A main visual and second trailer for Gekijoban Mononoke Daisansho: Hebigami (Mononoke the Movie: Chapter 3: Snake God) have been released. The latter includes a snippet of the newly announced theme song “No Epilogue” by AiNA THE END.
Additionally, it was announced that Yukana and Eiji Takemoto are joining the cast. Takemoto is voicing Saku Mizorogi, an ancestor of the priest Hokuto Mizorogi. Meanwhile, Yukana is playing Amano Tsubame, the wet nurse of the third emperor.
Gekijoban Mononoke Daisansho: Hebigami will begin screening on May 29 in Japan. The first two films in the Mononoke film trilogy, Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain and Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage, opened in Japan in July 2024 and March 2025, respectively. Both titles were released on Netflix internationally.
The trilogy sees the enigmatic Medicine Seller dealing with supernatural threats in the Ouku, the inner palace where the Edo emperor’s harem resides. It is a follow-up to the 2007 TV anime Mononoke, a spin-off of the “Goblin Cat” episodes of 2006’s horror anime anthology Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, and continues to feature distinctive visuals like its predecessor.
The first Mononoke movie was announced in June 2022 at the TV series’ 15th anniversary event and was originally supposed to be out in 2023. Takahiro Sakurai was the voice of the Medicine Seller in the TV anime, but was replaced by Hiroshi Kamiya in the films due to a scandal.
Production credits
• Chief director: Kenji Nakamura (reprising, was director of first film)
• Director: Tomoaki Koshida (new, RPG Real Estate)
• Scriptwriter: Yasumi Atarashi (reprising from the second film)
• Character designer: Kitsuneko Nagata (reprising)
• Animation character designer and chief animation director: Yuichi Takahashi (reprising)
• Visual director: Yoichi Senzui (reprising)
• Background art director: Akira Kuramoto (reprising)
• Background art director: Yoko Saito (reprising)
• Color designer: Kunio Tsujita (reprising)
• Music composer: Taku Iwasaki (reprising)
• Animation production: Studio Kafka and EOTA (Twin Engine EOTA was credited for the first film, while the second had Crew-Cell and EOTA)
Source: @anime_mononoke