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| wow i didn't think you could actually hear it until i read people's comments |
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| I liked how they tied in that theme with the idea that everything is dead and quiet in the Winter but then you move on to the Spring and things get livelier again. |
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| I really love this show so far. Another great episode. 5/5 |
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| I can't get myself to engage with the show. Yes it is so calm and the music is stunning. But it is so calm to the extent that pushes me to sleep. It was one of the really top animes in MAL that's why I am giving it a little more chance. |
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| This is probably one of my favorite animes I don't know why it took me so long to start it |
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| So its our hands which are the source of the lava-like sound. I used to do the hand-thing every now and then as a kid and even now sometimes, so yup I was happy when they mentioned it. Another beautiful episode. What should I do, at this rate Mushishi is going to become a part of my top 5 list. |
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Wodyrtil said: Tienjt said: This is a bit late, but I hope someone can answer it! I understand that the Ah dies when it hears the sound of your vitality, so what makes the Un die as well? Since the Un feeds on sound, it should stay alive from the sound of your vitality, right? I guess you could say that the Un only feeds on noise from your surroundings (rather than the noise of your vitality), but if so, then you could just cover your ears (thus blocking surrounding noise and kill off the Un without needing to be infected by the Ah. Covering your ears doesn't create complete silence, and that little sound from the body is exactly what kills Ah. And what kills Un is salt. I don't understand how he didn't cover his ears already, I thought he did. Since he was hearing all the mushi sounds wave length stuff. |
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ikuto said: I don't understand how he didn't cover his ears already, I thought he did. Since he was hearing all the mushi sounds wave length stuff. That's right, he covered them already different times. Ah should have died already, but it did only after Ginko told him to do it again. But the episode was too good to think at this ^^ |
| So the kid covered his ears for almost a year and then Mushishi guy shows up and tell the kid you have to cover your ears to kill the mushi. Then the kid covers his ears and bam the mushi is killed... |
| Still doesn't make sense. Even if he was previously covering his ears to not hear any sounds he would still be able to hear the sound of his own body. It's like if you pinch yourself while saying that you don't want to feel any pain, you'll still feel pain. It also seems like anyone can help cure you because it was the kid who put his hands on Ginko and killed the Ah. This makes me question why the mother didn't just ask someone to put their hands on her ears if she already figured how to cure it... |
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Avenger-senpai said: Still doesn't make sense. Even if he was previously covering his ears to not hear any sounds he would still be able to hear the sound of his own body. It's like if you pinch yourself while saying that you don't want to feel any pain, you'll still feel pain. Not when there's hundreds of mushi sounds drowning it out. It's more like trying to specifically feel the pain of a pinch when there's other sources of pain being inflicted all over your body. Plus, the boy was actually covering his horns when Ginko visited him. Not his ears. He had already figured out that the mushi sounds were coming from his horns, so I'm not sure why everyone's saying that he was previously covering his ears to block out sound (since it doesn't block out the sound of mushi). In fact, the only instances we see him cover his ears are (1) when he was only infected with Un and (2) when he did it to imitate his mother (after being infected with Ah), which prompted the growth of his horns (a defense mechanism for the Ah). As for the mother, Ginko said that by the time she realized, it was too late. Presumably her condition was too advanced to be cured. |
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| I like the series, relaxing and somewhat mysterious. Nice concept with these mushi, everyone can experience it themselves. Things everyone has already experienced but never really thought about it - I hear the trembling in my closed ears - :) |
| LOL when the Ah just melted xD that was funny hahaha. Sad that the mama died, but at least she'll get to see her husband :) (I'm assuming he died earlier from something else since he didn't appear.) |
| Maho is absolutely precious. It's too bad that his mom didn't make it, but at least she managed to give him a hint to the solution. Also, literal earworms. This show really knows how to find beauty in strangeness. The snowy landscapes, the snowfall and the character acting are a sight to behold in this show. Nakano Yuto continues to impress with his detached, almost amused delivery that still carries some warmth. |
LeeTailorJul 11, 2017 2:04 PM
| Could this anime get anymore peaceful? Ugh. So relaxing. :3 That kid is so kawaii, though. I wanna squeeze his face. Haha. We discover another Mushi called Ah and Unh, and it's really disgusting for me. It looks like a melted earwax, and I wonder if the earwax in our ears is a Mushi. Fuck. I need to stop. Pfft. So, the weakness of that Mushi is the sound of your own body? Am I wrong here? Haha. Loved this episode! <3 |
     "Maybe he's trying to take a shit, but the shit just won't come out." Captain Levi, 2014 (／^-^)／☆♪  ♪☆＼(^０^＼) |
| This show so fucking realistic I used to do a lot of these things when I was a kid, this pleasant vibes I get from this show are real another 5/5 |
| Immediately after the episode, I put my hands over my ears. Needed some of that lava in my life. Rewatching this episode has deepened my appreciation of Mushishi's masterful atmosphere building. I love snowy episodes and particularly like how the emphasis on snow played into understanding more about the Un & Ah. It's interesting how these first few episodes play into the senses. It wasn't until I completed S1 for the first time that I grew to appreciate their place at the start. |
