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The Light of Eyelids

The begining of ep. 2 was pretty slow with the character introduction.  A little girl, Sui, developed an illnesss that caused her eyes to ache in the presence of light.  Her parents "abandoned" her to another family where she stayed in a dark shed.  Biki, the son of that family, befriended Sui and visited her often in the shed.  Sui explained to Biki people have two eyelids and in order to see complete darkness they must close both of them.  Biki soon began to develop the same illness right when Ginko-san arrived (I love the -san part xD).  Ginko gave him some medicine and then tried to cure Sui.  At night, Ginko told Sui to open the outer eyelids while keeping the other ones closed.

Ugghh, it was sooo sick. haha The mushi came right out of her eyes >.<  Ginko destroyed the mushi and ended up giving her his left artificial eye.  I’m really curious about Ginko’s past now and how he lost his eye.  (Possibly the same reason as Sui)  The mushi just consume your whole eyeball.  Ohhh, good stuff.

Tender Horns

I don’t have caps for this ep but it was rather interesting.  Deep in the snowy mountain, some villagers developed hearing problems from to the Un Mushi.  The Un Mushi goes inside a person’s ear and stays in the organ while consuming all the sounds.  After Ginko cured them, the head of the village secretly asked him to cure her grandson, Maho.  Maho developed four horns on his forehand, and he claimed that he could hear loud strange noises.  His mother also had the same condition and died from it.  The reason for his condition was a rare A Mushi.  The other part was a little confusing to me, so I’m not going to try to explain it. 

Overall, I love how the story picks up on the little things and gives you this other perspective on human senses.  The simple things like when people cover both their ears with their hands, they don’t hear complete silence.  Instead, there’s this little rumbling noise; in this case, Maho’s mother heard lava flowing out of the mountain.  I know everyone heard of it before, but I never really think much of it.