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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 - s1e16 - Sunrise Serpent
A boy worries for his mother, her mind left addled in the early spring sun. A warm breeze, the fragrance of flowers and the sound of a loom All things that lull the mind to sleep and yet rest will not come. There, Ginko finds in the dark of night a mushi that thrives on memories, its appetite for the things most cherished. Afraid to forget things not close at hand, mother and son will take a journey to its bitter end. But when the past is forgotten and the future reshaped daily, happiness can be a recurring blessing.
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Mushi-shi - s1e17 - Pickers of Empty Cocoons
The arcane arrival of a broken message sends Ginko to visit the source, a sad remnant barely clinging to life and desperate hope. Years before, two children were sent away so that one must not live alone. Apprenticed to an ancient master, an accident conspired to separate the sisters, leaving one confined within, the other to waste without. Ginko must use the mushi, taking the girl to explore an ancient pathway between hollow worlds, in order to silence a fool's errand. But hope will live eternal.
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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 - 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 - s1e18 - Clothes that Embrace the Mountain
A mystical mountain, an artist's first inspiration. As fame and fortune grow, any thoughts of his former life lie discarded like a robe dropped carelessly on the ground. Ten years later, the muse has grown dormant and the artisan travels back to find his home, his family gone. The mountain, too, has grown dormant. Ginko follows the man's flight home, led there by a painting alive with mushi. While his reception on the mountain may be less than pleasant, the life that he has brought back to the village is more than welcome.
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Mushi-shi - s1e19 - String from the Sky
A servant with high aspirations reaches up and disappears into the sky. Literally up in the heavens, but not quite, the young lady for a time resides in the shadow world of the mushi. Found by Ginko and returned to her household, the Mushi Master explains to her suitor that the object of his affections is now linked to both worlds. She has to want to be normal. She has to want to stay. But when his family rebukes the marriage, the young man may not be able to accept his bride with his whole heart.
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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 - s1e10 - The White Which Lives Within the Ink Stone
The doctor friend of Ginko's needs his help. While out on a call, three village children broke into his storage shed and stumbled upon an artifact of deadly consequence: An ink stone. Unable to tell much from the object itself, short of it houses a mushi, Ginko searches out the maker. A woman cursed, what was supposed to represent her future unraveled all hope instead. When one dabbles willingly and another without knowledge, the innocent must be released to travel the winds.
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Mushi-shi - s1e21 - Cotton Changeling
A green slime from the womb of a woman, the shapeless mass taking on the form of a human child. Five strange offspring, like shoots from the ground every six months. Rather than saving the false youth, Ginko must urge the parents to put an end to its short life. For when a mushi wears the skin of a child as disguise, there's no child left to save. But past guilt and a parent's love will stay the hand, allowing a fungus to spread unchecked, mimicking life. And Ginko will learn how far a parent will go to protect its child.
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