The Medicine Vendor first appeared in the Bake Neko (“Goblin Cat”) arc of an earlier TV anime series: Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, which aired as part of Fuji TV’s noitaminA programming block in 2006.
In both Ayakashi and Mononoke, the Medicine Vendor is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai, but his performance is notably more wry and detached in the latter than in the former.
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