Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushicreatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.
Though invisible to most, tiny creatures known as mushi lurk beneath the surface of everyday reality. They exert a strange and occasionally terrifying influence on people’s lives, and only experts known as mushishi carry the knowledge of how to deal with them. A mushishi named Ginko wanders the Japanese countryside, following rumors of various unusual occurences: a young man who dreams the future; a child with horns growing from his forehead; a boy with the power to write creatures into being; and more…
Though invisible to most, tiny creatures known as mushi lurk beneath the surface of everyday reality. They exert a strange and occasionally terrifying influence on people’s lives, and only experts known as mushishi carry the knowledge of how to deal with them. A mushishi named Ginko wanders the Japanese countryside, following rumors of various unusual occurences: a young man who dreams the future; a child with horns growing from his forehead; a boy with the power to write creatures into being; and more…
Mushi, a strange and primitive form of life, take countless shapes and affect the lives of humans without us even being aware of their existence. Enter Ginko, a mushi expert, known as a mushishi. Though his laconic smile and softspoken manner don’t seem imposing, he represents a bridge of understanding and sometimes a line of defense for the human world. When a fellow mushishi disappears, Ginko must search for him on a mushiinfested mountain, putting his own life on the line!
THERE ARE SOME YOU CAN SEE, and some you cannot. Mushi are a different kind of life—ones that Ginko, a mushishi, travels across the land seeking to decipher their ways. Some mushi can affect a person’s body, causing a rust-like feeling in their limbs that ache without any rhyme or reason. Others can mystify a person’s passage of time when enshrouded in an eerie sea mist. While Ginko observes and deducts how to live with mushi, it is when a boy finds a false spring in the barren winter landscape that Ginko may also come dangerously close to crossing to the other side. CONTAINS VOLUMES 3 AND 4
THERE ARE SOME YOU CAN SEE, and some you cannot. Mushi are a different kind of life—ones that Ginko, a mushishi, travels across the land seeking to decipher their ways. Some mushi can affect a person’s body, causing a rust-like feeling in their limbs that ache without any rhyme or reason. Others can mystify a person’s passage of time when enshrouded in an eerie sea mist. While Ginko observes and deducts how to live with mushi, it is when a boy finds a false spring in the barren winter landscape that Ginko may also come dangerously close to crossing to the other side. CONTAINS VOLUMES 3 AND 4
They live on the shadowy border between the possible and the impossibleancient lifeforms known as mushi. Rare is the individual who can see them, but those with that special ability, the mushishi, can counter the creatures’ deadly effects on humans. After a young boy is orphaned in the forest, he is saved by a reclusive female mushishi. But the lake near the mushishi’s home holds a deadly secret, and the boy must find out what it is before his only friend is lost forever.
Nebulous and unseen, mushi exist in a state somewhere between life and death. A small community of wandering healers and naturalists known as mushishi help humans affected by these mysterious entities. Ginko, with his green eye and white hair, is a mushishi. But when Ginko tries to help a boy who seems to have found spring in the middle of winter, he and the boy both become victims of lifesucking creatures.
Imagine being blindbut still being able to see farther and better than any human, even into another person’s future. Ginko, whose lifelong task is to understand the many kinds of mushi, encounters such a woman and becomes entangled in the shocking future she sees for him.
father disappears and his son, a hunter, inherits his father’s power to lure animals to their deaths, quietly and entranced. But this ability poisons the mind and the body. Can mushi master Ginko cure the son before he shares his father’s fate, or will the young man turn his deadly powers on his wouldbe savior?
Ginko is sent on a factfinding expedition to discover what the head of an ancient clan of mushishi is doing in an isolated, abandoned Japanese village. But the answer may be more than Ginko can handle: the Ragged Road he is investigating leads to mushi that can leave a man worse than dead! Includes special extras after the story!
Ginko is a master of the ephemeral life form known as Mushi. Their influence can be as visible as a mountain never giving up its winter to allow for spring, or as subtle as a prank played in a child’s game. To some they are a curse; to others they offer unimagined possibility. Read the final three volumes of Ginko’s journeys in this one remarkable edition! From the Trade Paperback edition.