Have any thoughts on the way I play The Medicine Seller, your simple, ordinary Medicine Seller by day and exorcist by night from MoNoNoKe? Please do not hesitate to post your comments, suggestions, questions, reactions, and everything in between here. (Of course, all comments shall be screened to protect your privacy ( Read more... )

As a background to the Medicine Seller's existence, one must note that he is an exorcist-aside from being your ordinary Medicine Seller. What does he exorcise? Ayakashi and mononoke.

An ayakashi is a demon that is unnatural and has always existed around the world and its people. They in themselves cause havoc, and their ways are not understandable ( Read more... )

[When the video flickers on, one can see pale, spidery hands gripping a pestle. A mortar is on a garish kimono. The hands are moving ( Read more... )

[The crunch of sand beneath wood]

[Hissing, sliding, rhythmic and dry.]

[Long fingers drifting across a screen-]

[A purple-lipped smile.]

Hoh.
[whisper, whisper]

[what is that?]

How
     interesting.

I'd like
   a word
       with
you.

Kindly madams. Sirs.

If you would spare
a simple Medicine Seller
some time.