Mushi-Shi - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2005

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.

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2005

A young girl has been locked away by her family, for fear of a disease without cause or cure. Ginko arrives as loyalty allows the contagion to spread.

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2005

Summoned to a remote village, Ginko has traveled into the winter which swallows all sound.

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2005

Ginko travels back to a place he's been before, to check in on a man whose dreams carry portents of the future.

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2005

Trekking across mountains to a seaside village, Ginko finds his fellow hikers unsettling indeed.

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2005

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.

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2005

Forced to seek shelter as temporary reprieve from the rain, Ginko meets a man chasing rainbows out of desperation rather than hope.

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2005

Ginko's path crosses that of a forsaken soul waiting along the shore, waiting for the young wife lost several years before.

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2005

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2006

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2006

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2006

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2006

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2006

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2006

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2006

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2006

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 26, 2006

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 5, 2006

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 12, 2006

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 14, 2006

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 21, 2006

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: May 28, 2006

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Jun 4, 2006

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2006

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Jun 18, 2006

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Jan 3, 2014 (46 min)

A one-hour special which adapts a two-chapter manga. A powerful mushi appears during an eclipse, drawing other mushi to form a huge shadow that blocks the sun over a small village. Looking for clues about the mushi, Ginko meets a child who is afflicted by a strange disease that manifests itself when she is exposed to sunlight, and it does not take long for him to find out that both facts are related.

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Apr 5, 2014

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2014

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2014

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2014

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: May 3, 2014

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: May 10, 2014

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: May 24, 2014

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2014

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jun 14, 2014

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2014

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Aug 19, 2014

At the request of Tan'yuu, Ginko sets off to investigate a phenomenon that might be related to a dangerous mushi, much to the chagrin of Kumado Minai, the current head of a long line of mushishi, who's in charge of the area. As Ginko and Kumado get to the bottom of the Thicket Path, the secret of the Minai line of mushishi is revealed.

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Aug 19, 2014

At the request of Tan'yuu, Ginko sets off to investigate a phenomenon that might be related to a dangerous mushi, much to the chagrin of Kumado Minai, the current head of a long line of mushishi, who's in charge of the area. As Ginko and Kumado get to the bottom of the Thicket Path, the secret of the Minai line of mushishi is revealed.

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2014

After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, young Ginko moved from place to place, due to his condition of attracting mushi. At one point he found himself instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro, in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord. Ginko wonders about his place in the world and the natural order, as Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared.

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2014

A man feels something vaguely familiar, yet terrifying, as he smells the scent of flowers at night. As an old man, walking through the woods, he finds a tunnel, and is compelled to enter it. While going through it, he reminisces about important events in his life up to that point, but it seems there is something he can't quite recall. Perhaps long ago, the visit of a traveler looking for shelter on a rainy day, might help shed light on the unsettled feeling he has.

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2014

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2014

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2014

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2014

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2014

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2014

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2014

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2014

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: May 5, 2015

Ginko stumbles upon a young girl in a mountain with branches and leaves growing out of her body. He later realises that she is the lord of that mountain but finds it strange that a human like her was chosen as the lord. He later meets her older brother who has continued to search for her ever since she disappeared while she was accompanying him on a stormy day. The story is about that girl, Kaya, and how she is torn between continuing her duty as a mushi lord and returning back to her loving human family.