asking him to marry her. The next day, he gets kicked out of the house where she lived, which happened to be the village mayor's house. Kitarō, Medama-Oyaji and Neko-Musume come by and ask what is happening. Nezumi-Otoko told them everything. The three thought it was weird that a young lady would want to marry Nezumi-Otoko, especially when they only just met. Nezumi showed them the wedding ring as proof. To his sheer disappointment, the three had found out from the mayor that his daughter, Kiriko, had died from an illness. Kitarō then gets on the case. For some reason, Kiriko's body was kept in a detached building on the property. The mayor, with the surname Kusaba, reveals Kiriko's face as she lays dead, as Nezumi-Otoko feels sad. Kitarō thinks she might be possesed by the yōkai Mōryō. Another monk, who had come there to pray to Kiriko, laughs, and says that's just superstition, and even calls Kusaba stupid. When Nezumi-Otoko and Neko-Musume ask what Mōryō are, Medama-Oyaji says that Chimi-Mōryō are a type of yōkai that posses dead bodies.

As night falls, Kitarō and Neko-Musume, who is getting sleepy, spy on the monk, who prays to Kiriko. A lit candle suddenly gets blown out, the cloth covering Kiriko's face falls off, and the young lady rises from the dead as a Mōryō, scaring the monk! Hearing the monk's scream, Kitarō and Neko-Musume rush to the building. The Mōryō is able to dodge Kitarō's Hair Needles while laughing sinisterly. As soon as a rooster crowed, the Mōryō returned to her futon and fell asleep, turning back into Kiriko. Nezumi-Otoko rushes in to mourn her. Kusaba tells Kitarō that Kiriko became possessed by a Mōryō after her death, and the boy promises to defeat the evil spirit. At a strategy, Medama-Oyaji suggests that there may not be just one, but many Mōryō. Medama paints a hexagonal Mahōjin with text related to Shingon Esoteric Buddhism on the floor, and when nightfall comes, Kitarō and Neko-Musume watch from outside as Nezumi-Otoko sits in the middle of it. Kiriko wakes up, with Nezumi happy as ever. As she tries to walk towards him, she gets hurt by the Mahōjin. While Neko-Musume wants to help Nezumi-Otoko already, Kitarō tells her to wait for other Mōryō to come. Kiriko tells Nezumi-Otoko to move outside, and when he does, she turns into a Mōryō and strangles him! Since Nezumi-Otoko couldn't keep a close eye on her, Kitarō rushes in too! He uses his Hair Needles on the Mōryō again, but she once again clings to the wall and dodges them. She calls out from outside, and Kitarō tells Nezumi to go inside the Mahōjin again. The other Chimi-Mōryō burst in, but they quickly leave, as Neko-Musume appears after using Tsurube-Bi to look like a rising sun outside the building. As a result, the Mōryō goes back to being Kiriko. Neko-Musume tells Nezumi-Otoko to stop cowering, but Kitarō scolds him for messing up.

On the third day Kitarō and the others stay for, he decides with Kusaba to move Kiriko's body to a coffin in a hall at Myo-Ji Temple (妙妙寺), as well as the Mahōjin. That night, the monk who comes to pray to Kiriko still doesn't believe in yōkai like Mōryō. As he chant sutras for the Ekō (Transfer of Merit) for the body, the coffin begins to creak and move. Kitarō then tells Neko-Musume and Nezumi-Otoko to hide, as the Mōryō will appear. When they do, the monk starts to chant harder. Some of the Chimi-Mōryō try to open Kiriko's coffin, as two others try to look for any people inside the Manhōjin, but see nothing. They call in their leader, Dosei, and hold his eyelid, as he eventually spots Kitarō and the monk. Kitarō fires his Hair Needles at the Mōryō's eyes as he writhes in pain, causing his followers to comfort him. Kitarō uses this time to signal Neko-Musume and Nezumi-Otoko to walk in the Mahōjin. He uses his chanchanko to seal the doors outside, as morning comes. Kitarō then runs out of the Mahōjin to fight the Chimi-Mōryō. Kitarō eventually distracts them into fighting nothing, as the Mōryō in its true form emerges from the coffin, whom he fights with his Hair Needles. When cornered, Kitarō opens the temple gates, making the sunlight turn all of the Chimi-Mōryō into lifeless mummies. The monk still sits there, now believing in Mōryō. Hin and Kusabe pray to Kiriko's tombstone, as she is no longer a Mōryō, and Kitarō goes back home.

Differences from the manga

• The story is no longer told in past tense.
• The place Kiriko's body is kept isn't specified, while in the manga it was her family's teahouse.
• The monk who doesn't believe in Mōryō is older than Ekai.
• The Mōryō no longer speaks Korean, and just sinisterly laughs. Iit is also later kept in a more common wooden coffin, rather than a sealed bucket. The temple it's placed in is the fictional Myo-Ji, instead of the real Myogo-Ji. It is also shown emerging in its true form.
• The gates of the temple are manually opened to defeat the Mōryō, while in the manga they were simply to busy in attacking Ekai that they didn't notice the sun shining.
• The Mōryō's bodies are not shown to be displayed, and instead Kiriko's body is properly entombed.
• Since this episode was based on a non-Kitarō story, all the scenes in the episode were either added or rewritten to have the characters.