Episode 1
The Limb Screen
24m
Ashiya and Abeno get an urgent SOS from the Legislator and go to the Underworld to find out what he wants.
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The Morose Mononokean
20162 seasons7.4 / 10
Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
The Morose Mononokean premiered June 28, 2016. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.
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Episode 2
The Tail
24m
Ashiya meets a beast yokai on his way to the Executive's while Abeno, Shizuku, and the Legislator finish up their work.
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Episode 3
Greetings
24m1.0 / 10
Ashiya and Abeno host a yokai from the Underworld who wants to observe their school in the Mundane World.
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Episode 4
The Mortar
24m
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.
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Episode 5
The Tiger
24m
Fuzzy's been taken by the Justice under suspicion of theft, but when Ashiya and Abeno try to get him back, they learn that that's not the whole story.
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Episode 6
The Seedling
24m
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.
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Episode 7
The Dabbler
24m
The Legislator visits Mononoke-an to apologize to Hanae for the Executive's attitude. He told them that he and the Executive had an agreement that Hanae can visit Kakuriyo conditionally.
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Episode 8
The Removal
24m
Haruitsuki collapses after he made a yôkai's wish come true and sent her to Kakuriyo. Actually, he had finished a secret work at the request of the Executive.
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Episode 9
The Shadow
24m
Hanae's 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 Hanae's father Sakae when they were young.
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Episode 10
The Messenger
24m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Natsumi Yasue
Episode 11
The Return
24m
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.
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Episode 12
The Cobweb
24m
Haruitsuki sneaks into the Justice's storage warehouse to search for pieces of information about Sakae. Meanwhile, Yahiko tells Hanae that he knew Sakae.
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Episode 13
True Intentions
24mfinale
When Haruitsuki arrived at a shrine, Hanae is possessed by a spider-like yôkai Sasa. She has been sealed by Sakae, that's why she gets mad at Haruitsuki for having golden eyes and golden hair just like him.
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More about The Morose Mononokean
Cast
Tomoaki MaenoAbeno Haruitsuki (voice)
Yuki KajiAshiya Hanae (voice)
Ayahi TakagakiFujiwara Zenko (voice)
Yoko HikasaKoura (voice)
Junichi SuwabeRippou (voice)
Chinami HashimotoShizuku (voice)
Ikue OtaniYahiko (voice)
Koji YusaGyousei (voice)Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 26
- Original language
- Japanese
- Original title
- 不機嫌なモノノケ庵
Networks & production
AT-XJapan
Themes
animebased on mangabromancedemonexorcistheart warminghigh schooljapanese mythology