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45 - THE TRUTH LIES IN THE THICKET OF THE MANNEN-DAKE

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    GeGeGe no Kitaro
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    Humans, get out...
[00:19] ---
    The Mannen-Dake really exists!
[00:21] ---
    Don't forgive the humans.
[00:30] ---
    The world you see isn't all there is.
[00:34] ---
    There are things you can't see.
[00:37] ---
    See? In the darkness behind you...
[00:56] ---
    Ge, ge, gegege no ge
[00:56] ---
    ge ge gegege no ge
[01:00] ---
    Slumbering in bed in the morning
[01:00] ---
    asa wa nedoko de gu gu gu
[01:05] ---
    It's so fun, it's so fun
[01:05] ---
    tanoshiina tanoshiina
[01:09] ---
    Ghosts don't have school
[01:09] ---
    obakenya gakkou mo
[01:12] ---
    Or tests or anything
[01:12] ---
    shiken mo nannimo nai
[01:17] ---
    Ge, ge, gegege no ge
[01:17] ---
    ge ge gegege no ge
[01:21] ---
    Let's all sing together, gegege no ge
[01:21] ---
    minna de utaou gegege no ge
[01:25] ---
    Ge, ge, gegege no ge
[01:25] ---
    ge ge gegege no ge
[01:29] ---
    Sports festivals in the graveyard at night
[01:29] ---
    yoru wa hakaba de undoukai
[01:33] ---
    It's so fun, it's so fun
[01:33] ---
    tanoshiina tanoshiina
[01:38] ---
    Ghosts don't die
[01:38] ---
    obake wa shinanai
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    Or get sick or anything
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    byouki mo nannimo nai
[01:46] ---
    Ge, ge, gegege no ge
[01:46] ---
    ge ge gegege no ge
[01:50] ---
    Let's all sing together, gegege no ge
[01:50] ---
    minnade utaou gegege no ge
[01:54] ---
    Let's all sing together, gegege no ge
[01:54] ---
    minnade utaou gegege no ge
[01:58] ---
    Let's all sing together, gegege no ge
[01:58] ---
    minnade utaou gegege no ge
[02:10] ---
    What was that?!
[02:12] ---
    I don't know! Let's just get out of...
[02:16] ---
    Hey...
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    Don't forgive the humans!
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    CHAPTER 45
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    THE TRUTH LIES IN
    THE THICKET OF THE MANNEN-DAKE
[02:48] ---
    We've come pretty deep into the mountains.
[02:52] ---
    "The yokai, Mannen-Dake is attacking us.
[02:55] ---
    Come to the bamboo thicket."
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    TO GEGEGE NO KITARO
[02:57] ---
    Dad, what's the Mannen-Dake like?
[03:01] ---
    It's a bamboo yokai
    that's over 10,000 years old.
[03:04] ---
    I hear it's a terrifying yokai
    that drains the life force
[03:07] ---
    of humans who get lost in the thicket.
[03:15] ---
    That's...
[03:20] ---
    Hey, Kitaro!
[03:22] ---
    I see you read the letter.
[03:24] ---
    Thanks!
[03:30] ---
    So, this is...
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    Kubota-san from the tourism board,
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    and the Kanais,
    who own this bamboo thicket.
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    What's going on?
[03:40] ---
    They want to make this bamboo thicket
    a tourist spot.
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    So, in the process,
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    they asked me to check
    if the Mannen-Dake really is here.
[03:52] ---
    Apparently, many people who enter
    this bamboo thicket have gone missing.
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    Just the other day,
    two of our surveyors...
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    Were they attacked by the Mannen-Dake?
[04:03] ---
    Oh please, Kubota-san.
    It doesn't even exist.
[04:06] ---
    It exists.
[04:08] ---
    The Mannen-Dake exists.
[04:12] ---
    Now, now, everyone.
    There's no point arguing here.
[04:16] ---
    That's right. Let's get this over with.
[04:20] ---
    Kitaro-chan, hurry up!
[04:23] ---
    Why do I have to work with him?
[04:29] ---
    It seems like something is
    definitely hiding here.
[04:33] ---
    Yes, Dad.
[04:37] ---
