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| ja_kanji = 京極夏彦 巷説百物語 |
| ja_kanji = 京極夏彦 巷説百物語 |
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| ja_romaji = Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari |
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==Plot== |
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Taking place during the [[Bakumatsu]] age when the foundations of the Tokugawa government has began to sway, a young writer named Momosuke wishes to write a book of 100 [[ghost story|ghost stories]] and his encounters with three spiritual beings. |
Taking place during the [[Bakumatsu]] age when the foundations of the Tokugawa government has began to sway, a young [[writer]] named Momosuke wishes to write a book of 100 [[ghost story|ghost stories]] and his encounters with three spiritual beings. |
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While researching these old myths and legends, he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths, and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou, he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, and he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing.... |
While researching these old myths and legends, he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths, and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou, he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, and he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing.... |
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| FirstEngAirDate = November 3, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 19, 2010 (USA) |
| FirstEngAirDate = November 3, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 19, 2010 (USA) |
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| EpisodeNumber = 3 |
| EpisodeNumber = 3 |
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| ShortSummary = Momosuke encounters a [[Hunting|hunter]] named Yasaku while investigating the tale of Hakuzōsu, a legendary fox who posed as a monk to tempt a hunter away from killing foxes. It is revealed that the legend is based on Yasaku's love for killing both animals and people. Yasaku claims that the bandit leader Izou made him kill some people. Despite Momosuke's attempts to save the murderer, Yasaku sends him off the bridge. Yasaku suffers a slow and agonizing death(offscreen) at the hands of the Ongyo before his soul committed to the next world. Momosuke is then saved from death by Nagamimi. |
| ShortSummary = Momosuke encounters a [[Hunting|hunter]] named Yasaku while investigating the tale of Hakuzōsu, a legendary fox who posed as a monk to tempt a hunter away from killing foxes. It is revealed that the legend is based on Yasaku's love for killing both animals and people. Yasaku claims that the bandit leader Izou made him kill some people. Despite Momosuke's attempts to save the murderer, Yasaku sends him off the bridge. Yasaku suffers a slow and agonizing death (offscreen) at the hands of the Ongyo before his soul committed to the next world. Momosuke is then saved from death by Nagamimi. |
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| FirstEngAirDate = November 10, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 19, 2010 (USA) |
| FirstEngAirDate = November 10, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 19, 2010 (USA) |
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| EpisodeNumber = 4 |
| EpisodeNumber = 4 |
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| ShortSummary = The episode opens with a young girl, Otama, finding her sister (Oyoshi) in the next room, her head "dancing" as she moans. Momosuke arrives at a town where a woman named Oyoshi is being chased by a [[ronin]] named Matajuro Ishikawa. Momosuke intervenes and authorities chase Matajuro away. Momosuke then ends up developing a crush on her. She admits that she is the [[Concubinage|concubine]] of Yahei Anzai, the head in the local fishermans' union against her will. Later, Anzai comes to visit, and it is clear that Oyoshi does not want to have sex with him with Otama in the other room. |
