In a world in which human race tries to peacefully co-exist with nature, there are hidden forces that inhabit another dimension and are able to interfere with humans’ slide of life. In Mushishi, these forces belong to insect-like creatures called Mushi, the nearest to the source of the existence, that are capable to change their appearance in all the forms existing in nature, such as plants and even diseases. Not much is known about these creatures, since only few people in the world are able to see them. These people are the Mushi-shi, experts of mushi, who investigate about their mysterious origin. Ginko, a man whose ocular orbit is strangely empty, is one of them. Asking himself what’s the meaning of life and mushi’s existence, he travels the world trying to answer the questions are tormenting him so much.

As in Natsume Yūjinchō, also in Mushishi the element of the solitary struggle between the main character inner self and the meaning of the existence of strange creatures which only they are capable to see can be found. Ginko is a tormented young man who is searching for responses, a lonely human that can’t share his fate with normal people, who are unaware of the ghosts and spirits which surround them. He’s alive but his fate dragged him into the world of dead he got mixed up in and can’t run away from.

Maybe the atmosphere of Mushishi is a little heavier than Natsume’s one, but you can’t lose this series if you like stories full of mystery, doubt and with a very meaningful plot.