Mushi-shi
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| Name: | Mushishi, 蟲師 |
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| Creator: | Yuki Urushibara |
| Date(s): | November 1999 – August 25, 2008 |
| Medium: | manga, anime, live-action movie |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| External Links: | Official Manga Website, Official Anime Website, Entry on the manga and on the anime at ANN's Encyclopedia |
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Mushi-shi began as a ten-volume manga series set in a fictional time between the Edo and Meiji eras in Japan and centered around the adventures of a wandering mushi master, Ginko, as he tries to help people impacted negatively by the mushi. Mushi are mysterious beings. Neither good nor evil, they are more primitive than micro-organisms, yet can have profound effects on the natural world.
The manga was adapted into a two-season anime series, a few special extended episodes, and a live-action movie.
Fandom
The series has a fairly quiet English fanbase. On Tumblr most fans celebrate the show via GIFs and by making fanart. This art is almost always focused on Ginko, who is often depicted with at least one kind of mushi. The fic output in English is quite small on AO3.[1] Most of the fics are gen, with a small minority of slash and het works. Nearly all the shippy fics include Ginko, who is most often paired with Adashino, the male doctor.
Fan Communities
Communities
- Mushishi on LJ (the comm is almost unreadable because of a wallpaper issue) archived link
- Mushishi/Urushibara Yuki Fan Community on Dreamwidth archived link
Fanworks Archives and Challenges
Archives
Challenges
- Mushishi Real Life Exchange, Archived version (2010). See here, Archived version for some filled prompts.
- Mushishi Week 2022, Archived version on Tumblr
- Mushishi Week 2024 -- actually coordinated at this blog with the tag #mushishiweek2024
Example Fanworks
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Fanart
"The Gift of the Forest"Archived by Qinni (28 June 2013)
Subject is Maho, a major character in the episode "Tender Horns" (s01e03). Artist is CORVIDAY - (April 15, 2018): "my full piece for the mushishi zine, “Sore Feet”! (@mushishifanzine) love everything about this series and show but had to draw something for one of my fav eps in particular 🌱" (Accessed July 8, 2020) archived link
Fanfiction
- Shining Silver, Shining Gold by opalmatrix Tanyû has things her own way for Obon
- Dust and Bones by 7PhoenixAshes A Mushi-shi and a medicine seller take refuge in a remote mountain village—a village whose inhabitants are vanishing one by one into the night, and where a horror of the villagers' own making waits in the valley below.
Fanzines
- Mushi-shi Fanzine archived link -- 2021 or ealier
- Mushishi Seasons Zine, Archived version completed 2024, for the 25th anniversary -- example illustration for the zine by legobobafett, October 2024
Resources
References
- ^ English-language works currently make up 157 out of 184 works in the fandom. Archive of Our Own. (Accessed 02 July 2020.)