| ShortSummary = The episode opens with a young girl, Otama, finding her sister (Oyoshi) in the next room, her head "dancing" as she moans. Momosuke arrives at a town where a woman named Oyoshi is being chased by a [[ronin]] named Matajuro Ishikawa. Momosuke intervenes and authorities chase Matajuro away. Momosuke then ends up developing a crush on her. She admits that she is the [[Concubinage|concubine]] of Yahei Anzai, the head in the local fishermans' union against her will. Later, Anzai comes to visit, and it is clear that Oyoshi does not want to have sex with him with Otama in the other room. Matajuro comes to take Oyoshi away and Oyoshi has a flashback of Matajuro performing cunnilingus while Otama witnessed. During this scene, his identity as her father is revealed. He attemps to rape her, but he gets distracted by Mataichi. She convinces Matajuro that she will meet him somewhere else. The next scene is of Matajuro raping Oyoshi while Oyoshi tries to distract him into eating poisoned food. Matajuro discovers the ruse when a dog eats the food. Oyoshi claims that Anzai forced her to poison him, so an enraged Matajuro runs off to murder Anzai. Matajuro goes back to tell Oyoshi, but ends up capturing "Otama". When confronted by Momosuke and Oyoshi at Tomoei Point, Matajuro states that he killed Oyoshi's mother upon her request. He forces Oyoshi to admit that she has been caring for and speaking with Otama's corpse. Oyoshi has a flashback revealing that Oyoshi killed Otama for witnessing their incestuous acts. Just then, the authorities arrive and Matajuro dies by dismemberment. Oyoshi has hallucinations of the heads of her father, sister, and Anzai floating around in the air. At Momosuke's request, Mataichi commits Oyoshi to the next world offscreen. |
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Matajuro comes to take Oyoshi away, and Oyoshi has a flashback of Matajuro performing cunnilingus while Otama witnessed. During this scene, his identity as her father is revealed. He attemps to rape her, but he gets distracted by Mataichi. She convinces Matajuro that she will meet him somewhere else. |
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The next scene is of Matajuro raping Oyoshi while Oyoshi tries to distract him into eating poisoned food. Matajuro discovers the ruse. Oyoshi claims that Anzai forced her to poison him, so an enraged Matajuro runs off to murder Anzai. |
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Matajuro goes back to tell Oyoshi, but ends up capturing "Otama". When confronted by Momosuke and Oyoshi at Tomoei Point, Matajuro states that he killed Oyoshi's mother upon her request. He forces Oyoshi to admit that she has been caring for and speaking with Otama's corpse. Oyoshi has a flashback revealing that Oyoshi killed Otama for witnessing their incestuous acts. Just then, the authorities arrive and Matajuro dies by dismemberment. Oyoshi has hallucinations of the heads of her father, sister, and Anzai floating around in the air. At Momosuke's request, Mataichi commits Oyoshi to the next world offscreen. |
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| FirstEngAirDate = November 17, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 26, 2010 (USA) |
| FirstEngAirDate = November 17, 2007 (CAN)<br>July 26, 2010 (USA) |
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| EpisodeNumber = 5 |
| EpisodeNumber = 5 |
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| ShortSummary = Momosuke and the Ongyo are traveling in the mountains when Momosuke becomes separated from the group and reaches the mansion of a wealthy [[lord]] named Chojiro. On the verge of death, Momosuke is given [[horse]] meat to help regain his strength. This results in some memory loss and Momosuke being cursed by Hayate, the deceased spirit of the horse he ate. After inquiring of its caretaker, Momosuke learns that the lord of the castle is also a victim of the same "Salty Choji" curse. |
| ShortSummary = Momosuke and the Ongyo are traveling in the mountains when Momosuke becomes separated from the group and reaches the mansion of a wealthy [[lord]] named Chojiro. On the verge of death, Momosuke is given [[horse]] meat to help regain his strength. This results in some memory loss and Momosuke being cursed by Hayate, the deceased spirit of the horse he ate. After inquiring of its [[property caretaker|caretaker]], Momosuke learns that the lord of the castle is also a victim of the same "Salty Choji" curse. After Chojiro's daughter Osan (who was Ogin's puppet in disguise) appears, Mataichi arrives and offers to exorcise the curse if everyone afflicted will confess everything evil that they have done. When Momosuke is unable to admit anything due to his memory loss, the horse kills him. The alarmed Chojiro then confesses that he is in fact a fraud. Several years earlier, he was Hyakkimaru, a member of a bandit gang called the Mishima Night Riders and an identical twin to the real Chojiro. Chojiro betrayed the Mishima Night Riders after marrying into the wealthy family they were supposed to rob. When the two fell from a cliff during a fight, Hyakkimaru murdered his brother, cannibalised his body to survive, and assumed the real lord's identity. During that time, Osan fell off a cliff into a river and was missing. He then spent the next 11 years trying to find a meat as delicious as human flesh. With the fraud revealed, Hyakkimaru dies of fright as he is brought face to face with the conjured spirits of those he consumed. Mataichi then commits Hyakkimaru's spirit to the next world. Momosuke is actually unharmed as he was playing along in the Ongyo's performance. The Ongyo tells everyone present that the real Osan has been living in a nearby village with Master Tokujiro in Edo with amnesia. She assumes the position of head of the household. |
