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  • A mushishi is a sort of travelling shaman who employs remedies against different forms of mushi, spirit creatures that attack the human body, causing all manner of illnesses and disabilities.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2009

  • My favorite comes in the second volume, when Ginko visits the mushishi library.

    The Manga Moveable Feast: Mushishi 2010

  • My favorite comes in the second volume, when Ginko visits the mushishi library.

    April « 2010 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2010

  • Summary: In the second volume's five stories, Ginko encounters a mountain master who wishes to return his powers to the mushi, a young woman who can only dispel her curse by recording the tales of mushishi, a parasite mushi who shares its intense life experience with its human hosts, a bridge architect in pursuit of a rainbow-like mushi, and a fungal mushi that distributes its spores by budding off appendages that look like children.

    Manga Mondays with Kethylia 1/7 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Summary: Ginko is a mushishi, an expert on primordial forms of life known as mushi.

    Manga Mondays with Kethylia 1/7 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Possibilities include mushishi (Mushishi), visual novel creator (NHK) and professional Go player (Hikaru no Go).

    Comments for Azure Flame 2009

  • Sound of Rust "story seen in anime episode 23, and is as highly enjoyable but not quite top tier as that episode. 34 is actually the first of a multi-part story featuring a rival mushishi with a troubled backstory - I can't say I knew exactly what was going on, but an interesting chapter nonetheless.

    Comments for Azure Flame 2009

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