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Season 1 of Mushishi was beyond fantastic and going by the release order
You will watch this next like I just did

This special just like season 1 delivers greatly in storytelling, music, animation and atmosphere
but The Shadow that Devours the Sun improves on the first season in terms of scale
and when compared to the first season this special improves not only on the animation but most importantly character design which was kind of lackluster in season 1

I can't talk about much else because it really is best to see for yourself
Mushishi:The Shadow that Devours the Sun is in my book a masterpiece

I haven't seen the rest of the anime yet and I'm late to the party but I suppose I can offer the outlook of someone young or a modern anime fan who's used to animes like JJK or Demon Slayer

Mushishi is simply one of a kind works of art
You can read the synopsis on MAL and watch a couple of episodes but If you stop at that you'll rob yourself of a greater experience
I've read a couple reviews and noticed that the negative ones are usually about how Mushishi is repetitive and is the same thing over and over but it's simply and ... quiet obviously not

If you have seen a couple episodes sure it might seem that way but If you kept going it's obvious that the show is not really about the supernatural world and lore surrounding Mushi and how Ginko goes about dealing with them but it's about the people themselves
The mushi are just an aesthetic mirroring for the problems or beauties existing in our world
and the episodic nature of the show allows us to encounter various feelings or realizations

Ginko acts as both his own character and our eyes to experience the various characters and their lives and it's lovely each time

Now Mushishi is not perfect and the one glaring flaw is the bland character design
since the characters in each episode are essentially the main characters and focus of that episode it's very sloppy that their designs are so generic and sometimes you can't tell apart from who's who due to the lazy nature of those designs but outside that

Season 1 of Mushishi is solid as snake