| No.
|
Title
|
Original air date
|
| 1 | "Banquet at the Forest's Edge"
Transliteration: "Nozue no Utage" (Japanese: 野末の宴) | April 5, 2014 (2014-04-05)[6] |
|---|
|
A sake brewer once lost his way home and chanced upon a strange ceremony. There, he tasted a sweet, glowing sake that he's never been able to forget. Years later, his son follows in his footsteps and tries to brew a sake to match his father's. When the son, too, encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be a part of it, meeting Ginko in the process. |
| 2 | "The Warbling Sea Shell"
Transliteration: "Saezuru Kai" (Japanese: 囀る貝) | April 12, 2014 (2014-04-12)[6] |
|---|
|
Near a village by the sea, a girl lives with her father on a secluded crag. She wants to make friends, but her father, for some reason, doesn't want her associating with the village people. When Ginko arrives, he finds a mushi that's an omen of disaster. The shared threat brings the father and the village back together. |
| 3 | "Beneath the Snow"
Transliteration: "Yuki no Shita" (Japanese: 雪の下) | April 19, 2014 (2014-04-19)[6] |
|---|
|
Ginko visits a village where it snows most of the year to study snow mushi. He finds a boy with a strange affliction that causes snow to fall on him perpetually. He's become insensitive to the cold, and warmth is painful for him. It's dangerous for him to expose himself to the cold so much, but he doesn't even seem to care. |
| 4 | "The Hand That Caresses the Night"
Transliteration: "Yoru o Naderu Te" (Japanese: 夜を撫でる手) | April 26, 2014 (2014-04-26)[6] |
|---|
|
A young man has the power to lure animals to him using a scent issuing from his hand. He inherited this power from his father, and it makes hunting easier. But it makes the meat from his prey taste foul. More serious is the risk of losing his mind to the power and confusing family with prey. There's a cure, but will the boy be willing to give up his power? |
| 5 | "Mirror Lake"
Transliteration: "Kagami ga Fuchi" (Japanese: 鏡が淵) | May 3, 2014 (2014-05-03)[6] |
|---|
|
Ginko encounters a young woman being followed by a mysterious, watery creature. The woman becomes weak, and her family believes it to be lovesickness. Ginko reveals the truth of the mushi attached to her, but the woman must decide whether to give up her body to the mushi, or to dispel it and continue living. |
| 6 | "Floral Delusion"
Transliteration: "Hana Madoi" (Japanese: 花惑い) | May 10, 2014 (2014-05-10)[6] |
|---|
|
Ginko meets a woman with a striking beauty that lacks all five senses and according to the man who takes care of her, is over 80 years old and has lived in his family for generations. While investigating the mushi responsible for it, Ginko discovers an even darker secret involving the two. |
| 7 | "Cloudless Rain"
Transliteration: "Hi Teru Ame" (Japanese: 日照る雨) | May 24, 2014 (2014-05-24)[6] |
|---|
|
A woman afflicted by a water-type mushi decides to make use of her condition to help those in need. |
| 8 | "Wind Raiser"
Transliteration: "Shimaki Tatsu" (Japanese: 風巻立つ) | June 7, 2014 (2014-06-07)[6] |
|---|
|
While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type mushi able to create wind. |
| 9 | "Valley of the Welling Tides"
Transliteration: "Ushio Waku Tani" (Japanese: 潮わく谷) | June 14, 2014 (2014-06-14)[6] |
|---|
|
Ginko falls unconscious on a snowy mountain. He is helped by locals who somehow manage to grow their fields despite the weather, mainly because of a worker with unabated stamina. But at what cost does this vigor come? |
| 10 | "Depths of Winter"
Transliteration: "Fuyu no Soko" (Japanese: 冬の底) | June 21, 2014 (2014-06-21)[6] |
|---|
|
On his way to answer a summons, Ginko is trapped on a mountain that has been sealed by the mountain lord, and is experiencing an eternal winter, with some trapped snow-mushi. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter? |
| Special | "Path of Thorns"
Transliteration: "Odoro no Michi" (Japanese: 棘のみち) | August 20, 2014 (2014-08-20) |
|---|
|
At the request of Karibusa Tan'yuu, Ginko sets off to investigate a phenomenon that might be related to a dangerous mushi. He encounters the taciturn Kumado Minai, the current head of a long line of mushishi, who's in charge of the area. Kumado leads Ginko to the bottom of the Path of Thorns, from where mushi pass into the human world where they encounter the soul-devouring Sanekuimushi. Kumado tries to fight it with his artificial mushi created from Kouki, but only just survives and is rescued by Ginko. |
| 11 | "Cushion of Grass"
Transliteration: "Kusa no Shitone" (Japanese: 草の茵) | October 19, 2014 (2014-10-19) |
|---|
|
After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, Ginko is instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro. Suguro tells the young Ginko that he must always move from place to place due to his condition of attracting mushi. They are in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord and Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared. Ginko finds the golden egg of the new Mountain Lord but drops and breaks it, condemning the mountain to a period of decline until a new one appears. |
