Mushi-Shi

The Mushi Master Ginko travels deep into the mountains, driven there by rumors of a young boy who possesses a rare gift - The ability to draw forth new forms of life with a simple paint brush.

A young girl has been locked away by her family, for fear of a disease without cause or cure. Ginko arrives as loyalty allows the contagion to spread.

Summoned to a remote village, Ginko has traveled into the winter which swallows all sound.

Ginko travels back to a place he's been before, to check in on a man whose dreams carry portents of the future.

Trekking across mountains to a seaside village, Ginko finds his fellow hikers unsettling indeed.

The Mushi Master Ginko sneaks onto an island all but completely locked away from the world. He has been led there by a young boy who must daily watch his friend die.

Forced to seek shelter as temporary reprieve from the rain, Ginko meets a man chasing rainbows out of desperation rather than hope.

Ginko's path crosses that of a forsaken soul waiting along the shore, waiting for the young wife lost several years before.

In his never ending quest for food, Ginko is sent to a village blessed with abundance in a year of strife.

The doctor friend of Ginko's needs his help. While out on a call, three village children broke into his storage shed and stumbled upon an artifact of deadly consequence: An ink stone.

Ginko is sent in search of another Mushi Master, this one the guardian of a mountain, neighbor to a village.

A mountainside tragedy leaves a young boy alone, to be rescued by the Mushi Master Nui.

Ginko travels to a remote village, summoned by a letter of plea.

Resting in a bamboo forest, Ginko is joined by a man who has been lost within the shadowy confines for several years.

Driven to seek shelter from a snowy storm, the Mushi Master Ginko is drawn into a yearly mystery of a boy who hibernates every winter.

Ginko finds in the dark of night a mushi that thrives on memories, its appetite for the things most cherished.

The arcane arrival of a broken message sends Ginko to visit the source, a sad remnant barely clinging to life and desperate hope.

Ginko follows an artisan's flight home, led by a painting alive with mushi.

Ginko finds and returns a young lady residing in the shadow world of the mushi.

A family renowned for two things: An exhaustive archive of the records of Mushi Masters and a black birthmark, a curse that's survived through the generations.

Ginko must urge parents of a mushi disguised as a child to put an end to it's short life.

Ginko travels to an island to investigate the legend of the uminaoshi, people who have died and been reborn.

Ginko's wanderings are driven off course when he comes across a strange sound echoing through the frozen mountains.

Rumors of a new kind of mushi have brought Ginko out to visit another master, one who's been studying the discovery for some time. But upon his arrival, Ginko is disturbed to find the villagers preparing to destroy the mushi.

Ginko encounters a wanderer of a different breed, a street musician who sings hauntingly of the mushi.