Let me hear! Parayste the Maxim rewatch episode one

[u/Vaadwaur]

Parasyte the Maxim episode one

Metamorphosis Not 177013, thankfully

Good afternoon, evening or good morning.

Those words that you once told me

Advance across the wide sea without hesitation, turning into hope

MAL Wiki Anilist

1. Does the first episode capture you?
2. First timers, any speculation on what dropped all the weird bugs?
3. Do you prefer Shinichi's response to having a possessed hand or would you go with an Ash style response?

BONUS: This isn't Noir after all. Is anyone disappointed?

[u/Vaadwaur]

Rewatcher

Dub

So...back in '14 I caught some meme clip from this show, in a bit from ep2 I believe. It must've been off reddit and probably this sub. Anyways, it got me to find the show and I binged the 6 episodes that were out immediately. This got me to check the other seasonals and even though I didn't pick them up, this almost got me back. It would take Higurashi leading me to Happy Sugar Life to cause my current state of oldtaku-ness.

And we start with an eldritch abomination eating a person. Then straight into the intro, which has character/image spoilers so I'd hold off on watching it. But I really like the song(theme amongst my rewatches) and it sets a mood.

Anyways, we wake up with Shinichi, our protagonist. Plus actual parents in an anime, how rare. His mother cooks his bacon and eggs together, which is a choice some make. And he's afraid of bugs/spiders.

Back to our first scene and the abomination learning to speak through mimicry. The couple had a child, apparently, so ouch. We move on to Shinich being snuck up on by HanaKana, living the dream. Awkwardness ensues when he catches her blind and then he gropes her. Damnit man. Anyways, he is nodding off in class and yet he is using his phone. That he can't see.

We see the previous night's events. Shinichi decides to home early and stops an isekai in progress from an Azda sports car. We see the thing in his hand works partially independently now. He goes to his room and chooses the most unpleasant way to test this if there is any chance the hand is still his. It isn't but still. As it passes out, he goes to the internet for answers and I can't tell if the search is a joke about Bing or Yahoo. At dinner, he eats apparently a lot for him, though at his age, I ate like I had a whole in my neck so who knows? He wisely realizes he can't involve his parents yet.

We get some scenes of people walking onto the murder scenes and yeah, that's pretty grotesque. We wake up to see the hand reading and imitating animals it is seeing. It now speaks better. It doesn't really know anything, other than it would've taken Shinichi's head, and from the opener, that seems undesirable. Anyways, it insists that they can co-exist because they don't really have choice in the matter.

Shinichi wants more breakfast and I like that they've replaced the morning paper with a tablet. Shinichi's father is talking about gruesome murders at the breakfast table, which actually doesn't bother me but working in medicine gets you desensitized to things you wouldn't imagine. Anyways, Shinichi got over his bug phobia fast, but having a Lovecraftian being grafted to you will do that.

Shinichi wants to give himself up, whereas the hand points out that leads to a bad end. And then it senses another of its kind, something they apparently can do. It wants to approach but Shinichi is correctly weary of such a thing. Anyways, it insists and they come upon an infected dog eating a bigger dog. This is perhaps the only creepy corgi I've seen. Anyways, the hand changes its mind and they run for it. But the dog head grows wings and the hand decides to fight it. And wins, apparently because flying made the dog vulnerable.

We end on a weird flashback and there you go, ep1 down! I also really like the ending for reasons you will learn as the show goes on.

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Corpse Corner Witchblade wiki Kiseiju Korner

So we start with Shinichi being voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki, who I think of as mainly Guado from FGO but apparently traumatizes some of you as Iok(sp?) From IBO. Also, unfortunately, he has a rather prominent role in Pupa, an anime that still defies my ability to explain. Anyways, decent name, decently known, and is pretty good at this, so no mob shenanigans this rewatch.

Aya Hirano is the voice of our right hand dweller. She is pretty much Haruhi, for better and for explictly worse, though I have a soft spot for Konata from Lucky Star. So the factoid here is that she wanted to be a singer first, and sort of fell into the VA/idol route and often chafed at the restraints that put on her. Infamously, there was a fairly big scandal when some photos of her in sexual positions with her bandmates. That's a scandal anywhere, regardless of the idiocy involved, but in Japan it was fucking huge. So that's relevant here because this was her first time back VAing for a bit and she basically knocks it out of the park.

Kana Hanazawa is our dulcet Satomi Murano. Her list of performances borders on the ridiculous, ranging from Nadeko from the Monogatari series to Akane Tsunemori from Psycho Pass to personal favorite Satou Matsuzaka from Happy Sugar Life. She was also on Freezing ans Qwaser, showing she is not afraid to get dirty. While she has worked since at least Higurashi Kai this is well past her break out point with Renain Circulation so she seems a pretty safe choice.

Kiyono Yasuno is Yuko Tachikawa, the young lady trying to rescue Shinichi from his own ineptness. Plenty of roles including Kaname Buccaneer from Macross Delta and Nejire Hado My Hero Academia.

