Mushi-shi: The Complete Series
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Brand: FunimationDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 654 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation
Movie Reviews of Mushi-shi: The Complete Series
Movie Review: Mushi Shi
Summary: 5 Stars
"Mushi Shi" is about a man named Ginko, who travels around helping people who are having problems due to encounters with creatures called "Mushi". Mushi are unusual creatures. For one thing, they seem to be a whole other kingdom of life, distinct from both plants and animals. For another, very few people can actually see them. Supposedly, they are responsible for many of the old folk tales and legends about ghosts, spirits, etc.
People who can see these creatures (there are many species of mushi) and
choose to study them are called Mushi Masters, or "Mushi Shi". In addition to compiling stories and observations, they also try to help people by driving away or destroying troublesome mushi, or teaching people to avoid or cope with them when they can't be exterminated or driven off.
The stories are all told like old Japanese folk tales. There is no
definite chronological sequence to them, and no over-all story arc to the
series. This helps to enhance the "folk tale" type atmosphere. Another
thing that gives this series a strong Japanese flavor is that there isn't
always a happy ending or a moral. It's just a story about what happened,
and you make of it what you will.
The artwork in the series is beautiful. The series is set in the mountains of Japan, so the backgrounds are usually green and lush. I wasn't able to figure out a time frame - the series seems to favor a mostly primitive technology, with scrolls rather than books, no electricity, and no internal combustion engines - and yet they have some standard scientific gear, like scalpels and glass slides, microscopes and telescopes. The stories are all told in a laid back manner, and the music (at least the opening song) sounds like something that Paul Simon would have written.
*** small spoiler ***
I think my favorite episode is one about a girl who found a thread hanging down from the sky. She reached out and grabbed it, and was whisked away up into the sky. Ginko found her a little while later, sitting in the top of a tree. He could tell that she had been in contact with a mushi, because she had been affected by it to the point where normal people probably wouldn't have been able to see her. It turns out that she had been caught by a mushi that dwells high in the atmosphere. It tried to eat her, found that she was too big to swallow, and spit her back out. Her good luck was that she landed in a tree. Ginko gave her some medicine to return her to a visible form, and left her in the care of her fiancé. Because of her experience, she nearly faded away from our world altogether, but because the love she shared with her fiancé served as an anchor, eventually she returned to normal.
*** end spoiler ***
I liked this series. I won't say that it was terribly exciting, but every
episode was interesting, the main character was engaging, and the overall
feel was... comfortable.
Summary of Mushi-shi: The Complete Series
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