    Where are we going?
[04:39] ---
    The home of the previous owner
    of this bamboo thicket, Daikichi Kanai.
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    Currently, it belongs to his son.
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    Daikichi used to own this entire area.
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    But he disappeared ten years ago.
[05:00] ---
    Wh-What's that?
[05:03] ---
    Get out...
[05:05] ---
    Humans, get out...
[05:08] ---
    I-I just heard something.
[05:10] ---
    Th-That's just your imagination.
[05:14] ---
    See? Just like I told you.
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    The Mannen-Dake really exists!
[05:19] ---
    That's enough out of you!
[05:21] ---
    Kiyomi, it's not too late.
    Let's go back! Let's cancel development!
[05:27] ---
    Don't be stupid! Such a thing can't exist!
[05:31] ---
    We're going!
[05:32] ---
    Kiyomi, wait!
[05:34] ---
    Kitaro, what's up?
[05:36] ---
    Nothing. Let's keep going.
[05:41] ---
    Did you find something?
[05:49] ---
    We're going to die.
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    HUMANS, GET OUT
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    The Mannen-Dake's going to kill us all!
[05:53] ---
    I-It must be someone's prank!
[05:56] ---
    B-B-But, Ma'am...!
[06:26] ---
    This is...
[06:30] ---
    Woah, what is this?
[06:34] ---
    How could this happen?
[06:36] ---
    I see. Dad really was
    killed by the Mannen-Dake...
[06:40] ---
    Masahiko-san, what do you mean?
[06:43] ---
    This place... This room was
    my dad's study.
[06:47] ---
    Daikichi-san's room?
[06:50] ---
    Dad really loved this bamboo thicket.
[06:53] ---
    He lived here for a long time.
[06:57] ---
    But ten years ago,
    he suddenly disappeared.
[07:02] ---
    There had always been rumors that
    the Mannen-Dake lived in this thicket.
[07:07] ---
    I had misgivings about
    leaving him here alone.
[07:12] ---
    But he was so stubborn,
    he refused to leave this house.
[07:17] ---
    He should have left this place sooner.
[07:21] ---
    If only I'd been more insistent then.
[07:24] ---
    This wouldn't have happened.
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    Masahiko-san.
[07:29] ---
    He was a little strange,
    but he was a dad I admired.
[07:34] ---
    He'd donate the fortune he'd made over
    a generation to poor kids and the elderly.
[07:42] ---
    That's the kind dad he was.
[07:45] ---
    Dad...
[07:46] ---
    Oh, here you are.
[07:49] ---
    Wh-What is this room?!
[07:51] ---
    The Mannen-Dake is sending us a warning.
[07:55] ---
    "This will happen to you, too!"
[07:58] ---
    K-Kiyomi-san, let's just go!
[08:02] ---
    N-No! We just got here!
[08:05] ---
    There's no way the Mannen-Dake exists.
[08:17] ---
    Masahiko-san?
[08:21] ---
    Honey, what are you doing?
[08:24] ---
    Honey...?
[08:32] ---
    He's turned to bamboo!
[08:36] ---
    Hold on a minute.
[08:38] ---
    This wasn't done by the Mannen-Dake.
[08:42] ---
    Kitaro, what are you talking about?
[08:44] ---
    A man was turned into bamboo!
[08:47] ---
    I thought something was strange
    from the start.
[08:51] ---
    Despite such blatant warnings from
    the Mannen-Dake,
[08:55] ---
    from inside this house...
[08:59] ---
    I couldn't sense any yokai activity.
[09:02] ---
    Wait. That means...
[09:05] ---
    Yeah.
[09:06] ---
    This was done by a human
    pretending to be a yokai.
[09:13] ---
    There!
[09:20] ---
    Honey?
[09:23] ---
    Do you know what you've done?!
[09:26] ---
    You tried to trick us!
[09:30] ---
    Humans, get out...
[09:33] ---
    Now that you listen to it, it's his voice.
[09:36] ---
    What an elaborate setup.
[09:39] ---
    I had to...
[09:40] ---
    I had to get all of you to give up
    developing this bamboo thicket.
[09:45] ---
    Why go so far?
[09:48] ---
    I wanted to protect
    Dad's bamboo thicket no matter what.
[09:51] ---
    Are you still going on about that?!
[09:54] ---
    Your dad is missing!
[09:56] ---
    But he might come back!
[10:00] ---
    I sold all the other land like you said!
