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| I really don’t know if I can continue watching this, this episode was so confusing and painful to mind. I think I will be stopping watching this anime for some time and come back ready |
| That was a absolute trippy experience.. I love this ambiance.. This show is probably best watched when high.. |
 "Not everyone who works hard is rewarded. But, all those who succeed have worked hard" |
| A great surprise this anime. As some said, it is mixing Mushishi with Gankutsuo, but in my opinion, Mononoke is even more artistic, without lose the appeal to entertainment of an anime. Btw, about the story. Her child was saved, and the Medicine Seller killed the Mononoke (yes, he did his job after all) Best explanation is bellow: bigivelfhq said: I don't agree with the theory of her having another child. Nothing indicates that! The yellow daruma is indeed the yellow Mononoke and her child, this is shown in the 1st episode when the Yellow Mononoke says that the daruma is his and tell her to give it back. Also when she says "Im sorry I can't be your mother". She isn't using the singular YOU(Anata), but the plural YOU(Anatatachi). So she is talking with the dead children and not her child. That is why they smiled at the end. The regret, came from the dead children and was not having caring mothers that wanted them, fought for them and were happy for having them. This is shown by their reactions when she thanked them for choosing her, even after what they did, and was when the sword activated. She was in fact having a miscarriage(shown by the bandages later), but she was saved in time by the Medicine Seller(shown by the doll only cracking and not breaking nor the umbilical cord rupturing), that killed/cut the Mononoke. In the end they died happy and loved! It shows the importance of proper interpretation of japanese language (and how bad translations can ruin an anime), specially in works like this: ----------------------- Vinum_Sabbathi said: Black_wind said: this is something for pro-lifers,lol..... submarina said: There is something that bothers me in this episode. Forcing somebody to get an abortion is really not ok. But fetuses don't have feelings. At least not if they get aborted on the first two or three months of pregnancy. So what the owner of the brothel did was really, really bad BUT the fetuses wouldn't know it. Knew this episode wouldn't go without at least one pro-choice shitting themselves a little. Lol, exactly. The story is about Mononoke, entity, spirits, souls. Then these people want to find mistakes in it bringing pseudo-science mumbo jumbo, for the doGs sake... |
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| This hits different when you’re watching this on Mother’s Day... |
| Extremely slow and artsy fartsy. I've solved their mystery and predicted what will happen in first 5 minutes and then watched main character talk everything through for another 20 minutes while my eyes were suffering from overly saturated bright colours.Too much pseudo-symbolic elements for really little. Don't even compare it to mushishi. Looks like something Yuasa made tbh. |
| I hate everyone equally |
| Oh so the inn used to be a brothel and the room upstairs is the abortion room. I don't get why the babies would be burned inside the room though. But anyways their spirits haunt this room now and they became a Mononoke called Zashikiwarashi. The woman had lost her baby but now she is pregnant with a Mononoke. Someone else pointed out that the red ribbons represent the umbilical cord and that's a pretty neat detail. |
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| miscarriage......... |
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| what a chilling episode...the ending song is so beautiful too |
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| perfect....that's all |
| hoooooly what a ride this episode was. Super interesting so far and i really love the art style |
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| Started watching this because of the interesting style but my god what great story telling and symbolism, amazingly done. What a sad story. |
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