- While in a Japanese field hospital on Rabaul, he was befriended by the local Tolai tribespeople, who offered him land, a home, and citizenship via marriage to one of their women. Mizuki considered remaining behind, but was shamed by a military doctor into returning home to Japan first to face his parents, which he did reluctantly. He returned to Rabaul in 2003 and rekindled his friendship with the natives, who had named a road after him in his honor.
- His wife Nunoe Mura liked him so much she wrote a novel about their life together, Gegege no Nyobo ("Gegege's Wife"), which was adapted into a film and a drama series.
- In the '70s, Mizuki created a "yokai encyclopedia" which is still considered one of the primary resources on the subject.
- In 1942, Mizuki was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to serve in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. His wartime experiences affected him greatly, as he contracted malaria, watched friends die from battle wounds and disease, and dealt with other horrors of war (not least was constant abuse from superior officers). Finally, in an Allied air raid, he was caught in an explosion and lost his left arm, and had to undergo surgery in the jungle without anesthesia. Incidents like this affected him and made him a lifelong anti-war pacifist.
- Sakaiminato, Mizuki's hometown, has a street dedicated to the ghosts and monsters that appear in his stories. 153 bronze statues of the story's characters line both sides of the road. There is also a museum featuring several of his creations and works.
- He got his taste for yokai from his childhood, where an old lady called Nonnonba taught the young Mizuki the local superstitions of monsters and spirits.
- Mizuki's near-death experiences in World War 2, especially his barely surviving losing his arm, left him with a deep belief that someone was watching over him.
- Mizuki pioneered the genre of supernatural manga (ie ghost stories).
- When Mizuki grew up, he went to art school and tried to become a professional painter, but in 1942, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army.
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