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Mushi-shi - s1e2 - The Light of the Eyelid
A young girl has been locked away by her family, for fear of a disease without cause or cure. Her cousin refuses to abandon the sightless youth to her fate, worried that she will soon lose the light within as well. Drawn by the scandal of medical mystery like a moth to a flame, Ginko arrives as loyalty allows the contagion to spread. Too much time spent between the worlds, too little now left to save the girl. When fascination of the mushi invited them in across the threshold, the cure must be found in the curse.
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Mushi-shi - s1e4 - The Pillow Pathway
Ginko travels back to a place he's been before, to check in on a man whose dreams carry portents of the future. In the midst of desolation Ginko finds grief, and rather than a mushi he must free this one from guilt. Where dire advice was not followed the balance was lost. Prophetic vision warped to become living nightmare, fevered brow cradled in the pillow's embrace. Only in the sleep of death are the worlds merged and the pathway found, but what becomes of the host when the guest is no longer welcome?
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Mushi-shi - s1e1 - The Green Seat
The Mushi Master Ginko travels deep into the mountains, driven there by rumors of a young boy who possesses a rare gift. The ability to draw forth new forms of life with a simple paint brush. Work thought best left to the gods, his grandmother cursed him to a life of fear and solitude shortly before her death. The youth cannot reconcile the world he sees with the reality he is told to be true. But when Ginko crosses paths with a restless mushi in the night, the full story is revealed only when two halves become a whole.
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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