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The official X account of Mononoke unveiled a new trailer and visual for its upcoming second film, which is titled Mononoke the Movie: Hinezumi, on Dec 4, 2024.
The film is set to premiere on March 14, 2025.
Checkout the trailer and visual below:
Hiroshi Kamiya will reprise the role of the Medicine Seller in the second film.
It was previously revealed that the Mononoke anime film will be a trilogy. The third film is planned to conclude the project. More details on this is yet to be revealed.
Mononoke: Karakasa, the first film in the trilogy, released on July 26, 2024.
Twin Engine is in charge of the movie’s production, with Kenji Nakamura serving as the director. Kitsuneko Nagata is in charge of character designing.
Other staff includes:
- Animation Character Designer, Chief Animation Director: Yuichi Takahashi
- Music: Taku Iwasaki
- Background Design: Yoichi Katohno
- Background Directors: Akira Kuramoto, Yoko Saito
- Color Design: Kunio Tsujita
- Visual Director: Yoichi Senzui
- 3D Director: Kenichi Shirai
- Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
- Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Mononoke is a spin-off of one of the episodes, Bakeneko, from the Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales TV anime. It began airing in the Noitamina block on Fuji TV in July 2007. It is a Japanese avant-garde anime television series produced by Toei Animation.
A manga adaptation of the original Bakeneko arc was published in Young Gangan between Aug 17, 2007 and Aug 1, 2008. The individual chapters were collected and released in two tankobon.
A second manga series by Tokuma Shoten started on Sep 25, 2013 in the Monthly Comic Zenon magazine. The manga came to an end in Nov 25, 2014, with its chapters collected into 2 tankobon volumes.
Source: X
