Mushishi
| Mushishi | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 蟲 師 |
| transcription | Mushishi |
| genre | Fantasy, his |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Yuki Urushibara |
| publishing company | Kōdansha |
| magazine | Afternoon Season Zōkan → Afternoon |
| First publication | 1999 - 2008 |
| expenditure | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Year (s) | 2005-2006 |
| Studio | Artland |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26th |
| Director | Hiroshi Nagahama |
| music | Toshio Masuda |
| First broadcast | October 23, 2005 - June 19, 2006 on Kansai TV , Fuji TV , BS Fuji |
| Movie | |
| Original title | Mushishi |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| script | Katsuhiro Otomo, Sadayuki Murai |
| music | Kuniaki Haishima |
| camera | Takahide Shibanushi |
| cut | Sōichi Ueno |
| occupation | |
| |
| Anime television series | |
| title | Mushishi: Zokushō |
| Original title | 蟲 師 続 章 |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2014 |
| Studio | Artland |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 20 + 1 bonus episodes in 2 seasons |
| Director | Hiroshi Nagahama |
| music | Toshio Masuda |
| First broadcast | April 6 - June 22, 2014 (1st season) October 20 - December 22, 2014 (2nd season) on Tokyo MX , Gunma TV , BS11 (1st season) Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV , BS11 (2nd season ) |
Mushishi ( Japanese 蟲 師 ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Yuki Urushibara , which can be assigned to his genre. It was published from 1999 to 2008 and has over 1,500 pages. Mushishi was implemented as an anime television series in 2005 and as a real film in 2006.
action
In a world similar to Japan at the beginning of the 20th century, beings of neither animal nor vegetable nature exist. The living beings that are said to have a great connection to nature are called Mushi ( 蟲 , literally translated as "insect", but in the broader sense also "beings", "natural").
The coexistence of people and mushi often turns out to be problematic. The mushi are invisible to most people, few people who can see them often travel the world as mushishi trying to help the people who have problems caused by mushi. The white-haired ginko ( ギ ン コ ), who lost an eye through a mushi in his childhood, works as a mushi master ( mushishi ) and meets different people and mushis on his travels. When he encounters people who are harmed by mushi, he first carefully investigates the cause and type of the mushi before attempting to drive it away without killing it.
Publications
In 1998, Yuki Urushibara drew a short story entitled Mushishi , sent it to the Japanese manga magazine Afternoon , and received the Afternoon Shiki Prize . After the short story appeared, she decided to expand the short story into a longer manga series. Beginning in 1999, Mushishi appeared in the form of self-contained individual chapters, each showing a story about someone with problems with Mushi, in the quarterly manga magazine Afternoon Season Zōkan . After Afternoon Season Zōkan was discontinued in 2002, the manga series switched to the higher-circulation "main magazine" Afternoon , which sells over 130,000 times a month, and was published there until autumn 2008. Mushishi quickly became one of the magazine's most popular series, which also featured Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Kosuke Fujishima's Oh! My Goddess appear. The Kodansha publishing house summarized the individual chapters from November 2000 together in a total of 10 anthologies.
- Volume 1: November 22, 2000, ISBN 4-06-314255-8
- Volume 2: February 22, 2002, ISBN 4-06-314284-1
- Volume 3: December 20, 2002, ISBN 4-06-314312-0
- Volume 4: October 23, 2003, ISBN 4-06-314332-5
- Volume 5: October 22, 2004, ISBN 4-06-314361-9
- Volume 6: June 23, 2005, ISBN 4-06-314381-3
- Volume 7: February 23, 2006, ISBN 4-06-314404-6
- Volume 8: February 23, 2007, ISBN 978-4-06-314442-0
- Volume 9: February 22, 2008, ISBN 978-4-06-314488-8
- Volume 10: November 21, 2008, ISBN 978-4-06-314537-3
In the issues 1/2014 of November 25, 2013 and 2/2014 of December 25, 2014 Afternoon appeared later a special chapter ( tokubetsuhe ) called Hihamu Kage ( 日 蝕 む 翳 ).
The manga series has been translated into English by Del Rey, French by Kana , Italian by Star Comics and Spanish by Norma Editorial , among others . A German translation has been published by Manga Cult since June 2020.
Success and Awards
The first seven anthologies sold over 2.5 million times in Japan by around July 2006. A year later, the manga had 3.8 million books sold.
Yuki Urushibara was for Mushishi 2003 with the Media Arts Award as a prize for excellence and in 2005 with the Kodansha Manga Award awarded in the category "General".
