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Stark700
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Season 01: Mushishi (TV) (discussed here) Season 02: Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) Source: Manga (completed @ 10 volumes by Yuki Urushibara) Demographic: Seinen Animation Studio: Artland Genres: adventure, drama, mystery, psychological, slice of life, supernatural Themes: anthology, contemplation, detective, Edo period, existentialism, folklore, iyashikei, medicine, mysticism, mythology, nature, redemption, spirits, spirituality, tragedy Plot Summary: Mushi; the life-blood of nature. They exist everywhere in various forms: micro-organisms, fungi, bodies of water. Sometimes, they're even mistaken to be plants, animals, or spirits. But regardless of their appearance, they exist, nonetheless, living the only way they know how. At times, their actions can cause strange or unexplainable phenomena. Enter Ginko, the Mushishi (mushi master), as he continues encountering, studying, and dealing with the mysterious mushi along his journey into the unknown. Air Date & Platform: Season 01: October 21, 2005 (Friday) Available on: Crunchyroll, Hulu Season 02: April 4, 2014 (Friday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Season 01: 26 episodes Season 02: 20 episodes Total: 46 episodes ---------------------------------- EPISODE INDEX ([Eventually..] Clicking on the episode will take you to Tony K.'s post that has a summary, comments, and screen-caps) Episode 01: Banquet at the Forest's Edge Episode 02: The Warbling Sea Shell Episode 03: Beneath the Snow Episode 04: The Hand That Caresses The Night Episode 05: Mirror Lake Episode 06: Floral Delusion Episode 07: Cloudless Rain Episode 08: Wind Raiser Episode 09: Valley of the Welling Tides Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 Episode 14 Episode 15 Episode 16 Episode 17 Episode 18 Episode 19 Episode 20 Special Movie ---------------------------------- Anime Marathon Discussion (Nov. 6th, 2015 - Nov. 15th, 2015) starts here ---------------------------------- Second Season of Mushishi Episode 1: That was lovely. I'm so glad the show is back in full force as Ginko once again gets himself involved with Mushi and a man that seeks the truth. The ED is so smooth to the years tbh and the atmosphere remains the same from what I remember from the special and season 1. [EDIT: Added fancy opener stuff and index. -TK] |
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FilmCollectsDust
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I liked it a lot too. I'm so glad we get to see more stuff from the manga. Same relaxing tone as always. I also thought the opening song was nice.
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RAmmsoldat
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oh man, its like it never went away. I always fear that when I've liked something and its been away for a while it will come back and be changed but this has the same vibe as the first series from that first episode
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Tony K.
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I think the thing with Mushishi is that its formula is perfect for a very unique kind of storytelling. It's mysterious, mystical, has elements of drama and/or suspense, has an aura of supernatural wonder and amazement, but all at the same time possessing a sense of moral relatability that pretty much anybody can empathize for. You sit there and watch an episode, see the stories unfold, and just kinda' absorb it as a "natural occurrence," of sorts.
I haven't seen this new series, yet. But I've been wanting to finish my thread for the first series for a while, now. Maybe it's time I go back and finish it... EDIT: I took the liberty of updating the Encyc. entry with genres, themes, and a plot summary, then copied and pasted them to the opening post. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Aside from all the wonderful things inherent in Mushi-Shi overall, I think what I found so refreshing in that episode was the moment when Ginko just took the time to listen to the guy's story. So often in anime - or any drama, for that matter, characters in distress get steam-rollered by events or the impatience or obtuseness of other characters when everything could be cleared up so easily if they were just given a chance to explain! And although Ginko is a veteran listener, even he was almost ready to take him back there for a second. So yeah, that scene felt really good to me.
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chefneer
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I haven't seen it, and I probably won't for some time. The broadband connection in the dump in which I currently reside is broadband in name only.
However, I do fervently hope - and beseech the gods for their blessing - that this series will ultimately get a North American home video release. DVD or BD, I don't care. This is one of my favorite shows and season two would look very good on my shelf next to season one. Yes it would. |
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Errinundra
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Mushi-Shi is weaving its magic over me once again.
The second episode is classic Mushi-Shi. It's languid, heartfelt, gentle and ineffable. Like the pure, chiming notes of the soundtrack it doesn't say much but what it does, it does with utter conviction. Everything is so simple: from the sighing of the water along the sea shore to the design of the characters to the story itself. And yet... and yet it had me in tears in the end. |
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danilo07
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This show is so brilliant.In a typical Mushishi fashion,the creator took a seemingly simple story and tied numerous themes to it.They are tied in a logical and precise manner,so the story still maintains it's simplicity.
The main theme was the necessity of living in a society.The character in our story wants to protect his own in this case his family.He think that the best way to achieve that is through seclusion.But at the end he realizes that humans can only function if they are a part of society.There were also ideas about the harshness of nature,forgiveness and the acceptance of death.Moore on to the nature part.Though Mushishi often has ecological themes,the nature is never seen as the wholly good entity that is being destroyed by evil and selfish humans(a la Terrence Malick). No,nature is neither good or bad,it is neutral,irrational and uncontrollable.Like in this episode,people died and had to risk their lives because of the cruelness of nature but at the end spoiler[the nature paradoxically gave them pearls that saved them.] Also is it me or is every episode of Mushishi ending with some gorgeous shot?I mean the first season had a lot of those,but not in every episode. |
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zawa113
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Episode 1
I'm one of those dirty peasants who don't pay for crunchyroll, but I don't mind being a week behind either. I liked the new OP song. And it's more classic mushishi! I feel like most comments will be "it's more of the same, and that is awesome" I am curious if that stuff will make an appearance later in the show though. I should try drinking sake in other news. |
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AiddonValentine
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More of the same is good enough for me.
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Knoepfchen
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I am very happy and grateful to have these little, yet so incredibly powerful stories back in my life. The second episode especially felt like we never left Ginko and his intriguing, frightening, poetic, and enchanting world. More of the same is a very good thing.
edit: Just watched ep. 3, the best of the new episodes for me so far. A poetic, and, in retrospect, powerfully moving intro followed by a touching story full of characters acting so organically around one another that they, as they always do with Mushi-shi, felt like complex, real, and breathing characters I can care about more than other characters I get to know for much longer than 20 something minutes. The little girl whose innocence is very much able to grasp, if not understand the sadness of the snow's inability to decide where it's going to fall, spoiler[the heart of her brother turned cold by grief, protected from death by snow falling under water and brought back to life by the sound of his friend's warm heartbeat, the snowflake turning into a final tear on his once again warm cheek] - hauntingly beautiful. |
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Tony K.
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Quick question: would anybody be opposed to me hijacking this thread with my Mod powers and doing what I did with the first series?
Obviously, I can't do pics of the physical media since it's not out yet, and I doubt I'll be able to buy it ('cause it's licensed by Aniplex, which means it'll be way out of my budget). But I can at least do the whole master index (for my own posts, anyway), plot summary, comments, and screencaps thing to create some uber intellectual discussion material, right? |
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Gina Szanboti
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Aniplex? Guess that means no continuation of the dub, huh. Oh well.
I'd love it if you used your magic powers on this series! I wish you'd used them to finish the first season past 13, but what you can, when you can is my motto.  I look forward to your (and everyone's) analyses of the new episodes, since everyone always sees what I don't.
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Tony K.
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My thread for the first series is currently being continued. I decided to start updating it again after season 2 debuted. If you read the latest post, it essentially states that my updates will be a once-a-week entry on Fridays. That way, it gives everybody plenty of time to read it thoroughly and let it all sink in through the weekend.
Hmm, now that I think about it. If I do both series, I should probably space each one out. Fridays for season 1, and maybe Mondays for season 2? One for a weekend read and Two for a weekly? Yeah, that sounds good. Mushishi all week long  !
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Gina Szanboti
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The new season made me try to recommend this to a friend, which in turn made me pull out my disks to watch again to remember what they would be watching.
In doing so, I've noticed that so far this season seems to be echoing the first season.
The series began with The Green Seat, in which the Mushi Banquet and kouki figured heavily, while this season kicked off with a sort of Mushi-shi banquet centered around kouki. S1 E2 was Eyelid's Light (which I hadn't remembered coming so early in the series), a story about a child, who had effectively lost her sight, separated from her family and community, while S2 E2 was also about a child, who had effectively lost her voice, separated from her community. S1 E3 was The Tender Horns, which like S2 E3, is about snow country and the people and mushi who live there. Further details reveal additional parallels in all of the above, but I won't dig that deep for now. Despite that, it doesn't feel like they've "run out of ideas" or anything like that, but rather that it might be a deliberate revisiting of previous themes. I mean, we don't think nature has run out of ideas because it keeps making Spring. I just wonder if they will continue like that for the rest of the series?
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