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After Chojiro's daughter Osan (who was Ogin's puppet in disguise) appears, Mataichi arrives and offers to exorcise the curse if everyone afflicted will confess everything evil that they have done. When Momosuke is unable to admit anything due to his memory loss, the horse kills him. The alarmed Chojiro then confesses that he is in fact a fraud. Several years earlier he was Hyakkimaru, a member of a bandit gang called the Mishima Night Riders and an identical twin to the real Chojiro. Chojiro betrayed the Mishima Night Riders after marrying into the wealthy family they were supposed to rob. When the two fell from a cliff during a fight, Hyakkimaru murdered his brother, cannibalised his body to survive, and assumed the real lord's identity. During that time, Osan fell off a cliff into a river and was missing. He then spent the next 11 years trying to find a meat as delicious as human flesh. With the fraud revealed, Hyakkimaru dies of fright as he is brought face to face with the conjured spirits of those he consumed. Mataichi then commits Hyakkimaru's spirit to the next world. |
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Momosuke is actually unharmed, as he was playing along in the Ongyo's performance. Ongyo tells everyone present that the real Osan has been living in a nearby village with Master Tokujiro in Edo with amnesia. She assumes the position of head of the household. |
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| FirstEngAirDate = December 15, 2007 (CAN)<br>August 9, 2010 (USA) |
| FirstEngAirDate = December 15, 2007 (CAN)<br>August 9, 2010 (USA) |
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| EpisodeNumber = 9 |
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| ShortSummary = Hearing about the murderous cutthroat Giamon of Inarizika, rumored to be a Kowai (a ghoul that can survive any fatality), Momosuke learns some of Ogin's past. It then turns out that the culprit is the Head of Public Housing named Kinzo Sasamori who has been masquerading as Giamon of Inarizika. When Kinzo starts developing a strange mole on his head he sees a masseuse who is actually Nagamimi in disguise. Nagamimi recommends Kinzo to see Momosuke about his mole. Meanwhile, Mataichi approaches some men working for "Giamon" telling them that there is a way to kill a Kowai so that it stay's dead for good. Momosuke leads Kinzo to a spring that would cure him of an illness that is speculated by Nagamimi to turn anyone obsessed with a beast into that beast. Momosuke leads Kinzo to the entrance to the underground spring flowing from the Shrine of Inarizika in order to bathe in it. While washing the mole on his head with the water, he has an encounter with Ogin whom he recognizes as the girl he killed. He ends up attacking Ogin who dodges the attacks. Just then, Kinzo's body starts to be consumed by the mole-like markings on him. Outside, Momosuke is told by Mataichi that Giamon of Inarizika was actually a fictional creation and that the real Giamon is Ogin's father. Mataichi then states that Kinzo has been using the Giamon of Inarizika name to take advantage of the homeless people for his own profit and had poisoned the real Giamon when he found out, murdered Giamon's wife, framed Giamon for his wife's death, and executed Giamon. Just then, Kinzo emerges from the cave as a furry beast who is then impaled and beheaded by the men that Mataichi rallied. Mataichi then throws an Ofuda on Kinzo's severed head and then tells the men to burn the remains so that Kinzo can never come back to life. |
