: 12
Production: Toei Animation
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural
Duration : 25 min. per episode
Plot A mysterious man with no name, that will simply be called "pharmacist", travels the world embodying the role of a sort of super detective of the supernatural. The origin of each case that there is going to solve a "Mononoke", which, as explained many times in the anime, is a ayakashi (a daemon that acts as a shell) that binds to a human emotion, most often very negative. To defeat the mononoke with his sword Taima the "pharmacist" must know three things of the same shape, truth and regret. The shape is, precisely, the form in which the mononoke is presented, the truth is the state of all things, the regret is the heart of those who have shaped the mononoke. In the anime, there are 5 arcs with 5 different stories, the last arc is a real cameo set in the modern era of what we might call "the arc number 0" Mononoke: bakeneko of the Ayakashi.
personal considerations
Mononoke is an anime absolutely unique, a real treat for those who love the animation niche. In it there are so many extraordinary items to be creepy (to me it happens every time I see him). The highly theatrical and dramatic narrative, full of tension, but at the same time very delicate and sophisticated (and very tricky), is combined with high quality designs and animation (the style of ancient Japanese works and the cel shading create unique union of ancient and modern). Not to mention the music, following the full moments of tension and suspense.
Below I will give, as I said in my blog, a number of explanations for some strings that could hardly be understood or that simply seemed to have no logic or interpretation.
The arc of Nopper Bou (The Man Without a Face)
This is the arc more difficult to understand, and many are on the internet discussion. Propose just my version, because other interpretations I find them completely misleading and rather dimwitted (such that the pharmacist is in love with Cho).
My interpretation
Cho, as the pharmacist at the end of the arc, has lost its soul nell'avidità others. It was not necessarily committed suicide, just has destroyed itself from within making the malice murder of others. It is here that occurred on Nopper Bou, so no mononoke, but a ayakashi, has now lost soul bound by Cho and eventually became a mononoke. The Nopper Bou at the time of its occurrence and union with Cho was not at the "Release", or the alter-ego does not know what to call the pharmacist, but we understood, but it has embodied the role of the mononoke to understand so the woman who she Socratic he really killed. The Nopper Bou was in love with Cho, yes, but not the role that pharmacists do-lol-a man without a face.
Curiosity
° In an episode of Kuchu Buranko a child has a T-shirt imprinted with bakeneko
° bakeneko (Cat Demon) is the same in both the first arc of the same name in this Ayakashi that in the second
° Mononoke never arrived in our shores or in the Americans for reasons unknown to us, despite being in business since 2007 with a resounding box
VOTE: 10
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