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Apr 4, 2014 · Watch MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage Mushi-shi, on Crunchyroll. Kouki--a stream of light flowing deep underground, the font of all life. When a man ignorant of its effects on the living...
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Mushi-Shi: Next Passage: Created by Yuki Urushibara. With Yûto Nakano, Mika Doi, Tomomi Saito, Kôki Uchiyama. They are creatures only known as 'Mushi'. While their existence are unknown to the humans, there are a few like Ginko who is a 'Mushi-shi' that travels around to investigate and find out more about the 'Mushi.'.
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Mushishi is set in an imaginary time between the Edo and Meiji periods, featuring some 19th-century technology but with Japan still as a "closed country". The story features ubiquitous creatures called Mushi(蟲) that often display what appear as supernatural powers. It is implied that there are many more primitive lifeforms than "normal" living thin...
Manga
Written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi was first published as a one-shot in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon on January 25, 1999. It later started its serialization in the first issue of Kodansha's Afternoon Season Zōkan[ja], released on October 10, 1999. The magazine ceased publication after 14 issues, and the series moved to Monthly Afternoon on December 25, 2002, and was serialized until August 25, 2008. Kodansha collected the chapters into ten tankōbon volumes, published under t...
Anime
The Mushishi anime adaptation was animated by Artland, directed by Hiroshi Nagahama, and produced by a group called "Mushishi Production Committee", which consists of Marvelous Entertainment, Avex Entertainment and SKY Perfect Well Think. The first 20 episodes of the series originally aired between October 23, 2005, and March 12, 2006, on Fuji Television.[a] A digest was broadcast on May 7, 2006, by BS Fuji, which aired the last six episodes from May 14 to June 18 of the same year. Marvelous...
Other merchandise
Several books based on Mushishi have been released. A guidebook titled Mushishi Official Book was released by Kodansha on January 23, 2006. On June 30, and July 20, 2007, were released an artbook, and a book with staff commentaries on the anime series production, respectively. Two Anime Hōsōjun Selection(アニメ放送順セレクション) books have been released on April 23, and May 14, 2014; a Utage-hen(宴編, lit. "Feast Edition ") and a Odoro-hen(棘編, lit. "Thorn Edition") respectively.On June 19, 2015, a "large...
Awards and public response
The series has won numerous awards: in 2003, the manga was awarded an Excellence Prize for manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival, while in 2006, the series won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. At the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival, both the anime and manga series were placed among the top 10 in their respective categories for best manga and anime. The anime series won grand prizes in the categories of television series and best art direction (for Takashi Waki) at the 5th Tokyo...
Critical reception
Mushishi was chosen as the best manga of 2007 by Deb Aoki of About.com, elected the best anime series of 2007 by Anime News Network's Carl Kimlinger, and was ranked seventh by Ramsey Isler in IGN's list of the Top Anime of 2007. Aoki called it "a rare breed of manga: a smartly-written, original story that's told with simple yet mesmerizing imagery." Similarly, Kimlinger declared that "Its hypnotic rhythm, humanism, and naturalist's eye for beauty give it a charm that far outstrips mere entert...
Mushishi official manga website at Monthly Afternoon (in Japanese)Mushi-Shi official anime website (in Japanese)Mushishi (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopediaDec 20, 2014 · Watch MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage Tree of Eternity, on Crunchyroll. The one place that has stood the test of time, but humans have come. But the memories aren’t lost.
48min 2014. 13+. Anime · Adventure. Free trial of Crunchyroll. Watch with Crunchyroll. Start your 7-day free trial. Details. They are creatures only known as ‘Mushi,’ whose abilities range well into the supernatural.
