Parasyte 1
Posted: June 26, 2007 Filed under: Parasyte 3 Comments »I’m not sure how this series flew under my radar when it was released by Tokyopop and there was only, like, ten manga series coming out. I’m pretty sure I thought it was too manly at the time. It’s also possible that I was brainwashed by every other company back then into believing that anything not drawn by Kia Asamiya was not worth my time.
This is SO AWESOME. It certainly reeks of a heavy-handed envirnmentalist message that repeats, over and over again, that humans are no better or worse than the animals that we kill for food every day, but the fact that I forgive this speaks loads about the rest of the series. It’s also got really… bad art. It’s pretty cool when lions and other things are getting eaten by humans who have turned into a giant set of jaws, but other than that, it’s not really all that cool.
Let me tell you what is cool, though: the parasites. These things are kind of mindless, they take over the human brain and then are able to control the entire body. Mostly though, they like morphing people’s heads into giant unspooling ribbon blades and stuff like that, and also eating other people. None of them, including Migi, understands why murdering is a bad thing. Our featured parasite, the aforementioned Migi, only possesses an arm, which he can detach at will. The arm belongs to a high school kid who is extremely freaked out and is the only one who knows about the parasites. Eventually the parasites get intelligent and start blending into human society. Battles take place a lot. Showdowns.
It’s hard to describe what’s so awesome about this series. It just IS. If you’ve seen the panel floating around of the kid freaking out when his entire arm turns into a penis, that’s the kind of series this is. An awesome one.
Yup, I agree. Lovely manga with cute parasytes. ^_^ Science fiction and horror have always been my favourite genres and this series surely rocks.
My zod. I real Parasyte, and loved it. My problem is I once had a volume of a manga series, but I don’t remember the name or too many major details, but in it, there was a dog and a crow whose heads opened up in a very similar fashion to the parasites in this. I forgot about it until I read parasyte, and now its driving me up a wall!
You know, I can picture what you describe, but I’m not sure if that’s because I can imagine it happening in Parasyte, or I’ve read the series you mention. It was in English, right? Let me ask around and see if it rings a bell for anyone.