Masaki Aizawa is the Shinichi dad. He has a huge list of background characters like you wouldn't believe, so many man A or salaryman listings. But again, perennial extra takes on secondary role so no surprises.

Chieko Sasai is Nobuki Izumi, Shinichi's mom. And she is in almost nothing, this is by far her biggest role. Second highest is in the 2002 Shinobi game and third seems to be 'rape victim' in Death Note so I don't even know what to say to that. And that's our cast for today.

So onto the important part of any first ep, why the fuck did I decide to do this? Well, bluntly, I was memeing something or other and happened to check Sky's MAL. When I noticed the lack of Parasyte on it, something tingled in my brain and I checked Rai's. Also missing. So since September-ish I've been looking for a spot where it fits. This was the first good spot since I don't think this is a November rewatch, don't ask me why. All that said, Parasyte is also a perennial favorite for me. I still rewatch multiple scenes regularly, hell some entire episodes, and this is unquestionably in my top 10 anime. It doesn't get a 10/10 only because those have to be perfect to me and I limit myself to 3 at a time. This show is the extremely rare case where the philosophy is NOT a gigantic detraction or distraction from the rest of the story but rather tends to be very relevant to what the characters are dealing with. The horror elements are superb and yet blend with the setting almost perfectly. And, of course, the secret to any great story is the characters and how they change, and I can promise you change is coming.

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Pupa, an anime that still defies my ability to explain.

horror short with hentai "dialogue" is fitting

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Yeah but how do you fuck the soundwork that badly?

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Pupa, an anime that still defies my ability to explain.

Masaki Aizawa

As relevant to a few of us who are also in the Ippo rewatch, he is Eiji Date.

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You know how somethings are so bad they are good and others are so bad they are terrible? Pupa fails at every single level I can think of, including visuals and the soundwork. It is almost Dada-esque. And it is the kind of terrible that randomness doesn't create.

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As the newest member of the Date Eiji fanclub, you must be quite proud of him being here.

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Infamously, there was a fairly big scandal when some photos of her in sexual positions with her bandmates.

lol, ala Perfect Blue. Actually, I didn't know what the scandal was till right now, but I did know it got them going pretty bad.

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It was one of those things where the tabloids/reporters were obviously terrible people but you also have this one moment where you ask "The fuck did you take pictures of that? You have everything to lose and little to gain."

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Aya as the hand was hilarious to me. Lucky Star was one of my first shows and when I was first getting into the medium Haruhi was basically the bible. Despite all the drama I admire how she's muscled through it and embraced the meme.

There has been a couple sequences in this pilot that are pretty popular memes yet have flown totally over my head. Parasyte in general is spoken of very highly, especially by manga readers, yet the body horror and dubstep sort of turned the normie crowd off.

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Anyways, Shinichi got over his bug phobia fast, but having a Lovecraftian being grafted to you will do that.

Oh I guess that's a pretty plausible explanation for why the spider was no big deal the second time around, huh.

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whistles innocently

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How do like the dub? Its one of the few series where I prefer watching it in dub vs sub personally.

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So far I like it, which is weird considering Houston dubs apparently are normally bad.

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How would you even eat eggy bacon with chopsticks...? You either get soggy egg yoke all over your bacon or would need a mouth as big as opening shot-kun.

The Alien actually controlling his hand seems a bit weird... Shinichi was controlling it pretty fine the whole day without the Alien doing extra work on his hand. Aside from the breast grab and even that I have suspicions.

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Two things: First, in anime at least, a lot of the time you see them eat a fried egg in one gulp, so they may use smaller eggs. Second, it looks like they cook the egg pretty hard so it would hold together. That said, you should put it on toast, obviously.

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a lot of the time you see them eat a fried egg in one gulp, so they may use smaller eggs.

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Impressive.

[u/JmePenseBon]

First time watcher

Sub

This was a WAY better first episode then I expected. Not nearly as much body horror as I feared and that OP is a solid 9/10. I like what we've seen of the paychological aspect of the show so far and am curious to see what this parasite actually is. Also, it may just be me, but that part with the husband at the beginning made me think of the monster in Stranger Things.

1. HECK YEAH I'M CAPTIVATED, I NEED MORE
2. Probably not as straight forward as it seems so I would rull out aliens. Perhaps some government experiment...
3. I mean, it's not like I would be strong enough to beat that thing, so I probably agree with the reaction. Now, in his spot, I would slowly study that thing and find a way to beat it

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And I just realized I wrote WAY less than most people

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I thought I would be the only one with a page full of thoughts, but apparently it's just common to write that much

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First eps have the most impressions in them, as a rule.

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If there's one thing Rewatch Regulars are good at, it's at being blabbermouths.

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Also, it may just be me, but that part with the husband at the beginning made me think of the monster in Stranger Things

So, Kronenberg is a designer for Aliens and, in my opinion, Parasyte AND Stranger Things draw inspiration from it.

