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Season 2, 20 episodes

Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge
- Now playing
- 24m
- Apr 5, 2014
A sake brewer once lost his way home and chanced upon a strange ceremony. There, he tasted a sweet, glowing sake that he's never been able to forget. Years later, his son has followed in his footsteps and is trying to brew a sake to match his dad's. When he, too, encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be part of it, meeting Ginko during the occasion.
Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell
- 24m
- Apr 12, 2014
Near a village by the sea, a girl lives with her father on a secluded crag. She wants to make friends, but her father, for some reason, doesn't want her associating with the village people. When Ginko arrives, he finds a mushi that's an omen of disaster. Will the girl's father be able to forgive past events and help the village?
Episode 3: Beneath the Snow
- 24m
- Apr 19, 2014
Ginko visits a village where it snows most of the year to study snow mushi. He finds a boy with a strange affliction that causes snow to fall on him perpetually. He's become insensitive to the cold, and warmth is painful for him. It's dangerous for him to expose himself to the cold so much, but he doesn't even seem to care.
Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night
- 24m
- Apr 26, 2014
A young man has the power to lure animals to him using a scent issuing from his hand. He inherited this power from his father, and it makes hunting easier. But it makes the meat from his prey taste foul. More serious is the risk of losing his mind to the power and confusing family with prey. There's a cure, but will the boy be willing to give up his power?
Episode 5: Mirror Lake
- 24m
- May 3, 2014
Ginko encounters a young woman being followed by a mysterious, watery creature. The woman becomes weak, and her family believes it to be lovesickness. Ginko reveals the truth of the mushi attached to her, but the woman must decide whether to give up her body to the mushi, or to dispel it and continue living.
Episode 6: Floral Delusion
- 24m
- May 10, 2014
Ginko meets a woman with a striking beauty that lacks all five senses and according to the man who takes care of her, is over 80 years old and has lived in his family for generations. While investigating the mushi responsible for it, Ginko discovers an even darker secret involving the two.
Episode 7: Cloudless Rain
- 24m
- May 24, 2014
A woman afflicted by a water-type mushi decides to make use of her condition to help those in need.
Episode 8: Wind Raiser
- 24m
- Jun 7, 2014
While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type mushi able to create wind.
Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide
- 24m
- Jun 14, 2014
Ginko falls unconscious on a snowy mountain. He is helped by locals who somehow manage to grow their fields despite the weather, mainly because of a worker with unabated stamina. But at what cost does this vigor come?
Episode 10: Depths of Winter
- 24m
- Jun 21, 2014
On his way to answer a summons, Ginko is trapped on a mountain that has been sealed by the mountain lord, and is experiencing an eternal winter because of some trapped snow-mushi. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter?
Episode 11: Cushion of Grass
- 24m
- Oct 19, 2014
After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, young Ginko moved from place to place, due to his condition of attracting mushi. At one point he found himself instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro, in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord. Ginko wonders about his place in the world and the natural order, as Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared.
Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness
- 24m
- Oct 26, 2014
A man feels something vaguely familiar, yet terrifying, as he smells the scent of flowers at night. As an old man, walking through the woods, he finds a tunnel, and is compelled to enter it. While going through it, he reminisces about important events in his life up to that point, but it seems there is something he can't quite recall. Perhaps long ago, the visit of a traveler looking for shelter on a rainy day, might help shed light on the unsettled feeling he has.
Episode 13: Lingering Crimson
- 24m
- Nov 2, 2014
At dusk, about to go home after playing with her friends, a young girl named Akane found a shadow without a caster. On that same day, she disappeared. Several years later, Ginko is told the story of Mikage, a girl who appeared with no memories at Akane's village shortly after the vanishing of the latter.
Episode 14: Hidden Cove
- 24m
- Nov 9, 2014
Yura and Sumi, the former's caretaker, were close friends. Eventually, as they were moved apart, Yura could still feel Sumi's presence. However, whenever that happened, she'd become like an empty shell, worrying her father. As Ginko comes to know of the case, he proceeds to offer them advice, as the condition is caused by a mushi that can connect people's minds.
Episode 15: Thread of Light
- 24m
- Nov 16, 2014
A young boy named Gen troubles his father by being too rough with other kids, who pick on him due to his absent mother. The child, too strong for his age, also claims to be able to see strange creatures that no one else sees. As Ginko arrives at Gen's place, the story behind Gen's strength is revealed as the mushishi recounts the day he met a woman who'd woven a mysterious seamless garment.
Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars
- 24m
- Nov 23, 2014
Izumi is alone in a world that mirrors our own. Having forgotten how she came to be there, she remains trapped while her family searches in vain. Her father believes she has been kidnapped, while her mother and sister Mizuho believe that she is still inside the house, even though they cannot see her. Ginko crosses into the other world to try to save her.
Episode 17: Azure Waters
- 24m
- Nov 30, 2014
Ginko encounters Yuuta, a boy who is excellent at swimming and fishing but has webbed hands and cold skin. After discovering the boy's unnatural affinity for water, he sets out to treat the rain mushi causing his strange behavior.
Episode 18: Lightning's End
- 24m
- Dec 7, 2014
Multiple lightning strikes have been observed hitting the same tree, and Ginko investigates. He meets a strange boy who attracts lightning to himself due to a mushi's influence. His mother believes he is doing it to spite her and struggles with the fact that she doesn't love her child.
Episode 19: Mud Grass
- 24m
- Dec 14, 2014
Shigeru's daughter (Yuri) is found dead in the mountains. A painful skin infection breaks out in his village. Ginko can cure the disease of the villagers but Shigeru has a much more serious case. It turns out that he and the son of his deceased brother brought back the mushi causing the problem to the village when they broke a taboo.
Episode 20: Tree of Eternity
- 24m
- Dec 21, 2014
A restless man, Kanta, on his way home to his wife and young daughter (Futaba), sits down to rest in a forest. He is tired and thirsty so he eats a red fruit that was lying on the ground near him, and gives thanks to the plum. Some time after this, he starts having vivid memories both in his dreams and while awake of times going back before his birth. He goes looking for a huge tree but finding it does not make him happy.

