S01E01 Zaraki Warashi, Part 1
The Medicine Seller checks into the last room of a traditional inn, just as a pregnant woman named Shino desperately asks for shelter. She is given a secret room - a room possessed by a...
Mononoke
S01E06: Nopperabou, Part 1
Trapped in jail, a woman named Ochou confesses to the murder of her husband and his family. The Medicine Seller has reason to doubt this and visits her, coming across a creature with thousands of faces.
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 Zaraki Warashi, Part 2
The Medicine Seller delves into the inn's past as he attempts to understand the ghost's motivations and history, before it can interfere with Shino.
S01E03 Umibouzu, Opening Act
The Medicine Seller takes a journey on a merchant's luxurious ship, but before long the craft is diverted into the Dragon's Triangle, an area of the sea infested with ghosts.
S01E04 Umibouzu, Second Act
The Medicine Seller tries to find out who diverted the ship and why, as the crew is terrorised by a ghost who forces them to reveal their deepest fears.
S01E05 Umibouzu, Finale
Genkei the monk explains what happened to him when he was younger as the Medicine Seller inspects the submerged craft thrown up by the seamonster.
S01E06 Nopperabou, Part 1
Trapped in jail, a woman named Ochou confesses to the murder of her husband and his family. The Medicine Seller has reason to doubt this and visits her, coming across a creature with thousands of...
S01E07 Nopperabou, Part 2
The Medicine Seller unmasks the masked creature while revealing the life of Ochou, the enslaved housewife.
S01E08 Nue, Part 1
Four men should have turned up to the house of Lady Ruri in a bid to win her hand in marriage. However, one of them has disappeared, so the Medicine Seller takes his place in...
S01E09 Nue, Part 2
The Medicine Seller takes over the responsibility of refereeing the incense competition while prying into the real reason these three men have gathered here - the Toudaiji.
S01E10 Bakeneko, Opening Act
Skipping ahead a few centuries, the Medicine Seller boards a train filled with seemingly unrelated people, and before long find themselves trapped in limbo.
S01E11 Bakeneko, Second Act
Unable to leave the train under threat of death, the passengers reveal what they know about an event that affected them all.
S01E12 Bakeneko, Finale
The Medicine Seller unravels the mystery and finds the truth behind the passenger's stories.
Cast
Takahiro Sakurai
Medicine Seller (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Sougen (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Hyoue Sasaki (voice)
Eiji Takemoto
Kiyoshi Moriya (voice)
Aiko Hibi
Zashiki Warashi (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Setsuko Ichikawa (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Man in Fox Mask (voice)
Hiroshi Iwasaki
Jutarou Fukuda (voice)
Houko Kuwashima
O-chou (voice)
Kozo Shioya
Tokuji (voice)
Masashi Hirose
Tansui Nakarai (voice)
Minoru Inaba
Sakae Kadowaki (voice)
