Joseph Luster
May 1, 2024 
A new trailer made its way online for the Mononoke anime film courtesy of Twin Engine this week. The latest preview reveals more cast members and showcases the theme song, “Love Sick,” which will be performed by Aina The End. Check out the footage below, and read on for more about the cast.
The cast list has really expanded this time, including:
- Kana Hanazawa as Kitagawa
- Haruka Tomatsu as Botan Otomo
- Yoko Hikasa as Fuki Tokita
- Yuko Kaida as Awashima
- Yukana as Mugitani
- Yuki Kaji as Saburomaru
- Jun Fukuyama as Hiramoto
- Daisuke Hosomi as Sakashita
- Miyu Irino as Tenshi
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Hokuto Mizorogi
You can see them and their respective characters from left to right below.
Kenji Nakamura is directing once again for the anime film, with Twin Engine producing. Following a delay that moved it out of last year, Mononoke will open in Japan on July 26, 2024.
This follows the 12-episode Mononoke TV anime, which itself is a spinoff of the Ayakashi – Samurai Horror Tales anime. The series is available to stream on The Roku Channnel, Netflix and Crunchyroll, which describes it like so:
In feudal Japan, evil spirits known as mononoke plague both households and the countryside. Only one person has the power to kill them where they stand: the Medicine Seller. But in order to draw his spirit-slaying sword he must first understand the Form, Truth, and Reason of the mononoke. Armed with sharp wit, he wanders from place to place striking down the evil spirits in his wake.
