“Fortune Eye and Misfortune Eye” Itís fitting that an episode about vision is particularly beautiful. Ginko meets a blind woman who “saw” the mushi ganpaku. Thereafter she could see: first her surroundings, then through walls, then past mountains … eventually, even with her eyes closed, she could see the futures and pasts of people who consulted her. However, [...]
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Although it would be harsh to say Mushishi had been in the doldrums of late, I must admit that the episodes succeeding number 20 have often flattered to deceive. It still looks as gob-smackingly beautiful as ever, but feels like more of a remote beauty, something I can admire but hardly love. I’m rejoicing then that the penultimate fable of Episode 25 is a warm and melancholy return to form.Mushishi often specialises in a creepy skin crawling kind of horror and 25 plays out as a grotesque and symbolic reminder that our faliure to se..
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It's turned out to be something of a Studio Artland double bill today but in all honesty I was so eager to see the penultimate instalment of Mushishi that I couldn't help but download it ASAP. It's yet another visually stunning and bittersweet tale of sacrifice and loss that leaves the viewer deep in thought for a long time afterwards. In this episode Ginko meets a travelling musician who knows a thing or two about mushi and...
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I’ve been looking forward to another episode of Mushishi. It seems that it doesn’t know how to deliver a bad episode. Each of the stories presented works so incredibly well, dealing with a different problem every single time. This time, we have a little girl, who’s blind. She encounters a mushi, Ganpuku. This mushi gives [...]
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