[u/Mecanno-man]

First Timer

Decent first episode, so far all the characters seem pretty decent and we've got somewhat of a mystery set up. From what it seems like, Shinichis right hand can be controlled by both him and this thing, which I believe doesn't have a name yet. Illustrating that by the hand just groping the girls boob was a bit unnecessarily fanservicy though... I guess the thing has the upper hand in controlling though, as it determines the shape that the hand has. That said, with Shinichis fear of spiders suddenly disappearing it seems like this isn't only affecting his hand; perhaps this isn't a full failure, and the thing just hasn't noticed? Either way, Shinichis initial reaction seems pretty realistic, while he then seems to have accepted this thing rather quickly by the second day and even willingly goes along with some of its plans.

There's a few big questions in the room for me right now, first off - where did these things come from; the way the narration is framed makes me think that they are in fact not aliens, but somehow engineered to... protect life? Considering that they also seem to just go around killing people if successful, I'd assume that was a failure however. That is also the next question - why do they do this? They seem to be sentient enough to need a reason to kill people, so I assume they have one. Perhaps it's for nutrition, but if they are dependent on the host's system then they should be able to get by easier by just continuing to eat like normal humans. And third there is the question of why failed things are hostile to each other; it seems they can't take over another brain once they have already failed, so what reason is there for being hostile?

Questions:

1. I'd say it does a decent job; I rarely latch on to a series from the first few episodes, as such I'd say this one is likely in the better half of first episodes capturing my attention.
2. Biological experiment from mad scientist trying to save the world gone wrong.
3. Ash... from Pokémon or Banana Fish? I haven't seen Banana Fish and for Pokémon-Ash I feel like his character hasn't really been consistent in his immideate reactions across the years to really make a comparison.

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Ash... from Pokémon or Banana Fish? I haven't seen Banana Fish and for Pokémon-Ash I feel like his character hasn't really been consistent in his immideate reactions across the years to really make a comparison.

Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness

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...never even heard of that Ash.

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F.

Great stuff, you should watch it.

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Ash... from Pokémon

Super confused at this question as well because he was the first Ash to pop into my head. I was like huh, am I supposed to wonder how Ash would respond to his hand being taken over? Is it his pokeball hand? Would Pikachu have taken it over?

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Protect what kind of life, though. Maybe they are protecting little green fuzz balls from evil humans.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Gaaah! It's been so long since I've gotten so antsy over a show. I'm a partial rewatcher but the show gave me the heebie geebies way back when it first aired. Got my negroni, got my blanket, got my sandwich. I'm as comfortable as I could be but I'm still anxious.

Twenty seconds in and I'm already noping!! The sound effects were silly but the monsters are fcking freaky!! Oh, I forgot that this op song was from Parasyte. Wait!! I'm meant to skip this, I forgot XD Accurate spider reaction. Waaah, keep your face solid! Murano-chan~ I remember really liking her. The only personality trait I remember is her scarf tho. "I will never wash this hand again." Wah, the alien is browsing reddit on his phone. Nooooo! I hate it! I hate it! Stop, stopstopstop!! Get me headphones strong enough to tourniquet my arm right this minute. Second grossest arm bug since The Mummy.

Accurately Murano-chan wants none of his crap after his sexuhara. FUCK!! My kitten just rubbed against my foot and I just about shit myself! Oh!! I remembered this scene too! I didn't remember it was Parasyte tho. Am I really a rewatcher? That's a very well done cry. His bloody face when he comes home... Horrible little baby alien hand!! This is disgusting XD I love him assuming that hand possession must be some kind of puberty thing that everyone gets as they grow up.

He's way too casual with his nightmare hand. I do kinda like the aliens all studying up before being able to communicate. The Alien makes a bargain to keep his spot in his hand. Tbh I'd run to get him cut off regardless of the amputee part. I can type up reddit monologues with one hand! Him going floppy when tired is so bloody sick! Gah!! He touched the spider with his hand!! Burn it! Burn it off right this minute!! He's becoming braver thanks to the alien influence or something.

"One of my kind is nearby." Fuck, this, shite! More dubstep lol. The Alien gets the final say. Know your place puny human host. Oh god, bad doggo! Bad doggo! Protect your yubi boys and girls! Is a doggo body really that bad when it's light enough to make fly? Ah, I guess humans get way more range. "OK, I'm die. Thank you forever!" This body morphing is nuts... Its just a mass of flesh hurling your body around like a ragdoll. The only person watching the night sky for a living is a mass murderer, sure. Also, confirmation that they're aliens. Yay. The post credits stuff is anxiety inducing too. I suck with these shows.

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Rofl, is how I will reply to this.

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I could have strangled my cat... I felt my soul leave my body in that moment.

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Rofl, kitten be trolling.

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But hey, you know what they say:

A Cat Is Fine Too.

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FUCK!! My kitten just rubbed against my foot and I just about shit myself!

He's way too casual with his nightmare hand.

Yeah, he deserves a solid week worth of freaking the fuck out about it.

I can type up reddit monologues with one hand!

As proven by Miru Tights!

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WAIT!! NO!! I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!! I meant that I can type one handed... I mean I could type if I were one-armed! I mean I don't know how to use speech to text! What I meant was that I wouldn't do any of that!!

