Japan · Anime
Mononoke
Kenji Nakamura · 2007
While produced in Japan, the series draws heavily on Theravada-inflected demonology popularized through Thai animation collaboration, treating the Medicine Seller as a kind of spectral griot who must know a spirit's name, form, and reason before exorcising it. Its insistence that history must be sung correctly to be released parallels Soro's conviction that genealogy mis-spoken is a wound.