Mushi-Shi (2005)

Mushi-Shi

Original title: Mushishi
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8.5 / 10(16,201)

Mushi Master Ginko travels from place to place investigating occurrences that could be tied to supernatural creatures called Mushi.

Rated
TV-14
Runtime
25m
Released
2005
Country
Japan

Details

Release year: 2005

Storyline

Mushi Master Ginko travels from place to place investigating occurrences that could be tied to supernatural creatures called Mushi.

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Did you know

Based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Afternoon Season Zokan from 1999 to 2002, and in Monthly Afternoon from December 2002 to August 2008. The individual chapters were collected and released into ten tankobon volumes by Kodansha.

Mushishi is an adaptation of Yuki Urushibara's award-winning manga of the same name. The series adapts the first 26 chapters of the manga, adapting one per episode. The anime aired these stories in a different order than that of the manga.

The series won the Tokyo Anime Award in the Television category in 2006. The series premiered on October 23, 2005, but went on hiatus on March 12, 2006 after having aired 20 episodes. Broadcast resumed on May 15, and aired the remaining 6 episodes, concluding on June 19, 2006.

Episodes

27 episodes – 1 seasons

User reviews

9/10

Extraordinary yet subtle

👍 72 · 10/19/2006
9/10

Mushi-shi is a pure masterpiece

👍 29 · 2/17/2011
9/10

Mindbogglingly Spectacular! :p

👍 23 · 4/11/2012

Technical specs

Aspect ratio
1.78 : 1, 16 : 9
Color
Color
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