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The Mushi-Shi Wiki is an encyclopedia devoted to Mushi, Mushi Masters, and what happens when the Mushi world and ours collide. Feel free to add and expand the archives; your input will feed the minds of generations to come... Just keep the policies and copyrights in mind while editing!

About
Mushishi (蟲師) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1999 to August 2008. The manga has 10 volumes, and roughly 50 chapters.

The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2005. The Artland production was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama. A live-action feature film adaptation, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, premiered on March 24, 2007.

The Mushishi manga won an Excellence Prize at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award.

The Mushishi anime is getting a second season in april.

Featured  Character
Ginko is the main character who is followed throughout the series solving mushi cases. He appears to be a very cold and serious person on the outside, but he treats humans with respect and stresses that the mushi are not evil, but merely trying to survive like everyone else. He rarely comes back to the same show location more than once, to reinforce his 'wanderer' status.

Ginko has white hair and an unearthly green-blue eye (his left eye is actually a glass eye), and has been like this ever since he was a child after he was affected by a mushi. He also wears more modern clothes compared to other characters, by wearing slacks, a button up shirt, and occasionally a trench coat.

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Featured Article
A mushi has been described as "life in its purest form". They are seemingly magical creatures which seem to make their home in rural areas, and most of them depend upon either forest or human life in order to live. This is why they are considered a form of parasite.

Some people have dedicated themselves to the study and understanding of mushi, and the most accomplished of these people are called Mushi masters.

Mushi play an important role all through out the entire series, their occurances is investigated by the protagonist Ginko.

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