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.
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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.
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 - 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
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 - 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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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.
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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.
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.
Mr. Stain discovers a remote-controlled robot. However, the robot refuses to obey the control's signal. When Stain tries to figure out the robot's reason for rebelling, he finds that it's tired of being controlled and yearns to fly like a bird. Stain offe
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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.
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.
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 - 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 - 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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