The Mononoke movie project revealed a trailer and a visual along with the information that it will be coming in 2024 – a slight delay considering the movie was set to premiere this year. Hiroshi Kamiya will be replacing Takahiro Sakurai as the Medicine Seller after the voice actor was removed due to an affair he was involved in.
Kenji Nakamura will be directing the movie. Kitsuneko Nagata is replacing the original character designer, Takashi Hashimoto who stepped down due to health issues. The staff also includes:
- 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
- Producer: Hiroaki Sato, Yuki Sudo
- Produced by: Koji Yamamoto
- Animation Studio: EOTA
- Production: TWIN ENGINE
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
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