Film adaptations
Anime
Mushishi
From October 23, 2005 to March 12, 2006 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day), twenty episodes of an anime series based on the manga were first broadcast on the Japanese television stations Kansai TV and Fuji TV , as well as with up to a week offset the associated channels TV Shin-Hiroshima , TV Nishi-Nippon , Tokai TV and Hokkaidō Bunka Hōsō . Six more episodes appeared from May 15 to June 19, 2006 after midnight on the BS Fuji satellite program. The anime series, which is based on the first 26 individual chapters of the manga, was created in the animation studio Artland . The series was directed by Hiroshi Nagahama .
The main character Ginko is voiced by Yuto Nakano . The English-language theme song, The Sore Feet Song , comes from the British singer-songwriter Ally Kerr .
The anime series won the 2006 fifth Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair in the categories of Best TV Series and Best Production Design .
Mushishi Tokubet Shoes: Hihamu Kage
Based on the special chapter published in 2013, the 45-minute television special Mushishi Tokubetsuhe: Hihamu Kage ( 蟲 師 特別 篇 日 蝕 む 翳 ) was published on January 4, 2014 . This was broadcast simultaneously on Tokyo MX , Gunma TV , Tochigi TV and BS11 . The production staff remained largely unchanged for the series.
Mushishi: Zokushō
A second series called Mushishi: Zokushō ( 蟲 師 続 章 , "Mushishi: Continuation Chapter ") with 10 episodes ran from April 6 to June 22, 2014 at midnight (and thus on the previous television day) on Tokyo MX, Gunma TV and BS11. Tochigi TV and Asahi Hōsō also followed with a delay of up to a week . The production staff was again largely taken over. A simulcast with English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles is streamed by Crunchyroll for the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Shiver was used as the opening title by British singer-songwriter Lucy Rose . On August 20, 2014, another extra episode ran on BS11.
A second season with a further 10 episodes ran from October 20 to December 22, 2014 shortly after midnight on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV and Gunma TV, and later on BS11.
Motion picture
Katsuhiro Otomo directed a 131-minute live version of the manga. The main role was played by Joe Odagiri . The film, which is based on the manga chapters 7, 12 and 20, premiered on September 7th in the competition at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival . On April 19, 2007, the film had its German premiere at the Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main . He ran there in the competition for the audience award of the festival.
reception
The series has received several awards. In 2003 the manga received the Excellence Award at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival . In 2006 he was awarded the Kōdansha Manga Prize for Manga in general. In the category for the best artistic direction, the series was awarded in 2006 at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair .
The German fan magazine Funime highlights the unusual plot of the series, in which there is "no good and no bad", but the cause of evil is often just ignorance. Instead of action scenes, the anime focuses on carefully building up its own world with interesting characters. The concept of mushi is difficult to grasp, especially according to the western understanding - they are sometimes like a force of nature and sometimes metaphysical. The characters of the anime are kept graphically simple, the backgrounds are detailed. Computer animation is used in particular with the Mushi. Overall, the series offers a good level of animation and the soundtrack and synchronization are also successful.
Web links
- Fuji TV website for the 1st anime series (Japanese)
- 2nd anime series website (Japanese)
- 1st anime series and 2nd anime series on the Anime News Network (English)
- Telepolis : Ghostbusters of the Silent Kind , October 14, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Gravett (eds.) And Andreas C. Knigge (transl.): 1001 comics that you should read before life is over . Zurich 2012, Edition Olms. P. 714.
- ↑ a b Mushi-Shi - strange spirits of life . In: Funime No. 52, p. 24f.
- ↑ http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2006/07/26/02.html ( Memento from October 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.cinematopics.com/cinema/news/output.php?news_seq=6265
- ↑ Crunchyroll to Stream Selector Infected Wixoss, Mushishi: The Next Chapter Anime. In: Anime News Network. April 2, 2014, accessed April 17, 2014 .
- ↑ 2003 7th Japan Media Arts Festival - Excellence Prize MUSHISHI. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 17, 2007 ; accessed on February 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ yes: 過去 の 受 賞 者 一 覧: 講 談 社 漫画 賞: 講 談 社 「お も し ろ く て 、 、 た め に な る」 出版 を ( Japanese ) Kodansha. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2007.
- ↑ yes: 東京 国際 ア ニ メ フ ェ ア 2006 ( Japanese ) Tokyo International Anime Fair. Archived from the original on April 10, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2006.
