Category: Mushishi

This was an important episode, as we get some more character informagion about Ginko himself. We learn why he chose to be a traveling mushishi, even though it’s only briefly mentioned, and for the first time in the series, we meet up with another mushishi (Majiko). In his younger years, this guy resembled Ginko somehow, before something very tragic happens to him. This episode featured him finally solving this problem he created years ago. We also see Ginko getting nervous for the first time in the series.

Anyway, this was another brilliant episode, typical of mushishi. It was worth every second of seeing it.

I may be wrong, but this is the first time i’ve actually seen hail in anime. Perhaps the first time I’ve seen hail on television as well… Why are the movie makers and such so afraid to add hail into the show? It happens pretty often, doesn’t it?

Anyway, this episode was another masterpiece. We see a certain character return in this episode. This time, his hobby has caused hhim some problems, and it’s up to Gin to solve it. The woman’s story was also amazingly told. I could really feel along with her. And it was so beautiful to see the kids get healed.

I’m only wondering why it was so convienient fr Gin to be in the neighbourhood, and the woman also lived relatively close by. I wonder what would have happened when they were a fair distance removed from each other.

This episode was again full of ingenious plot twists. The borders of good and bad get thrown aside, even more than what happened in the previous episodes. Furthermore, we get some nice moral issues put in front of us.

Overall, I liked this episode. It is by no means the best Mushishi has ever delivered, but I still enjoyed this while watching. The view of immortality was also nicely executed, without making it seem too powerful. I was also really surprised at the desicion the guy made at the end. Any other character from any other anime would have made the other choice.

The story in this episode was a hopeless case: a man lost his wife on a boat trip through an unfortunate encounter with mushi, and he’s been waiting for her for over 2,5 years. Of course she’s dead afterwards, but the creators still manage to give the viewer some hope about it. And they also manage to turn this into a great story to tell. I once again loved the semi-sad ending of it. I had some doubts when the episode started, because nothing seemed to happen. It may have been because my computer wasn’t listening again, but it also may have been the intention of the creators to tell this story as calmly as possible. And well, they succeeded, because all those doubts were vanished once the ending theme came in. I really felt that this episode couldn’t have been more complete.

There’s one thing that irks me about mushishi though, and that is the fact that Jinko manages to turn up at exactly the right time to interfere. Okay, in fifty percent of the cases it is because of his intuition and research, but in the other fifty it’s just a good dose of luck that he runs into these people.

This episode had the same concept as the other episodes of Mushishi. While not as dark as the other ones, the story did again captivate me, even though it was lighter then in most of the episodes. This episode also ended wonderfully. It was nice to see a Mushishi episode like this for once.

The episode is simply about a man trying to catch a rainbow, who appears to be a mushi. I’ve found it amazing that the creators managed to put such a concept, which is mostly used in little children’s shows, into a serious storyline which actually makes sense, and even fill a whole episode with this without becoming boring. We also get some nice life lessons on the way. As someone who has followed phylosophy lessons, I’m appreciating those little things.

Holy god. This anime really messes with the rules of common anime. Whereas there normally are a good and an evil party, or sometimes a combination of those two, but still you can bring it down to those two concepts. In Mushishi, it is very difficult to see this mark. The mushi may be causing the problems, but they are also just trying to survive. The same goes in this episode. The mushi, although considered evil in the beginning, are just misused by the humans. And although they may be causing humans to experience those things by dying every day, again and again, they do give the humans a feeling of accomplishment and happiness. Is that evil, or is it good? I also loved the way this episode ended. I’m a big fan of endings that aren’t totally happy, but still not entirely full of despair. This episode covered it perfectly. At the beginning of the episode, I did have some doubts though, but they were all washed away once the end theme started.

Hmm, not as good as the previous episode, but still, this episode moved me again. We have a girl being sacrificed to stop the flooding of a village, but then she gets rescued by a large green mushi, in the form of a travelling swamp. Her hair turns green, and she doesn’t want anything other than to stay with the swamp, while the swamp is actually on its way to die at the sea.

I like the way this anime doesn’t try to impress us with fast pacing and lots of action to make the character keep watching. It just calmly tells the horrifying stories the characters have to tell, and that’s the power of this anime.

I’m also curious if the creators will introduce an overall storyline in one of the following episodes. If they don’t, well then that’s fine with me. I’m happy enough with all the individual stories. If they do, however, this can become just as interesting.

And a final note to self: get the soundtrack once it comes out!

Another very interesting, unique series. Rather then having a couple of protagonists and antagonists chasing after each other, or something like that, this anime follows some guy, who knows a lot about creatures called "mushi". Normally mushi and humans can live along with each other pretty well, but there are cases in which they clash. The humans in question then begin to develop strange, supernatural symptoms. This guy then comes as a kind of doctor, to solve this.

It doesn’t really sound impressive, but it works actually pretty well. I’m also happy that every episode doesn’t have the "ooh, everything is fine and solved now, we can happily live our lives again, nothing has changed" – ending. After each episode, the mushi leave their trace.

This time, the mushi make a random guy having his dreams turned into reality, and thus killing off his entire village. It can’t get any better than this, can it? >:)