The wind in spring brings a nostalgic scent. Memories fill our hearts with the joys, the pain, the love, the adventure of days gone past. But do not be swept up in the scent of the past lest the visions of the future pass you by.
If my attempt to imitate the first series’s poetic intros wasn’t a big enough hint, it looks like that hour long special wasn’t a one off after all. Mushishi has been confirmed both by tweet and the emergence of a new website to be getting a second season. It’s confirmed for 2 cour, that’s somewhere in the area of 20 – 26 episodes, of original stories featuring my personal favorite white haired fantasy exterminator Ginko as he travels Japan solving people’s problems with magic ghost bugs.
As I said when the trailer for the hour special came out, Mushishi is one of the best shows. The list I mentioned with RRR? “Things I can recommend without having to qualify part(s) of it?” This show is on that list. This show may be the top ranker on that list for being engaging at all levels while genuinely building a world of wonder. It effectively used the feeling of folklore to make even the most low key things like rust or a a clump of mold into truly mesmerizing supernatural events while remaining lowkey. The director, Hiroshi Nagahama, is back. The composer of the fantastic music, Toshio Masuda, is back. The sound director, Kazuya Tanaka, is back. It looks like we just picked up where we left off. If this new show is half the show the original was, it will be something to behold.
Mushishi: Zoku-Shou or Mushishi: Second Chapter will begin airing on April 10th.
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