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"Now make yourself comfortable and cosy, after 8 long years your beloved mushi master Ginko will take you to the mysterious world of mushi once again." Or that I thought before watching the series. From the very beginning I had some vague feeling that something here isn't how it should be. I mean I know it isn't an action whatsoever, but don't you think 10 seconds of completely white screen in the opening is an oversimplification? Well, who needs the opening, one may say. That's true I was going to skip it anyway. But after watching several episodes you will notice that good art and ... nice music are the only things present in this show.
Just think about it, you can completely delete main character from the series and nothing would change! NOTHING AT ALL! The main character isn't doing a simplest tiny bit of action not to mention other characters. They are there only to link together the art animators made for you. They have drown nice mountains? Fine, let there be a mountain village. Pretty ocean? Let there be a sailor. And so on.
So, what was so charming about the original Mushishi series? Maybe the way the main character Ginko tried to explore some irrational stuff instead of wiping it out? Are you going to watch it to feel that atmosphere of mystery when humble folks got influenced by some mushi leading them to the final sometimes funny sometimes spooky? Then step aside you are not missing anything here. Or do you just want to relax watching nice art with good music? Then this show is for you.
To summarize this series is OK as independent anime, but is a complete disaster as the continuation of the original Mushishi.