| ShortSummary = Hearing about the murderous cutthroat Giamon of Inarizika, rumored to be a Kowai (a ghoul that can survive any fatality), Momosuke learns some of Ogin's past. It then turns out that the culprit is the Head of Public Housing named Kinzo Sasamori who has been masquerading as Giamon of Inarizika. When Kinzo starts developing a strange mole on his head, he sees a masseuse who is actually Nagamimi in disguise. Nagamimi recommends Kinzo to see Momosuke about his mole. Meanwhile, Mataichi approaches some men working for "Giamon" telling them that there is a way to kill a Kowai so that it stay's dead for good. Momosuke leads Kinzo to a spring that would cure him of an illness that is speculated by Nagamimi to turn anyone obsessed with a beast into that beast. Momosuke leads Kinzo to the entrance to the underground spring flowing from the Shrine of Inarizika in order to bathe in it. While washing the mole on his head with the water, he has an encounter with Ogin whom he recognizes as the girl he killed. He ends up attacking Ogin who dodges the attacks. Just then, Kinzo's body starts to be consumed by the mole-like markings on him. Outside, Momosuke is told by Mataichi that Giamon of Inarizika was actually a fictional creation and that the real Giamon is Ogin's father. Mataichi then states that Kinzo has been using the Giamon of Inarizika name to take advantage of the homeless people for his own profit and had poisoned the real Giamon when he found out, murdered Giamon's wife, framed Giamon for his wife's death, and executed Giamon. Just then, Kinzo emerges from the cave as a furry beast who is then impaled and beheaded by the men that Mataichi rallied. Mataichi then throws an Ofuda on Kinzo's severed head to commit him to the next world and then tells the men to burn the remains so that Kinzo can never come back to life. |
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| FirstEngAirDate = December 29, 2007 (CAN)<br> August 16, 2010 (USA) |
| FirstEngAirDate = December 29, 2007 (CAN)<br> August 16, 2010 (USA) |
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| EpisodeNumber = 11 |
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| ShortSummary = Momosuke hasn't seen the Ongyou for months. When he asks Tsutaya if he heard any ghostly rumors lately, he tells Momosuke that there are two with one of them being the [[Funayūrei|sea ghosts]] of Sanuki. While out walking, he comes across the Kyogoku Tavern where he has an encounter with Kyogoku Tei and the Hermits who point Momosuke to Shikoku to help the Ongyou who "vanished" while on an assignment. Momosuke comes across some [[Fisherman|fishermen]] who had lost some of their own to these sea ghosts. The fisherman tell Momosuke that the sea ghosts have been appearing near Kabuto Island instead of Twin Island as one of the fisherman tells him that one of the islands that make up Twin Island just vanished. The fishing [[magistrate]] Lord Sekiyama appears claiming that the sinking of boats is the work of the Kawakubo Clan and that he has taken action to remove this threat. While trying to get info on them, Momosuke is ambushed by some strange warriors only to be saved by Ogin. Ogin tells Momosuke to turn back and head home. After Ogin leaves, a man approaches Momosuke who tells him that Ogin took a boat out to sea bound for Twin Island. As the man takes Momosuke to Twin Island, he claims that the Kawakubo Clan are a bunch of ghosts of the defeated |
| ShortSummary = Momosuke hasn't seen the Ongyou for months. When he asks Tsutaya if he heard any ghostly rumors lately, he tells Momosuke that there are two with one of them being the [[Funayūrei|sea ghosts]] of Sanuki. While out walking, he comes across the Kyogoku Tavern where he has an encounter with Kyogoku Tei and the Hermits who point Momosuke to Shikoku to help the Ongyou who "vanished" while on an assignment. Momosuke comes across some [[Fisherman|fishermen]] who had lost some of their own to these sea ghosts. The fisherman tell Momosuke that the sea ghosts have been appearing near Kabuto Island instead of Twin Island as one of the fisherman tells him that one of the islands that make up Twin Island just vanished. The fishing [[magistrate]] Lord Sekiyama appears claiming that the sinking of boats is the work of the Kawakubo Clan and that he has taken action to remove this threat. While trying to get info on them, Momosuke is ambushed by some strange warriors only to be saved by Ogin. Ogin tells Momosuke to turn back and head home. After Ogin leaves, a man approaches Momosuke who tells him that Ogin took a boat out to sea bound for Twin Island. As the man takes Momosuke to Twin Island, he claims that the Kawakubo Clan are a bunch of ghosts of the defeated Tyra Clan that clashed the Minamoto Clan. As the boat approaches Twin Island, the sea ghosts attack. Upon being washed up on Twin Island after surviving the encounter, Momosuke has an encounter with the Kawakubo Clan until their leader Tarumaro and the Ongyou arrive as Tarumaro states that the sea is angry. Mataichi later tells Momosuke that the beaches of Twin Island were stained during the fight between the Tyra Clan and the Minamoto Clan. He also states that 20 years ago, dozens of people died when the neighboring island sank. Tarumaro then