Product Details

• Actors: Yûto Nakano, Yûji Ueda
• Directors: Hiroshi Nagahama
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000XJD3EI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,686 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"A series you’ll want to get lost in..." – Eric Henderson, The Detroit News

Neither good nor evil, they are life in its purest form. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have, over the ages, come to be known as "mushi." The stories of the Mushi and the people they effect are all linked together by a traveling Mushi-shi or "Mushi Master" who seeks rare Mushi sightings and uses his shaman-like knowledge of Mushi to help the effected people. What are the Mushi and what do they want?

Volume contains collectible postcard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite anime, February 18, 2008

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Jayou - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mushi-shi, Vol. 4 (DVD)

Mushishi is an absolute masterpeice. It's a fantasy/drama unlike any you'll ever find, and it's my favorite anime.

Each episode tells a different story. I thought I would be bothered by this, but I wasn't. This adaptation is very faithful to the source material.

Mushishi evokes many different emotions while viewing it. Some episodes may have a really nice ending, while others can be really sad. The beautiful background music amplifies these effects.

The music is very serene. Listening to the OST, something I do everyday, is the best way to relieve stress. It really works wonders for the anime, especially when considering the quality of animation maintained throughout all 26 episodes.

I have yet to see an anime series animated as beautifully as Mushishi is. Everything was so well done, you can tell they spent a lot of time translating this from the manga. The Mushi are reminiscent of the creatures you would find in a Hayao Miyazaki film, the Kodoma of Princess Mononoke perhaps. They have a certain magical aura, a mystifying presence, that makes you want to see more and more of them.

I suggest you buy the DVDs, which come in a very nice package with lots of extras. This is an anime which should be seen by anyone who enjoys anime.

This DVD contains episodes 15-18

4.0 out of 5 stars Am I Crazy, or is there something supernatural going on?, January 21, 2012

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FizzWiz (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mushi-shi, Vol. 4 (DVD)

Ginko, a Mushi Master, goes around "hunting" for Mushi. Mushi are supernatural forces which can appear within any object, place, or thing. Some mushi are good, some bad, and some somewhere in-between. In these 4 episodes, Ginko visits Miharu and Suzu, a brother-sister pair living out in the country. Suzu is concerned about Miharu having slept all winter long without waking up once. Ginko meets Kaji and Kaji's mother, Sayo, who has deteriorating dementia. They live in a fishing village or out in the country too. I almost got Kaji and Sayo mixed up with Suzu and Miharu. In another adventure, Ginko meets Aya Tozawa, who tells Ginko the story about her missing twin sister, Ito Tozawa, and their travels to Jiisama. In the last of the 4 episodes, Ginko searches for a painter after observing an eye catching cloth hanging outside a store. He meets an artist named Kai and a newly adopted Toyo in Kai's hometown. Each encounter has different drama unfolding. It feels like the episodes are different stories that are just there to fill up the series rather than interwoven together, especially with so many different characters when compiling all the episodes into one group.

In these episodes, it is assumed that Ginko just shows up at the different locales presented. Each episode is not necessarily connected to each other. I have not seen the beginning or later episodes, so it's hard to say if there are connections within the entire series. All the episodes in this disc take place in a rural area. Part of the reason for this is the slow pace of the anime and the artistry fits in well with a rural environment. The visuals play such a role in Mushi-Shi that there are many times where the vegetation is radiantly beautiful. The hardwood floors seems like a floor that we are actually walking on. It would be worth it to watch the videos just to look for the organic artwork and feel it is that breathtaking. And I am not even an artist myself!

Each opening and closing of each episode is constructed differently. A photographer was used to help with the opening and closing sequence scenes. On the DVD extras, there is an interview with the musician and the photographer for the series. At this point in time, the series has only been completed up to this disc.