Main manga's final chapters retold in theaters on Saturday

The Mainichi Shimbun paper's MAiDiGi service began streaming the teaser trailer for the Mushishi: Zoku-Shō: Suzu no Shizuku (Mushishi: The Next Chapter: Suzu no Shizuku Arc) film on Thursday. The same teaser trailer debuted on the anime's official website in April.

Text: Teaser

Text: A long time ago, I heard a mysterious sound on the mountain.

Text: Creator: Yuki Urushibara (serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine)

Text: Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Yoshihiko Umakoshi

Music: Toshio Masuda

Art Director: Takeshi Waki

Director of Photography: Yuuta Nakamura

Technical Adviser: Yoshihisa Oyama

Sound Director: Kazuya Tanaka

Animation Production: Animation Studio Artland

Director: Hiroshi Nagahama

Ginko: I am the Mushi Master Ginko. Greetings, for passing through this mountain.

Voice and Text: Mushishi: The Next Chapter Special Edition: Suzu no Shizuku Arc

Text: Opens in Theaters on May 16



The film is a special compilation of "Suzu no Shizuku," which was the last two-chapter arc in the main manga series. The cast includes:

Yuto Nakano as Ginko

Mika Doi as Voice (Narrator)

Tomomi Saito as Kaya

Gen Ogawa as Ashirō

While supplies last, filmgoers will receive a limited-number postcard illustrated in Japanese paper painting style by character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi.

Participating theaters are also selling a set of two clear file folders (one each of Ginko and Kaya) and a pamphlet.

Yuki Urushibara began the original Mushishi manga in 1995, and finished it in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine in 2008. Del Rey published the manga in North America, and Funimation released Hiroshi Nagahama and Artland's first anime and Katsuhiro Otomo's live-action film version.

Urushibara returned to the manga with a new special story arc in 2013. A one-hour Mushishi Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage anime television special premiered last year, followed by the Mushishi: The Next Chapter anime. Crunchyroll and Daisuki streamed Mushishi: The Next Chapter as it aired in Japan.