Mononoke
Seen it?2007 | 1 seasons | 23 min | Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With a small audience, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for anyone who likes to be kept guessing, sci-fi fans and animation lovers. If you loved Charmed, start here.
- The mood
- Tense and unsettling.
- The pace
- 1 season: a few weeks of evenings, short, snackable episodes, about 5 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Rated TV-MA: meant for adults.
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Limited series that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 156K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
- Takahiro SakuraiMedicine Seller (voice)
- Daisuke NamikawaSougen (voice)
- Daisuke SakaguchiHyoue Sasaki (voice)
- Eiji TakemotoKiyoshi Moriya (voice)
- Aiko HibiZashiki Warashi (voice)
- Fumiko OrikasaSetsuko Ichikawa (voice)
- Hikaru MidorikawaMan in Fox Mask (voice)
- Hiroshi IwasakiJutarou Fukuda (voice)
- Houko KuwashimaO-chou (voice)
- Kozo ShioyaTokuji (voice)