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Yeah, he was lashing out, hurt by guilt and having trouble accepting that he had caused so much damage with something so stupid. It was petulant and emotional, not a carefully considered malevolent act. I also sympathize because I, like him, am completely stupid: I was once told not to whistle after I got my wisdom teeth pulled, and I caught myself doing it twice that week 
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This episode is based on a Japanese superstition: If you whistle at night, you'll call snakes. Some sources say thieves used to communicate this way, others say the snakes generally stand for misfortune.
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Lurking Haro posted:This episode is based on a Japanese superstition: It's based on more than just a Japanese superstition -- It's a boating superstition in general. Whistling specifically while boating or near the sea is, in many cultures, a bad omen. We even get the colloquialism "Whistle up a Storm" in English from our variant of the superstition. Snakes are also tied to boats and whistling in many other cultures. It seems to be because Snakes can whistle! But it's hard to tell where the superstition comes from. Edit: Also, the assumption that this episode would look weird due to the production pause seems to have turned out correct. This episode looks really goddamn strange. Especially compared to the rest of Season 2. Looks more like a Season 1 episode. Everyone's faces and hairlines are really odd. laplace fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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laplace posted:Edit: Also, the assumption that this episode would look weird due to the production pause seems to have turned out correct. This episode looks really goddamn strange. Especially compared to the rest of Season 2. Looks more like a Season 1 episode. Everyone's faces and hairlines are really odd. I can't tell anyone's faces apart, except for Ginko, season 1 or season 2.
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You guys remember this? Clothes that Embrace the Mountain
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:I can't tell anyone's faces apart, except for Ginko, season 1 or season 2. I recognized the doctor that Ginko visits occasionally, but that's only because of his monocle.
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The show is pretty samefacey regardless, I just mean the faces themselves looked really weird this episode even compared to others.
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laplace posted:Edit: Also, the assumption that this episode would look weird due to the production pause seems to have turned out correct. This episode looks really goddamn strange. Especially compared to the rest of Season 2. Looks more like a Season 1 episode. Everyone's faces and hairlines are really odd. 6 ADs instead of the usual 3. Production probably fell apart.
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I liked last week's unsympathetic subject and the animation was fine despite the production problems, but wow this week was a complete return to everything the show does well. Looks gorgeous, genuinely frightening, sincerely sweet.
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Yaaaaay a happy ending 
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It was nice to have a happy ending.  The next episode will be the last one until the show resumes in autumn. Here's a source I found linked from MAL's forums.
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Valsu posted:It was nice to have a happy ending. However, episode 11 and 12 will appear on Blu-Ray/DVD when they release.
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Turtles! 
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The moral of this episode: turtles are assholes.
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The Black Stones posted:However, episode 11 and 12 will appear on Blu-Ray/DVD when they release. Have they said what chapters these will be? Can't help but feel like we should have hit the Ragged Road episode by now.
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Lenore03 posted:Have they said what chapters these will be? Can't help but feel like we should have hit the Ragged Road episode by now. Not my knowledge, no. Just have to wait and see.
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Lenore03 posted:Have they said what chapters these will be? Can't help but feel like we should have hit the Ragged Road episode by now. I would not be shocked if Ragged Road were on the BD's considering the content. Also the fact that pretty much everyone has been waiting for it to be adapted.
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The episode guide on Wikipedia says the Blu-Ray stuff is "The Thicket Path" parts 1 and 2. This is, in fact, The Ragged Road. Counting those, it looks like they've so far only skipped c33 & c38 among the first 38 chapters (26 of the first season + first 12 of the second season). In their place we've gotten c39 and c42 early. c33 is "At the Foot of Lightning", c38 is "The Hidden Channel". Season 1 was even more random than its airing order than this.
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And *poof*, Mushishi is gone again. At least it's only a few months instead of 9 years. Did the production delays wind up reducing the episode count at all? Or was it always going to be a 10-episode cour?
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Is the manga getting a new release? I was looking it up on Amazon to see how much it might cost to track down and saw that volume 1 had a kindle edition with a preorder option and a July release date. I couldn't find anything on Kodansha's website about it but they're listed as the publisher. It would be nice to not have to track down a bunch of out of print volumes but I hope it doesn't take forever to come out.
