 If you liked
Mushishi
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 ...then you might like
Bartender
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Both are calm and slow-paced series where the main character helps to solve the problems of the people he meets.
The stories are completely different, however atmosphere are exactly the same. Both amine have a very calming effect on viewer's soul.
Each series has a single very knowledgable character -- Ginko in Mushi-shi and Ryuu Sasakura in Bartender -- who helps other people. Both are episodic series and, in each episode, the main characters find creative ways to help different people with their unique problems. The pace in each series is calm and neither has much action.
The atmosphere is similar--calm, meditative, leisurely-narrated, various stories of different people are told within each episode.
Mysterious main characters, they're masters of their craft. Bartender and unseen-otherworldly-creatures expert - you don't see it at first, but the core of their job is to help people and they do so with what they know best.
Despite that both has a completly diferent plot and development they share a relaxing atmosphere, good stories and a nice main characther.
One of those animes you can watch late at night, laying in bed, getting ready to sleep because it is too relaxing.
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Recommended by curvedtree
I feel that Mushishi and Bartender have a lot in common, at least in the way they make me feel: bitter-sweet, calm yet unsettling, but at the end I cannot find any more physical similarity other than they are both episodic
and made by Japanese, and only Japanese can make them I'm sure.
The former is more fantasy like but still roots in reality, and it's a beautiful reimagination of Japanese unique view of the world. The latter is a simple and straight-forward story about how the bartender serves his costumer with unique cocktails who has different backstory in a small bar called "Eden Hall" in
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Recommended by raveninthemuddle
Both show adult MC helping other people's problem and have relaxing soothing OST.
Two completely different environments and narratives - but they give off the same atmosphere. Extremely slow and relaxing series about the mc helping different people.
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Recommended by opblunumbers
Both shows are calm, and contemplative stories about their main characters, working in their field of expertise and interatcting with verious people from different walks of life, providing unorthodox and usually wise counsel to those in need. Also it shows how multifaceted the world can be, since it displays their ordinary, working days, but tackled from a different, and more philosophical angle.