“This is great stuff. Imagine early X-Files where they were doing monster of the week, but instead of sexy FBI agents you have a ghost/monster/mild god/phantom boy solving the problems, sometimes with clever shit, sometimes by using his varying super powers, like shooting his hair out like needles.
It’s unapologetically weird. Kitaro’s father is an eyeball with arms and legs who mostly lives in Kitaro’s left eye socket, which is just a fleshy pit that he fits in perfectly.
Take EC comics, but make them a little more funny and cartoon-y, and you’ve got something close to Kitaro. It’s just bizarre, goofy fun. This would probably be a good gateway manga for someone who doesn’t care for it but is into horror.
Weird thing about my grandma? She always went balls-out for Halloween. Which I don’t think was the case when my mom was a kid.
One year she was Grambo, a Rambo grandma, in full camo, helmet, all that shit. But still with her old lady glasses. Another year, we made a haunted house in our basement, and she was a fortune teller. She put on white makeup and heavy eyeliner, and this gigantic wig with long, black, stringy hair. She looked scary. I was kind of freaked out, to be honest, and it was MY grandma. We had a bunch of other kids over to experience the terror of a 10×10 basement with cardboard walls that led you through a maze of nonsense, and they were all a lot more scared of my grandma than anything else with the possible exception of Child’s Play 2, which we watched that night even though I was probably in first grade. I have to assume my mom had no fucking idea that it was a Rated R movie where a doll gets its somewhat-human hand ripped off, then jams a knife in its place so he has a knife hand. AND, from the IMDB parents guide:
9 uses of “fuck” (1 written).
A few of “goddamn”, “ass”, “hell” and “bitch”
1 use of “bastard”
1 use of “dick”
Several uses of “shit”
A man visits a liquor store to try to pick up vodka for a date. Assorted bottles are seen behind the counter.
a child takes a puff of a cigarette and coughs having done so.
A woman is a underage smoker.
And, perhaps my favorite:
A machine in a toy factory shoves doll eyeballs into his actual eyes in a pov shot. He is shown with the doll eyes replaced with blood around the eye socket.
My grandma was a trooper, and she was pretty nice to us when we were kids. I don’t know if I’d be the same. I’d like to think so. I mean, what else am I going to do all day? I’m retired, I live in a two-bedroom apartment with a bunch of other seniors. Maybe going balls-out on Halloween is something to look forward to?
But it wasn’t a love of Halloween, it was because she was a dope-ass grandma. “