Mushi-Shi, Vol. 2
by Mushi-Shi English Dub
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Actor: Mushi-Shi, Mushi-Shi English DubDirector: Mushi-Shi English Dub
Brand: FUNIMATION PRODUCTIONS, LTD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Funimation Prod
DVD Reviews of Mushi-Shi, Vol. 2
DVD Review: Close to perfection
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had the privilege of watching the entire Mushi-shi series and I can honestly say that it is an amazing series that continues to take my breath away.
The story is hard to describe but easy to understand once you begin to watch it. Ginko, the Mushi-shi who collects the mushi, is as mysterious as the mushi he collects. The pastoral pacing and the episodic nature of each installment is a departure from the usual anime/manga series of late which have long arcs. One does not know if it is modern or pre-Meiji. There is a sense that the timeline is non-linear which in turn makes it timeless.
Yet, as we follow Ginko as he wanders in and out of the lives of people who are touched by mushi, there is a completeness to each story that is told that is very rare in the world of anime. There are stories that end happily and stories that are bittersweet and stories that are tragic but all are told in a way that makes no judgment and allows the viewer to take away what they want from the story.
Then there is the art and the music. The artwork from Mushi-shi is so beautiful and arresting that I am still wondering how they pulled it off. And the music is at once spare and rich at the same time and it fits so perfectly into the story that it is like a character unto itself.
I freely admit to a bias for the Japanese track and mostly it is because this is a Japanese story so the Japanese voices seem more natural than the English ones. More precisely, watching Mushi-shi in English would be like watching Kurosawa's Seven Samurai or Rashomon in English. It is hard for me to do it, but if one prefers English to subtitles, the English cast does a more than respectable job and I do love that Travis Willingham (the English VA who made FMA's Roy Mustang his own) was chosen to play Ginko. He doesn't quite reach the level of cool that Yuto Nakano's Ginko gets to, but he comes pretty close and who is to say what Willingham will pull off as he gets more comfortable in the role.
When I first heard that Funimation had acquired the rights to distribution, I was a little concerned. Funimation has a reputation of being a bit free with its "reversioning" as they call it. Sometimes the reversioning works and sometimes it doesn't. I have to admit that the first DVD's reversioning left a bit to be desired, but in DVD 2, it almost seems like they knew that it is best to stick as close to the original as possible when it comes to a series like Mushi-shi.
Still, no one packages a top-level series like Funimation does and it is clear that Funimation is packaging Mushi-shi with the care and attention of a top-level series even though it is quite probable that, due to its very uniqueness, the series may only reach cult status rather than the mainstream status of a Full Metal Alchemist so I give them kudos for this effort.
I do hope that people give this series a try. Once again, it is a very different anime than what people might consider anime to be, but it is a close to perfection as a story can be, be it anime or not.
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Description of Mushi-Shi, Vol. 2
Neither good nor evil they are life in its purest form. Vulgar and strange they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have over the ages come to be known as "mushi."To reenact the phoenix with water in place of flame miracles tarry on the breath of the dying. When a single day carries the weight of a lifetime one will choose to live on the other side of time.Contains episodes 6-10System Requirements:Running Time: 125 minutes Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 704400051029 Manufacturer No: 1-4210-0293-0Bestsellers in DVD
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