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| And here is another episode that enters your soul with its atmosphere and its reflections, it is something that envelops you and leaves you an indelible mark, this is the interesting thing about this anime series every time you see one of his episodes. The soundtrack helps in all this, it's wonderful to hear. |
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| man this episode was good.. it keeps getting better from episode to episode.. love the soundtrack.. beautiful. |
| My favorite episode of the show so far. I love the snow falling...the background art in this episode feels more like a painting than even the previous episodes. Just breathtaking. I also find the sound-eating and noise-eating mushi to be very unique and the solution to the story's conflict is very charming. Close your hands over your ears until you hear lava...who hasn't heard the sound of their own blood pumping through their ears? So the sound of life kills life itself... Oh, and I also like the voice acting. The boy sounds adorable and his delivery sounds realistic. And the old woman sounds delightfully warm, crackly, and wise. A wonderful story. |
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| I'm not sure if peaceful is the word to describe the state of being forced to listen horrifying Mushi whispers that reverberate right inside your cochlea but I guess if you've become used to it after so long, you'd long for it once it's gone too. To think that all you need to do is to concentrate on the tiny rumblings in your hands to save yourself from all that agony. I actually tried covering my ears too and it's freaky that it really does make a sound~ |
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| this was just amazing. really an masterpiece |
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| Great episode, with a poignant vein that has in itself the dramatic and also a nice part. The case that solves the protagonist is not immediately intuitive and makes the narrative more intriguing to follow. Excellent soundtrack. |
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Some of the people affected by Mushi have a weird relationship to them where they clearly had a negative impact on their lives, but they can still appreciate with a sense of wonder the mysterious forces that changed their life (in a horrible way). |
eski514Mar 23, 2020 9:24 PM
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| Beautiful episode, the atmosphere and the sounds go perfectly with each other |
| 1. If Un feed off sound, what the hell makes someone's ear a good place to inhabit? It's not like there's more sound in there or something. 2. The cure turned out being something the kid had already been doing for a year before Ginko arrived, but only now does it just inexplicably work? Is the writer even trying to make sense? This is worse than the first episode. |
| calm episode, this anime has a lot of interesting ideas/concepts that i've never seen before. Im guessing from the previous 2 episodes, we'll never get a story/arc longer then 1 episode which would make sense. I mean hay theres 26 episodes, thats like 650 mins of unique different storys being told which i won't complain about. Out of interest, i wonder if we'll get any bigger Mushi down the line, like ones that potentially kill or are a very dangerous threat to humans? |
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| Damn this show is good. I love how they transition to the ED every episode. The beautiful ost just plays in the background as the show fades to credits and the volume picks up. So gorgeous. |
| Just beautiful. Snow and relaxing OST. |
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| The world building is incredible. The art is beautiful. I really like this, no complaints :) |
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| I love the sound design in this episode. It kinda sorta gives me flashbacks to Kino's Journey episode 2, but without any commentary on the human condition. Rather, it's a focus on the overbearing silent atmosphere and one's perception of the world through hearing. |
| Seems like the Mushi are benign in a lot of ways just due to the fact that they have no 'motive' other than to survive and exist. The snow falling in this one is beautiful. Snow in the real world really does mute everything. |
1Escapist said: Such a late reply, but I'm posting this for any future readers who stumble across this thread: here's a personal theory. The little boy wasn't cured when he covered his ears at first because he still "heard" sound through his horns since the mushi Ah made the boy hear Mushi sounds. The loud roaring of the mushi world drowned out the little boy's "voice of vitality" inside his body. That's why everything seemed so loud all the time. Also, when he covered his ears, he wasn't trying to listen to his own sound, he was rejecting ALL sounds. So he didn't hear the volcano inside him. This only made Ah stronger because Ah absorbed the deafening silence in the vacuum created by Un. At the end, Ginko made the boy realize that the mother wasn't covering her ears to gain silence. The mother was covering the boy's ears and her own ears so that they can hear the sound of their own hearts beating--and this was what dissolved Ah. But by that time, the mother was far too weak, and her body didn't produce enough sounds to save her. In the boy's case, he was saved in time. This isn't a Deu ex machina. I'd say it's actually quite clever for the author to think this up. Holy moly - just rewatched this episode and I recalled a whole debate in this thread about the solution, came here to read the thread again. And guys...this is it. 1Escapist just cracked the code. THe reason Maho was not able to kill Ah was that he was not trying to listen to the sound of his own "vitality" or "heart" - it did not work for the mother because she was too weak by that point, that much Ginko observes. But for Maho, all he had to do was truly listen to his body/heart properly. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| The way the horns fell off like clay was kinda satisfying. This show nails its atmosphere as always. Such a cozy and fascinating anime. |
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