Umi-Jijii (story)

Umi-Jiji is the eighth and last chapter of Namake no Yotarō.
==Characters==
*Yotarō
*Nezumi-Otoko
*Umi-Jijii
==Plot==
During a swim in a river with a friend, the boy Yotarō moves away so he can fart (creating bubbles in the water), but the fart hits a jellyfish and, a while later, Yotarō starts to have a strange sensation in his body, as if someone is on your back. He consults a doctor who cannot identify his problem, but on his way home, Yotarō runs into Nezumi-Otoko who says he has a yōkai on his back.
Neuzmi-Otoko convinces Yotarō that he is a yōkai researcher and offers him the solution of his problem for 5,000 yen. Later the two are reunited and Yotarō says that his father only agreed to give him 1,000 yen. Nezumi-Otoko asks Yotarō to try to remember if he did something that could upset a yōkai. Yotarō tells the story of the fart in the jellyfish, Nezumi-Otoko immediately identifies that he must be stunned by the Umi-Jijii and demands another 100,000 yen to remove it from his back. Despite the promise, Nezumi-Otoko knows that it is not possible to get rid of Umi-Jijii and accepts to deceive the boy with a false spell.
At another meeting, Yotarō delivers only 10,000 yen, claiming that that is all his father earns. Nezumi-Otoko is satisfied and, in an attempt to deceive Yotarō, he says that the boy only needs to quote the phrase "hapalapirika karakirika ponema karonyan", warning that he will probably fall ill for one. Yotarō cannot understand the pronunciation of the sentence and Nezumi repeats it in a different way, which leaves Yotarō unsure whether the spell was true or not.
On the fifteenth night of a full moon, Yotarō decides to do the spell as he was taught. He says: "happarapipi arara maragenier troro spaghetti, please transfer to the yōkai researcher". Yotarō notices that his shoulders are stiff again, an indication that Umi-Jijii has gone away.
Elsewhere, Nezumi-Otoko begins to feel his heavy shoulders and sees Umi-Jijii's reflection in the water. He despairs because he can't correctly remember the spell he created and laments himself as he crawls across the floor.
==Remakes==
===Anime===
;1968 Anime
:Episode 62 - Umi-Jijii (aired March 9, 1969)
==Trivia==
*This was the first story outside the GeGeGe no Kitarō manga adapted in anime.
==Navigation==
Category:Namake no Yotarō chapters