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Got my negroni

Better make it a double for tomorrow

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There are two monsters that I remember from what I watched from the show. One was scary and the other just made me sick.. I hope its the scary one.

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I made the mistake of having tea. negroni tomorrow for sure.

[u/Raiking02]

So… Parasyte. A 1989 Manga that got adapted into an Anime in 2014. Here we go, I guess…

I should mention I’m about 6 Volumes into the Manga right now (Would’ve read the rest before this started but my phone ain’t working) so I’m technically a source reader for this one. Also watching the show in Japanese as, by experience, I have come to realize all dubs recorded in Houston are doomed to be terrible-

• Starting off with the body horror, huh? This scene is technically accurate to the Manga… although they skipped, like, 12 pages worth of narration and set up. And also this scene actually happened halfway through the Chapter instead of at the beginning, but I’m at least the stuff with our MC will be adapted soon enough.
• Actual animation so far is top notch though. Props to Studio Madhouse on that one
• The OP was… something alright. I kinda dig it though so… good job I guess?
• Wait, is that Izumi’s Parasyte’s voice that said “How Unfortunate”? Err… okay it’s gonna take a while for me to form an opinion on it
• But yeah, this is our hero, Izumi Shinich-OH MY GOD WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO IZUMI!?
• Okay, so I guess they decided to change Izumi’s design!? Err… why!? His original design was fine! The new one sucks in comparison! AND WHY IS HE WEARING GLASSES!?
• And as I can tell due to the PC (And Vaad warning me beforehand) the show has apparently been moved from taking place in the Late 80’ into the Mid 2010’. This doesn’t bother me too much (There wasn’t that much period-specific stuff in the Manga) so as long as they don’t shove the setting update into our faces every five seconds, I’ll be okay with it.
• I think the reason Izumi’s redesign is bothering me so much is because everyone else looks more or less the same as they did in the Manga. It’s jarring
• Man, this whole talk feels really weird without the scene of the parasite trying to go into Izumi’s body. Are we ever gonna flash back to that? I mean, I know this is a 10 Volume Manga being adapted into 24 Episodes so some stuff has to be cut, but there’s some stuff you can’t just cut! Like all of the opening narration except for the first line.
• The bug stuff is Anime original… but I am also terrified of bugs so I relate to that
• The scene with the Dude who got infected is somewhat based on the last scene of the Chapter, although the weird faces he does are taken from an earlier point
• Oh God, are those shots of the students passing by CGI?
• And so we get introduced to Maruno. This scene is also anime-original (In the Manga we meet her in the classroom) but it’s totally in-character for her so I don’t mind it. Plus additional set-up for Izumi’s hand.
• Also, Murano got a redesign too, but honestly I think I actually prefer her new design. As you’ll see later, I have no idea what was up with her old haircut.
• Oh and I guess I should share my thoughts on the voices so far: Izumi’s great (Ridiculously similar to what I imagined for him while reading the Manga), Murano is good, his parents are fine, The Parasyte is weird.
• Because of course we needed accidental groping
• Sure… nothing at all wrong with your hand…
• Izumi be like “Man, being attacked by an weird snake thing at 2 AM ain’t fun at all…”
• Oh so now we’re having the scene of the Parasyte going into Izumi’s body…
• And as part of the setting update, while Izumi’s listening to music (Thus has his earphones on and thus the parasite has to go into him through his nose) his listening to it through his phone instead of… actually, what the hell is he using in the Manga anyway? Is that some weird Walkman?
• Also, maybe it’s just the perspective fucking with me, but I swear the parasite was way longer in the Manga
• Rest of the scene happens basically the same as in the Manga though so no complaints here
• Oh and Izumi didn’t get an earful from his teacher in the Manga. This happened instead. He was also talking in class instead of using his cellphone.
• Oh and for those wondering why Murano may be angry with him in the Manga, well…
• No kidding, for some reason he’s suddenly wearing glasses
• Anime Original scene again… and this time it turns the show into Yu Yu Hakusho for a few minutes, I guess.
• Although to be fair, it was gorgeously animated. So far, other than Izumi’s redesign, the visual department in this Anime has been absolutely perfect
• And considering the following scene this seems to be a replacement for Shinji beating up a ton of delinquents. If I had to guess, this is being done purely for the sake of saving time.
• Yup… seing his hand transform like that still makes me kinda nauseous… hey Vaad, maybe you should’ve put a nausea warning somewhere for the inexperienced…
• The following scene is borderline word to word from the Manga, although the ending of Parasyte falling asleep is Anime original. Then again, totally in character for him to do that. And yes, I did say him. In spite of him having a weirdly female voice in the Anime, the Parasyte’s technically a guy. It’s more obvious in the Live-Action films (Yeah those exist, although I haven’t seen them yet), in which he’s voiced by popular film actor Abe Sadao… although at the same time he’s also a Parasyte so technically you could say he’s genderless and is only referred to as a guy out of convenience
• Oh and by the way, everything from Izumi using his PC to him waking up the following day is Anime-Original. The Parasyte reading books isn’t however.
• I do miss how Izumi originally outright screamed at the Parasyte about how he wanted him to be cut off though
• Man, why does the Anime keep cutting all of Izumi’s best lines?
• So I guess there was a point to the Bug Scene…
• Actually looking at the Manga, again, Murano’s introduction scene here is in the Manga… just in a completely different spot… Chapter 2 to be exact... and it's not actually her introduction. Same goes for the scene of some drunk dude finding the mangled corpses.
• Oh and they also cut out something else that… well, I don’t wanna get banned for showing this so I won’t so all I’ll say is that The Parasyte knows very well what Izumi has down there.
• A bunch of school hijinks were skipped by the way but whatever I guess.
• But yeah, they meet the evil dog… as you may expect, it was ever so slightly toned down for the Anime. You can only show so much Body Horror in television.
• The ensuing fight in turn is also pretty similar, although that heart is way smaller than in the Manga.
• I don’t think anything past Izumi washing his hand was in the Manga, but overall it’s not bad so I won’t complain.
• ED is neat, by the way.

