
Pages
504
Rating
3.90
Year
2026
Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don't obey the laws of our reality—primordial beings known as mushi. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by mushi into the human world—and by us into theirs. He is a mushi master…a mushi-shi.
Though invisible to most, tiny creatures known as mushi lurk beneath the surface of everyday reality. They exert a strange and occasionally terrifying influence on people's lives, and only experts known as mushishi carry the knowledge of how to deal with them. A mushishi named Ginko wanders the Japanese countryside, following rumors of various unusual occurrences: a young man who dreams the future; a child with horns growing from his forehead; a boy with the power to write creatures into being; and more...
Endorsements
Winner of the Japan Media Arts Prize.
Selected as a Best Manga by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Recommended as a top read for teens by the American Library Association.
Inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of AKIRA.