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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: To almost every arc.
* [[BFS]]: The Medicine Peddler's sword looks so... stunted in its little case, but just wait until he gets his shape, truth and reason!
* [[Bland
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]] / [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: The Medicine Peddler's other form has red irises and black sclera; while he isn't "evil" per se, if you're a mononoke you had better stay well clear.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Just look at the page caption.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The mononoke, as explained in the manga.
* [[Body Horror]]: So very much. One word: fishbaby.
* [[Brother
* [[Call Back]]: A girl that worked for the family haunted by the bakeneko in ''[[Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales (Anime)|Ayakashi]]'' is a main character in the Umi-Bozu arc. What seem to be reincarnations of her and that entire family also show up in the last arc, mainly for the purpose of planting [[Epileptic Trees]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Tada no kusuriuri desu yo," or "I'm just a simple medicine peddler."
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* [[Closed Circle]]: About once an episode, often due to the Medicine Peddler closing off all the exits to prevent the mononoke attacking and/or escaping. Additionally, the Umi-Bozu arc is set on a boat and the Bakeneko arc in a train carriage.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: The Medicine Peddler, very subtly.
* [[Dark
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Every human exclusive to the Nue arc}}.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Medicine Peddler is shown to possess brutally dry wit, especially when it concerns people who annoy him or get in his way (like the samurai in the Bakeneko story from the ''Ayakashi'' series).
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* [[Editorial Synaesthesia]]: Artistically utilized in the Nue arc.
* [[Empathic Weapon]]: The demon sword, which seems to have a mind of its own and even speaks or screams occasionally ('''''"TOKIHANAAATSU"''''').
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Medicine Peddler]]: Well, [[No Name Given|what else are you going to call him]]?
* [[Faceless Masses]]: Done very stylishly. In Zashiki-Warashi they have flowers on their faces, and Bakeneko uses fashion mannequins.
* [[Facial Markings]]: And they [[Marked Change|change]] when he draws his sword.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Chou's mother from the Noppera-bou arc.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: No-one really knows anything about the Medicine Peddler; his past, origins, intentions, motivation for slaying mononoke, true personality and ''species'' all remain an enigma throughout.
* [[
* [[No Name Given]]: "Kusuriuri-san" it will have to be.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Sasaki Hyouei in the Umi-Bozu arc normally speaks in a quiet [[Creepy Monotone]], but completely loses his shit when trying to attack something {{spoiler|or being attacked by his greatest fear.}}
* [[Obake]] / [[Youkai]]
* [[Obnoxious
* [[Older Than They Look]] / [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: It's implied the main character has been around a ''long'' time. Even in the Bakeneko arc, set about 200 years later than the others, he still retains his youthful looks.
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: The Medicine Peddler even says that his job is just to defeat the Mononoke, and he has no obligation to save the people involved. Given the series' [[Grey and Grey Morality]] this makes sense.
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Oh hell, is there ever! The scenery is so rich, detailed and colourful it's like going on a (''very'' beautiful) acid trip.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Carrying over from the original Bakeneko story, Kayo gets some with the Medicine Peddler - while she's obviously attracted and he treats her more kindly than he does others, he still finds time to tease her (and the viewers).
* [["Silly Me" Gesture]]: The Medicine Peddler in the 9th episode with plenty of sarcasm, when he 'realizes' that he's given poisonous oleander to one of the characters.
* [[Situational Sword]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Very much on the cynical end.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: The main character definitely gets points for smoking a pipe at the end of the Noppera-Bo arc.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Officially, it's ''Mo No No Ke''.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Chou from the Noppera-Bo arc.
* [[The Stinger]]: Right when you think you've more or less got an arc figured out, its stinger will show up and confuses you to hell and back.
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* [[Theme Naming]]: All the tracks on the OST are written in katakana and end in "怪" (''ke''/''ge''), just like "Mononoke".
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: The radio plays the instrumental mix of the opening theme in Setsuko's room while she's writing in the Bakeneko arc.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: The Bakeneko's [[Catch Phrase|only first-hand dialogue]].
* [[Time Skip]]: The Bakeneko arc takes place in the 1920s while the rest appears to be set in the Edo Period, but the Medicine Peddler himself hasn't changed at all (besides having some new jewelery). There are arguably small hints in each arc that time skips forward about 50 years in between ''each'' of them.
* [[Tomato in The Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Genkei and Chou; they're actually the Mononoke and don't realize it.}}
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: The most ''AWESOME'' one ever animated. And it gets mixed up a ton, too. Never, ever boring; always super pretty.
* [[Twelve
* [[Unmoving Plaid]]: Further emphasizes the generally odd art style.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: ''Everyone''.
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*** It also uses aristocratic materials and styles, despite his humble profession; something that nobody ever comments on. But in the Bakeneko arc he at least explains that people who seek folk remedies expect their seller to look exotic.
*** His clothing design and style actually seems very familiar to the traditional wear of the Ainu, an indigenous Japanese race. Some of his facial markings also appear akin to the Ainu.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"Well Done, Daughter" Woman]]: Chou and her [[My Beloved Smother|domineering mother]] have this kind of relationship.
* [[White
** Those may be [[Justified Trope|justified]]; there was a historical custom in Japan during the Edo era called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro ohaguro] (link goes to the Other Wiki) in which the teeth were ornamentally coloured black. Mostly done by women, but men did colour their teeth on occasion. (In fact, teeth that were lacquered black were seen as quite attractive.) There's even conventions that combine ohaguro and ''noh'' mask-like makeup...
* [[Workaholic]]: It's even implied in episode 4 that should the Medicine Peddler be unable to exorcise a mononoke (or conversely, should all mononoke cease to exist) he'd ''disappear from this world''. So it's quite difficult to figure out whether he's truly devoted to his duty or whether he has no other choice -- though going by his frequent displays of enthusiasm and interest in the mononoke and their histories, he seems to be genuinely fond of 'work'.
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