[10:02] ---
    But this place...
    I can't do that to this place!
[10:06] ---
    This is the bamboo thicket that Dad loved!
[10:11] ---
    This is ridiculous.
[10:13] ---
    Kubota-san, when we get back,
    let's discuss the contract.
[10:19] ---
    Now we know there's no Mannen-Dake here.
[10:22] ---
    W-Wait, Kiyomi.
    The Mannen-Dake really does exist!
[10:26] ---
    What? You're still trying to trick us
    after all that?
[10:30] ---
    Kiyomi-san.
[10:32] ---
    When we entered this bamboo thicket,
    I'm sure I sensed yokai activity.
[10:37] ---
    There is definitely a yokai here.
[10:41] ---
    What?! Now don't you start.
[10:48] ---
    This is...!
[10:54] ---
    Don't forgive the humans.
[10:58] ---
    Don't forgive the humans!
[11:04] ---
    YOKAI MANNEN-DAKE
[11:07] ---
    FIGHTING WITH YOKAI MANNEN-DAKE!
[11:09] ---
    "I sense yokai activity."
[11:10] ---
    "I didn't see that..."
[11:14] ---
    What are these things?
[11:16] ---
    Don't forgive the humans!
[11:19] ---
    Oh, what?
[11:21] ---
    You had a big gimmick like this
    saved for last?
[11:25] ---
    Keep away from those things!
[11:28] ---
    What?!
[11:29] ---
    Kiyomi!
[11:35] ---
    Kiyomi!
[11:37] ---
    Wait! This isn't what you promised!
[11:41] ---
    Help!
[11:47] ---
    Kubota-san!
[11:50] ---
    Hey, they're increasing in number!
[11:53] ---
    Dad, these are...
[11:55] ---
    They must be the people
    who got lost in this bamboo thicket.
[11:59] ---
    Hey, what do we do? At this rate
    we'll be turned to bamboo, too!
[12:04] ---
    Sorry, I'm busy here.
[12:06] ---
    If you've got business, maybe later...
[12:19] ---
    Kitaro, we'll have to find
    where the Mannen-Dake itself is.
[12:24] ---
    Head to the back garden!
[12:26] ---
    Up the small path from the back garden
    is where the Mannen-Dake lives.
[12:30] ---
    Masahiko-san?
[12:34] ---
    Talk later! Let's go, Kitaro!
[12:36] ---
    Right!
[12:48] ---
    Masahiko-san, why do you know about
    the Mannen-Dake?
[12:53] ---
    After my dad disappeared,
    I came here a few times.
[12:59] ---
    Knowing my dad,
    I thought he'd wander back eventually.
[13:04] ---
    Then I was attacked
    by those bamboo people.
[13:11] ---
    Don't forgive the humans!
[13:13] ---
    H-H-Help me!
[13:15] ---
    I-I just came here looking for my dad!
[13:19] ---
    Your dad?
[13:21] ---
    That's right.
[13:22] ---
    He lived in the house
    in this bamboo thicket.
[13:25] ---
    Are you Daikichi's son?
[13:30] ---
    You know my dad?
[13:32] ---
    I see. You're Daikichi's son.
[13:35] ---
    Thank you for coming.
[13:38] ---
    That's when I found out.
[13:41] ---
    My dad loved this bamboo thicket,
[13:45] ---
    and the master of the thicket,
    the Mannen-Dake, considered him a friend.
[13:51] ---
    You're saying Daikichi-san was friends
    with the Mannen-Dake?!
[13:55] ---
    I've been meeting
    the Mannen-Dake regularly since then.
[14:00] ---
    I'm sorry for not telling you.
[14:02] ---
    Does the Mannen-Dake know
    all that you've been doing here?
[14:07] ---
    It was my idea.
[14:10] ---
    I said I'd get them to
    call off development.
[14:14] ---
    In return
    it wouldn't harm Kiyomi and the others.
[14:18] ---
    But, because I failed,
[14:21] ---
    the bamboo people came out.
[14:24] ---
    And Kiyomi was turned into one...
[14:27] ---
    I'm sorry, Kiyomi...
[14:29] ---
    Kiyomi...
[14:38] ---
    So this is the Mannen-Dake.
[14:41] ---
    MANNEN-DAKE
[14:43] ---
    Masahiko.
[14:45] ---
    Who are you?
[14:47] ---
    I'm GeGeGe no Kitaro.
[14:49] ---
    Mannen-Dake, stop this!
[14:51] ---
    I refuse!
[14:53] ---
    Kitaro-san!
[14:55] ---
    Hair Needles!
[15:00] ---
    That hardly tickles!
[15:02] ---
    I'll impale you!
[15:06] ---
    Remote Controlled Geta!
[15:09] ---
    It's no good! There's no effect!
[15:16] ---
    Kitaro!
[15:18] ---
    Kitaro-san!
[15:32] ---
    You'll become bamboo, too!
[15:34] ---
    Mannen-Dake, that's enough!
[15:37] ---
    I'll make you part of my body. Be honored!
[15:41] ---
    Kitaro!
[15:55] ---
    The Mannen-Dake's in pain?
