Ep. 1: Kitaro negotiates a supernatural baseball match to recover a magical bat from human children.

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A boy named Donpei discovers a baseball bat in a graveyard that grants him perfect aim, leading to school fame. The bat actually belongs to a Youkai baseball team, who enlist Kitaro to retrieve it. When human children refuse to return the item, Kitaro proposes a high-stakes baseball game at 3am to resolve the dispute. The terms dictate that if the humans win, the Youkai abandon their claim, but if the Youkai win, the human children must surrender their lives. Donpei’s team agrees to the challenge. However, the match is abruptly canceled before completion because the Youkai wish to avoid exposure to sunlight. The conflict concludes with the Youkai reclaiming their bat while the human children retain their lives.