Mushishi Review, relaxing and captivating

This series is about Ginko who travels around the world and simply helps people, usually unconditionally.

Mushishi consists of individual stories which revolve around specific Mushis. Mushis are invisible to human eye and they all have some kind of ability which may or may not be helpful people near them. Ginko usually focuses on those that have negative effect on people but also encounters Mushis that do positive things.
I think the scenery in this series deserves special mention which only adds to the previously mentioned feelings that are mostly made by the combination of pleasant sceneries and Mushishis quiet and unique lingering presence.

Animation of Mushihi compliments very well it's intentions. The whole idea is the stillness and relaxing atmosphere, the animation succeeds very well in everything that it intents to rely to the watcher.

The characters of this series is of secondary importance, but still they are good enough. Ginko is a great "protagonist" who isn't really carefree, but keeps his calm composition throughout the series and that suits very well with the general flow of the show.

The story or should I say stories are the strong side of Mushishi: the entity that are the "villains" in the series can't be categorized as evil or good, they just are as they are. Our main character knows of this very well and in the end the story ends up having so much more depth because of this: nothing really doesn't need to be categorized. When there isn't labeling, there's only stillness that calms and gives the watcher some peace of mind.

This series doesn't need a long plot line since I was absolutely captivated in almost every episode by their relaxing and quiet feeling. I recommend Mushishi to everyone who likes to watch something that isn't about continuous power ups and fighting, but relies on clever use of silence and relaxing atmosphere. Needless to say I myself enjoyed Mushihi very much, but I believe it has something to do with lucky timing: some other time it's possible that I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did.