Sunakake Baba

Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. This time, Kitarou's friend Megumi is in need of his help. Her father, a botanist, went to Baruru Island to study the plant life there, and was subsequently kidnapped by evil spirits. It's up to Kitarou to save him. Source: AnimeNfo

The classic tale of Gegege no Kitaro told yet again. The story is the usual in the Gegege no Kitaro series. Kitaro is a boy living in the Gegege Forest/Cemetery (lands where many Yokai roam) with his mostly dead father (who survives only in his eye), Sunakake Babaa, NekoMusume, and Konaki Jiji. One difference between this Kitaro and all of the others that came before him, is…

When young Megumi Kawamura sends a letter asking Kitarou to investigate the whereabouts of her father, the young youkai immediately sets off to find him. As he arrives on Baruru Island, Kitarou discovers that for many years, any Japanese man who has set foot on the nearby mountain has been spirited away by the resident youkai, Akamata. As Kitarou heads into the jungle to…

A young monster from the graveyard wants to get along with humans and often ends up at odds with the other monsters who care nothing for the human meddlers.

As civilization advances, people are beginning to lose the consideration and kindliness for Nature. This has incurred the wrath of the ghosts who are becoming increasingly unhappy with the selfishness of the human kind. However, there is a conflict of interests within the ghosts in which one extreme opposes the humans completely while another extreme desires the co-existence…

A truly bizarre anime with a flavour of traditional Japanese folklore. The boy, Kitarou, encounters various forms of evil with his father, who happens to be an eyeball.