Mushishi (蟲師?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara. It was serialized in Afternoon Seasons Zōkan from 1999 to 2002, and in Monthly Afternoon from December 2002 to August 2008. The individual chapters were collected and released into ten tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Those volumes were localized to North America by Del Rey between January 2007 and August 2010. The series follows Ginko, a man who dedicates himself to keep people protected from supernatural creatures called Mushi.
Manga[]
Written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi debuted as a one-shot in Monthly Afternoon on January 25, 1999. Later, it was serialized in the Kodansha seinen manga magazine Afternoon Seasons Zōkan from 1999 to 2002. It moved to Monthly Afternoon on December 25, 2002 and was serialized until August 25, 2008. Kodansha collected the chapters into ten bound volumes and published them under the Afternoon KC line from November 22, 2001, to November 21, 2008. In addition, two additional chapters were published in the magazine on November 25, 2012 and December 25, 2013, respectively. On November 21, 2013, Kodansha started to re-release Mushishi under the aizōban format in their KC Deluxe line, with the tenth and final volume published on July 23, 2014.
Chapters[]
| Volume | Chapter | Title | Anime Adaptation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Green Gathering | The Green Seat |
| 2 | The Soft Horns | Tender Horns | |
| 3 | The Pillow Path | The Pillow Pathway | |
| 4 | The Light in the Eyelids | The Light of the Eyelid | |
| 5 | The Traveling Bog | The Traveling Swamp | |
| 2 | 6 | The Mountain Sleeps | The Sleeping Mountain |
| 7 | The Sea of Brushstrokes | A Sea of Writings | |
| 8 | They That Breathe Ephemeral Life | Those Who Inhale the Dew | |
| 9 | Rain Comes and a Rainbow Is Born | Raindrops and Rainbows | |
| 10 | The Veil Spore | Cotton Changeling | |
| 3 | 11 | The Cry of Rust | The Sound of Rust |
| 12 | From the Ocean's Edge | Where Sea Meets Man | |
| 13 | The Heavy Seed | The Heavy Seed | |
| 14 | White Living in the Inkstone | The White Which Lives Within the Ink Stone | |
| 15 | The Fish Gaze | One-Eyed Fish | |
| 4 | 16 | Picking the Empty Cocoon | Pickers of Empty Cocoons |
| 17 | One-Night Bridge | One-Night Bridge | |
| 18 | Spring and Falsehoods | Pretense of Spring | |
| 19 | In the Cage | Inside the Cage | |
| 20 | The Sound of Trodden Grass | The Sound of Footsteps in the Grass | |
| 5 | 21 | The Sea Palace | Shrine in the Sea |
| 22 | Eye's Fortune, Eye's Misfortune | Eye of Fortune, Eye of Misfortune | |
| 23 | The Coat That Holds a Mountain | Clothes that Embrace the Mountain | |
| 24 | Flames of the Fields | The Journey to the Field of Fire | |
| 25 | The Snake of Dawn | Sunrise Serpent | |
| 6 | 26 | Heaven's Thread | String From the Sky |
| 27 | The Chirping Shell | The Warbling Sea Shell | |
| 28 | The Hand That Pets the Night | The Hand That Caresses the Night | |
| 29 | Under the Snow | Beneath the Snow | |
| 30 | Banquet in the Farthest Field | Banquet at the Forest's Edge | |
| 7 | 31 | Lost in Blossoms | Floral Delusion |
| 32 | The Mirror in the Muck | Mirror Lake | |
| 33 | At the Foot of Lightning | Lightning's End | |
| 34 | The Ragged Road (Part 1) | Path of Thorns | |
| 35 | The Ragged Road (Part 2) | ||
| 8 | 36 | The Milk of the Valley | Valley of the Welling Tides |
| 37 | The Bottom of Winter | Depths of Winter | |
| 38 | The Hidden Channel | Hidden Cove | |
| 39 | Sunshowers | Cloudless Rain | |
| 40 | The Mud Weeds | Mud Grass | |
| 9 | 41 | The Final Bit of Crimson | Lingering Crimson |
| 42 | The Whirlwind | Wind Raiser | |
| 43 | Stars in the Jar of the Sky | Sea of Otherworldly Stars | |
| 44 | Aquamarine | Azure Waters | |
| 45 | The Bed of Grass | Cushion of Grass | |
| 10 | 46 | The Thread of Light | Thread of Light |
| 47 | The Eternal Tree | Tree of Eternity | |
| 48 | The Scented Darkness | Fragrant Darkness | |
| 49 | Drops of Bells (Part 1) | Bell Droplets | |
| 50 | Drops of Bells (Part 2) |