Mushishi

I love Mushishi

>>151498122
She was a half mushi.

>>151498210
Yes, but only because the ritual was interrupted, which was not supposed to happen.

>>151498225
But it happened.

>>151498244
Yes you fucking idiot, but the Mushi wanted her; and expected her to drink the entire thing, which would've turned her into a 100% Mushi, which would've meant that she would have never been able to get a grandchild, and therefore she wouldn't have been able to do what the Mushi asked of her.

>>151498290
Who said you can't impregnate a mushi?

>>151498328
Even if you could, the child would not be human, therefore it wouldn't need protection, because it would exist on a different plane with only few people being able to see it.

Why are you asking all these questions with obvious answers, i am the one who asked a question.

>>151498459
Maybe she was already pregnant.

>>151498539
She was literally like 10 when that happened and it wouldn't have mattered because evidently you leave your physical shell behind if you turn into a Mushi

Who else has got this masterpiece on their 3x3? I know I do ;).

>>151498578
I added it to mine Its next to Tatami Galaxy and Legend of Galactic Heroes :)

>>151498578
>>151498648
Nice shitposts

God damn it, I'm rewatching episode 1 now just to figure out what OP is talking about.

Don't think too hard about Mushishi. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

>>151502404
It's really not that hard to understand tbqh

The mushi asked her to look after her grandchild once it is born, but during the ritual they attempt to turn her into a mushi, the only reason she can have a grandchild in the first place and do what the mushi asked of her is because the ritual suddenly got interrupted.

I mean, you could also ask why they asked the boys grandma instead of his mother since the probability of his grandma dying vs. his mother dying during his adolescence would be way higher, but that's too much theorizing for this kind of show.

>>151498122
I assumed that if they could predict her grandchild's ability, they could predict the ritual being interrupted.
The boy -may- have gotten his ability only because of her grandmother being half mushi.

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>>151498122
At some point in the show they also say that Mushi don't really have a will, and that whether they affect those around them negatively or positively has nothing to do with them wanting to do good or evil. They are just beings that affect their environment simply by living.

But if that's the case then it doesn't make sense that they'd conduct such a ritual and literally ask the grandmother to do all of this.

>>151502651
i don't think they say that mushi don't have a will, but i think the rest is accurate.
although i think it's said that mushi are life in its purest form, and are closer to fungi than plants and animals

>>151502404
Are you done yet

>>151502541
It's not hard to understand but it's hard to remember something you watched years ago, so I rewatched it.

The banquet was questionable but I think you're theorizing too much to begin with, especially for someone who's seen one episode.
Ginko could have been mistaken about what happens at Mushi banquets (which happens), someone could still be born from a mushi (which happens), the grandson could have been a non-direct decedent from his "grandmother", etc.
Like >>151502549 said, the Mushi predicted the future already. They could have just been doing whatever will lead to the best outcome.

>>151498648
love ironicly good shit anime

>>151503324
this, keep watching it OP its really enjoyable

>>151498122
That's the thing I enjoy most about mushishi, You can interpret the story anyway you want.
Maybe the mushi calculated the interruption and Ginko's arrival all along? They say they want the grandma to take care of the boy forever, and so turned her into half mush so she can still give birth to her son and look after her grandson even after her human half died.

>>151505927
>half mush
That got a laugh out of me.

>>151502651
The first chapter/episode of Mushishi is basically a pilot compared to the rest of the series. It doesn't really follow the same rules as the rest since those rules hadn't been figured out yet. If I recall, that story was originally written when Mushishi still took place in the modern era, for example.

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there are multiple half mushi children/people throughout the series, they can still interact with people normally most of the time.

example: the man who had a bamboo baby

Why did Ginko wants to kill himself in the last episode?

I have literally no idea what you are talking about OP, it's been far too long.

"Mushi" is just an all-encompassing term used to describe various phenomena of the world, don't think about things like mushi-identities or mushi-wills.

>>151498122
Weren't there 2 of them? They split: her mushi self and her human self which died.