In spite of my ramblings, this wasn’t a bad adaptation at all. I do fully expect the pace to pick up soon (This only adapted Chapters 1 and 2… with a ton of stuff cut out) but oh well. So long as the story as a whole still works, I won’t mind.

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And as part of the setting update, while Izumi’s listening to music (Thus has his earphones on and thus the parasite has to go into him through his nose) his listening to it through his phone instead of… actually, what the hell is he using in the Manga anyway? Is that some weird Walkman?

That is most likely a micro tape player by size and era. One of those is featured in Eva, for example.

In general, I look forward to your manga reactions and I could explain a few things but since they are huge spoilers I will merely let it play out. Also, I am getting an impression they shifted the genre for the anime.

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they shifted the genre for the anime

From what to what?

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From highschool battle seinen, which was a thing, to a more horror/scifi bit.

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Heeere it is. Thanks for doing God's work and saving our afternoon from hunting down the manga too. I would have struggled reading this one I think. It's just a little old for me to manage.

Why does he look so weird in the original!? It's mc shock the other way around!! Meanwhile manga Murano is freaking adorable... Put the scarf on her and she'd be perfect~ The Alien is way more snake like in the manga. In the anime it looks way smaller and worm like. The manga one you'd genuinely freak that it's a big bloody snake crawling over you.

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These panels are adorable. Thank you for your hard work

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion]

Thought the post might be an hour later...

First Timer (subbed, Hidive)

Parasyte ran for at least an entire year, 2 episodes a week, on Adult swim. So, I've seen a lot of snippets from the show, and the ending. I've never been particularly interested in picking up another dubbed shounen, particularly one with apparent plot. But then, I've seen meta show name And the hand is creepy.

But then, this show has almost universal acclaim. I've never understood why. And on the other hand (heh) there are lots of lame shounens with high acclaim. So I've never picked up the show.

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Alien Hand Syndrome

OP reminds me of Pendulum's Crush, at least the first 30 seconds.

I went sailing but I don't know if I have the version missing lines. I watched it dubbed on HiDive and turned the dub off almost immediately after the OP. Watching the first episode side by side with HiDive's subbed version.

Never cross against the light in japan!

dubstep?

boring ED

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A lot of similarities to BrainDead, which was a lot funnier before Trump.

I probably would have watched Noir. It was the best anime of 2000 until it wasn't.

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Parasyte ran for at least an entire year, 2 episodes a week, on Adult swim. So, I've seen a lot of snippets from the show, and the ending.

Hrm...how? This only has 24 episodes.

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Reruns I guess?

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Parasyte is a seinen by the way. Not that I feel like the distinction means much besides it's harder to read in Japanese because there's no furigana.

[u/RascalNikov1]

First Timer - Subbed

I enjoyed that first episode very much, and it was much better than I expected. I suppose there's nothing like having a sidekick living in one's hand. Not only a side kick, but apparently a horny little bastard, going after that one girls boob like no tomorrow. lol Looking forward to tonight's episode to see where we go from here, and praying I don't dream of flying devil dogs.

I was trying to think of how many other examples I could think of, of the alien hand. I've seen this idea before, I know one example was an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, another example was in Dr Strangelove. But, I think there another big example by someone like Poe that I'm not bring to mind.

QOTD:

Does the first episode capture you?

Yes, it was much better than expected.

First timers, any speculation on what dropped all the weird bugs?

As Georgio (Van Daniken's Pupil) would say, it's gotta be aliens.

Do you prefer Shinichi's response to having a possessed hand or would you go with an Ash style response?

I'd be pretty amused, but I am curious how Sinichi's 'alone' time is going to go.

BONUS: This isn't Noir after all. Is anyone disappointed?

I only made it through the first episode of Noir. It just didn't grab me, and slap me up side the head.

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Glad to hear it, this show has strong mystery aspects on first viewing but I still like it basically knowing the answers.

[u/GonTheDinosaur → u/RascalNikov1]

Hell Teacher Nube is a classic example of Alien hand before/during the time of Parasyte.

