Mononoke tv series.

[UchihaBrat]

Wow~
Finishing the first episode, I'm liking it a lot!

It was as you said with the second episode, a wee bit difficult to follow unless you kept track on what usually would be felt in these situations, and what the different objects would symbolize in all that, as well as the fact that you were dealing with the supernatural here. Other than this it was really well written/directed for only two episodes, and the concept is intriguing!

What did you think about the first story?

 

[Supermacaquecool]

Wow~
Finishing the first episode, I'm liking it a lot!

It was as you said with the second episode, a wee bit difficult to follow unless you kept track on what usually would be felt in these situations, and what the different objects would symbolize in all that, as well as the fact that you were dealing with the supernatural here. Other than this it was really well written/directed for only two episodes, and the concept is intriguing!

What did you think about the first story?

It is one of the best directing I've seen in an anime ( Tho my fav director is still Anno :ghehe.
What I thought about the first story? hm...Is very difficult to sum...But here it comes:
My "review" on Zashiki-warashi (episodes 1 and 2).
The thing I loved the most about this story was the heart-breaking atmosphere. First we start with a very mysterious inn and a desperate pregnant woman who begs for shelter. She's then taken to the forbidden room of the inn, and by then you already know some creepy $hit is about to happen. However the feelings the characters got along the episode are really well developed (it was gud since the vast part of them weren't expecting the supernatural). I label episode 1 as one of the most effective suspense-wise I've seen. It really does its job raising expectations and giving small but significative hints about the upcoming Mononoke.
The ending it's perhaps the perfect climax moment. Really makes you desire to watch episode 2.
Now about episode 2, I loved the way the Mononoke made suffer every one xd But I loved so because I was suffering too! Also the scenes really made you get the point: Shino gets to a different room. There she sees the abortion table (but she's puzzled about that. She has no idea of what it is). However around that table, a lot of twisted events start to show up:
-A client using the "services". Despite it does't show anything weird, you (or at least I did xd) feel slightly sick because of the atmosphere. It also sort of gives you the cruel panorama of the pleasure business: Humans seeking to satisfy their own needs despite the consequences, women that are cornered to the point to sell their boies in order to survive, a ruthless brothel manager that only cares about the money, hence doesn't mind to get her hands dirty (not mentioning tha abuse and pain she made those women pass thorough). I swear it BRAKES your heart. But also, it makes you relfect, which is gud.
Despite Truth and Reason, the Medicine Seller still states such Mononoke shall be destroyed. It's an insane cliffhanger, don't you think?
What's your opinion of the ending?

 

[UchihaBrat]

It is one of the best directing I've seen in an anime ( Tho my fav director is still Anno :ghehe.
What I thought about the first story? hm...Is very difficult to sum...But here it comes:
My "review" on Zashiki-warashi (episodes 1 and 2).
The thing I loved the most about this story was the heart-breaking atmosphere. First we start with a very mysterious inn and a desperate pregnant woman who begs for shelter. She's then taken to the forbidden room of the inn, and by then you already know some creepy $hit is about to happen. However the feelings the characters got along the episode are really well developed (it was gud since the vast part of them weren't expecting the supernatural). I label episode 1 as one of the most effective suspense-wise I've seen. It really does its job raising expectations and giving small but significative hints about the upcoming Mononoke.
The ending it's perhaps the perfect climax moment. Really makes you desire to watch episode 2.
Now about episode 2, I loved the way the Mononoke made suffer every one xd But I loved so because I was suffering too! Also the scenes really made you get the point: Shino gets to a different room. There she sees the abortion table (but she's puzzled about that. She has no idea of what it is). However around that table, a lot of twisted events start to show up:
-A client using the "services". Despite it does't show anything weird, you (or at least I did xd) feel slightly sick because of the atmosphere. It also sort of gives you the cruel panorama of the pleasure business: Humans seeking to satisfy their own needs despite the consequences, women that are cornered to the point to sell their boies in order to survive, a ruthless brothel manager that only cares about the money, hence doesn't mind to get her hands dirty (not mentioning tha abuse and pain she made those women pass thorough). I swear it BRAKES your heart. But also, it makes you relfect, which is gud.
Despite Truth and Reason, the Medicine Seller still states such Mononoke shall be destroyed. It's an insane cliffhanger, don't you think?
What's your opinion of the ending?

Oh man, you're right about the ending of the first episode: I wanted to watchd the second so bad,y, but couldn't since I had to go somewhere away from my computer!:T_T:

Hmm~ why yes indeed! The 'red light districts' of olden Japan really were brutal: the way women were thought of, how they were treated and so on. There are many series that show you this, Vagabond being an example, where they brush by it slightly. But that's also the effectiveness of it!: If you can't show(not necessarily needing to show any explicit scenes) the harsh truth about life in a harsh way(no sugar coating), it's hard to take things as seriously as one would watching/reading, lets say '[insert random kids anime]'.

The ending gave me hope, sort of.
Like how you needn't rely on a sword to cut things away when it gets tricky, but can solve things through getting to the rot of the problem to begin with: showing that you do care in this case.
I think the overall concept of mononoke is brilliant!