“Probably should have read this one before the other one because it’s the entire origin story. But you know what? Maybe it’s better to just get thrown in sometimes. Pick it up as you go. It’s not THAT complicated. Besides, Kitaro is a boy of legend, so it’s okay if his origin is a little mysterious.
The only downside to this is it had some games at the end, like a spot the difference and shit, and I stayed up way too late doing a word search. I don’t know why, somehow the text that said, “Complete this word search to be a junior yokai expert” challenged me. I was like, “I wanna be a junior yokai expert. This seems pretty easy. I’m not going to let a word search stand in my way, damn it!”
We did a lot of word searches in school when I was a kid. Lots of kids seemed to like them, but I hated that shit. I was never very good at working fast, and finding the words didn’t really seem like learning, but it wasn’t really fun, either. It was somewhere in between, which is like…well, if we’re going to learn, let’s just learn and get it over with, and if we’re going to have fun, let’s throw something off the gym roof and see what happens, but let’s not sit here and pretend like looking over a field of letters to find words is super duper fun. How about a maze, teach? THAT’S fun. Or how about you let me make my own word search with horrible, terrible words hidden in it that I can pretend happened by accident. “Well, ASS is just an A and two S’s, so it can just happen backwards and diagonally, right?””