Mushishi - 1~26 + Special
This is amazing. I loved every second of it. To be fair I found a little disappointing at first that it didn't have an overall arching story, that it was basically "monster of the week", but it manage to tell a lot in this format. That's the only bad thing I can say about it. The best thing to me was the sound design; it was AMAZING, and it matched the visuals and the stories told perfectly.
That's one thing that my brother commented on when he was watching it but really, I'm not sure how you would have an over-arching plotline for the series. Albeit that it's a supernatural show, it's really just following Ginko's life as he goes from place to place.
There's no overall plot point that makes him do this such a seeking the man who burned down his village and killed his family or some undeniable destiny; it's just what happens in his life.
I've only seen the first series and while it's a bit typically overwrought romance drama, it still has some nice points to it. For all that it reeks of typical Shaft animation cuts, the phone scene is still pretty memorable from the series.
Hahaha. This was also mentioned in the last page. I plan to. Don't worry. Although, is the anime better than the manga? I was actually thinking I would just read the manga.
The manga has far nicer artwork (based Kozue Amano) and a few chapters that never made the cut which help to expand some characters a bit more and Akari is less of a silly idiot and more of a naive, innocent girl than the anime.
On the other hand, the comedy comes to life a bit more in the anime and the voices really help sell it (RIP Athena's VAs.) not to mention it has a delicious Choro Club soundtrack. IT also has a few anime only episodes which the production team made up which are pretty decent considering.
Side note: I'm going to see if I can pop along to the second showing of
Patema in February. Maybe this time I'll pay attention to the soundtrack before Geneijin cuts me.
