Comics · Japan

Mushishi

Yuki Urushibara1999

Lunapunk

Myth and religion
Nature and ecology

The source manga: a wandering mushi-master studies the faintly luminous life-forms that live between folklore and biology. Ecology, illness and the unseen, drawn at a walking pace.

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