The cure lies in the curse.

2005 to 2014
Rated TV-14
2 seasons
24m per episode
Animation
Drama
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.1TMDB(256)

Overview

Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.

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Based on
Based on Mushishi
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Episodes
Ran for 2 seasons and 46 episodes (2005 to 2014)
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Sequels
Followed by Mushi-Shi: Bell Droplets
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Details

Status: Ended
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 46
Original title: 蟲師
First aired: October 23, 2005
Last aired: December 21, 2014
Original language: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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Episodes

Season 2, 20 episodes

Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge
- Now playing
- 24m
- Apr 5, 2014
A sake brewer once lost his way home and chanced upon a strange ceremony. There, he tasted a sweet, glowing sake that he's never been able to forget. Years later, his son has followed in his footsteps and is trying to brew a sake to match his dad's. When he, too, encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be part of it, meeting Ginko during the occasion.
Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell
- 24m
- Apr 12, 2014
Near a village by the sea, a girl lives with her father on a secluded crag. She wants to make friends, but her father, for some reason, doesn't want her associating with the village people. When Ginko arrives, he finds a mushi that's an omen of disaster. Will the girl's father be able to forgive past events and help the village?
Episode 3: Beneath the Snow
- 24m
- Apr 19, 2014
Ginko visits a village where it snows most of the year to study snow mushi. He finds a boy with a strange affliction that causes snow to fall on him perpetually. He's become insensitive to the cold, and warmth is painful for him. It's dangerous for him to expose himself to the cold so much, but he doesn't even seem to care.
Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night
- 24m
- Apr 26, 2014
A young man has the power to lure animals to him using a scent issuing from his hand. He inherited this power from his father, and it makes hunting easier. But it makes the meat from his prey taste foul. More serious is the risk of losing his mind to the power and confusing family with prey. There's a cure, but will the boy be willing to give up his power?
Episode 5: Mirror Lake
- 24m
- May 3, 2014
Ginko encounters a young woman being followed by a mysterious, watery creature. The woman becomes weak, and her family believes it to be lovesickness. Ginko reveals the truth of the mushi attached to her, but the woman must decide whether to give up her body to the mushi, or to dispel it and continue living.
Episode 6: Floral Delusion
- 24m
- May 10, 2014
Ginko meets a woman with a striking beauty that lacks all five senses and according to the man who takes care of her, is over 80 years old and has lived in his family for generations. While investigating the mushi responsible for it, Ginko discovers an even darker secret involving the two.
Episode 7: Cloudless Rain
- 24m
- May 24, 2014
A woman afflicted by a water-type mushi decides to make use of her condition to help those in need.
Episode 8: Wind Raiser
- 24m
- Jun 7, 2014
While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type mushi able to create wind.
Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide
- 24m
- Jun 14, 2014
Ginko falls unconscious on a snowy mountain. He is helped by locals who somehow manage to grow their fields despite the weather, mainly because of a worker with unabated stamina. But at what cost does this vigor come?
Episode 10: Depths of Winter
- 24m
- Jun 21, 2014
On his way to answer a summons, Ginko is trapped on a mountain that has been sealed by the mountain lord, and is experiencing an eternal winter because of some trapped snow-mushi. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter?
Episode 11: Cushion of Grass