explains of the Flame Lance that was entrusted to them by their ancestors which would act as a signal which would by of use when the Taira uprising occurred. Mataichi argues with Tarumaro about destroying the Flame Lance as it calls out to the darkness in people's hearts. The island is then visited by Hyogo (a man who once washed up on Twin Island and escaped from it) and some men where one of them Momosuke recognizes as one of the warriors that attacked him. Hyogo demands that the Kawakubo Clan turn themselves in when they return the next day. Mataichi tells Momosuke that Tarumaro had committed the sin of neutrality. When it comes to the next day, Tarumaro has his clan, the Ongyou, and Momosuke evacuate the island. Though Tarumaro stays behind to destroy the Flame Lance, having it sink the island with himself, Hyogo, and his men still on it. Mataichi then throws an Ofuda on the water during Twin Island's sinking committing Tarumaro's spirit to the next world while the Kawakubo Clan say goodbye to Tarumaro. When Mataichi mentions to Momosuke that he had helped in slaying some of the Ongyou's targets, they then noticed that the Hermits have salvaged what remained of the Flame Lance weapon. |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
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===Japanese voice actors=== |
===Japanese voice actors=== |
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* [[Sanae Kobayashi]] - Ogin |
* [[Sanae Kobayashi]] - Ogin |
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* [[Jack Aubree]] - Kinzo Sasamori (ep. 9) |
* [[Jack Aubree]] - Kinzo Sasamori (ep. 9) |
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* [[Catherine Battistone]] - Old Woman (ep. 2) |
* [[Catherine Battistone]] - Old Woman (ep. 2) |
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* [[Richard Cansino]] - Tanuki (ep. 6), Kawakubo Clan Member (ep. 11) |
* [[Richard Cansino]] - [[Japanese raccoon dog|Tanuki]] (ep. 6), Kawakubo Clan Member (ep. 11) |
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* [[Cam Clarke]] - Matashiro (ep. 8) |
* [[Cam Clarke]] - Matashiro (ep. 8) |
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* [[Lara Cody]] - Oyoshi (ep. 4) |
* [[Lara Cody]] - Oyoshi (ep. 4) |
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* [[Terrence Stone]] - Sajiro Ogata (ep. 7) |
* [[Terrence Stone]] - Sajiro Ogata (ep. 7) |
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* [[Kim Strauss]] - Gunhachiro Yamaoka (ep. 8) |
* [[Kim Strauss]] - Gunhachiro Yamaoka (ep. 8) |
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* [[Jim Taggert]] - Servant (ep. 5), Player (ep. 6), Jester (ep. 7) |
* [[Jim Taggert]] - Servant (ep. 5), Player (ep. 6), [[Jester]] (ep. 7) |
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* [[Kirk Thornton]] - Chojiro (ep. 5), Hyakkimaru (ep. 5) |
* [[Kirk Thornton]] - Chojiro (ep. 5), Hyakkimaru (ep. 5) |
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* [[Dan Woren]] - Matajiro Ishikawa (ep. 4), Taromaru (ep. 11) |
* [[Dan Woren]] - Matajiro Ishikawa (ep. 4), Taromaru (ep. 11) |
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===English Staff=== |
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* [[Steve Kramer (actor)|Steve Kramer]] - Voice Director |
* [[Steve Kramer (actor)|Steve Kramer]] - Voice Director |
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Revision as of 23:21, 27 December 2013
| Requiem from the Darkness | |
 Requiem from the Darkness poster featuring Momosuke Yamaoka and the Ongyo. | |
| 京極夏彦 巷説百物語 (Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari) | |
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| Genre | Horror, Crime, Mystery |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hideki Tonokatsu |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
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| Original network | Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 3, 2003 – December 26, 2003 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Requiem from the Darkness (京極夏彦 巷説百物語, Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari, lit. "Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Hundred Stories") is a series of novels by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. It was made into a horror anime series, licensed in English by Geneon Entertainment, and into a series of live action TV specials directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.
Plot
Taking place during the Bakumatsu age when the foundations of the Tokugawa government has began to sway, a young writer named Momosuke wishes to write a book of 100 ghost stories and his encounters with three spiritual beings.
