A preview of upcoming Line Gatcha capsule toys is listing that a Parasyte TV anime will debut this October. The series adapts Hitoshi Iwaaki's sci-fi manga about a teenage boy who develops a symbiotic relationship with an alien invader after it burrows into his hand rather his brain as the species intended.
Last November, Takashi Yamazaki (Returner, Always, Space Battleship Yamato) was introduced as the director and writer for a two live-action film adaptation of the material.
New Line Cinema licensed the rights to adapt the manga in 2005 and it was once reported that they hired Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On, The Grudge) to direct the live-action film adaptation. But the project was not realized, and Shimizu directed the live-action film of Kiki's Delivery Service in Japan instead. Since the rights expired in early 2013, dozens of Japanese film companies had taken part in the scramble for it, with Toho ultimately coming out ahead.
Cast includes Shota Sometani as the protagonist Shinichi Shimizu, Eri Fukatsu as high school teacher/parasyte Ryoko Tamiya, and Ai Hashimoto as Shinichi's girlfriend Satomi Murano.
When announced last fall, plans were to start shooting this January ahead of a December 2015 release of the first feature, with the second following in 2015.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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