Review of Parasyte: The Maxim

This is 100% your edgy teenage gateway anime, but by no means is that a criticism. Parasyte: The Maxim gets just a little more right then it gets wrong, which goes a long way. Firstyl, the animation is fluid and the colour palette is vibrant, while the art style works well for it's genre and the character designs stand out. On the other end of the spectrum though, the music while good is placed at the most janky and awful spots, taken the wind out of the sails of some really vital scenes. Also any voice actor who isn't playing a main character feels like they werepicked up off the street and made to read the lines at gunpoint.
The chacaterisation for Shinichi is brilliant and well thought-out, which goes for most of the main cast. However, even if Maruno is unquestionably top-tier waifu material, (and is one of the main characters) her development rarely gets more complicated then "OMG Shinichi ur sooo different!" which feels like a massive waste of potential given her focus in the story.
Despite this however Parasyte maximises it's strength as a body-horror/highschool power-fantasy story while balancing the two topics seemlessly.

My highschool self would've given this a 10/10 no doubt. Tokyo Ghoul fandom, it's time to change ur coffee to straight black.