The Medicine Seller realizes that the mononoke are attracted to Shino because of their strong desire to be birthed. The innkeeper forced her prostitutes to abort their children to continue working, and Shino's room is the room in which the abortions took place. The innkeeper reveals that the inn used to be a brothel, which she owned and ran. When the Zashiki Warashi kill an assassin aiming for Shino's life, protecting Shino and her unborn child, the Medicine Seller inquires into the origin of the mononoke. The room, though, is haunted by a group of Zashiki Warashi. A pregnant woman named Shino who is desperately seeking shelter at the inn is led to the last vacant room. While spending the night in a traditional inn, the Medicine Seller stumbles upon a strange phenomenon. The English subtitles translate these three necessities as Form, Truth, and Reason.Įpisodes 1–2: Zashiki-warashi Plot Only then can he unsheathe his sword and exorcise the demon. The Medicine Seller always proceeds in the same manner, using his knowledge of the supernatural to fend off the mononoke until he can learn the spirit's shape ( Katachi), truth ( Makoto) and reasoning ( Kotowari). The mononoke are a type of ayakashi, unnatural spirits that linger in the human world by binding themselves to negative human emotions. The series is made up of individual chapters in which the medicine seller encounters, combats and subsequently destroys mononoke. Mononoke follows a wandering, nameless character known only as the "Medicine Seller" (voiced by Takahiro Sakurai). Only Samurai were permitted to carry swords, which is why it comes as a shock to many of the characters that the medicine seller would be carrying a sword. Mononoke takes place between the end of the Edo period and Meiji Era of Japan with the four class system, Samurai being the highest class and merchants (such as the medicine seller himself) being in the lowest class. A spin-off of 2006's horror anthology series Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, Mononoke follows the character of the medicine seller as he continues to face a myriad of supernatural perils. Mononoke ( モノノ怪) is a Japanese avant-garde anime television series produced by Toei Animation.
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