| 12 | "Fragrant Darkness"
Transliteration: "Kaoru Yami" (Japanese: 香る闇) | October 26, 2014 (2014-10-26) |
|---|
|
A farmer is haunted by forgotten memories of his life whenever he smells the scent of flowers at night. Ginko appears at his home on a rainy night seeking shelter, and says that he is the victim of a mushi. The Kairou mushi appears as a tunnel and condemns anyone who enters it, to eternally reliving their life. Ginko warns the farmer against re-entering the tunnel. However when his wife falls and is fatally injured, the farmer re-enters the tunnel to relive his happy life with her. |
| 13 | "Lingering Crimson"
Transliteration: "Nokori Beni" (Japanese: 残り紅) | November 2, 2014 (2014-11-02) |
|---|
|
At dusk, about to go home after playing with her friends, a young girl named Akane found a shadow without a caster. On that same day, she disappeared. Several years later, Ginko is told the story of Mikage, a girl who appeared with no memories at Akane's village shortly after the vanishment of the latter. |
| 14 | "Hidden Cove"
Transliteration: "Komori E" (Japanese: 隠り江) | November 9, 2014 (2014-11-09) |
|---|
|
Yura and Sumi, the former's caretaker, were close friends. Eventually, as they were moved apart, Yura could still feel Sumi's presence. However, whenever that happened, she'd become like an empty shell, worrying her father. As Ginko becomes aware of the case, he proceeds to offer them advice, as the condition is caused by a mushi that can connect people's minds. |
| 15 | "Thread of Light"
Transliteration: "Hikari no O" (Japanese: 光の緒) | November 16, 2014 (2014-11-16) |
|---|
|
A boy named Gen troubles his father by being too rough with other kids, who pick on him due to his absent mother. The child, too strong for his age, also claims to be able to see strange creatures that no one else sees. As Ginko arrives at Gen's place, the story behind Gen's strength is revealed as the mushishi recounts the day he met a woman who'd woven a mysterious seamless garment. |
| 16 | "Sea of Otherworldly Stars"
Transliteration: "Koten no Hoshi" (Japanese: 壷天の星) | November 23, 2014 (2014-11-23) |
|---|
|
Izumi is alone in a world that mirrors our own. Having forgotten how she came to be there, she remains trapped while her family searches in vain. Her father believes she has been kidnapped, while her mother and sister Mizuho believe that she is still inside the house, even though they cannot see her. Ginko crosses into the other world to try to save her. |
| 17 | "Azure Waters"
Transliteration: "Mizu Aomu" (Japanese: 水碧む) | November 30, 2014 (2014-11-30) |
|---|
|
Ginko encounters Yuuta, a boy who is excellent at swimming and fishing but has webbed hands and cold skin. After discovering the boy's unnatural affinity for water, he sets out to treat the rain mushi causing his strange behavior. |
| 18 | "Lightning's End"
Transliteration: "Ikazuchi no Tamoto" (Japanese: 雷の袂) | December 7, 2014 (2014-12-07) |
|---|
|
Multiple lightning strikes have been observed hitting the same tree, and Ginko investigates. He meets a strange boy who attracts lightning to himself due to a mushi's influence. His mother believes he is doing it to spite her and struggles with the fact that she doesn't love her child. |
| 19 | "Mud Grass"
Transliteration: "Doro no Kusa" (Japanese: 泥の草) | December 14, 2014 (2014-12-14) |
|---|
|
Shigeru's daughter (Yuri) is found dead in the mountains. A painful skin infection breaks out in his village. Ginko can cure the disease of the villagers but Shigeru has a much more serious case. It turns out that he and the son of his deceased brother brought the mushi causing the problem back to the village when they broke a taboo. |
| 20 | "Tree of Eternity"
Transliteration: "Tokoshie no Ki" (Japanese: 常の樹) | December 21, 2014 (2014-12-21) |
|---|
|
A restless man, Kanta, on his way home to his wife and young daughter (Futaba), sits down to rest in a forest. He is tired and thirsty so he eats a red fruit that was lying on the ground near him, and gives thanks to the plum. Some time after this, he starts having vivid memories both in his dreams and while awake of times going back before his birth. He goes looking for a huge tree but finding it does not make him happy. |
| Film | "Bell Droplets"
Transliteration: "Suzu no Shizuku" (Japanese: 鈴の雫) | May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16) |
|---|
|
A girl, Kaya, is born with plants growing from her head and accompanied by the sound of bells. She becomes lord of a mountain and Ginko stumbles upon her as a teenager although he finds it strange that a human was chosen as the mountain lord. He meets her older brother who has searched for her since she disappeared years earlier. Ginko offers Kaya the opportunity to become human again and rejoin her family, but at a risk to his own life. Kaya intervenes as Ginko is being judged by the law of the mountain and she is consumed instead of Ginko. Her brother finally accepts her fate but keeps her memory alive by placing offerings in the forest. |
