Takahiro Sakurai
"Mononoke" follows a wandering, nameless character known only as the "Medicine Seller" (voiced by Takahiro Sakurai). The series is made up of individual chapters in which the medicine seller encounters, combats and subsequently destroys "mononoke". The "mononoke" are a type of "ayakashi", unnatural spirits that linger in the human world by binding themselves to negative human emotions. The Medicine Seller always proceeds in the same manner, using his knowledge of the supernatural to fend off the "mononoke" until he can learn the spirit's shape ("Katachi"), truth ("Makoto") and reasoning ("Kotowari"). Only then can he unsheathe his sword and exorcise the demon. The English subtitles translate these three necessities as Form, Truth, and Reason.