Mushishi Collector's Edition 3

The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely original translation and new cover designs.

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.

Includes Japanese volumes 5-6 in a premium casewrap hardcover featuring a new to English cover illustration..

The line between life and death is blurred, especially where mushi--a different form of life--are concerned. Ginko, a mushishi who wanders the land learning about the curious nature of mushi, visits an island where a woman's child may be her late mother reborn. In a mountain village, he meets a young hunter whose hand can kill with a touch. Throughout Ginko's many encounters with the unnatural, one truth remains constant: for good or ill, both man and mushi can only act according to their nature.

Upon its release in the 2000s, Mushishi earned global acclaim for its poetic episodic storytelling and delicate, beautiful artwork, winning the Japan Media Arts Prize, selection as a Best Manga by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and recommendation as a top read for teens by the American Library Association. The series inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by the legendary Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of AKIRA. Unfortunately, after being out of print for 15 years, English copies of Mushishi became as elusive as the strange creatures that populate its pages--until now.

Kodansha's new edition of Mushishi features an all-new translation and lettering, and beautiful color pages and cover illustrations never seen in the U.S. before.