'Mononoke' Gets New Anime Project

Production company Twin Engine announced that a new project in the Mononoke anime series is in production on Sunday. Actor Hirofumi Araki (Tennis no Oujisama), who played the Medicine Seller in the most recent Mononoke stage play, will voice a new Medicine Seller named Ken no Tsurugi. The original character designer of the trilogy, Kitsuneko Nagata, returns for the new project. Produced by Toei Animation, Mononoke, a spin-off of the 2006 anthology Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror (Ayakashi: Sa...