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Tokuma Shoten, the publisher of Denno Coil and Taisho Yakyuu Musume among other things, will reissue the 1968 Kitaro’s Vietnam War in December. That’s Kitaro as in Gegege no Kitaro.

【鬼太郎のベトナム戦記】 1968年発表の幻の作品集の復刻企画。~水木しげるが描くベトナム戦争の真実~。子泣き爺が潜水艦に攻撃を仕掛け、ねずみ男がゲバラに変装？　決死の戦いを繰り広げる妖怪達……。 戦いの合間に田植えをする農民達。……サイゴンへの道は遠い。この伝説の作品を巻頭に、以下作品を収録。初出は以下。 『鬼太郎のベトナム戦記』：『宝石』1968年7~12月　 『ゲゲゲの鬼太郎　蓮華王国』：『小説マガジン』1977年7月　　 『ゲゲゲの鬼太郎　妖怪ロッキード』：『プレイコミック』1976年11月

Kitaro’s Vietnam War: We plan to reissue this elusive work first published in 1968. The truth of the Vietnam War as illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki. Konaki-jijii devising submarine attacks, Nezumi Otoko as Che Guevara? The youkai unveil an all-out battle to the death… and in the mist of the slaughter, the farmers planting their rice… the road to Saigon is long. The included works follow with their first apperances: “Kitaro’s Vietnam War”: “Houseki” July-December 1968. “Gegege no Kitaro in the Lotus Kingdom”: “Shousetsu Magazine” July 1977. “Gegege no Kitaro and the Lockheed Youkai”: “Play Comics” November 1976.

Amazon.co.jp. Descriptions of some of the stories here. The volume was last reprinted in 2000 by Bunshun; copies of that reprinting fetch 30,000 yen.

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