The Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari anime release date is in January 2023, the Winter 2023 anime season.
The anime was first announced back in November 2021, and in May 2022, its main cast and staff were revealed along with a trailer PV.
Along with the premiere date announcement, a character trailer was also released. The trailer introduces the six friendly tsukumogami that live with Botan Nagatsuki as her family.
Here is the Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari character PV released by the production team on the Shopro Youtube channel:
Cast and staff
The main cast of the anime includes:
Takeo Otsuka, who plays Kakeru Kurahara in Run with the Wind, will play the lead character Hyoma Kunato. Yuki Takada, who plays Aoba Suzukaze in New Game!, will play Botan Nagatsuki.
The six friendly tsukumogami that live with Botan Nagatsuki as her family include:
- Chikahiro Kobayashi (Legoshi in Beastars) as Nagi
- Reina Ueda (Kanao Tsuyuri in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba\) as Yu
- Aimi Tanaka (Kusuo Saiki in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) as Kagami
- Yoshiki Nakajima (Yoshifumi Nitta in Hinamatsuri) as Suzuri
- Miyuki Sawashiro (Kurapika in Hunter x Hunter) as Haori
The voice actor for the sixth member — Kusige, is yet to be announced.
Ryuichi Kimura is directing the series at Bandai Namco Pictures, with Takahiro Okawa as the assistant director. Keiichiro Ochi is in charge of the series composition. Shiori Fujisawa is designing the characters. John Kanda and XELIK are composing the music.
More about Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari
Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari, known in Japan as simply Mononogatari, is an upcoming anime based on the supernatural manga of the same name written and illustrated by Onigunsou.
The manga was first serialized in Shueisha’s Miracle Jump magazine in April 2014 but was later transferred to Ultra Jump in January 2016. Shueisha has compiled the manga chapters into 14 tankobon volumes to date.
Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the series for English release, with the first volume scheduled to release on January 10, 2023.
The premise of Mononogatari is a supernatural world where spirits can go over to the human world and possess objects to gain a physical form becoming “Tsukumogami.” The story follows Hyouma Kunato, a member of the Senome clan that is in charge of peacefully sending the tsukumogami back to their world.
But since the tsukumogami took something precious away from Hyouma, he loathes them. So Hyouma’s grandpa sends him to live with Botan Nagatsuki, a girl who lives with six tsukumogami as a family.
For more information on the series, you can check out the official Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari anime website.