While researching these old myths and legends, he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths, and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou, he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, and he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing....
Characters
- Momosuke Yamaoka
- Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese); Grant George (English)
- The main protagonist of the series. A young writer from Edo who got bored writing a riddle book for kids. He now aspires to write a book of 100 ghost stories. During his adventure to gather them, he encounters the Ongyou and witnesses their methods of imposing justice upon wrongdoers. He wishes to be one of the Ongyou, but each time he asks to join them they talk him out of it. He is called "Author" by the Ongyou. At the end of the series, Momosuke finishes his 100 ghost stories.
- Tsutaya
- Voiced by: Hiroshi Otake (Japanese); Tom Wyner (English)
- A small creature who is Momosuke's publisher.
- Heihachi
- Voiced by: Tom Fahn
- Heihachi is a co-worker of Momosuke.
- Kyogoku Tei
- Voiced by: Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Japanese); Neil Kaplan (English)
- The principal antagonist of the series. Kyogoku Tei is a being who serves as the superior to the Ongyou as he provides them their targets and even commissioned Momosuke's death at first to cover their existence until he saw him to be of use to his scheme. Assuming the alias of feudal lord Danjo Kitabayashi, Kyogoku Tei commits many inhuman acts as part of an overall plan to cover the world in darkness with the Flame Lance cannon. He was ultimately defeated by the Ongyou devoured by the very darkness of everyone who he used and killed.
- Black Hermit Voiced by: Masako Nozawa (Japanese); Mona Marshall (English)
- White Hermit Voiced by: Masako Nozawa (Japanese); Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)
- Two strange hermit ladies that work for Kyogoku Tei, serving as his messengers. On occasion they will change themselves into to young girls to trick the Ongyou into doing what they want them to. They are accidentally destroyed by Kyogoku Tei in the last episode.
- Tatsuta
- Voiced by: Keiko Toda (Japanese); Philece Sampler (English)
- Burning her childhood friend Shiragaku to death in a jealous rage with her husband to be, Tatsuta assumes her friend's name and developed a reputation as a rumored Hi-No-Enma as she kills anyone who "loves Shiragaku." She has evaded the Ongyou for a long time. Though the Ongyou attempt to deliver judgement, the Hermits intervene and take Tatsuta to serve under Kyogoku Tei. Unaware of the full plan, she helps him by orchestrating a massacre at Seven Man Point and forcing prisoners into becoming murderous sadists for a reenactment while the Flame Lance was being rebuilt. When Kyogoku Tei is destroyed, Tatsuta is consumed in the resulting inferno.
Ongyou
The three spiritual beings are recurring characters in the show who function as a team that punishes sinners who emit a dark aura about them, most frequently murderers. To that end, they use their talents to set their target up to face his/her crimes before being executed and committing them to the next world.
- Mataichi
- Voiced by: Ryusei Nakao (Japanese); Steve Kramer (English)
- A small cloaked man wrapped in bandages who serves as the leader of the Ongyou. He is a spiritualist who is also referred to as a trickster while posing as a simple monk. He would usually be the one to kill the target sinner with Retributive justice and leaves an Ofuda on the body so the departed can be "sent to the next world." Nagamimi commonly calls him "trickster". At the completion of his task, he uses the phrase "ongyō shitate matsuru (御行奉為、おんぎょうしたてまつる)." The beginning of every next episode preview, except the final episode when it's Momosuke's final line, he begins with the line, "Jyashin yashin wa yami ni chiri, nokoru wa chimata no ayashii uwasa (邪心野心は闇に散り、残るは巷の怪しい噂。)."
- Ogin
- Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese); Karen Strassman (English)
- An attractive, voluptuous and large breasted female puppeteer. She is often seen using a puppet in the form of a young girl with a white powdered face and red lipstick wearing a Japanese Kimono. Fifteen years prior, Ogin and her parents were murdered by Kinzo Sasamori, a corrupt official who posed as her father Giamon of Inarizika to force the homeless to work for him and created the rumor of Giamon as a Kowai to ensure it. As a spirit, she became a member of Ongyou to ensure that no other child suffers a fate like her own like saving her childhood friend Yae from Kichibe's madness. She often calls Momosuke a pervert due to him accidentally walking into her in a bathing room when they first met. Though she saw Momosuke to be weak for being naive, she eventually adapted his methods.
