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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 - 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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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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Mushi-shi - s1e20 - A Sea of Writings
A family renowned for two things: An exhaustive archive of the records of Mushi Masters and a black birthmark, a curse that's survived through the generations. The archives are priceless, the girl even more so. For despite hearing countless tales of the horrors of the mushi and their need to be eradicated, she, a woman ravaged by mushi, she treats them with love rather than hate, sealing them away forever without doing any harm. A scribe with a golden heart. A scribe with mushi for pets. The end.
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Mushi-shi - s1e22 - Shrine in the Sea
Ginko travels to an island to investigate the legend of the uminaoshi, people who have died and been reborn. The remote island is one of idyllic beauty, deep family bonds and great happiness A paradise whose inhabitants truly grasp the joy of all that is life. Upon further inspection of their miracle, Ginko finds a mushi at the mystery's core, one that feeds on time but regurgitates life. Caught deep within the sea's grasp, even the master will question whether he can truly leave this life behind.
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