Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari is an upcoming anime and adaption of Onigunsou’s supernatural action manga.
We follow Hyoma Kunato as he is forced by his clan to live with a spirit.
Hyoma Kunato will be Takeo Otsuka (who voices Takeo in Noblesse), and the teacher Botan Nagatsuki being voiced by Yuki Takada (Aoba Suzukaze in NEW GAME!).
The director is Ryuichi Kimura, and Seven Seas has the license for the English translation of the manga. However, the first follow of that isn’t due until the start of next year.
Thankfully, Seven Seas have provided a synopsis anyway.
When spirits cross over into the human world, they can possess old objects and gain a physical form: a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami can be gentle, violent, or somewhere in-between, so the Saenome clan peacefully helps send them back to the spirit world to avoid destruction.
Kunato Hyouma is a member of the clan, but is…less than peaceful, since he holds a grudge from when a tsukumogami robbed him of something important. Afraid that Hyouma’s brash anger in dealing with these spirits will lead to supernatural catastrophes, Hyouma’s grandfather sends him to live in Kyoto with Nagatsuki Botan, an unusual young woman who actually lives with tsukumogami like family! Can Hyouma learn to control his emotions when dealing with tsukumogami, or is his own spirit doomed to be possessed with rage forever?
Via Crunchyroll.
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