Review of Parasyte: The Maxim

I very much enjoyed Parasyte -the maxim-, and I would recommend this to anyone. Good: It is like I truly felt like the main character. At one point, I hated Kana with my right hand, but I liked her with my left hand. When Mitsuo confronted Shinichi after Kana’s death, I shed a tear through my right eye only, but my left had a tear on the break of being let go. They say when someone cries and the first drop comes from the right eye, it indicates happiness. When a tear comes from the left first, it indicates pain. It is like I was happy but holding backpain.

I really like the criticism of the human race. Especially the thing with slaughtering animals and consuming them. Oh, but when a stronger species starts devouring humans, we have a problemo.

The double standards and hypocrisy really grind my gears. Humans need to pay!

I loved the commentary on human normalcy (or normalcy in general).

People expect that they know everything about a person, yet they do not. Not everything will go how you want it. Once something triggers your selfish needs, you think that the cause (or person) is not normal.

Oh my Christ, there are some really nice OSTs in Parasyte. My favorites are “CREEP,” “HUMAN,” and “Next To You.”

The English dub voice actors are amazing besides some. We have Black Star as Migi, a guy that sounds like Lulu as Shinichi, and an amazing serial killer voice as Uragami, who also voices Elizabeth from Gintama!

At first, I was creeped out by the look of the parasites. By the end of the series, the art style grew on me. I can say with utmost confidence that I would let my hypothetical daughter date a parasite.

Bad:

I could not make up my mind if I loved/liked or hated Kana.

Kana popped up so randomly, and it does not make any sense how she obtained her powers nor why she became so obsessed with Shinichi.

Like why did she have to appear? What was her real purpose? This pisses me off a bit, and Kana kind of almost ruined the show.

Why was Kana having wet dreams about a random dude she just met? I do not understand her obsession with Shichi.

I do not particularly appreciate how it is a repeated theme that characters think they sense something else from people. This may be a fictional series, but the magical sensing of “off people” is absurd and needs to stop.

Happens a lot with Shinichi and Murano.

Happens with Ryoko Tamiya and her mother.

Ryoko Tamiya got no ass, and I find it pretty hilarious yet disappointing.

You hear gunshots, and you decide to go towards the sound. Sure the noise died down but come on... that had to have been the most senseless thing ever done in this series.

I love the voice actors except for bootleg Velma Dinkley, off-brand Kallen Stadtfeld, and their pet monkey girl.