Audience reviews
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SeboTheMaster
This was such a fucking wonderful journey i can't even explain, this whole series is an embodiment of, i don't know how to explain it to "simple" people. There is something about it that feels like "wow, this feels alright, the nature and people and worlds contact it feels somehow right".
Who would i recomend this anime to ??? - i don't fucking know. ( there isn't really a certain group of people who would enjoy this, it comes from the person and theirs view of things ).
Music / Art / Frame - of this anime ?? - 11/10 there's something about it that makes you feel cozy, comfortable about, just pure LIFE , ESSENCE, JOY
Anyway this is my only review i dont know if I will be making any more of these, but do know i only made this one because how fucking badass and cool this anime is to me.…
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A good way to cap off the series, this incorporates several elements of previous seasons and ties them together in a meaningful way. It does a great job working the naturalistic themes, and I appreciate that it doesn't feel like an ending - Ginko just keeps moving, as he always does. It lacks emotional weight, though even lacking that, the way it ties together a cohesive narrative out of the disparate parts of this series really sets it apart. The more I think about just how much this managed to pull together, the greater I appreciate it, and I think I'll keep appreciating it more over time.
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Mushishi
Suzu no Shizuku
I still had some hope for a "creative" conclusion or at least a good adaptation, but I didn't find any.
As before, the movie is standalone and has no connection to the anime. It is simply another story like in the anime. Only with the difference that it has been very unspectacular compared to some episodes of the series. In terms of content, it has little to show. Even though I liked that for once here was shown more of the characters and how they have suffered in their lives. And how much effect, the paranormal world had on their lives.
However, this should have been another Ova and not a "Movie", can not understand this designation for this, especially since the Hihamukage Ova has been better content and more exciting.
In terms of animation, there was not…
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It's the end of an era, and this story couldn't have gone out any better than it did in this film. Mushishi is filled with wonderful stories, tragic truths, and beautiful scenery that's all topped off with a hell of a main character. This film is no different.
As we follow Ginko through his final, written adventure, I couldn't help but be impressed with the story and writing it brought. This film did a really wonderful job fleshing out the theme of nature that has always had a place in Mushishi as a whole. Through this story, we're able to see just how cruel and unforgiving nature can be while still being beautiful and captivating at the same time. I enjoy that mushi are used as a metaphor for nature itself, and because of that, this film was able to bring to life how beholden we, as hum…
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And so we arrive at Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku. From reading the synopsis we know that this will likely be the last part we'll ever see of the Mushishi universe.
Story: In Suzu No Shizuku we watch as Ginko encounters a young human who was born a Master of the mountain. We see the troubles she's going through as her family searches for her and the Low of Nature eventually decides she was not good enough. Ginko tries to save her, letting her become a normal human, by sacrificing himself, but fails, as she decides that her fate is to become part of the mountain again. The story, sadly, does not give us a complete conclusion as Ginko, once again, walks off the find more people in need of help, by the end.
Art & Sound: The art and sound are more of the same Mushishi always has, which m…
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*Disclaimer*
Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal
Art: 9/10 The art is dope. I really like the style and beautiful landscape scenes. The art really captures nature.
Animation: 7/10 Cool. Nothing to complain about. No action. Pretty slow vibes.
Characters: 6/10 Ginko goes around solving the problems of stupid humans who are easily awe-struck or bewildered. Plot: 8/10 Taoism.
Development: 9/10 The finale of Mushishi. Details the growing distancing of humanity from nature. Major plot point though is that just like under Taoism, humanity despite moving away from nature is still just as a part of it as everything else. Humanity is still part of the whole that is everything that exists.
Music: 9/10 Holy that opening gives me shivers. Sound design is on poi…
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This is for the entire show. All seasons and specials.
Watched the first season about a year ago and over the course of good 3 weeks and now the second season with all the specials in 2 days.
I was really not in the mood for this show and actually wanted to look for some slice of life anime instead but I did it anyway and this show is really so, oh so different from any other. Never have I seen or heard of an anime that could compare to Mushishi. Regarding my expectations, I knew what I was diving into since I read that the ‘episodic’ part doesn’t die down in the second season, and that’s very true. Just know, there’s a very good reason why every single season and/or special has a rating of 8.5/10 or higher on MyAnimeList.
Well, let’s do this.
I’m old.
Animation:
Mushishi is one of the…
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It's not an ending for the series, is only another special, i'm disappointed about that.
-Story: (6/10)
The story of the chapter and the philosohpy is not bad at all, but some previous chapters were a lot better and more emotional.
-Characters:(7/10)
The characters that appears (aside Ginko) are not so charimastic as others from previous episodes and don't transmit so much than others. I liked the fact that in this film Ginko looked more worried about the other character than in previous chapters.
-Art: (10/10)
The art is amazing as always, with beautiful nature landscapes such as forests and mountains. The animation is very colorful and fluent.
-Sound: (10/10)
The seiyuus made a great work, giving a lot of personality to the characters. The OST as always in Mushishi fits perfectly with…
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After a 9-year run, our tour with Ginko through the supernatural draws to a close with a short film adaptation of Suzu no Shizuku (Drops of Bells), the last arc of the acclaimed young adult manga—Mushishi—by Yuki Urushibara.
In the first half of Suzu no Shizuku, a girl leaves her family behind when she’s summoned to be the next lord of a mountain. Thriving lands, called “Rivers of Light”, require the presence of a lord to maintain the balance of the surrounding life. Choosing a human as a lord is an unusual move, however. Such a task is typically delegated to animals since they live with fewer emotional attachments.
Several of the introspective themes that were previously explored in the Mushishi world are summarized here—most notably interconnectedness, the indifference of nature, and t…
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So the whole of Mushishi has finally come to a close, unless Urushibara wants to write any more. It’s impressive how nearly exact the full anime has been as an adaptation. Excluding one or two original episodes, they’ve all been incredibly true to the original chapters. This one really gets into that concrete manifestation of the Tao that I’m always raving about Mushishi; bringing in nature’s law as an actual sort of character. It’s really just another Mushishi episode just doubled in length, but I did always think that it was a perfect finale for the manga and so it is a perfect finale for the show.
Drops of Bells (the title of the double-episode) basically tells of humanity’s growing more and more separate from nature. The plot is of a human girl chosen from birth to be the next lord of…
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