The reality of the deal between Yuko and Watanuki is settling in, the young man slaving over a hot stove in exchange for freedom from his haunting visions. Nobody said it was going to be easy!
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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.
Restless spooks often flock to children, and as the SPR checks in on their newest case they encounter a young girl at the center of a spiritual storm.
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Glass Fleet - s1e1 - Like a Shooting Star
Led by Michel Volban, a heroic rebel of stout heart, a second revolution stirs in the dark reaches of time and space as the People's Army rises up.
The tasks given Watanuki are being pulled from an ever expanding queue, and this night brings something rather more intense than refilling a sake glass.
Watanuki, who has been haunted by dark spirits his entire life, meets Yuko, a mystical woman of insight and luxury, quick to help those in a bind For a fee!
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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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xxxHolic - s1e4 - Fortune-Telling
Yuko senses the yearning in Watanukis heart, her servant smitten with a young girl from school. Now the witch will test the bounds of his love, seeking an audience with a fortune teller.
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Mushi-shi - s1e26 - The Sound of Footsteps on the Grass
Three young boys, each bound to different paths: One to rule over the land, one to read the signs of the land and one to eternally wander the land. On the side of a very special mountain, these three young boys will meet. On the side of that mountain, events will shape them into the men they are to be. Time will pass and destruction will come, and one will prove unable to protect the land he loves. Yet each will remember: Taku of the Mountain, Isazu of the Watari and Ginko of the Mushi
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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 - 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.
Summoned to a remote village, Ginko has traveled into the winter which swallows all sound. Every year when this valley lies bereft of noise save for the silence of falling snow, villagers are stricken with a sudden loss of hearing. The cause is soon found and the offending mushi easily vanquished, but the grandson of the elder proves a far more drastic dilemma. While one should shelter that which he does not wish lost, even when the ears are covered all sound cannot be extinguished.
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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?
Freshman Mai Taniyama's love for the telling of ghost stories seems to have unleashed a plague of spirits upon her school. Kazuya Naru Shibuya of the Shibuya Psychic Research team enlists Mai to aid in his research.
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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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Glass Fleet - s1e26 - Like an Ovation
The final battle for freedom is fought at the edge of the Cross-Star, and the victor may not matter as the galaxy swirls toward apocalypse.
In 1629, peace has settled on the lands surrounding mighty Sunpu Castle. But a tyrant overlord shatters the calm by hosting a samurai tournament in which noble warriors will sacrifice flesh and bone for his perverse enjoyment.
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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.
In 1629, peace has settled on the lands surrounding mighty Sunpu Castle. But a tyrant overlord shatters the calm by hosting a samurai tournament in which noble warriors will sacrifice flesh and bone for his perverse enjoyment.
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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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