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The Best Episodes of The Morose Mononokean

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 5 - The Legislative Lake
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #1 - The Legislative Lake

    S1:E5

    The Legislator, one of three influential figures of the Underworld, issues a rule that Abeno must bring Ashiya to see him. Unable to defy the Legislator's rules, Abeno is forced to pay a visit to him with Ashiya in tow. As Abeno hired Ashiya without informing the Legislator, he now seeks to determine for himself if Ashiya is truly worthy of being an employee of the Mononokean. What will the Legislator conclude?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 6 - The Ring
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #2 - The Ring

    S1:E6

    Abeno is hired by a certain yokai to find a human woman's missing ring and return it to her. Unable to find the ring on his own, he gets Ashiya to help him look for it. During their search, Ashiya demonstrates a surprising talent. The ring is found, but when the time comes to return the ring to the woman, Ashiya and Abeno disagree over how they should return the lost ring to the woman

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 10 - The Fool
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #3 - The Fool

    S1:E10

    When Ashiya and Abeno smell a yokai on the potatoes Yahiko has been sneaking, they head to the farm where they were grown. There they encounter a yokai calling himself Nobou. Nobou has been attempting to leave the farm, but each time he does, he is enveloped in a strange smoke, forced to witness the events of his past, and returns to where he started. Nobou asked to be exorcised so he can leave the farm, but Abeno notices something about the situation.

    Director:Toshihiro Maeya
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 7 - The Encounter
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #4 - The Encounter

    S1:E7

    When Ashiya and Abeno see Zenko at school again, she asks them for help with a particular yokai. Zenko was bitten by a strange dog-like animal a few days prior. However, ordinary people can't see the bite mark, and Zenko, who was previously unable to see yokai, has begun seeing strange things. While listening to her story, a fox yokai suddenly appears behind Ashiya and Abeno. The yokai appears to recognize Abeno, but Abeno doesn't recognize him at all...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 13 - The End
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #5 - The End

    S1:E13

    Reunited with the yokai he and Ashiya exorcised together, Abeno realizes the Mononokean still needs Ashiya. Abeno suddenly misses him, and with the help of the yokai, he decides to give his idea a try. Meanwhile, Ashiya wonders if the reason Abeno has been absent from school so much is because he's busy exorcising yokai and decides to check out the shrine in the mountains Yahiko mentioned.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 12 - The Separation
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #6 - The Separation

    S1:E12

    Abeno visits the Legislator to inform him that Ashiya is no longer working for the Mononokean. As Abeno rarely comes to visit without his presence being requested, the curious Legislator asks why, but when he hears what Abeno has to say...? Meanwhile, Ashiya stops by the Kiyakudo when he hears from Shizuku, where he runs into the yokai Big Boss Scree, a yokai he previously exorcised, and his children. When they hear that Ashiya is in trouble...?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 4 - The Mortar
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #7 - The Mortar

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 1 - The Beginning
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    #8 - The Beginning

    S1:E1

    The day before he begins attending high school, Ashiya Hanae becomes possessed by a strange fuzzy yokai. Being possessed causes him to fall ill, and while spending the start of his high school life repeatedly making trips to the nurse's office, he comes across the contact information of the Mononokean, which specializes in exorcising yokai, and decides to call them. When Ashiya finally visits the Mononokean, he meets the morose master Abeno Haruitsuki.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 11 - The Purple Sun
    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #9 - The Purple Sun

    S1:E11

    A yokai worshipped as a kami by humans and known as Okina-sama to other yokai comes to the Mononokean with a request: to send the blind yokai Tomori back to the Underworld. After hearing Okina's story, Abeno and Ashiya immediately head to see Tomori. However, upon seeing how Tomori longs to once again see the sights of the Underworld, he tries to see what he can do before Tomori is returned to the Underworld...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 5 - The Tiger
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #10 - The Tiger

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 9 - The Shadow
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #11 - The Shadow

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 4 - The Underworld
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #12 - The Underworld

    S1:E4

    When Ashiya hears that Abeno will be going to a pharmacist called the “Kiyakudo” in the Underworld, he asks to go with him. Though Abeno is reluctant to bring a human to the Underworld, he relents when the Mononokean suggests that Ashiya accompany him. Concerned for Ashiya, Abeno forbids him to travel in the Underworld alone, but Ashiya finds himself unable to keep his word again...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 9 - The Marked Difference
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #13 - The Marked Difference

    S1:E9

    When Abeno is hired to exorcise a yokai by a human, he unenthusiastically heads to the client's house with Ashiya and Fuzzy. The girl who hired him is unable to see yokai but is interested in the occult and seems very interested in their work. Abeno asks Ashiya to watch the door while he works so nobody bothers him, but the girl's mother, who doesn't believe in the supernatural, begins asking Ashiya some nosy questions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 1 - The Limb Screen
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #14 - The Limb Screen

    S2:E1

    Ashiya and Abeno get an urgent SOS from the Legislator and go to the Underworld to find out what he wants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 6 - The Seedling
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #15 - The Seedling

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 12 - The Cobweb
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #16 - The Cobweb

    S2:E12

    Haruitsuki sneaks into the Justice's storage warehouse to search for pieces of information about Sakae. Meanwhile, Yahiko tells Hanae that he knew Sakae.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 2 - The Ant
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    #17 - The Ant

    S1:E2

    When Ashiya begins working part time at the Mononokean, the master Abeno impresses upon him that he should pretend not to see any yokai other than the Mononokean's clients. However, the kind-hearted Ashiya is unable to keep his word, and the yokai won't leave him alone. Based on their surprising strength and numbers, Abeno believes there must be a powerful demon serving as their leader.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 10 - The Messenger
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #18 - The Messenger

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Natsumi Yasue
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 13 - True Intentions
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #19 - True Intentions

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 8 - The Wait
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #20 - The Wait

    S1:E8

    Zenko arranges for Yahiko to help around the temple while he stays with her. Ashiya is relieved, but he soon runs into another yokai. The bird yokai Jomatsu is concerned for his heartbroken mistress Princess Anmo, who withdrew into an egg shell she made and hasn't come out for a long time. Jomatsu has been searching for the Mononokean so he can return to the Underworld with Princess Anmo still inside her egg.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 7 - The Dabbler
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #21 - The Dabbler

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Morose Mononokean Season 1 Episode 3 - Zenko
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    #22 - Zenko

    S1:E3

    After making friends with his classmates Saga and Fushimi, Ashiya believes the high school life he dreamed of may finally be his. But before he has the chance to enjoy his new life, he's instructed to go to a certain temple alone to find and return a yokai's lost possession. At the temple, Ashiya meets a girl named Fujiwara Zenko, and it seems the lost possession in question has something to do with Zenko's father, the head priest...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 2 - The Tail
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    #23 - The Tail

    S2:E2

    Ashiya meets a beast yokai on his way to the Executive's while Abeno, Shizuku, and the Legislator finish up their work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 8 - The Removal
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #24 - The Removal

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Morose Mononokean Season 2 Episode 11 - The Return
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #25 - The Return

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Legislative Lake" is the best rated episode of "The Morose Mononokean". It scored 7.6/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/26/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Ring".