When I first heard about PARASYTE -THE MAXIM-, I honestly thought there
was some mistake. You see, they were making a live action movie based on the
exact same 90s manga property so they couldn’t also be making an anime, I
reasoned incorrectly, and besides – that trailer for the movie doesn't even look very good.
Thankfully I was wrong, and as I mentioned in a recent Vice
Pit, I was very excited to learn that PARASYTE would be animated. I’m not sure
what brought this series to life almost 10 full years after its initial
conclusion, but it’s about damn time we had some good old-fashioned nightmare
fuel from the Land of the Rising Sun.
They say idle hands are the devil’s playthings, and poor
Shinichi has learned that the hard way. His right hand seems to have a mind of
its own, doing things like playing with his smartphone in class or even groping
classmates. And then it grows a mouth and starts talking to him, explaining
that they are now bonded forever and have to work as a team to survive.
Where PARASYTE really shines is its absolutely disgusting
monsters and gore. There’s viscera and fluids flying everywhere, and the
transformations of the alien creatures showcase horrific imagination that
evokes the likes of H.R. Giger and David Cronenburg. You’ll never look at
corgis the same way again.
It’ll be interesting to see how Shinichi’s relationship with
his new handmate develops over time. Currently Shinichi likens it to an
unfeeling insect, yet at the same time he seems to empathize with its
loneliness. Further, the parasite’s motives are not all that clear, and it’s
hold on Shinichi seems to be developing as quickly as its own capacity for
speech.
By the time the series ends… just who’ll be running the
show?
Watch "Metamorphosis", the first episode of PARASYTE -THE MAXIM-, here.
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