(Accidental) Buddy read with Dennis ( his review). Hmmm, maybe they have a parasYte in them? Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! I mean, when your alien-infested right hand is so into reading that you can barely make it go with you to dinner, what’s not to like? Migi is hilariously adorable and morbidly funny, and its bickering with Shinichi is super-cute.Īlso, I’m terrible at right-to-left reading. I mean, just look at this body horror cuteness! (Reading an excellent comic book adaptation of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in parallel also helped underscore the ridiculous but awesome grotesque silliness of this one as opposed to Kurt’s understated absurdist gravity). Blood is splattering, guts are flailing around, faces are splitting tentacularly and spirally.īut yet somehow it actually becomes hilarious after a while as it develops into wacky body-horror buddy comedy of a boy and his possessed right hand and their adventures. This is supposed to be a body horror story about alien body snatchers until one of them messes up just a bit and becomes more of a right hand symbiote. But then *somebody* forgot the comic book we were supposed to be reading, and this was available, and after an explanation that you read manga right-to-left I stopped uselessly trying to flip the pages the wrong way and the rest is history. So, being very much a comic book newbie I was not yet supposed to be ready or worthy to graduate to manga. This 10 volume long manga which I know will wreck my shit and will not let me sleep for days Well that's it it's sweet and funny in disturbing sort of way full of blood, gore and parasites.Īll the new young adult, contemporaries, new may releases, pending April releases, ARCs They were there just to add character to Shinichi which I disliked a bit. The greatest flaw of the series is side characters, they weren't good or bad they weren't fleshed out properly. It adds a great volume to Shinichi character and it can be funny sometimes. attention. It can seem a little weird at first, but it’s still fairly accessible and the weirdness wears off pretty fast. The illustrations stood out most for me they are bizzare, off-putting, different. This manga makes no qualms about blood and gore. It’s a journey of discovery for the protagonist and the monsters he faces. Intersting fact is that Parasyte are clueless as to their purpose, their reason of being, or even where they come from. It's tough coz parasites morph and are powerful. Parasites take over the human brain and then try to kill other humans.

It's about a boy named Shinichi who one night gets a parasite ( Migi) accidentally stuck in his arm.

Parasyte 01 hitoshi iwaaki