The spirit completely consumes him and the King destroys the advancing enemy. Fearful, he allows an evil spirit to reside in his body.
Once home, the King is faced with the onset of yet another attack from an enemy army in addition to an angry wife, who then leaves home with her elder daughters while the youngest stays behind.
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Agreeing, the mononoke returns the King to his palace and announces he will return on the next full moon for his bride. The first draft of the story focused on the shortcomings of a King, who comes face to face with the inhabitant of a cave – a large wildcat mononoke, who threatens to kill him, until he offers one of his daughters as a bride to the mononoke. In 1995, after taking a break from the storyline, Miyazaki returned to researching and commenced animated production. There were however, elements that were incorporated into Mijazaki’s 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, which called for a revision to the story. Initial drawings and storyboards for Princess Mononoke centered on the basic premise of a daughter bring shunned by her father and betrothed to a frightening beast. The plot of the film has haunted renowned animator Hayao Miyazaki for quite some time.
Set in the late Japanese Muromachi Period, on the dawn of industrial revolution, Princess Mononoke explores the literal, tense relationship between man and the environment.