Watch this when
Mushishi
When the world is too loud, try an anime that whispers. 🍃
Who it's for
Ginko, a wandering specialist, travels through rural Japan helping people affected by mushi, simple life forms woven into nature.
Overstimulated→Calm
Feelings it meets
What it is
An anime adaptation of Yuki Urushibara's manga, made by the studio Artland and directed by Hiroshi Nagahama. It is set in an imagined period between the Edo and Meiji eras. Ginko, a wandering 'Mushi Master', travels from place to place studying and helping people affected by mushi, which are primitive, mostly invisible life forms that are not inherently evil.
Where to find it
US: available to buy on Amazon Video per JustWatch; availability rotates, so check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Illness, death and eerie imagery.
Age: TV-14
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains;Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Book 4 (tr. George Long)
