I'm watching Mushi-shi as to me its like watching something similar to Doctor Who, you know a person wandering around helping people with expertise in whats needed.
But man I just saw the episode with the bamboo forest and it hurt, it really hurt.
[ May 17, 2008, 01:11 AM: Message edited by: Blayne Bradley ]
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
This is a show?
Is it somehow connected to Musashi--like, Miyamoto Musashi?
(I should just Google it already)
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Mushi-shi is an anime that to me is Doctor Who-esque.
It involes a traveling Mushi-shi essentially someone who is an expert on the half plant half animal creatures known as "mushi" that arent good or evil but can sometime sbe dangerous much like how a boar killing a human isnt evil or likely but within possibility.
Ginko the Mushishi in question travels around and helps people who come into trouble with the local mushishi's.
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
Ah....problems with local kami. Right.
So, why did the epp with the bamboo forest hurt?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
because this man married a girl who was half Mushi, and they even had a daughter together but the girl accidently let the man (back when they were teenagers) drink some of the water coming from her "mother" bamboo-mushi and as such the boy couldnt leave the bamboo forest (the forest wouldnt let him) and such the boy and the girl eventually marry and have a child.
However the man never really gives up on leaving the forest to go back home and hopefully bring his family with him, the half-mushi wife eventually because of Ginko learns that in a way it wa sher fault he can never leave and gets rid of the mother mushi plant of the forest so he can leave.
The man not realizing this had accidently managed to leave the forest and went to his village excited that now he and his family can live back in his home village but the villagers are bigots and show great animosity.
So he goes back to the forest with his daughter and live happily with his wife finally giving up on the village. Ginko leaves and comes back a year later. And learns that tragically the mother tree is what provided the special water that allows her and by extension their daughter to live and have by this time died painfully and when the man tried to burry his wife and daughter they crumbled to dust.
A terribly sad episode, Mushishi im beginning to see has alot of sad episodes.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
WOAH! They just pulled a fast one on me, one episode they have these sorta child Mushi who remind me of those communal alien children from that book, I forget the name, basically where villages all over the world had every female inpregnated with these psionic half alien half human children. This sorta reminds me of it.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Aha! The Midwich Cuckoo's, awesome book.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
You know... I saw the thread title, and knew immediately Blayne wrote it.
I'm aware of the show, though I haven't seen it. So, it's not like I'd tease Blayne for liking things that are in the niche market I tend to frequent. Yet... the whole thread title was classic Blayne.
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
It all sounds very....japanese. I mean, the lack of a happy resolution.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)