- Nagamimi
- Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese); Michael McConnohie (English)
- A large shape shifter and bird caller who is also extremely good at controlling animals. As the anime states, he is over 200 years old and was versed in Kabuki. He would always be the one to try to keep Momosuke from intervening with the Ongyou's targets.
Episodes
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Theme Song
The opening song "The Flame" and the ending song "The Moment of Love" were both performed by Keiko Lee.
Cast
Japanese voice actors
- Sanae Kobayashi - Ogin
- Natsuhiko Kyogoku - Kyogoku Tei/Danjo Kitabayashi
- Ryusei Nakao - Mataichi
- Masako Nozawa - Black Hermit, White Hermit
- Hiroshi Otake - Tsutaya
- Toshihiko Seki - Momosuke Yamaoka
- Keiko Toda - Tatsuta
- Norio Wakamoto - Nagamimi
Principal voice actors
- Dorothy Elias-Fahn - White Hermit, Otoku (ep. 2), Osome (ep. 9), Suzu (ep. 12)
- Tom Fahn - Heihachi
- Grant George - Momosuke Yamaoka
- Neil Kaplan - Kyogoku Tei/Danjo Kitabayashi
- Steve Kramer - Mataichi, Yahei Anzai (ep. 4)
- Mona Marshall - Black Hermit, Actress (ep. 6), Oriko (ep. 9), Innkeeper's Wife (ep. 11)
- Michael McConnohie - Nagamimi, Izou (ep. 3), Ryojin (ep. 10)
- Philece Sampler - Tatsuta, Shiragiku (ep. 10)
- Karen Strassman - Ogin
- Tom Wyner - Tsutaya
Additional Voices
- A.D. Adams - Shimazo (ep. 8)
- Jack Aubree - Kinzo Sasamori (ep. 9)
- Catherine Battistone - Old Woman (ep. 2)
- Richard Cansino - Tanuki (ep. 6), Kawakubo Clan Member (ep. 11)
- Cam Clarke - Matashiro (ep. 8)
- Lara Cody - Oyoshi (ep. 4)
- Barbara Goodson - Mrs. Ofaju, Otami (ep. 8), Young Shiragiku (ep. 10)
- Melora Harte - Willow Woman (ep. 2), Chio (ep. 9)
- Jody Jaress - Old Woman
- David Lodge - Kichibe (ep. 2)
- Dave Mallow - Fushimiya (ep. 7)
- Lara Jill Miller - Osan (ep. 5), Tei (ep. 6)
- Jeff Nimoy - Kijirou Hamada (ep. 8), Lord Sekiyama, Hyogo (ep. 11)
- Joe Ochman - Enkai (ep. 1)
- Joan-Carol O'Connell - Towa (ep. 3)
- Bob Papenbrook - Kaburagi (ep. 12-13)
- Allan Peters - Ukon Shinonome (ep. 12-13)
- Simon Prescott - Tokuemon (ep. 1), Shibaemon (ep. 6), Jihei (ep. 8), Kyoemon (ep. 10), Innkeeper (ep. 12)
- Stephanie Sheh - Otama (ep. 4), Yae (ep. 2)
- Peter Spellos - Tagamimi (ep. 8), Kawakubo Clan Member (ep. 11)
- Skip Stellrecht - Genba Sasayama (ep. 7)
- Doug Stone - Yasaku (ep. 3)
- Terrence Stone - Sajiro Ogata (ep. 7)
- Kim Strauss - Gunhachiro Yamaoka (ep. 8)
- Jim Taggert - Servant (ep. 5), Player (ep. 6), Jester (ep. 7)
- Kirk Thornton - Chojiro (ep. 5), Hyakkimaru (ep. 5)
- Dan Woren - Matajiro Ishikawa (ep. 4), Taromaru (ep. 11)
Crew
English Staff
- Steve Kramer - Voice Director
External links
- Requiem from the Darkness at Internet Movie Database
- Requiem from the Darkness (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia