MUSHI-SHI -Next Passage-

A sake brewer once lost his way home and chanced upon a strange ceremony. There, he tasted a sweet, glowing sake that he's never been able to forget. Years later, when his son encounters a late-night ceremony, he pretends to be part of it and meets Ginko.

Birdsong is suddenly heard when a sea shell is held up to a girl's ear. In a fishing village still reeling from a tragedy years before, a strange Mushi indicates an ill omen. What misfortune will be brought to bear on the people?

Snow constantly falls around him. Impervious to the freezing cold, the man is gripped by the searing memory of a winter he had spent together with his little sister.

A hunter roams the mountains at night without the tools of his trade. The being that toys with life, and then extinguishes it is a fragile "thing" caught between the realm of man and Mushi.

Ginko encounters a young woman being followed by a mysterious, watery creature. Ginko reveals the truth of the Mushi attached to her, but the woman must decide whether to give up her body to the Mushi, or to dispel it and continue living.

Ginko meets a beautiful woman that lacks all five senses and according to the man who takes care of her, is over 80 years old. While investigating the Mushi responsible for it, Ginko discovers an even darker secret involving the two.

The woman continues her travels as she foretells the coming of rain. With every raindrop that falls from the clear blue skies, she is reminded of her curious fate, one that cannot be washed clean by any amount of tears.

While on board a boat, Ginko meets a young man who has developed a connection to a flock of bird-type Mushi able to create wind.

Ginko falls unconscious on a snowy mountain. He is helped by locals who somehow manage to grow their fields despite the weather, mainly because of a worker with unabated stamina. But at what cost does this vigor come?

On his way to answer a summons, Ginko is trapped on a mountain that has been sealed by the mountain lord, and is experiencing an eternal winter. Why has the mountain lord sealed the mountain, and how will Ginko escape this eternal winter?

In time and place unknown, the boy with white hair and green eyes sees the light illuminating the natural order and his own place in the world.

What lingers in his distant memory is the knowledge of a spring that will not yet come for many years. The only self who knows that scent is the self who knows it not just yet. If his life is a chimera, for whom did he endure all these years?

Dusk--an uncertain hour that is neither day nor night. When two long shadows intersect, a darkness awakens from its long slumber.

There are channels that exist in this world unbeknownst to man. At times, man can send their thoughts to traverse these paths at will to another and share the same thoughts.

A lost boy seeks solace, but the skies only offer a glimpse of unattainable affection. Man is capable of becoming attuned to what lies outside of the five senses--the brilliance of life, the light that shines from within.

A myriad stars adorn a solitary patch of an otherwise pitch-dark sky above her. The girl gazes upon the eerie sky and familiar light.

Thirsting for and beguiled by water, the boy continues to live his life, as though lost or responding to a distant memory from the womb…

Unanswered hopes and unheard feelings lead one to seek out signs that will guide them forward through the suffocating darkness that not even lightning can illuminate.

Death clings and grows, what should have stayed in the ground has started to creep up.

The one place that has stood the test of time, but humans have come. But the memories aren’t lost.