Details
- Episodes:12
- Format:TV
- Average Score:81
- Popularity:737
- Status:Finished Airing
- Season:Summer 2007
- Duration:22 min. per ep. minutes
- Genre:Demons, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Supernatural, Psychological, Seinen
- Country:JP
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. The Medicine Seller's journey leads him to an old-fashioned inn where Shino, a pregnant woman, has finally found a place to rest. The owner has reluctantly placed her in the last vacant room; however, as she settles in, it quickly becomes clear that the room is infested by a lethal band of mononoke, the Zashiki Warashi. With his hunter's intuition, the Medicine Seller begins his investigation to discover the Form, the Truth, and the Reason before the Zashiki Warashi can kill again. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Episodes
1. Zashikiwarashi: 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 group of ghosts.
2. Zashikiwarashi: 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.
3. Sea Bishop: Part 1
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.
4. Sea Bishop: Part 2
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.
5. Sea Bishop: 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.
6. Faceless Monster: 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.
7. Faceless Monster: Part 2
The Medicine Seller unmasks the masked creature while revealing the life of Ochou, the enslaved housewife.
8. Japanese Chimera: 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 the traditional incense competition taking place.
9. Japanese Chimera: 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.
10. Goblin Cat: Part 1
Skipping ahead a few centuries, the Medicine Seller boards a train filled with seemingly unrelated people, and before long find themselves trapped in limbo.
11. Goblin Cat: Part 2
Unable to leave the train under threat of death, the passengers reveal what they know about an event that affected them all.
12. Goblin Cat: Finale
The Medicine Seller unravels the mystery and finds the truth behind the passenger's stories.
