(W) Yuki Urushibara
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely original translation and new cover designs.Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don't obey the laws of our reality-primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world-and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushi-shi.Includes Japanese volumes 1-2.Though invisible to most, tiny creatures known as mushi lurk beneath the surface of everyday reality. They exert a strange and occasionally terrifying influence on people's lives, and only experts known as mushishi carry the knowledge of how to deal with them. A mushishi named Ginko wanders the Japanese countryside, following rumors of various unusual occurences: a young man who dreams the future; a child with horns growing from his forehead; a boy with the power to write creatures into being; and more...Upon its release in the 2000s, Mushishi earned global acclaim for its poetic episodic storytelling and delicate, beautif
(W) Yuki Urushibara
The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely original translation and new cover designs. Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don't obey the laws of our reality-primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world-and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushishi. Includes Japanese volumes 3-4 in a premium casewrap hardcover featuring a new to English cover illustration.There are some you can see, and some you cannot. Mushi are a different form of life--one that Ginko, a mushishi, travels across the land seeking to decipher. Some mushi can affect a person's limbs, causing a rust-like stiffness that leaves them all but bedridden. Others can envelop people in an eerie sea mist that disrupts their sense of time. Even as he observes mushi and deduces how to live with them, Ginko keeps his feet firmly planted in the real world. But when a boy finds a false spring in the barren winter landscape, Ginko himself comes d