Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari TV Anime Sets January 9 Premiere with New Visual, Trailer
At the stroke of midnight in Japan today, the upcoming Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari TV anime series got into the spirit by unveiling a delightfully spooky key visual and main trailer, while also setting our first encounter with the tsukumogami for January 9 at 24:00 JST (effectively, January 10 at midnight).
Key Visual
On top of supernatural beings and battles, the trailer also reveals and previews the anime’s opening and ending theme songs: “Koigoromo” by ARCANA PROJECT (The aquatope on white sand) and “rebind” by TRUE (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime), respectively.
Main Trailer
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Based on the manga by Onigunsou, Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari is being directed by Ryuichi Kimura (Aikatsu!) and assistant-directed by Takahiro Okawa at studio BN Pictures, with series composition by Keiichiro Ochi (Peach Boy Riverside) and main character designs by Shiori Fujisawa.
Seven Seas Entertainment, who is set to release the manga’s first volume in English in January 2023, describes the series as such:
When spirits cross over into the human world, they can possess old objects and gain a physical form: a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami can be gentle, violent, or somewhere in-between, so the Saenome clan peacefully helps send them back to the spirit world to avoid destruction.
Kunato Hyouma is a member of the clan, but is…less than peaceful, since he holds a grudge from when a tsukumogami robbed him of something important. Afraid that Hyouma’s brash anger in dealing with these spirits will lead to supernatural catastrophes, Hyouma’s grandfather sends him to live in Kyoto with Nagatsuki Botan, an unusual young woman who actually lives with tsukumogami like family! Can Hyouma learn to control his emotions when dealing with tsukumogami, or is his own spirit doomed to be possessed with rage forever?
Source: Comic Natalie
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