Jirō

Jirō (次郎 Jirō) is a friend of Yūko Murakami in the 1996 anime.GeGeGe no Kitarō (1996): Episode 12
==Appearance==
Jirō is boy of average height with medium-length brown hair and black eyes. He wears a teal hoodie with white drawstrings over a white collared shirt, purple pants, and black rubber shoes with red highlights.
==Personality==
Jirō cares about his cat Mike, to the point that Mike initially refused to leave him. Despite wanting to keep Mike, he relunctantly follows his mother's refusal to keep the cat, and lacks the confidence to try change his mother's mind about it. After being sentenced to pethood and snapping out of Neko-Sennin's control, he gains an understanding of what cats feel and wishes to take good care of Mike.
==History==
===1996 Anime===
Jirō, accompanied by , takes his cat Mike to a ghost town. He plans to leave Mike here since his mother refuses to let him keep him. Yūko tries to talk him out of it, but he cannot as his mother would never say yes. He says goodbye to Mike, and puts him down, but the cat rubs his leg, not wanting to leave him. Jirō kicks him away, telling him to go. Just as they watch Mike run into the darkness, they see eyes staring at them. They back away as angry cats start to surround them. They try to run away but the cats pounce and Jirō is caught by them.
Sometime later, Jirō is taken to court where Yūko calls out to him before she is taken to the public gallery. Jirō is asked by Daikoku-Neko how he pleads, to which he sadly states guilty and tries to give an excuse but Daikoku-Neko declines. Mike is called the to stand by Daikoku-Neko, which Jirō is surprised to see standing and watches as his cat nods that he was abandoned denies any other mistreatment. Jirō listens as Daikoku-Neko is about to give the verdict, before he stretches his arm to catch and eat a rat. Jirō is then sentenced to pethood, where he will live as a cat's pet. He calls for Mike to help him, admitting he made a mistake, before getting pulled away by a cat guard.
Later in the human pet store, now that the humans and cats are free from Neko-Sennin's control, Jirō and the other humans free themselves from their cages and exit the building. He and the other humans arrive at the court, he holds Mike as he apologizes and admits that it is their fault, now understanding how cats feel after being pets. Jirō tells Neko-Sennin that he is going to take good care of Mike. After Neko-Sennin is freed, promising to not control cats again and takes the stray cats to live in the mountains with him, everyone is surprised of what the court room actually looks like. Smiling with Yūko as he carries Mike in his arms.
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