Episodes

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 has followed in his footsteps and is trying to brew a sake to match his dad's. When he, too, encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be part of it, meeting Ginko during the occasion. || Kouki--a stream of light flowing deep underground, the font of all life. When a man ignorant of its effects on the living meddles with it, the mushi-shi must act before there are unintended consequences. Source: crunchyroll

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. Will the girl's father be able to forgive past events and help the village? || Birdsong is suddenly heard when a sea shell is held up to a girl`s ear. In a fishing village still reeling from a tragedy years before, a strange mushi indicates an ill omen. What misfortune will be brought to bear on the people? Source: crunchyroll

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. || Snow constantly falls around him. Impervious to the freezing cold, the man is gripped by the searing memory of a winter he had spent together with his little sister. Source: crunchyroll

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. || Who, or what, is reflected on the surface? When the boundary between the real and unreal collapses, only the self who lives in this world can determine how to continue one`s existence. Source: crunchyroll

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. || The countless blooms adorning the branches of trees are an enthralling tableau showcasing the beauty of spring. Those who have a neverending desire for such beauty will eventually broach a taboo. For whom do the ephemeral flowers bloom? Source: crunchyroll

A woman afflicted by a water-type mushi decides to make use of her condition to help those in need. || The woman continues her travels as she foretells the coming of rain. With every raindrop that falls from the clear blue skies, she is reminded of her curious fate, one that cannot be washed clean by any amount of tears. Source: crunchyroll

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. || A ship sails with wind in its sails across the calm seas. A boy able to command the mushi and call the wind must find his own path in order to see the horizon within himself. Source: crunchyroll

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? || Amidst the wintry snow, a valley is full of green and ripe for harvest. A man toils on without need for slumber, as if to make amends. He works for his family`s livelihood, and for his blood legacy... Source: crunchyroll

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 because of some trapped snow-mushi. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter? || A mountain refuses to welcome spring. Snow continues to fall, and animals continue to slumber. It is the will of the mountain lord... as if he, himself, is waiting for death. Source: crunchyroll

After his encounter with Nui and before becoming a mushishi, young Ginko moved from place to place, due to his condition of attracting mushi. At one point he found himself instructed and cared for by a mushishi named Suguro, in the lands of a dying Mountain Lord. Ginko wonders about his place in the world and the natural order, as Suguro worries that the new Mountain Lord hasn't yet appeared. || Should darkness rise from the depths of the cavern, the boundary between and man and mushi will vanish. Life itself will become bereft of death, and the natural order will crumble. The world as we know it will be no more. Mishappen beings and taboos unique to man lie in wait along the path of thorns... Source: crunchyroll