Kiitaro's yokai picture diary

*Spoiler Free *Enjoyment Rating: 7 Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki, or Kiitaro's Yokai Picture Diary, is a short and straightforward anime. If you're into watching short time duration anime and increasing your anime list entries, then here is an anime for you. As one can expect from the title alone, the anime is about meeting and interacting with yokai (supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons from Japanese folklore). Don't be fooled by the first episode or first half of the series, this anime is laid back and somewhat dull but there is some good story by the end. *Story Rating: 7 As anyone can expect from a four minute episodeduration anime series, there isn't much that this series is able to expand on since the main goal of the anime is to bring up a new yokai each episode. Personally, I found the first half of the anime to be very dry and dull even though the anime attempts to introduce new and different stories each episode. Still, by the end of this anime I found it to be satisfying to watch. The second half of the anime contained more plot and development as it concluded on an end that most people would expect from a human-yokai relationship anime. *Art and Sound Ratings: 6.5 There was not much to this anime that I personally found unique. Sound did not stand out very much for me. In terms of art, I found the female characters (when in their human forms) to be the eye catchers of this anime. My favorite character art design was for Yukimusume. *Character Rating: 6 For a very short anime, it's to be expected to see countless static characters that get little development. Still, I think this anime chose the more unique types of characters from the cliche character tropes found in most anime. Although screen time distribution was short, I feel like this anime focused a good amount on characters that the creators knew would be most popular with audiences. *Overall Rating: 7 I personally give this anime an overall rating of 7. The shift during the second half of this anime was the main factor that influenced my decision to give this anime not a 6 but a 7. It's a good anime to binge watch if you want something short and to put as an entry on your anime list. Enjoy the comedic moments shared by the more prominent yokai and the protagonist near the end.

I feel that I should write a review that can do this short anime some justice. People is not giving it much appreciation! Story: 5/10 I can give a 5 at most since there is not much a of story behind this short anime. Its about a boy called Kitarou with supernatural senses, who gets kicked out of his household and suddenly wanders off and becomes the master of a youkai home. The show features his daily encounters with different youkais and his interactions with them.I strongly believe that the story could have been more strongly improved with some good twist here and there but sadly itsjust meant to be a feel good comedy show which becomes the main weakness for this show. Art: 7/10 What I can give credit to this show is that the animation was pretty well done for just a short 4 mins anime. This was the main drive for me to actually finish this anime. I really loved the art style and in a way, I could see that there was earnest effort by the animators and producers in trying to give some ambiance and life to the anime. Sound:6/10 The anime only has ending themes but it varies throughout the 12 episodes run. About 4 or 5 were used i think? I liked the variation to the songs, there were quite catchy in a way but still it sounded a bit too electronic so It was just decent for me. The background music for anime was okay, nothing special as well. Character: 6/10 All the characters in the show are somehow the usual cast of a slice of life show. You have the tsundere chracters, moe ones, abusive ones , pervy ones. Lets just say they are pretty generic but for me they were fine since It was just 4 minutes and seeing some funny and wacky interactions between main character kitarou and his youkai companions such as a cute zashiki warashi, a kitsune( fox), a yuki onna. For me it was pretty peaceful to watch their fun interactions even for a just a few minutes. Summing Up: Overall, this anime gets a 6/10 for me. I feel that if the anime had a longer run time, some very interesting story could have been churned out for it but sadly that was not the case. But nevertheless, I found it to be a rather fine watch, nothing special, nothing to hate about it as well.The best thing about it is the great art style which makes the show quite watchable. So if u have time to spare, this anime can certainly fill up some of it. 48 mins at most spent on this anime, u can minus 10 to 12 minutes if u want to skip the ending song, well thats just a good 36 minutes to finish this short anime. Thats it for my appreciation of this anime! Ta Ta!

The show is twelve episodes composed of a five minute sketch each. Outside of the first episode that is... random silliness. Each episode Kiitarou runs into a yokai or two, we get a snippet of info about that specific yokai with some slapstick thrown in. Episode ends. In a void this show is ok... But if you know what it is this will downgrade it to abysmal. What it really is can be seen in the name and character design. This is a knockoff of a Japanese classic manga and anime (Gegege No Kitaro) down to the MC having the same clothes, hair cut, yokai radarstrand of hair. Up until the last anime adaptation of the show in 2018 - 2020 (this was the 6th adaptation, the show has been going on since the 60s!) Kitaro was known to be creepy and kindda ugly or malformed so the show makes a point of saying "oh no, I'm the handsome Kitarou." If it had something to say that would have still been ok but it's really creatively bankrupted to were it just distills things from the old show into five minute vignettes without context or reason to cash in on characters recognition.