Mushishi (anime)

The anime is based on the manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from January 1999 to August 2008

Mushishi focuses on the adventures of a Mushi Master, Ginko, who travels from place to place chasing rumors of occurrences that could be tied to Mushi.

Season 1
Mushishi Season 1 contains 26 episodes that aired between 23 October 2005 to 19 June 2006. The Mushishi manga won an Excellence Prize at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award.


 * 1) The Green Seat
 * 2) The Light of the Eyelid
 * 3) Tender Horns
 * 4) The Pillow Pathway
 * 5) The Traveling Swamp
 * 6) Those Who Inhale the Dew
 * 7) Raindrops and Rainbows
 * 8) Where Sea Meets Man
 * 9) The Heavy Seed
 * 10) The White Which Lives Within the Ink Stone
 * 11) The Sleeping Mountain
 * 12) One-Eyed Fish
 * 13) One-Night Bridge
 * 14) Inside the Cage
 * 15) Pretense of Spring
 * 16) Sunrise Serpent
 * 17) Pickers of Empty Cocoons
 * 18) Clothes that Embrace the Mountain
 * 19) String from the Sky
 * 20) A Sea of Writings
 * 21) Cotton Changeling
 * 22) Shrine in the Sea
 * 23) The Sound of Rust
 * 24) The Journey to the Field of Fire
 * 25) Eye of Fortune, Eye of Misfortune
 * 26) The Sound of Footsteps in the Grass

READ MORE AT Mushishi Special: Hihamukage


A special titled "Special Chapter: Sun-eating Shadow" (Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage) aired on January 4th, 2014.

READ MORE AT Mushishi Zoku Shou


The second season started airing in April 2014.


 * 1) Banquet at the Forest's Edge
 * 2) The Warbling Sea Shell
 * 3) Beneath the Snow
 * 4) The Hand that Caresses the Night
 * 5) Mirror Lake
 * 6) Floral Delusion
 * 7) Cloudless Rain
 * 8) The Wind Raiser
 * 9) Valley of the Welling Tide
 * 10) Depths of Winter
 * 11) The Thicket Path (Part 1)
 * 12) The Thicket Path (Part 2)

The show then went on a brief hiatus before resuming in October.


 * 1) Gross Darkness