Episode
Mononoke: Umibouzu, Opening Act
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Mononoke
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2007-07-27
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Umibouzu, Opening Act is Episode 3 in Season 1 of Mononoke. It aired on 2007-07-27. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 2: Zaraki Warashi, 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.
Episode 4: Umibouzu, Second Act
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.
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Episode 1: Zaraki Warashi, 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.
Episode 5: Umibouzu, 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.
Episode 6: Nopperabou, 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.
Episode 7: Nopperabou, Part 2
The Medicine Seller unmasks the masked creature while revealing the life of Ochou, the enslaved housewife.
Episode 8: Nue, 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.
Episode 9: Nue, 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.
Episode 10: Bakeneko, Opening Act
Skipping ahead a few centuries, the Medicine Seller boards a train filled with seemingly unrelated people, and before long find themselves trapped in limbo.
Episode 11: Bakeneko, Second Act
Unable to leave the train under threat of death, the passengers reveal what they know about an event that affected them all.
Episode 12: Bakeneko, Finale
The Medicine Seller unravels the mystery and finds the truth behind the passenger's stories.