Scored 8.32 by over 1.25 million MyAnimeList users and ranked #299 overall, Parasyte is recognised as one of Madhouse's strongest productions of the 2010s - a body-horror premise deployed with philosophical rigour rather than shock value.
Renewal: Single 24-episode season adapting Hitoshi Iwaaki's manga, aired on Nippon TV from October 2014 to March 2015. Produced by Madhouse. The original 1990s manga ran in Monthly Afternoon for a decade before this adaptation. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12014 · 24 eps | 9 October 2014 | 8.3 | n/a | 8.3/10 | MUST-WATCH |
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The premiere establishes the show's central image - a parasite that wanted the brain settling for the right hand instead - and immediately begins the uneasy negotiation between Shinichi and Migi. The body-horror sequences are direct without being gratuitous, and the episode ends at exactly the right moment of horror.
Full episode review →The finale resolves both the survival plot and the philosophical question the show has been building since episode one: what does it mean to be human when the creatures replacing humans are indistinguishable, and possibly not worse, than what they replaced. The conclusion does not offer easy comfort.
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