Mononoke

About Mononoke

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.

Fuji TV's Mononoke is an animation, mystery, and science fiction series. The series is filed under japanese mythology, magic, horror, and seinen.

It ran for one season of 12 episodes between July 2007 and September 2007.

Takahiro Sakurai leads the cast as Medicine Seller (voice), Daisuke Namikawa as Sougen (voice), Daisuke Sakaguchi as Hyoue Sasaki (voice), and Eiji Takemoto as Kiyoshi Moriya (voice).

In the United States it streams on Crunchyroll, Eternal Family, and Netflix. Tokyo Ghoul, Elfen Lied, and xxxHOLiC make useful companions to Mononoke, all filed under psychological. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 91 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.