Review of Parasyte: The Maxim

So I first watched parasyte when I was a young teen, after 10 years I decided it was worth a shoot to rewatch it, needlesly to say that I wasnt disapointed. The main theme without a doubt is the circle of life, more so focused on canivores, forms of lifes that consume other forms of life to survive, parasyte has a double meaning because parasites in a broad sense is nothing more than a form of life getting its substance from another, which after seeing the show, makes you think if there is any difference between that definition of parasite vs carnivores, we both disregard anyother form of life apart of ourself to nourish us.

So yeah... the show spends its whole run showing how vile the parasytes are, just for us to be the other side of the same coin, and not only for being carnivours but for damaging the earth too.

Apart of that theme, there is the subtheme of growing, just like the parasytes grow in this anime, we see the main character grow aswell. We start off by being someone shy that after dealing pain to his mother, becomes a shell of itself, we dont see much of him but he probably didnt feel much if at all, would have certainly gotten bullied and would have never believed that he could be loved.

I am not saying this last part to make it seem that the anime is like something it isnt, but he undoubtly progresses as a person be it for having someone to bond, or for the many traumatic experiences. Which are two of the only ways to actually change in my opinion and the parasytes show it aswell, the two parasites with human host, the parasyte that became a mother, they bonded and grew much more than any other parasyte even when supposedly being weaker.

Lastly lets talk about the fragility of the parasytes, they mention this multiple times and if you really think about it you can really get to understand to what level of fragility they all have. We clearly see this with the 5-man parasyte, the reason he dies is not only because his weakness to compounds but also because he could not align all the parasytes to defeat izumi before regenerating.

And just like he could not align his 5 parasytes minds, I think something similar happens to every single parasyte, they need to be conceptually and mentally strong to remain whole, funnily enough they werent more easily defeated exactly because the military could not concieve of these alien-like manhunters to be frail, they are shown to think only about the possibility of ultimately killing them, which they intend to do with a high caliber shotgun. However exactly that is what makes it hard for them to be victorious.

Any use of fire, acid or mostly anything that affects cells in a pretty heavy way, just like they affect us, would have done the job much more efficiently. But they ignore that, just like we ignore everything that we put in the bound of not in our control even if it is in our total control, which goes over the many mentions of other live and the world suffering.