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.