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Nate RFB posted:And *poof*, Mushishi is gone again. At least it's only a few months instead of 9 years. The production delays are why 2 episodes are BD-only.
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paragon1 posted:Turtles! That turtle is my new desktop background. I like turtles.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
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This show is such an interesting blend of naturalistic and surreal. I'm going to miss it.
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aers posted:The production delays are why 2 episodes are BD-only. Those episodes better end up online and subtitled
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They've decided to air the missing episodes as a 1-hour special on 8/20. It'll probably be on CR.
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Also, if I'm understanding this correctly, are mountain lords some kind of intermediary between the mushi world and the biological/physical world?
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That seems about right, yes. If you remember back in season 1, there was a mushi-shi named Mujika who took over as mountain lord/guardian of his mountain for a time, and he basically tended to the mountain's health, making sure all the creatures and humans living there kept a balance. The last episode of season 1 featured a catfish mountain lord, too. If I remember correctly, both mountains were in the path of the light vein, like the one featured in this most recent episode. I guess guardians for mountains on the path of the light vein is A Thing.
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So I haven't read the thread because I'm terrified of spoilers, but I basically haven't watched any Anime since the Escaflowne simulwatch and decided to pick up a bunch of poo poo to start sampling and maybe working my way though, starting with season one of Mushi-Shi. Three episodes in and, uh...wow. I mean, wow. I'm not even sure what makes this show click so well for me. I mean, the art and music are both fantastic and the design on the Mushi is really fascinating and the animation is just a joy to look at, but if you just gave me a synopsis of the first three episodes, I'd probably write it off as a bore. It's a real 'greater than the sum of its parts' sort of a feel, something about the tone created by the blend of the writing, that gorgeous soundtrack, and the artwork that's so beautiful and melancholy. This feels like a weird metaphor, but I've kind of latched on to it - this show's just created this atmosphere that's so dense and rich that I just want to sink into it like a hot bath. So, yeah, it's a loving hit and I should take ADTRW's advice on good shows more often. Looking forward to watching more. I'll be interested to see how much we wind up learning about Ginko - you'd kind of expect to in a show like this, but I get the feeling that it might be very difficult to elaborate too much on him without ruining the show's weird magic.
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Ginko is interesting because in a lot of these episodes the show isn't really about him. He explains what's going on, and he offers a solution, but it's the people affected by the mushi, and their problems and decisions, that really drive it.
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Spiritus Nox posted:So I haven't read the thread because I'm terrified of spoilers, but I basically haven't watched any Anime since the Escaflowne simulwatch and decided to pick up a bunch of poo poo to start sampling and maybe working my way though, starting with season one of Mushi-Shi. There are actually several episodes that provide some backstory for Ginko, and other that imply information about him.
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The two episodes of Mushi-Shi that got skipped are coming to crunchroll on Sunday!
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So this new OVA is pretty much perfect. Tanyuu, the scribe with the forbidden mushi in her leg, is back! New, super interesting possibly recurring character! Really sweet ending! Just over a month till the weekly episodes resume!!
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Well, it was "sweet" but also quite bitter! Guess the reason Tanyuu kept recognizing the guy as a new person from time to time was because that wasn't the first time he had to give up his artificial soul  Great, dark episode. And I dare say, hints of something bigger?!
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It's finally up on Crunchyroll!!
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That was a dang good episode, maybe one of my all-time favorites in the series. Lots of mystery, some hints of bigger things, and it was a pretty dark episode all around, more so than usual. October definitely can't come soon enough.
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Nice double episode. Looking forward to the final series in the fall. AAH ZOMBIE MUSHISHI
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just got done with the original series a little while ago. had a good time. where do I pick up now? should I go back and rewatch specific episodes for added value ?
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... Am I missing something here? I swear that 2 episode special (Path of Thorns) came out in the summer, because I remember watching it a while ago on Crunchyroll.LaTex Fetish posted:just got done with the original series a little while ago. Not necessary. Just go to Crunchyroll where an OVA and the second season has been airing. All of it is free for non-premium users now since part 2 of the second season didn't start yet. e:VV Not what I meant, but I see where I went wrong. I hadn't seen all those earlier posts before now and assumed they were made recently. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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