The upcoming Mononoke the Movie: Karakasa revealed a new key visual and trailer earlier today. Studio EOTA is animating the movie, which is slated to premiere on July 24.
The staff includes:
- Director: Kenji Nakamura
- Character Designer: Kitsuneko Nagata
- Animation Character Designer/ Chief Animation Director: Yuichi Takahashi
- Background Art Designer: Youichi Katoono
- Background Art Director: Akira Kuramoto, Yoko Saito
- Color Designer: Kunio Tsujita
- Visual Director: Yoichi Senzui
- 3D Director: Kenichi Shirai
- Editor: Shigeru Nishiyama
- Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
- Original Score: Taku Iwasaki
Hiroshi Kamiya is taking up the lead role as the Medicine Seller in Mononoke the Movie: Karakasa and replacing Takahiro Sakurai. Aina The End is performing the theme song “Lovesick.” Both can be heard in the trailer:
Mononoke started as a TV anime produced by Toei Animation. It originally aired on Fuji TV’s Noitamina TV block from July to September 2007 and had a total of 12 episodes. The anime was directed by Kenji Nakamura (Gatchaman Crowds Insight), with a screenplay by Ikuko Takahashi (episodes 1-2, 10-11) Chiaki Konaka (episodes 3-5, 8-9), Manabu Ishikawa (episodes 6-7), Michiko Yokote (episode 12). Takashi Hashimoto was a character designer and the chief animation director of the project. Yasuharu Takanashi composed the music. The story is a spin-off of the Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales anime from 2006 (also animated by Toei Animation), and over the years it had multiple manga adaptations.
Twin Engine describes the plot as:
Appearing out of nowhere where the Mononoke is born, he slashes, exorcises, calms, and saves the Mononoke—a mysterious man, the “Medicine Seller.” This time, Medicine Seller appears in the “Ooku” where women’s grudges swirl. What is the real nature of the “female grudges” that hide in the world of gorgeousness and majestic beauty, and the “Mononoke” that is born there?
Source: Press Release, Official Twitter/X
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