**The beloved fantasy manga returns in a hardcover omnibus edition featuring a completely original translation and new cover designs.

Before life as we know it, there existed entities that don''t obey the laws of our reality&mdash;primordial beings known as <mushi<. In Japan, a man named Ginko wanders the land, investigating incursions by <mushi< into the human world&mdash;and by us into theirs. He is a <mushi< master&hellip;a <mushishi<.

Includes Japanese volumes 3-4 in a premium casewrap hardcover featuring a new to English cover illustration.**

Though invisible to most, tiny creatures known as <mushi< lurk beneath the surface of everyday reality. They exert a strange and occasionally terrifying influence on people''s lives, and only experts known as mushi-shi carry the knowledge of how to deal with them. A mushi-shi named Ginko wanders the Japanese countryside, following rumors of various unusual occurences: a young man who dreams the future; a child with horns growing from his forehead; a boy with the power to write creatures into being; and more...

Upon its release in the 2000s, <Mushishi< earned global acclaim for its poetic episodic storytelling and delicate, beautiful artwork, winning the Japan Media Arts Prize, selection as a Best Manga by the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and recommendation as a top read for teens by the American Library Association. The series inspired two TV anime adaptations in 2005 and 2014 and a live-action film directed by the legendary Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of <AKIRA<. Unfortunately, after being out of print for 15 years, English copies of <Mushishi< became as elusive as the strange creatures that populate its pages&mdash;until now.

Kodansha''s new edition of Mushishi features an all-new translation and lettering and color pages and cover illustrations never seen in the U.S. before....

Autorentext

Yuki Urushibara