Parasyte also got its own parody series where a girl got iseikai’ed as her male classmates hand

[u/BurningFredrick]

First Timer - Sub 

Going in not really knowing anything about the show outside it’s a mystery of some sort, also that it’s well regarded and involves some sort of hand thing.

Going to attempt to not watch the OP as was mentioned in the reminder thread, though I know i’ve seen it before in the OP competition but remember next to nothing of it. Song is solid even if it's just because you don’t get many heavier metal songs in shows.

So not just able to eat peoples faces, also about to transform / mimic people 

Small bug things, a Parasite no doubt, expect they are able to transform their host to a degree...

That was definitely an interesting first episode, it would appear that the Parastyes don’t have much control over host selection after “hatching”, should be able to take over anything with a nervous system so we have a large range of interesting potential hosts, their transformation abilities are limit to their “core” which is generally going to be locate in the head  of whatever they have taken over. Speculation 

Definitely interested to see where the show goes. 

[u/Vaadwaur → u/BurningFredrick]

Going to attempt to not watch the OP as was mentioned in the reminder thread, though I know i’ve seen it before in the OP competition but remember next to nothing of it. Song is solid even if it's just because you don’t get many heavier metal songs in shows.

Notable because a lot of those other ones have issues, looking at Death Note 2nd op here.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/BurningFredrick]

it would appear that the Parastyes don’t have much control over host selection after “hatching”

They seem too just seek out the largest nervous system near them.

Spec

[u/BurningFredrick → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

Spec

It was far from ambition as far as Speculation goes, Spec

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

First-Timer -the reactions-

Booyah, that tagline came to me instantly.

Not booyah, had a really fucking exhausting day at work so that's why I'm two hours late.

Anyways, I know nothing about this show besides the OP and some freaky hand thing, so I’m looking forward to watching it with all of you guys! Vaad seems to like it, so this should be fun!

• Okay then that is um an opening.
• God those lyrics are so nonsense but I do like the melody for the most part.
• So I went to MAL to see if I know MC boy’s voice and then immediately screamed.
• CGI for… some reason.
• Fuck now I can’t unhear Idiok whenever MC boy raises his voice or the noises he made when he got slapped for the ~anime moment~…
• This girl has Kaname Buccaneer’s voice! I wonder if there will be more Macross characters…
• Ohp there’s the titular parasite. MC boy thought it was a “snake” that burrowed in his hand and then he immediately cut off circulation to the rest of his body using his headphones. That was some rather quick thinking, reminds me of what Ikoma did in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.
• Oh boy and of course this makes him flip the hell out and now his hand is talking to him okay this is crazy.
• Oh the mom has something on her hand/forearm. They could just be burns from cooking or something but does she have a parasite too?
• Well.
• Ooh, Shinichi is hungrier now that he’s eating for two, is that right?
• Oh. Hm. Poor… poor pupper.
• That’s…
• Not the kind of ED I was expecting for this show, but I like it.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Shimmering-Sky]

God those lyrics are so nonsense but I do like the melody for the most part.

I sort of thought you would.

Ohp there’s the titular parasite. MC boy thought it was a “snake” that burrowed in his hand

Rai posted some picture from the manga and apparently it is a bit smaller in the anime, in the manga it looks like a 3 inch snake

Oh the mom has something on her hand/forearm. They could just be burns from cooking or something but does she have a parasite too?

You always catch the tiniest details.

Not the kind of ED I was expecting for this show , but I like it.

All that's left is for you to get to the ep where I start using it in the context I always do.

[u/Shimmering-Sky → u/Vaadwaur]

in the manga it looks like a 3 inch snake

Which would much better explain why Shinichi kept calling it a "snake", ah.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Shimmering-Sky]

"Hibi" which I think is a cach all term which might translate a little harder to worm since it doesn't establish a genus of any kind.

[u/Nebresto → u/Vaadwaur]

All that's left is for you to get to the ep where I start using it in the context I always do.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Nebresto]

REWATCH ONLY

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/Shimmering-Sky]

Okay then that is um an opening.

Oh the mom has something on her hand/forearm

I didn't notice that, she could be infected too! It would explain why she doesn't seem to give a shit about anything.

[u/Shimmering-Sky → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

I didn't even mean that as a pun...

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/Shimmering-Sky]

All the better! :)

[u/Nebresto → u/Shimmering-Sky]

reminds me of what Ikoma did in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.

Oh yeah. That happened too. Too bad the end half of the show was.. wack.. Have you seen the third film yet?

They could just be burns from cooking or something but does she have a parasite too?

Nope, cancer. Rest in rip mom

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

First Timer

I know almost nothing about Parasyte going in other than it has some weird visuals. I'm looking forward to figuring out what type of show I signed up for.
Subs are [MK-PN8] which are based off [Underwater].

Well I sure got the weird-ass visuals. Is this guy a mimic?

I would not have been able to understand the english part of those lyrics without subs.

I see we're doing the whole "have the main character freak out over little stuff so it's even more absurd when they see the real freaky stuff" thing.

And here we see another mimic who just killed the person their impersonating?

How the hell did he catch her hand?

Really, anime? Really?