[15:58] ---
    That's it! He's absorbing yokai power from
    the Mannen-Dake where they're connected!
[16:36] ---
    Mannen-Dake, you were able to
    befriend Daikichi-san.
[16:40] ---
    Why do you hate humans so much?
[16:43] ---
    You can't understand my...
[16:46] ---
    My... My and Masahiko's ...
[16:49] ---
    The pain in our hearts.
[16:53] ---
    The pain in your hearts?
[16:55] ---
    Daikichi did not go missing.
[16:59] ---
    Daikichi was murdered by a human.
[17:03] ---
    Murdered?!
[17:05] ---
    Daikichi was my only friend.
[17:09] ---
    Hello, Bamboo-san. How are you?
[17:13] ---
    Daikichi loved this bamboo thicket
    and understood me.
[17:19] ---
    Don't you get lonely
    living in that house alone?
[17:24] ---
    I don't need any sympathy.
[17:27] ---
    I've got you, Bamboo-san.
[17:31] ---
    Daikichi was someone irreplaceable to me.
[17:36] ---
    But, one day...
[17:38] ---
    I'm heading out for a bit.
[17:41] ---
    Daikichi never returned.
[17:44] ---
    Instead...
[17:45] ---
    That night, a strange man appeared.
[17:49] ---
    The man with the large mark on his
    left arm buried something in the thicket.
[17:56] ---
    Later on I learned that
[17:59] ---
    it was Daikichi's corpse.
[18:03] ---
    I hated humans from
    the bottom of my heart.
[18:07] ---
    So that's why
    you started attacking humans.
[18:10] ---
    Masahiko-san, why did you keep
    Daikichi-san's murder a secret?
[18:16] ---
    I heard it from a yokai.
[18:18] ---
    Even if I told the police,
    they'd never believe me.
[18:22] ---
    Besides...
[18:24] ---
    if word of my dad's murder got out,
    lots of people would come to investigate.
[18:29] ---
    This bamboo thicket might get damaged.
[18:33] ---
    That can't happen!
[18:34] ---
    Masahiko-san...
[18:36] ---
    I just want my dad to rest in peace
    in this bamboo thicket.
[18:41] ---
    In this bamboo thicket that my dad loved.
[18:44] ---
    Mannen-Dake, please don't hate humans.
[18:48] ---
    Masahiko...
[18:49] ---
    I'll protect this bamboo thicket
    in my dad's place!
[19:08] ---
    Kiyomi!
[19:09] ---
    Honey!
[19:10] ---
    I was so scared!
[19:11] ---
    Are you all right?
[19:13] ---
    I'm sorry. I didn't believe you.
[19:17] ---
    Let's not develop this place after all.
[19:21] ---
    He wishes to quietly protect
    Daikichi-san's body.
[19:24] ---
    I'm sure the Mannen-Dake understands
    Masahiko-san's wishes.
[19:30] ---
    Yes. I'm sure the Mannen-Dake won't
    attack humans unprovoked anymore.
[19:37] ---
    I guess we never found out who
    Daikichi-san's killer was.
[19:44] ---
    Kitaro, what's wrong?
[19:53] ---
    Honey, hurry!
[19:58] ---
    Masahiko-san.
[19:59] ---
    Yes?
[20:00] ---
    May I see your left arm?
[20:03] ---
    What's this all of a sudden?
[20:05] ---
    You never wanted to protect
    Daikichi-san's bamboo thicket.
[20:10] ---
    Letting word of Daikichi-san's murder
    get out was inconvenient for you.
[20:16] ---
    Masahiko-san, it's not too late.
    Go to the police and pay for your crime.
[20:22] ---
    Humans must face judgement
    under human laws.
[20:28] ---
    What's so funny?
[20:29] ---
    Of course I never cared anything about
    this old bamboo thicket.
[20:35] ---
    What?
[20:36] ---
    My dad...
    Sure the old man was a great man and all.
[20:41] ---
    He protected the bamboo thicket
    and the children.
[20:44] ---
    He spread his love around to
    all the poor people.
[20:48] ---
    On top of that, he was a fool who said
    he'd donate his fortune after he died.
[20:53] ---
    That's crazy!
[20:55] ---
    I'm his son!
[20:56] ---
    It should all be mine!
[21:01] ---
    It was a shock when
    the Mannen-Dake attacked me.
[21:04] ---
    But it turned out to be the perfect cover.
[21:07] ---
    With the Mannen-Dake here,
    no one will enter.
[21:11] ---
    The obtrusive old man dies
    and his fortune is all mine.
[21:15] ---
    And...
[21:16] ---
    the truth is literally
    buried in the thicket!
[21:19] ---
    That's it. I've heard enough.
[22:00] ---
    I wanna dance
    Like a fool haha

