Review of Parasyte: The Maxim

I read the manga months before the anime went out. I was glad when I found out that it got an anime adaptation but at the same time I wasn't because most adaptations don't follow the original book or do some enormous changes; this anime didn't let me down. Story: 9 Humans have become species which are very harmful to the planet. To prevent their growing numbers, parasytes have come to earth, took control of people and after that they kill and eat them too. I don't really understand why but most of them kill their own kind as well (maybe they fight because of food, Idk).This parasyte wasn't able to invade the brain of Shinichi, the main protagonist, but instead grew on his right arm. Not being able to control Shinichi, the two must have extreme coordination when other parasytes try to kill them. Shinichi now having to live as half human and half parasyte is the most interesting thing to see in Kiseijuu aside from the fights and understanding Tamiya Ryouko, atleast for me.
The studio (Madhouse not sure) did an excellent job adapting the original book. Followed the manga and had a great pace.

Art: 8.5
The art has really improved. I didn't appreciate the manga's art but in the anime, I loved it. The fights are terrific, but sometimes the MC not doing a thing, the spotlight is only on Migi. (Although, I don't think I should be complaining about that in art section, my bad) For me, it is really cool, seeing how fast they fight that you won't know who's attacking or defending.
The character design changed in a better way. Shinichi's appearance before the "transformation", having eyeglasses and that hairstyle made him look quieter and more of 'intelligent' type (I prefer him that than the transformation and than how it was in the manga, maybe I'm just in fangirl mode lololol); the main female, murano and a supporting female, Kana, had a better design which made them look cuter and younger. Her personality plus this drastic char design change of Kana even made her more popular than Murano.

Sound: 9
The voice actors did a not outstanding but not terrible performance. I don't have much to say about that. There are only 2 things which left me an impression, how Tamura Ryouko laughed and migi's voice actress, yep actress: Aya Hirano. Maybe it's only me (well ^^") but I wouldn't have guessed that migi has even a female voice actress.
I don't like the op and ed to 'Dat' level but they aren't bad either.
Now the themes. They're fantastic heh. I'll give you a brief description, more like opinion, of my 2 favorites. 1- Next to you, this theme is a not so fast melody and has a melancholic and sad feeling. It's like someone's saying 'I know it's sad and tragic but you have to accept, fight and move on, because that's life'. 2- Migi's theme. A melody of someone full of curiosity wanting to define the mystery of the world.

Character: 9
Migi's and MC's relationship is really interesting. Starting from a doubtful one to faithful friendship. Shinichi accepted migi because of their experiences and hardships and vice versa. Migi became shinichi's best friend that he was thankful to not be able to control his brain. I like Migi because he isn't the typical parasyte that only wants to kill, he is always curious and fights using not only his powers but his intelligence as well.
Tamara reiko or Ryouko is like migi and that's why I like her too. Her character has a strong impact. Further description of her may make me write big spoilers.
Murano the female lead. She doesn't mean much to the story but well. When she said, 'you are Shinichi, aren't you?' and migi was already there, it made me 'woah hmmm, interesting'. Now stop saying that like 4 times in an episode, it was pretty annoying. I regret not counting how times she said that.
Enjoyment: 9
I loved this anime for the positive things I wrote above about the various sections. Migi and Tamura made it more interesting. The moral about the the relation of human and the earth, and what the mc and the last antagonist spoke about made me open my eyes, because it is applied to real life too.