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Mushi-shi - s1e9 - The Heavy Seed
In his never ending quest for food, Ginko is sent to a village blessed with abundance in a year of strife Or rather cursed, for what should have been the death of many will mean the death of only one. In exchange for the mushi giving life it must take one, an arrangement which over generations equals murder on a scale greater than simple sacrifice. But when the current guardian confesses his secret, a plan to end the vicious cycle, Ginko takes pity and soils his hands to give the greatest gift of all.
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Mushi-shi - s1e8 - Where Sea Meets Man
Ginko's path crosses that of a forsaken soul waiting along the shore, waiting for the young wife lost several years before. The two having been driven back home by difficult times, she had not abandoned her husband and instead strayed within a mysterious fog. And he, lacking proof as to his love's fate, settled into his wait. Yet as reason and purpose return at long last, so too the mysterious events preceding the fog. Prepared for the worst, Ginko accompanies the husband as they head out to sea to confront the mushi and the past.
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Mushi-shi - s1e12 - One-Eyed Fish
A mountainside tragedy leaves a young boy alone, to be rescued by the Mushi Master Nui. Under her care, Yoki's incessant curiosity drives his quest to learn about the other plane of life which exists all around them: The mushi that, like her, he has been cursed to see. A reluctant bit of life and laughter forced into a lonely life. When youthful innocence steps too close to dark truth, what she has long accepted as her end she will not accept as his. Thrust back out into a world without memory, Ginko is born anew.
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Mushi-shi - s1e11 - The Sleeping Mountain
Ginko is sent in search of another Mushi Master, this one the guardian of a mountain, neighbor to a village. An old man whose past is not unlike Ginko's own, he was once called upon to take up a god's duties and maintain balance A mantle not lightly assumed, caused by careless words and magnificent death. But as the cry of a great mushi predator tolls in the night and the apprentice is found an untrue successor, Ginko rushes to great heights only to play witness to noble deed.
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Mushi-shi - s1e7 - Raindrops and Rainbows
Forced to seek shelter as temporary reprieve from the rain, Ginko meets a man chasing rainbows out of desperation rather than hope. Having inherited a name and a curse from his father, two ages of one family wasted in search of a fleeting fruit after the rain. Recognizing the rainbow as mushi in brilliant disguise, Ginko agrees to chase storms alongside him, adding his knowledge to the quest. But where the father was driven by joy, the son is driven from shame. Can the source of hope be caught by one without it?
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Mushi-shi - s1e13 - One-Night Bridge
Ginko travels to a remote village, summoned by a letter of plea. Accessed by means of a decrepit old bridge, it was from such heights that a young girl fell three years before and somehow managed to survive. Upon closer inspection, Ginko determines the mushi of the valley below to be involved, using the girl as a vessel to gather the sunlight needed but denied by the depths in which it resides. When the mother demands he release her daughter from the curse, even if death be the result, his denial drives her to drastic measure.
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Mushi-shi - s1e6 - Those Who Inhale the Dew
The Mushi Master Ginko sneaks onto an island all but completely locked away from the world. He has been led there by a young boy who must daily watch his friend die. A false idol at the heart of an inherited con, the girl child has sacrificed all or has been sacrificed to bring false hope to a new generation. Not all help is wanted just as not all travelers are welcome, and this mushi has been secretly treasured since time out of mind. A living god of a dead land, in sweet innocence she despaired not tragic death.
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Mushi-shi - s1e14 - Inside the Cage
Resting in a bamboo forest, Ginko is joined by a man who has been lost within the shadowy confines for several years. Unable to escape, he has married the bamboo child of local lore and together created a life all their own. Without company, Ginko is allowed to find his way out, only to return to set eyes himself on the mushi posing as unique plant. The man's mystery unraveled but no solution, the human offspring will sacrifice her family in favor of fond recollection for the one she loves.
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Mushi-shi - s1e5 - The Traveling Swamp
Trekking across mountains to a seaside village, Ginko finds his fellow hikers unsettling indeed. The first is a misplaced swamp which can inexplicably travel as if blessed with feet. The second, a melancholy, green-haired beauty whose fate is bound to that of her companion. While she accepts that she will pass into oblivion along with the mushi into its source, guilt from a former deed drives Ginko to seek to turn the tides. Will the final journey of one prove the beginning or the end of the other?
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Mushi-shi - s1e15 - Pretense of Spring
Driven to seek shelter from a snowy storm, the Mushi Master Ginko is drawn into a yearly mystery. A lone boy wanders off into the forest during the harshest part of every winter, only to be later found asleep and clutching spring's blessings in his grasp, reawakening the very next season unharmed. But when Ginko unknowingly releases the mushi that is key to end the enchanted sleep, he must follow the boy into winter's hibernation. The traveler will reminisce how home can be so much more than where one slumbers.
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