is the kind of showdown you'd expect to see in a film's climactic final moments. Here, it serves as a pulse-pounding indication of things to come. It introduces us to The Sea Beast's world of sea ...

Kitaro is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族 yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair ...