Mushishi (蟲師?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Urushibara. It was serialized in Afternoon Seasons Zōkan from 1999 to 2002, and in Monthly Afternoon from December 2002 to August 2008. The individual chapters were collected and released into ten tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. Those volumes were localized to North America by Del Rey between January 2007 and August 2010. The series follows Ginko, a man who dedicates himself to keep people protected from supernatural creatures called Mushi. Mushishi has been adapted into an anime television series by Artland which aired in Fuji Television between October 2005 and June 2006. Following it, a live-action feature film adaptation, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, was released in March 2007. Funimation acquired the rights to release the anime and the film in North America. A special was released in January 2014, and a second anime series airs since April 4, 2014. It has also spawned a video game and many types of Mushishi-relat...