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MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage
10 Episodes
24 min each
SPRING 2014
Synopsis
They existed long before anyone can remember. They are simple and strange in nature, not resembling any other plant or animal in this world. In ancient times, people revered these bizarre creatures and called them "Mushi." People once again began to believe in the existence of these "Mushi" when they began affecting their lives in inexplicable ways. The one who connects the world of "Mushi" to the world of humans—they were called the "Mushi-shi." All life exists not to hinder others in this world. They are simply there to live as they were meant to.
Adventure
Fantasy
Mystery
Psychological
Slice of Life
Supernatural
Format
Unknown
Episodes
10
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
11 / 10 Episodes
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Episode 1
Banquet at the Forest's Edge
A sake brewer once lost his way home and chanced upon a strange ceremony. There, he tasted a sweet, glowing sake that he's never been able to forget. Years later, his son has followed in his footsteps and is trying to brew a sake to match his dad's. When he, too, encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be part of it, meeting Ginko during the occasion.
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Episode 2
The Warbling Sea Shell
Near a village by the sea, a girl lives with her father on a secluded crag. She wants to make friends, but her father, for some reason, doesn't want her associating with the village people. When Ginko arrives, he finds a mushi that's an omen of disaster. Will the girl's father be able to forgive past events and help the village?
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Episode 3
Beneath the Snow
Ginko visits a village where it snows most of the year to study snow mushi. He finds a boy with a strange affliction that causes snow to fall on him perpetually. He's become insensitive to the cold, and warmth is painful for him. It's dangerous for him to expose himself to the cold so much, but he doesn't even seem to care.
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Episode 4
The Hand That Caresses the Night
A young man has the power to lure animals to him using a scent issuing from his hand. He inherited this power from his father, and it makes hunting easier. But it makes the meat from his prey taste foul. More serious is the risk of losing his mind to the power and confusing family with prey. There's a cure, but will the boy be willing to give up his power?
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Episode 5
Mirror Lake
Ginko encounters a young woman being followed by a mysterious, watery creature. The woman becomes weak, and her family believes it to be lovesickness. Ginko reveals the truth of the mushi attached to her, but the woman must decide whether to give up her body to the mushi, or to dispel it and continue living.
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Episode 6
Floral Delusion
Ginko meets a woman with a striking beauty that lacks all five senses and according to the man who takes care of her, is over 80 years old and has lived in his family for generations. While investigating the mushi responsible for it, Ginko discovers an even darker secret involving the two.
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Episode 7
Cloudless Rain
A woman afflicted by a water-type mushi decides to make use of her condition to help those in need.
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Episode 8
Wind Raiser
While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type mushi able to create wind.
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Episode 9
Valley of the Welling Tides
Ginko falls unconscious on a snowy mountain. He is helped by locals who somehow manage to grow their fields despite the weather, mainly because of a worker with unabated stamina. But at what cost does this vigor come?
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Episode 10
Depths of Winter
On his way to answer a summons, Ginko is trapped on a mountain that has been sealed by the mountain lord, and is experiencing an eternal winter because of some trapped snow-mushi. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter?
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Episode 11
Path of Thorns
After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, young Ginko moved from place to place, due to his condition of attracting mushi. At one point he found himself instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro, in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord. Ginko wonders about his place in the world and the natural order, as Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared.
Characters
Voice Actors
Yuuto Nakano (japanese)
Ginko
Main
Voice Actors
Yuuji Ueda (japanese)
Adashino
Supporting
Voice Actors
Hisako Kyouda (japanese)
Tama Minai
Supporting
Voice Actors
Daisuke Kishio (japanese)
Isaza
Supporting
Voice Actors
Youko Hikasa (japanese)
Teru
Supporting
Voice Actors
Yuuto Uemura (japanese)
Rokusuke
Supporting
Staff
Yuki Urushibara
Original Creator
Hiroshi Nagahama
Director
Noboru Ishiguro
Supervisor
Hiroshi Nagahama
Series Composition
Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Character Design
Izumi Ichirou
Title Logo Design
Comments
Information
Aired
Apr 04, 2014
to Jun 20, 2014
Season
SPRING 2014
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
Artland
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PREQUEL
20526
SEQUEL
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