'Mononoke' Anime Commemorates 15th Anniversary with Movie

The 15th Anniversary Festival for the Mononoke anime series announced a movie on Saturday. Production company Twin Engine also posted an announcement promo, revealing the main staff, cast, and a teaser visual (pictured). The movie will open in theaters in Japan in 2023.

Kenji Nakamura (Kuuchuu Buranko, Tsuritama) is returning to direct the movie. Voice actor Takahiro Sakurai (Mob Psycho 100, Bakemonogatari) is reprising as Kusuriuri, the lead character. Twin Engine is credited for production. A crowdfunding campaign for the movie will launch on June 24.

Mononoke, a spin-off of the 2006 anthology Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror, aired in 12 episodes on Fuji TV's noitaminA programming block in Summer 2007. Nakamura directed the fantasy horror series at Toei Animation, with Takashi Hashimoto (C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control) serving as the character designer and chief animation director.

Ikuko Takahashi (Ao no Exorcist), Chiaki Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain), Manabu Ishikawa (Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta), and Michiko Yokote (xxxHOLiC) each penned the script for different episodes. Yasuharu Takanashi (Jigoku Shoujo) composed the music.

Cinedigm licensed the anime series in North America under its subsidiary New Video's Flatiron Film Company division in May 2014 and released it on DVD in July that year. Siren Visual licensed the title in Australia and New Zealand.

Yaeko Ninagawa serialized four manga adaptations in Young Gangan and Comic Zenon between August 2007 and September 2016.

Synopsis
The "Medicine Seller" is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called "mononoke" to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it.

The Medicine Seller's journey leads him to an old-fashioned inn where Shino, a pregnant woman, has finally found a place to rest. The owner has reluctantly placed her in the last vacant room; however, as she settles in, it quickly becomes clear that the room is infested by a lethal band of mononoke, the Zashiki Warashi. With his hunter's intuition, the Medicine Seller begins his investigation to discover the Form, the Truth, and the Reason before the Zashiki Warashi can kill again. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Announcement


Official site: https://www.mononoke-movie.com/
Official Twitter: @anime_mononoke

Source: Comic Natalie

Mononoke Movie on MAL