[22:00] ---
    I wanna dance baka mitee haha
[22:03] ---
    Wait until the age synchs up
[22:03] ---
    jidai to doukisuru made matte
[22:06] ---
    Reveal everything
    Fake is lame

[22:06] ---
    abake zenbu itsuwari dassa
[22:09] ---
    If you're gonna show your teeth
    Bite until they're dead

[22:09] ---
    kiba mukennara shinu made kameyo
[22:14] ---
    If you're gonna give up
    Whenever nerves get struck

[22:14] ---
    kado ga tatsu tabi poi wo shitecha
[22:17] ---
    Nothing comes, nothing comes
    Nothing comes

[22:17] ---
    wakenai wakenai wakenaiyo
[22:20] ---
    Don't speak, just do
    Rock 'n' roll star

[22:20] ---
    kataru yori yare rock 'n' roll star
[22:23] ---
    Listen now, listen now
    What about this?

[22:23] ---
    listen now listen now korenara dou
[22:27] ---
    Show your enemies some compassion
[22:27] ---
    teki ni shio okureyo
[22:31] ---
    From death, from death
    From death again

[22:31] ---
    death kara death kara death kara again
[22:34] ---
    Ring out the call in the graveyard
[22:34] ---
    hakaba de narase call
[22:37] ---
    From death, from death
    Crawl up

[22:37] ---
    death kara death kara haiagare
[22:40] ---
    There's no time to be depressed
[22:40] ---
    shonbori shiteru himananka neeyo
[22:42] ---
    From diss, from diss
    Now come on

[22:42] ---
    diss kara diss kara saa kiyagare
[22:45] ---
    A game of escaping from danger to danger
[22:45] ---
    ichinukeshite mata ichinan no game
[22:48] ---
    Starve and search
    Not here

[22:48] ---
    uete sagase kokojanai
[22:50] ---
    The end of the end
    Restart

[22:50] ---
    owari no owari restart
[23:01] ---
    Hina dolls increase one by one.
    Students are disappearing.

[23:05] ---
    Dad, this is...?!
[23:07] ---
    Next time on GeGeGe no Kitaro
[23:10] ---
    "The Cursed Doll Festival
    Mayuge"

[23:12] ---
    The door to the unseen world opens...
[23:15] ---
    
[23:17] ---