#but i know the pretty different colored glowy ink is definitely not there

[midnapanda]

Splatoon 1 is fucking MAGICAL btw. The way your tentacles change color when you charge your special? Absolutely Gorgeous. All of the little details in the different stages, like Ancho-V Games? Wish we still had this in later games. Wish we still had. Whimsy.

[ginko-forever]

All right! Since I’m bored and have nothing else to do today, I’m gonna binge mushishi and post my thoughts while I watch! (I’m watching the dubbed btw)

Episode 1: The Green Seat

Wow, I forgot how much I love the voice of the intro. Like, it feels like it’s almost creepy but it just ends up being calming to me.

I LOVE THIS THEME SONG

The sore feet song just awakens something in me

And I love all the vague plant aesthetic during the song

I LOVE TRAVIS WILLINGHAM’S VOICE

The background art is so gorgeous

Ok, so the little ink bird the kid makes, Ginko just sees it and grabs it therefore crushing it. But he’s so against killing mushi so shouldn’t he have tried to catch it first or something? I know the ink bird isn’t technically a mushi, but still. Maybe he thought it was a bug?

His eye is beautiful, such a gorgeous blue-green color

I love the way that the kids drawings come to life how they don’t manifest as a full creature but more like the ink peeling off the page and moving around keeping its shape

If he drew a human would it come out as an actual human or just stay as an ink outline?

I bet that would depend on how he draws it like how later in the episode the bowl comes into reality as an actual object instead of just an ink outline

This face cracks me up

I love how easy it is for Ginko to get people to talk to him about stuff and I know in this episode it’s partly because the kid is completely alone all the time and probably misses human interaction, but still

Why is the kid making wine???

I LOVE THE DESIGNS OF THE MUSHI

They’re so ethereal and flowy and pretty

The hand analogy to explain mushi is so great

I love that the mushi are described as being at “the place closest to your heart” and life at its purest form

They’re definitely at the place closest to MY heart

Ginko just said what people call ghosts are actually mushi of some sort... I love that concept of ghosts not being dead people but just this different kind of life form

Is it weird that I wish there were mushi in our world? They would make it so interesting

I want to be a mushishi wandering without a destination

Why is the mushi girl on the ceiling???

Love that Ginko just keeps a mushi that sticks to other mushi

Ginko’s favorite color is green

The moment of realization in his eyes, but he’s able to keep his expression under control and keep up the snarky voice

I love his snarky voice

Oh my gosh he’s so observant

Just from those few sentences he can completely analyze that she’s not a full mushi and used to be human and even has an idea of how it happened and how to help her

I love how you can practically feel all the points connecting rapid fire in his mind

The specific tone in his voice that makes him give off vibes that you shouldn’t trust this strange man but yet at the same time his confidence with everything makes you trust him 100%

I love his calm voice when he’s explaining things. If he did a podcast where he talked about mushi I would listen to it every night while falling asleep because his voice is just so calming

The mushi in human form for the mushi banquet are honestly actually pretty creepy

Also why do they choose someone to become a mushi?

When Ginko tells him that the mushi half of his grandma has stayed in the house watching him since the day he was born... honestly Ginko, that’s a little more freaky than comforting

Ginko says the kid can’t see he because she’s not a full mushi, but so then how come Ginko can see her? Is it because he’s a mushishi? Can all mushishi train themselves to see half-mushi? Or can he see her because he’s practically half mushi himself?

Ginko you sneaky little man

Promises he won’t watch him draw

Pokes a hole in the screen anyways

Specifically thinks “since he told me not to, I just have to look”

Bring this man to a museum and he’ll touch everything with a “do not touch” sign

So the kid just imbues the brush with green paint by thinking about it... has he done that before or is this the first time?

When the cup pops up from the page the kid looks surprised, I feel like it must be the first time he’s drawn something like that and had it fully come to life instead of just an ink outline

Grandmas just sitting up in the tree

Nice catch Ginko

Love the glowy liquid

Why did it turn the grandma into a full mushi but not do anything to the kid when he takes a sip? Do they have to specifically have been invited to the banquet for the liquid to have an affect on you?

Also how weird suddenly having your grandma be your age

I wanna drink the mushi liquid

I LOVE THE RIVER OF LIGHT

Dumb crow interrupting the banquet

So the mushi ask her to watch over her grandson all his life as a favor for them... why do they care about that??? Why do these specific mushi have enough sentience to care and want someone to watch over the kid with special powers? Would his powers affect them negatively if abused?

IM SCREAMING THE SOUND EFFECT OF THE CUP SPLITTING IN HALF AS SHES SPLIT FROM PART OF HERSELF!!!!! SO GOOD!

The real question is did the part of herself that kept growing old remember the banquet at all?

Probably not I’d guess. I bet the part of her that got left behind is the part that could see mushi

I love that the light wine makes everything grow

I love that Ginko just chooses to leave without a trace. I wonder if he’s considered a local cryptid in some areas

So is the kid just gonna live the rest of his life in the mountains with his unaging mushi grandmother and just never see anyone else ever?

Ginko you little theif just taking the wine glass

Ultimately: a very good episode, good introduction to the world of mushishi

I LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK