Mushishi

Mushishi (虫 师jap ) is an ongoing Japanese manga series illustrator Yuki Urushibara that the His genre can be assigned. She appeared from 1999 to 2008 and includes more than 1,500 pages. Mushishi was implemented in 2005 as an anime television series, and in 2006 as a live-action film.

Action

In a world that resembles Japan the beginning of the 20th century, roughly, there being neither animal nor vegetable nature. The living entities, which provide a great connection are said to be natural, Mushi (虫, literally "insect", in a broad sense but also " nature ", "Natural " ) called.

The coexistence of people and Mushi often proves problematic. The Mushi are invisible to most people, the few who can see them, often traveling as Mushishi through the world and try to the people who have problems caused by Mushi to help. The white-haired Ginko (ギンコ), who lost by a Mushi in his childhood an eye, works as a Mushi master ( mushishi ) and met various people on his travels and Mushi.

Publications

Yuki Urushibara recorded in 1998 a short story called Mushishi, this sent to the Japanese manga magazine Afternoon and subsequently received the Afternoon Shiki price. After publication of the short story, she decided to expand the short story in a longer manga series. From 1999 Mushishi appeared in the form of self-contained separate chapters, all of which show a story about someone having problems with Mushi, the quarterly manga magazine Afternoon Season Zōkan. After Afternoon Season Zōkan was discontinued in 2002, changed the manga series into circulation more " main magazine " Afternoon, which sold more than 130,000 times every month, and was published there until the fall of 2008. Mushishi quickly evolved into one of the most popular series of the magazine in which, among other things, Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal and Kosuke Fujishimas Oh! My Goddess appear. The Kodansha publishing house summed up 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

The manga series has been translated into English by, among others, Del Rey, translated into French by Kana, into Italian by Star Comics and into Spanish by Norma Editorial.

Success and Awards

The first seven anthologies sold in Japan until about July 2006 over 2.5 million times. A year later, the manga have sold 3.8 million books.

Yuki Urushibara for Mushishi was awarded in 2003 with the Media Arts Award as a prize for excellence and in 2005 with the Kodansha Manga Award in the category " General".

Films

From October 22 2005 to March 12, 2006 twenty episodes of the anime series based on the manga were erstausgestrahlt on the Japanese television station Fuji TV. Depending another episode appeared from May to June 2006 at the six-part DVD release of the series. The anime series based on the first 26 individual chapters of the manga, was built in animation studio Artland and produced by Mushishi Production Committee. Directed the series led Hiroshi Nagahama. The role of ginkgo in the animated series spoke Yuto Nakano. The English-language title song, The Sore Feet Song, comes from the British Ally Kerr. The anime series won the 2006 at the fifth Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair in the categories of Best TV Series and Best Art Direction.

Katsuhiro Otomo has also directed a 131 -minute live-action adaptation 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 7, in competition at the 63rd International Film Festival of Venice. On 19 April 2007, the film had its premiere in Germany at the Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main. He went there to compete for the Audience Award at the festival.

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