Mononoke is a slightly more bizarre version of Mushishi based on traditional Japanese stories and with Gankutsuou-like visuals. We follow a mysterious character known only as the Medicine Seller around as he travels around feudal Japan uncovering tortured ghosts and putting them to rest. Each story plays out very much as a detective mystery, with [...]
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Yeah it’s a small ship in a big ocean. I am surprised that no one has gaged yet. So much for making a killing off of seasickness pills. Remember the survivors from the Bake Neko arc? Guess what…one of them is back. It seems that this time our favorite medicine seller is now fighting on the [...]
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Taking screenshots was quite hard for this episode, considering the raw file I obtained. It seems that Japan was hit by quite a big tsunami, which covered the entire east-coast of the country, and most of the second half of the episode had some warnings and information pasted on top of it. Let’s hope the [...]
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A ship finds itself trapped in a sea of Ayakashi. Which passenger is the culprit that has sent them off-course?
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This episode turned out to live up to the series being a horror anime. It was definately creepy - spirits of aborted babies, the history of the inn, not to mention the impied sex vision (o_O). This is where it starts to get some excitement, rather than “interesting enough to stick around”. Definitely the most “recommended” [...]
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Whoa, this quite possibly was the best episode of this series yet, but it’s also by far the hardest to understand. I haven’t been so confused in an episode since the episode in Seirei no Moribito where Barsa gets her spear fixed. If this series pulls such a stunt again, I may consider switching to [...]
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One screenshot should be enough for this scorching day Another series that really stands out to me in the small batch of new anime is Mononoke. I have to say it’s one of the only ones that has captured my interests right at the first episode, the others sort of took time for me to take [...]
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Synopsis: The truth regarding the inn is revealed. As the Medicine Seller stated in the previous episode, the intertwined lives of men give mononoke its form. The woman with her child, the mistress who gives the woman shelter for the night, and the man who seeks the woman are the cast. Though children's voices are heard, there is only one child and that is the one in the woman's womb. The Medicine Seller confirms that the mononoke is indeed a Zashikiwarashi. Now that Form is revealed, only Truth and Regret are missing.
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A most well decorated chamber of death if I say so myself. It seems that my wait for the conclusion was much shorter than anticipated. Suffice to say it was a rather surprising conclusion. I suspected that abortions were the source of the haunting, but I doubt many of us had this in mind…
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Synopsis: A pregnant woman fleeing from her pursuer comes to an inn. The rooms, however, were all occupied except for one — a room that is mostly unused. Mononoke is a spinoff based on the Medicine Seller from the Bake Neko story arc of Ayakashi~Japanese Classic Horror. It follows him as he [...]
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About the only thing that I was afraid of for this series was that there wouldn’t be enough ideas for a fully fledged series. With this episode, these fears also got shattered. Umibouzu is one of the arcs that take up three episodes, and this episode spends most of its time fleshing out the different [...]
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The Phantom Pharmacist rides again! There is a Goddess and she wears a yellow ribbon. The white chick declares that, “Zero is dead, but his cause lives on.” The black dude and Vulcan have nothing to say, but the old lady responds, “I would prefer it the other way around.” Sorry folks I got no better [...]
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The name “Umibouzu” was rather confusing, especially with my lack of Japanese. After all, the “umi”-part could mean either sea or giving birth, and I could have sworn that “bouzu” meant little kid. Still, I was wrong. After looking up the kanji, it seems that we’re dealing with a seamonk here. Naturally, the episode again [...]
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Seriously, Mononoke is pure awesomeness. It’s such a huge shame that there are so few people who gave this series a chance. Heck, the only blog-entry I saw on Animeblogger and Animenano came from a guy who didn’t like the style. Still, that doesn’t mean that I don’t love this series, and it’s going to [...]
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I really am too unrefined to deal with this show.
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Moetan It took a bit of time to get used to the fact that the main character had the same voice as Akazukin from Otogi Juusi Akazukin. However, while Akazukin was awesomeness, Moetan remains an utter failure. I was hoping for it to be at least a good comedy, but nearly all of the jokes are [...]
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Promotional videos from “Tokyo Int’l Anime Fair” of Kara no Kyoukai, Mononoke, Claymore, Prism Ark, Doujin Work, plus plenty more found after the jump…
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