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  <title><![CDATA[Mushishi, Volume 1]]></title>
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  <default-description>THEY HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still exist and wreak havoc in the world today. Ginko, a young man with a sardonic smile, has the knowledge and skill to save those plagued by mushi . . . perhaps.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Mushishi, Volume 1</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Yuki Urushibara]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Manga about a man named Ginko who travels around Japan's countryside investigating ancient creatures called mushi. The mushi are in an interstitial state between animal, plant, and spirit that seems supernatural at times. The interactions between the humans and mushi are at times positive, at times,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42652380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ginko is a Mushishi, or Mushi Master, who travels Japan helping people who are plagued by primordial creatures called mushi. This is is one of the more interesting manga series I've read in a while, and each episode of this has a unique take on these mysterious creatures. It's a nice mix of horror a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60460681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61070803">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ginko, a master of handling mushi (ghostly/ethereal creatures), wanders from place to place in a nonspecific era of Japan, saving people from mushi who have endangered them, without killing off the mushi themselves.<br/><br/>Yuki doesn't always tell happy stories; sometimes the stories end with a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61070803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59950563">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 16:51:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting and fantastic series...one can see why it has won the coveted Kodansya Manga of the Year Award!  Combining a sense of mystery, horror and the fantastic with the mood swings of humans (no matter who they are) each story can present a new facet of humanity and what it means to b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59950563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49529749">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nick]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 16 22:47:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an episodic series about a wandering... fixer? Basically, it's a continuous set of very low-key quasi-horror stories in a setting that resembles old Japan. (Unsure about eras; my history is shaky. Not Warring States.) A dude named Ginko wanders the land plying his trade as a Mushi-shi; he he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49529749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42295585">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The world has many hidden life forms called mushi, something like the base of all life.  Ginko is a traveling mushishi, or 'mushi master', and he solves various problems that the mushi cause by interacting with humans.  <br/><br/>First of all, this is a pretty, pretty series, and very episodic and e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42295585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22706829">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mushishi is the story of Ginko, who goes around remote parts of Japan more or less exorcising the mushi, who come into people's lives and present them with weird existential feelings of dread:)<br/><br/>I should be up front about this, that I love manga with supernatural, ghostbusting qualities, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22706829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19212257">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this manga, which was a belated Christmas gift from my younger brother.  The basic idea is that there are creatures called Mushi, which are a bit like fairies, a bit like ghosts, and a bit like microscopic organisms.  They are unspeakably ancient, and when they come into contact wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19212257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9488184">
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    <name><![CDATA[April]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically --and this is not a very good explanation-- the world is full of little creatures that exist between life and death, in dreams or sometimes in hidden places in the heart of nature. They can be good or bad, but they really aren't either one consciously because they are just an ancient part ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9488184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Sam]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 09:57:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 24 10:02:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice, non-standard manga - the author worked on it independently and submitted it to a manga contest, then went back to their day job.  When it won the contest, the author was surprised, then spent the next two years working on the follow-up stories.  It feels rough in some places, but it's refres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8180020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58419656">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hollowspine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mound, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first manga series I've picked up in a while that actually has me thinking of purchasing the books for my library.  I love the water color artwork on the cover as well as the art on the inside of the book.  The story itself is wonderful, by turns heartwarming and sweet then quickly becom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58419656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across the anime first and fell in love with it. This is one of those quiet stories that is completely compelling. Each chapter is an individual story that can at times be completely heartbreaking as you follow Ginko on his travels in his search for the Mushi. One of my absolute favourite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52052021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40525294">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tessa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although at times the explanations of the mushi's behavior were wobbly, the premise was always totally fun and nicely balanced between creepy fascination and faux-biological fascination, if that makes any sense.  The art was great as well.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’d heard wonderful things about Mushishi (maybe it was the anime, and not the manga?) but I wasn’t overly impressed with the first volume.  <br/><br/>I liked the *potential* of the world in Mushishi more than I did the individual stories.  The chapters were brief glimpses into strange lives a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2998179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slower than many of its counterparts in the genre, and following no set path, this series is the story of a man who studies monsters in the oldest sense of the word; the creatures he follows are occasionally so far from human as to be unrecognizable.  Some of them are as trivial as the spots of ligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22630946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73963552">
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    <body><![CDATA[An alluring mixture of cultural mythology, entomology, and fantasy; Urushibara Yuki has a way of storytelling that brings the world of imagination to life. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I slow moving episodic tale.  Beautifully drawn and the stories are quite interesting.  Would only appeal to strong readers as the action is not that engrossing and it is easy to put down.  Despite that, they have a beautiful otherworldly feel and enjoyable to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mushi are best described as &quot;fungus ghosts&quot;. They do some really, really weird stuff. Ginko, the main character, travels through rural Meiji-era Japan helping people troubled by the mushi.<br/><br/>There's a shortcut that a lot of artists take, by having only a few basic character design...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30101655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is one short story after another; the only connection is that each tale involves mushi, ghost-like ectoplasmic creatures made up of the same life force as humans, and a wandering shamanistic main character who perfoms exorcisms on humans afflicted with mushi. <br/><br/>I liked the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19653823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's interesting reading manga after you've seen something of the anime adaptation; I'm always surprised by how much is lost from the linework, even in the most faithful adaptations. As with the anime, the stories here are episodic, linked only by the main character, Ginko, and general setting. They...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16929893">more...</a>]]></body>
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