I was scrolling through random animes on Tubi and ended up starting this one. Last night, I finished up the two-part finale.
Momosuke is an author trying to write a book of 100 ghost stories. As he travels around Japan, he encounters a strange group of three individuals who also seem to gravitate toward the supernatural. They are the Ongyou, and they seek out and punish sinners. Momosuke pops in constantly and basically gets in the way.
A bit of background on this - the show is based on the stories of Natsuhiko Kyogoku called The Wicked and the Damned. I saw seven of those in English, and the titles matched up to episodes in the show.
I don't know what drew me into this anime. The animation was pretty bad, and the music was worse. Momosuke annoyed me a lot of the time, because he would ask to go along with the Ongyou, but then he would get in the way purposely or accidentally. I think my favorite character was Mataichi. He was a trickster-ish man who posed as a monk and sent people to the afterlife.
Overall, I'm not sure what I think of this anime. I was entertained enough to make it through the whole thing, but it wasn't very long. Thirteen episodes isn't that much of a commitment. Most of the show was pretty disjointed until the end, and that's when a story came together to finish it out. I think that was the part I enjoyed the most. This anime will probably fade from my memory pretty quickly, but Mataichi will be one of those characters I'll remember.
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