But whatever the case, the comic is worth reading just to see all the crazy monsters that Mizuki included. Here are some of my favorites:
I like this hair monster, especially the way it seems to grow a pair of eyes as it's attacking Kitaro:

A collection of monsters welcoming some criminals to "hell":

I think I see a kappa in there, and I like the guy with the long neck. And also the regular human-looking fellow just hanging out in the back; he seems hilariously out of place among all the other freaky things.
I like the bipedal weirdness of this cat demon, as well as Kitaro's Plastic Man-style method of fighting it:

There's a story where Kitaro assembles a baseball team of monsters, who make a formidable bunch:

And the game's umpire is even crazier; he has tons of eyes, so he's a perfect choice to call the game:

Another memorably weird one is this eyeball/centipede guy:

In another case of "regular guys being freaked out by encountering spooky stuff", some guys end up boarding a train for dead spirits, who reveal themselves as creepy, sometimes inhuman skeletons:

Another interesting (if overlong) story sees Kitaro fighting a bunch of "Western yokai", which include a witch, a wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, and Dracula:


But their leader is this crazy guy named Backbeard:

Another long but enjoyable story sees Kitaro encountering this prehistoric ancestor of whales:

This one gives Mizuki a chance to create some giant monster action, which eventually leads to a fight between the creature and a huge robot:

Here's an amusingly goofy group of monsters who decide to rent out some office space:

I really like this giant head guy:

And this lady, who has prehensile snakes for hair and a gross mouth on the back of her head, kind of freaks me out:

I love the inventively bizarre illustrations that Mizuki came up with here, and even if the stories themselves aren't all that amazing, it's worth a read just to see what fantastically weird things will pop up next. If you like this sort of thing, I definitely recommend checking it out.
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