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For
millions of years, they have existed. These creatures, though small in
size, have a voracious appetite. When they attack, they hold nothing
back. Most people do not see them. They crawl inside our bodies and
feed. Some eat your eyes. Others eat all sound. Some drive you crazy
while others kill you. One man, Ginko, a mushishi, has the knowledge to
fight these beings. As Ginko travels the land, he finds people that have
these mushi inside of them . . . gorging themselves on the human bodies.
Using his knowledge and a bit of magic, Ginko is able to get the mushi
out, but it is always for the best?
In the
first story, Ginko travels to a town in which most of the people are
covered with a rust only he can see. Because of this rust, some can no
longer walk. Shige, a girl of 14 years of age, has not spoken in ten
years. Ginko finds that her strange voice is what called the Yasabi
mushi to the town. Tetsu, a boy from the sea who now live the village,
does not have the rust on him. Ginko must somehow figure a way to make
the mushi go away.
In the second story, a man has been waiting on the
shore of the ocean for his wife to come back. She disappeared 2½ years
ago while over the water in a boat. Ginko determines that there are
mushi in the water. When the go out in a boat into the mist, they find
the man's wife and she thinks it has only been three days that she has
been gone.
In the third story, during a famine, a town is having a
bumper crop. It seems that if a person grows an extra tooth in the roof
of their mouth, and that tooth is planted, the town will experience a
great crop. Unfortunately for that person, they will soon die. Ginko
knows that he must stop the next person from dying. All he has to do is
find the person with the extra tooth and stop it from being planted.
In
the fourth story, an inkstone was found by some kids in a supply closet.
When they put water on it, it released a cloud that they all inhaled.
They soon became very sick and very cold. When Ginko arrives in town, he
realizes that the inkstone itself is made of mushi that belong in a
higher elevation. He figures that if they take the children up the
mountain, maybe the mushi they inhaled will leave their bodies.
In the
last story, Yoki is a young boy who has lost his mother and is staying
with a woman with white hair and one eye. The are living beside a lake
that only has fish with one eye. Yoki figures out that a fish disappears
when it loses the other eye. When Yoki's eye disappears, along with
woman he was staying with, he realizes that he must leave the lake
behind.
Mushishi: Volume 3 is a
manga book written and drawn by Yuki Urushibara. This book was
Translated & Adapted by
William Flanagan and Lettered by North Market Street Graphics. This book contains the following chapters:
The Cry of Rust
From the Ocean's Edge
The Heavy Seed
White Living in the Inkstone
The Fish Gaze
There is
also some special extras in the following sections: A) About Mushi, B) Honorifics Explained,
C) Afterward, and D) Translation Notes. The book reads from right to left and back to
front, just like a book from Japan. This manga book is intended for
readers ages 16 and up.
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