MUSHISHI-EPISODE 1-THE GREEN SEAT-2 STARS

Mushishi is an anime series that is has a more subtle, and spiritual theme, so for all you that like that non-stop kick-your-butt kind of anime, this isn’t it, so just cool out, and enjoy some Mushishi for once in your life. First, lets talk about the Mushi Master, Ginko. Now I like this guy, he really knows his mushi well, he must have taken a few courses at Mushi college somewhere. Ginko is a good natured fellow, but he’s suffering a little in the looks department. Yes, I know every guy can’t be a Chad, a Sesshomaru, a Hadji, or a Naraku, I’m just used to seeing good looking anime guys everywhere I turn, that’s all. But I’ll give him a 10 in the personality department, how’s that?

Now Ginko explains what mushi is in his own spiritual terms, which may leave you scratching your head, but don’t worry, I’ll describe it in Ria’s terms, so that it may make some sense to you. Mushi is this weird stuff with supernatural powers that have the ability to attach itself to people and cause chaos that person’s body. Now that you’re fully educated on what mushi is, we can move on to this episode which starts off with a boy living alone who has the ability to create life by drawing it with his left hand.

Ginko studies the kid, trying to find out more about him, and he ends up being a houseguest. He gets up in the middle of the night, and find a mushi ghost floating around. Now any normal person would have broke their neck to get out of that place, but not Ginko-I guess he knew it was a mushi ghost right away, but who cares, I would have been ten miles away instead of trying to analyze it to see if it was mushi or not. First of all, I’m not sleeping in any house, where my only source of light is a candle.

Anyway, Ginko finds out that the ghost is the boy’s grandmother Rinsu, but she takes the form of a child, and she also has a broken wine cup in her possession. Now after all this talking, Ginko finds out that Rinsu is stuck between mushi and human form because of some banquet that was interrupted. Now the next morning Ginko tells the boy that in order to free his grandmother, he must draw the broken wine up with his left hand. Interesting that the technique works, oh well, whatever, anyway Rinsu appears and the boy finds out the whole story, and this is how it goes…….

A long time ago, Rinsu was in the woods minding her own business, and this mushi figures put her into a trance, and led her off to this banquet in her honor. “Good, I hope you guys are serving lobster, and crab legs, because the Red Lobster around my house just closed.” At the banquet, they discuss the grandson. The mushi said that if she would travel forward in time, to look after him, she would be granted powers of her own. In order to seal the deal, she would have to drink from a winecup. “Rinsu, don’t trust those mushi, and don’t drink that stuff, it could be roach spray, or gasoline, they could be trying to kill you!”

But you know how naive kids are, and as she drank from the cup, a crow decided it wanted to mushi food, and attacked them, making Rinsu drop the cup and watch her mushi spirit run off into the sunset. “Wait a minute, that mushi better come back and finish the job so that poor girl won’t have a mushi spirit running around terrorizing other people, like me!”

Okay, now back to the present, now that the wine-cup is bound together again, Rinsu is able to see and talk to her grandson. Now, how sweet, especially for the grandson, who can pull her hair, and slap her around  every now and then. What? Well, the grandma is now a kid, and her grandson needs someone to play with, so he should be able to treat her just like any other kid, right?

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