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Mushishi

Also known as Mushishi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.



Note: Won the Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2006.

Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Environmental , Youkai , Mythology , Rural , Urban Fantasy , Travel , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Historical , Work , Demons

Sora Tobi Tamashii

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Ubusuna (産土, Birthgrounds)
The story of a mystical creature that makes pottery.

Sora Tobi Tamashii (そらトびタマシイ, Spirits Flying in the Sky)
It's about a girl who is cursed by an owl, and begins to fuse with a chicken spirit she killed by accident. But then she meets a girl just like herself, who helps her become normal again.

Kuma Koroshi Kami Nusumi Tarou no Namida (熊殺し神盗み太郎の涙, The Tears of Bear-Slayer and God-Stealer Tarou)
It's a story about a boy called the "Bear Killer", who meets a girl who has been chosen to become the guardian deity of her village.

Suna-kake (すなかけ, Covered in Sand)
The story of a young girl who meets a girl with a mysterious disease while on a trip to the ocean.

Le Pain et le Chat (The bread and the cat)
The story of a baker who decides to care for a girl whose parents have left her.

Imada Fuyu (未だ冬, Still Winter)
It's about a man who climbs a mountain that belongs to the gods, and is not made for man to climb.

Tags: Mythology , Monster Girl , Magic , Anthology , Seinen , Body Horror , Rural