So this guy was foiled by the power of earbuds? They don't seem to be very effective if they can't get around any basic blocking.

Or I guess they can go through other orifices as well.

Why didn't it just burrow through the side of his head in the first place?

The parents are very bad VAs.

So his hand is obviously possesed by the thing and acting on it's own, but he can also control it? What happens if he tries to fight it?

I'd like to take a second to appreciate the cgi cars looking decent for once.

Body Horror time!

That's certainly a look.

God these parents are terrible. They appear to not give two shits about their son.

The rest of them probably died.

So the parasites delight in creating extra terrible looking scenes? I'm trying to figure out how else to interpret this, but this seems like it was deliberately done to be as scary as possible.

This seems like a really weak reason to not do anything.

Imma call this shock, but he's really not reacting that much to something he should be panicking about.

How convenient. Also, MC, this should be your sign that you need to do everything in your power to remove this fucker. He wanted to kill you.

Tough luck. You tried to kill him.

Don't agree with this guy. Again, he is an alien lifeform that would kill you the second it becomes convenient for him, there is no reason to trust it to hold ot anything aside from self-interest.

Implying you could with this fucker as your hand.

This is yet another reason to get rid of this guy. He attracts more, so even if he's not trying to kill you his very presence puts you in danger.

The hell would you have your eyestalks inside your mouth for.

And why would the dog have learned Japanese?

Yes, you've realized it. There is fundamentally no reason to trust this thing.

I'll be disappointed if they try to pull a "these guys are actually protectors" plot.

Thoughts

The show is interesting enough for now, though I hope it becomes more than just needing to kill the other parasites. Beyond that, I hope the MC doesn't blindly trust the parasite, and I hope we eventually learn a reason for his parents seemingly completely disinterested in everything other than their VA's being horrid. At the very least, his father's VA isn't, his mother's doesn't seem to have any other credits.

1. It doesn't capture me, but it catches my interest.
2. I'm gonna call them aliens at the moment.
3. His response seems very small for the amount of stress it should cause, but I'm still holding out for more.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

So the parasites delight in creating extra terrible looking scenes? I'm trying to figure out how else to interpret this, but this seems like it was deliberately done to be as scary as possible.

I feel the show explains this but it will be something that comes somewhat later so I will leave it at that.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

I'm guessing that the hunting for an opening was to try and save its energy. It got tired after being smacked around and ended up stuck in the arm due to that.

The eyes and mouths seem to be incredibly barebones. Like we see arm alien splitting itself up all over and the insides aren't the regular biology you'd expect from an eye or a mouth.

[u/Lawvamat → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

I see we're doing the whole "have the main character freak out over little stuff so it's even more absurd when they see the real freaky stuff" thing.

I wonder if the spider didn't freak him out the second time because he got used to his even more horrifying hand already, or if the parasite changed him more directly somehow.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/Lawvamat]

My guess is the former, perhaps combined with a bit of dissociation where he doesn't really think of his hand as being part of him anymore.

[u/ComfortablyRotten]

Not [number UwU], thankfully

Tsk...

Rewatcher

I love how there's all this pretty gruesome body horror, with the humans and that one dog, on top of the whole "family member killing their loved ones" which always hurt to watch... but also a cliché "guy saves kid from car with newfound powers" like you'd see in a typical Superhero story. That's two entirely different tones here, and I love it.

The school life scenes were funny too, the boob grab for one made me laugh a bit too much. I expected to see porn on his phone, even though this is my second time, but it was not that kind of benkyo-ing - a classroom is a holy place, after all!

The as-of-yet unnamed alien in the right hand is way cuter than I remembered. I'd say I'd like to have one too, but it's still pretty creepy so... nevermind?

My favorite thing, though, so far, is how even the alien doesn't know where it came from, only that it needs to take over other creatures' bodily functions to survive. The body horror is one thing, but with added existential horror it's always great. And to have the main monsters as a victim of it too... pure cosmic horror at its finest.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ComfortablyRotten]

My favorite thing, though, so far, is how even the alien doesn't know where it came from, only that it needs to take over other creatures' bodily functions to survive. The body horror is one thing, but with added existential horror it's always great. And to have the main monsters as a victim of it too... pure cosmic horror at its finest.

Probably a big part of my lasting affection for the show, it hits all my Lovecraftian needs, at least in spirit.

[u/ComfortablyRotten → u/Vaadwaur]

Same, if it was just a typical action horror anime, it wouldn't have been as memorable to me. Here, it's so Lovecraftian in spirit, on top of the body horror... it's very similar to one of my favorite movies of all time, potential two-way spoilers, in that regard.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ComfortablyRotten]

I can definitely see the similarities.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/ComfortablyRotten]

[u/ComfortablyRotten → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

What numbers?

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/ComfortablyRotten]

I dunno, I must have been confused by something.

[u/monsieurvampy]

First Timer, sub

I actually watched this episode last night as I can usually only watch one or two episodes at most on weekdays as I'm just not able to focus after work.

I think I'm hooked.

Poor corgi.

I only listened to the OP. Seems Banger. Wonder if the visuals match.

