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Mushi Shi

That feeling when you find an odd book on the shelf you swear you never acquired. Dusting off the cover, it somehow feels familiar in the hand, but you can't ever recall how it ended up there. That's how Mushi Shi feels to me. Somewhere at some point I had acquired the first 2 manga volumes and to this day I can't remember where they came from. And the anime feels just as odd but comforting.

We follow the Mushi shi, or mushi master, Ginko. There's no indication that there's a linear path in the series as each story is in a way self-contained. So we follow Ginko through his wanderings as he meets different people and different mushi. "Mushi are not gods, ghosts, or demons, but primal, unseen lifeforms that coexist alongside humanity, often causing trouble simply by trying to exist." This is how the story itself explains them, and in a way, they feel very fae-coded. Even the slightly more macabre tales feel like an oddly thick blanket you curl up in during a stormy day when you can actually pretend the world is much simpler.

There are forest gods, messed-up bits of humanity, and living words but none of that shocks Ginko; he just tries to maintain the harmony between the world and the mushi. The mushi aren't to be blamed for the problems they cause as most of the time it's just them following their nature. Just as it feels kinda wrong to blame an animal for catching it's prey because they took a mother from it's litter. Sure to us it seems cruel but to them it's just nature. And this series does such a spectacular job making you feel that same distance from them. Which almost seems like a lost art nowadays in the saturation of modern fantasy. Most would claim that the fae and certain spirits have fundamentally different rules that bind them from the ones that bind us.

What's really great is you can pick this series up and set it back down easily. Watch or read one story at a time, almost like a bedtime story then come back the next night for another. Or in 3 weeks, when it's stormy again, that thick cozy blanket will still be there. Just don't be surprised is a little critter is waiting.

Recommend if you like: feeling spellbound, sleepy vibes, self-contained stories, mystical