The Morose Mononokean (2016)

1 - The Beginning

The day before he begins attending high school, Ashiya Hanae becomes possessed by a strange fuzzy yokai. Being possessed causes him to fall ill, and while spending the start of his high school life repeatedly making trips to the nurses office, he comes across the contact information of the Mononokean, which specializes in exorcising yokai, and decides to call them. When Ashiya finally visits the Mononokean, he meets the morose master Abeno Haruitsuki.

1 - The Limb Screen

Ashiya and Abeno get an urgent SOS from the Legislator and go to the Underworld to find out what he wants.

2 - The Tail

Ashiya meets a beast yokai on his way to the Executives while Abeno, Shizuku, and the Legislator finish up their work.

2 - The Ant

When Ashiya begins working part time at the Mononokean, the master Abeno impresses upon him that he should pretend not to see any yokai other than the Mononokeans clients. However, the kind-hearted Ashiya is unable to keep his word, and the yokai wont leave him alone. Based on their surprising strength and numbers, Abeno believes there must be a powerful demon serving as their leader.

3 - Greetings

Ashiya and Abeno host a yokai from the Underworld who wants to observe their school in the Mundane World.

3 - Zenko

After making friends with his classmates Saga and Fushimi, Ashiya believes the high school life he dreamed of may finally be his. But before he has the chance to enjoy his new life, hes instructed to go to a certain temple alone to find and return a yokais lost possession. At the temple, Ashiya meets a girl named Fujiwara Zenko, and it seems the lost possession in question has something to do with Zenkos father, the head priest...

4 - The Underworld

When Ashiya hears that Abeno will be going to a pharmacist called the “Kiyakudo” in the Underworld, he asks to go with him. Though Abeno is reluctant to bring a human to the Underworld, he relents when the Mononokean suggests that Ashiya accompany him. Concerned for Ashiya, Abeno forbids him to travel in the Underworld alone, but Ashiya finds himself unable to keep his word again...

4 - The Mortar

Yahiko brings a cute yokai, Kinako, home and they become fast friends. Kinako wants to stay with Yahiko, but she cannot stay in the Mundane World.

5 - The Tiger

Fuzzys been taken by the Justice under suspicion of theft, but when Ashiya and Abeno try to get him back, they learn that thats not the whole story.

5 - The Legislative Lake

The Legislator, one of three influential figures of the Underworld, issues a rule that Abeno must bring Ashiya to see him. Unable to defy the Legislators rules, Abeno is forced to pay a visit to him with Ashiya in tow. As Abeno hired Ashiya without informing the Legislator, he now seeks to determine for himself if Ashiya is truly worthy of being an employee of the Mononokean. What will the Legislator conclude?

6 - The Seedling

Hanae has had a sixth sense about yôkais since he met the Executive. Haruitsuki tries to improve his sixth sense with Yahiko during the photography club lodging camp.

6 - The Ring

Abeno is hired by a certain yokai to find a human womans missing ring and return it to her. Unable to find the ring on his own, he gets Ashiya to help him look for it. During their search, Ashiya demonstrates a surprising talent. The ring is found, but when the time comes to return the ring to the woman, Ashiya and Abeno disagree over how they should return the lost ring to the woman

7 - The Dabbler

The Legislator visits Mononoke-an to apologize to Hanae for the Executives attitude. He told them that he and the Executive had an agreement that Hanae can visit Kakuriyo conditionally.

7 - The Encounter

When Ashiya and Abeno see Zenko at school again, she asks them for help with a particular yokai. Zenko was bitten by a strange dog-like animal a few days prior. However, ordinary people cant see the bite mark, and Zenko, who was previously unable to see yokai, has begun seeing strange things. While listening to her story, a fox yokai suddenly appears behind Ashiya and Abeno. The yokai appears to recognize Abeno, but Abeno doesnt recognize him at all...

8 - The Removal

Haruitsuki collapses after he made a yôkais wish come true and sent her to Kakuriyo. Actually, he had finished a secret work at the request of the Executive.

8 - The Wait

Zenko arranges for Yahiko to help around the temple while he stays with her. Ashiya is relieved, but he soon runs into another yokai. The bird yokai Jomatsu is concerned for his heartbroken mistress Princess Anmo, who withdrew into an egg shell she made and hasnt come out for a long time. Jomatsu has been searching for the Mononokean so he can return to the Underworld with Princess Anmo still inside her egg.

9 - The Marked Difference

When Abeno is hired to exorcise a yokai by a human, he unenthusiastically heads to the clients house with Ashiya and Fuzzy. The girl who hired him is unable to see yokai but is interested in the occult and seems very interested in their work. Abeno asks Ashiya to watch the door while he works so nobody bothers him, but the girls mother, who doesnt believe in the supernatural, begins asking Ashiya some nosy questions.

9 - The Shadow

Hanaes mother Nara felt sick because of a yôkai. She gets energy back after Hanae pulls it apart from her back. She tells him that there were some incidents like this with Hanaes father Sakae when they were young.

10 - The Fool

When Ashiya and Abeno smell a yokai on the potatoes Yahiko has been sneaking, they head to the farm where they were grown. There they encounter a yokai calling himself Nobou. Nobou has been attempting to leave the farm, but each time he does, he is enveloped in a strange smoke, forced to witness the events of his past, and returns to where he started. Nobou asked to be exorcised so he can leave the farm, but Abeno notices something about the situation.

10 - The Messenger

Yahiko came to the annual festival in high school after Zenko. Haruitsuki takes him out to a mountain to play hide and seek, because Yahiko plays pranks. And then, he gets a clue to Sakae from Yahiko.

11 - The Purple Sun

A yokai worshipped as a kami by humans and known as Okina-sama to other yokai comes to the Mononokean with a request: to send the blind yokai Tomori back to the Underworld. After hearing Okinas story, Abeno and Ashiya immediately head to see Tomori. However, upon seeing how Tomori longs to once again see the sights of the Underworld, he tries to see what he can do before Tomori is returned to the Underworld...

11 - The Return

Haruitsuki and Hanae have to send bird-like yôkai brothers to Kakuriyo at the request of their foster mother Komon, however, the youngest brother has never flown.

12 - The Cobweb

Haruitsuki sneaks into the Justices storage warehouse to search for pieces of information about Sakae. Meanwhile, Yahiko tells Hanae that he knew Sakae.

12 - The Separation

Abeno visits the Legislator to inform him that Ashiya is no longer working for the Mononokean. As Abeno rarely comes to visit without his presence being requested, the curious Legislator asks why, but when he hears what Abeno has to say...? Meanwhile, Ashiya stops by the Kiyakudo when he hears from Shizuku, where he runs into the yokai Big Boss Scree, a yokai he previously exorcised, and his children. When they hear that Ashiya is in trouble...?

13 - The End

Reunited with the yokai he and Ashiya exorcised together, Abeno realizes the Mononokean still needs Ashiya. Abeno suddenly misses him, and with the help of the yokai, he decides to give his idea a try. Meanwhile, Ashiya wonders if the reason Abeno has been absent from school so much is because hes busy exorcising yokai and decides to check out the shrine in the mountains Yahiko mentioned.

13 - True Intentions

When Haruitsuki arrived at a shrine, Hanae is possessed by a spider-like yôkai Sasa. She has been sealed by Sakae, thats why she gets mad at Haruitsuki for having golden eyes and golden hair just like him.