- 24m
- Oct 19, 2014
After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, young Ginko moved from place to place, due to his condition of attracting mushi. At one point he found himself instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro, in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord. Ginko wonders about his place in the world and the natural order, as Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared.
Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness
- 24m
- Oct 26, 2014
A man feels something vaguely familiar, yet terrifying, as he smells the scent of flowers at night. As an old man, walking through the woods, he finds a tunnel, and is compelled to enter it. While going through it, he reminisces about important events in his life up to that point, but it seems there is something he can't quite recall. Perhaps long ago, the visit of a traveler looking for shelter on a rainy day, might help shed light on the unsettled feeling he has.
Episode 13: Lingering Crimson
- 24m
- Nov 2, 2014
At dusk, about to go home after playing with her friends, a young girl named Akane found a shadow without a caster. On that same day, she disappeared. Several years later, Ginko is told the story of Mikage, a girl who appeared with no memories at Akane's village shortly after the vanishing of the latter.
Episode 14: Hidden Cove
- 24m
- Nov 9, 2014
Yura and Sumi, the former's caretaker, were close friends. Eventually, as they were moved apart, Yura could still feel Sumi's presence. However, whenever that happened, she'd become like an empty shell, worrying her father. As Ginko comes to know of the case, he proceeds to offer them advice, as the condition is caused by a mushi that can connect people's minds.
Episode 15: Thread of Light
- 24m
- Nov 16, 2014
A young boy named Gen troubles his father by being too rough with other kids, who pick on him due to his absent mother. The child, too strong for his age, also claims to be able to see strange creatures that no one else sees. As Ginko arrives at Gen's place, the story behind Gen's strength is revealed as the mushishi recounts the day he met a woman who'd woven a mysterious seamless garment.
Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars
- 24m
- Nov 23, 2014
Izumi is alone in a world that mirrors our own. Having forgotten how she came to be there, she remains trapped while her family searches in vain. Her father believes she has been kidnapped, while her mother and sister Mizuho believe that she is still inside the house, even though they cannot see her. Ginko crosses into the other world to try to save her.
Episode 17: Azure Waters
- 24m
- Nov 30, 2014
Ginko encounters Yuuta, a boy who is excellent at swimming and fishing but has webbed hands and cold skin. After discovering the boy's unnatural affinity for water, he sets out to treat the rain mushi causing his strange behavior.
Episode 18: Lightning's End
- 24m
- Dec 7, 2014
Multiple lightning strikes have been observed hitting the same tree, and Ginko investigates. He meets a strange boy who attracts lightning to himself due to a mushi's influence. His mother believes he is doing it to spite her and struggles with the fact that she doesn't love her child.
Episode 19: Mud Grass
- 24m
- Dec 14, 2014
Shigeru's daughter (Yuri) is found dead in the mountains. A painful skin infection breaks out in his village. Ginko can cure the disease of the villagers but Shigeru has a much more serious case. It turns out that he and the son of his deceased brother brought back the mushi causing the problem to the village when they broke a taboo.
Episode 20: Tree of Eternity
- 24m
- Dec 21, 2014
A restless man, Kanta, on his way home to his wife and young daughter (Futaba), sits down to rest in a forest. He is tired and thirsty so he eats a red fruit that was lying on the ground near him, and gives thanks to the plum. Some time after this, he starts having vivid memories both in his dreams and while awake of times going back before his birth. He goes looking for a huge tree but finding it does not make him happy.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge

E2 Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell

E3 Episode 3: Beneath the Snow

E4 Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night

E5 Episode 5: Mirror Lake

E6 Episode 6: Floral Delusion

E7 Episode 7: Cloudless Rain

E8 Episode 8: Wind Raiser

E9 Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide

E10 Episode 10: Depths of Winter

E11 Episode 11: Cushion of Grass

E12 Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness

E13 Episode 13: Lingering Crimson

E14 Episode 14: Hidden Cove

E15 Episode 15: Thread of Light

E16 Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars

E17 Episode 17: Azure Waters

E18 Episode 18: Lightning's End

E19 Episode 19: Mud Grass

E20 Episode 20: Tree of Eternity

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Production

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More like this

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge

E2 Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell

E3 Episode 3: Beneath the Snow

E4 Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night

E5 Episode 5: Mirror Lake

E6 Episode 6: Floral Delusion

E7 Episode 7: Cloudless Rain

E8 Episode 8: Wind Raiser

E9 Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide

E10 Episode 10: Depths of Winter

E11 Episode 11: Cushion of Grass

E12 Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness

E13 Episode 13: Lingering Crimson

E14 Episode 14: Hidden Cove

E15 Episode 15: Thread of Light

E16 Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars

E17 Episode 17: Azure Waters

E18 Episode 18: Lightning's End

E19 Episode 19: Mud Grass

E20 Episode 20: Tree of Eternity

Fun facts

Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge

Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell

Episode 3: Beneath the Snow

Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night

Episode 5: Mirror Lake

Episode 6: Floral Delusion

Episode 7: Cloudless Rain

Episode 8: Wind Raiser

Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide

Episode 10: Depths of Winter

Episode 11: Cushion of Grass

Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness

Episode 13: Lingering Crimson

Episode 14: Hidden Cove

Episode 15: Thread of Light

Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars

Episode 17: Azure Waters

Episode 18: Lightning's End

Episode 19: Mud Grass

Episode 20: Tree of Eternity

Episode 1: Banquet at the Forest's Edge

Episode 2: The Warbling Seashell

Episode 3: Beneath the Snow

Episode 4: The Hand That Caresses the Night

Episode 5: Mirror Lake

Episode 6: Floral Delusion

Episode 7: Cloudless Rain

Episode 8: Wind Raiser

Episode 9: Valley of the Welling Tide

Episode 10: Depths of Winter

Episode 11: Cushion of Grass

Episode 12: Fragrant Darkness

Episode 13: Lingering Crimson

Episode 14: Hidden Cove

Episode 15: Thread of Light

Episode 16: Sea of Otherworldly Stars

Episode 17: Azure Waters

Episode 18: Lightning's End

Episode 19: Mud Grass

Episode 20: Tree of Eternity