Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi. (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: Won the Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2006.
Japanese study overview
Mushishi is a Japanese manga of 154,180 characters, with 8,240 unique words and 1,777 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,240 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×461
- お前you×312
- 蟲insect×310
- 俺I×293
- 山mountain×246
- 私I×241
- 言うto say×215
- 思うto think×150
- 出るto leave×142
- 者person×141
- 里village×135
- 光light×134
- 蟲師Mushishi (manga series by Yuki Urushibara)×112
- 吹indicates that the action is done forcefully×41
- 硯inkstone×39
- 友紀Tomoki×32
- 漆原Urushihara×31
- 文京区Bunkyō City×24
- 生き神living god×17
- 辰the Dragon (fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac)×17