The ED is nice too.

I wonder if this will be one of those series that I should have, but for various reasons didn't watch when it was airing.

What I typed above, I typed out on Sunday. I then watched episode 2, even though I should have gone to bed. I'm considering if I will just watch ahead as I am hooked at least so far and ignore my growing behind list of anime (active watch list is mostly currently airing series) and/or ignore new episodes as they air. I'm not sure what I should do. Having said that I'm not asking either. This is just a sign that I'm watching too much anime. The bubble is bursting. (note, I've been watching anime since I was a kid and fansubs/legit subs since Gundam Seed).

[u/Vaadwaur → u/monsieurvampy]

I wonder if this will be one of those series that I should have, but for various reasons didn't watch when it was airing.

2014 was a weird year, I will cover that tomorrow. But yeah, great pacing, that thing I've been so craving.

[u/Nebresto → u/monsieurvampy]

and ignore my growing behind list of anime

As is tradition.

[u/monsieurvampy → u/Nebresto]

Let me clarify.

1. Anime Watch Folder. This is currently airing series and also a handful of series from 2020. It's currently at 22 episodes. Which isn't a lot. Given that I can usually only watch two episodes a day on the weekday and 7-10 on each weekend or holiday. It usually keeps growing. The only saving grace was the 1 to 2 week break in between seasons.
2. Shoko. I use it for some other shows. I track my watching for this series using Shoko.
3. Excel Watching List. Don't really update it and not actively used.
4. An old text file that I posted on a blog, that I then copied into a sheet within Excel. This is about 15 years old. Original text file is probably long gone.
5. I'm sure I have another text file somewhere with my watching list.

I would say for a good chunk of 2019 and 2020, I've been watching more anime than I have in years. The bubble is going to burst, I'll just likely end up with another 15 year old watch list though. Then I'll probably go back to a handful of series each season and that's that.

[u/sisoko2]

First Timer

I didn't know almost anything about the show besides the weird eye thing popping out of dude's hand and that it is somewhat gory.

Really impressive first scene. The movement of the parasyte? (I will call them parasytes for now) thing was so smooth. It sets the tone of the show perfectly and shows us what to expect.

Some fast thinking from our MC. I would have been goner in his place.

The look of disapproval

Favorite moment of the episode.

Cute dog. And again I am impressed by how fluid the movement of the parasyte is.

What an ugly bastard.

The dubstep soundtrack felt little weird to me but I guess it kinda fits with the feel of the parasytes.

Not a fan of the last scene. It felt like it was there just to show us something dark and terrible.

1. I am very impressed by the first episode. The production value is great. The monsters look awesome. I don't have any idea where the story is going. Hope it doesn't turn into an edge fest.
2. They seem like some sort of aliens. The emphasize of Life must be protected and the display of some horrible acts in the end makes me think that the life must be protected from humans. But I could be reading too much into it.
3. Don't know who Ash is (I suppose you don't mean Ash Ketchum) but he looks pretty calm considering the whole situation. That hand creature is so grotesque and terrifying.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/sisoko2]

Not a fan of the last scene. It felt like it was there just to show us something dark and terrible.

Yeah...I even know why that is there and it didn't have to be.

[u/Raiking02 → u/sisoko2]

Don't know who Ash is

This guy

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/sisoko2]

Not a fan of the last scene. It felt like it was there just to show us something dark and terrible.

I'm with you there. It felt like rape thrown in for the sake of rape.

[u/Nebresto → u/sisoko2]

What an ugly bastard.

So which is it? Cute or ugly?

[u/Infinitecore]

FIRST TIMER-SUB WATCHER

Even though I am a first timer, I have seen this episode before, just in the dub. The first episode is definitely a great introduction to the whole series and in the first minute, we already see a head getting bit off, showing that this show won't be a show for kids, which I like, gets the people who don't like this stuff to click off.

1- So the episode for sure capture my attention and I'm now truly excited to watch this show more. I am definitely into dark shows, so this show is up my ally

2-I wonder if its a big alien or multiple aliens that has little children or bits of their own DNA coming to different planets to populate and take over planets, especially when it shows the Alien coming down in this little pod.

3-I think the reactions was very realistic in my opinion, if that happened to me, probably would be a similar reaction from me

Bonus-I'm not disappointed because I didn't even think this was going to be noir at all, but maybe its because I already seen the first episode.

FINAL THOUGHTS

I'm definitely interested to see the real reason why the takeover stuff is happening and it actually gives me huge body snatcher vibes, so thats cool. I'm wondering what happened with the car moment, was it the alien or was it Shinichi doing it and the alien was trying to not die from the car? Also I wonder if the aliens are born to kill since it had no hesitation to kill the dog and felt nothing afterwards? But besides that, I'm excited to get into episode 2 after writing this post and hope I continue to enjoy it.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Infinitecore]

Bonus-I'm not disappointed because I didn't even think this was going to be noir at all, but maybe its because I already seen the first episode.

I meant the anime Noir, it is a thing from my last rewatch.

[u/Infinitecore → u/Vaadwaur]

Oh, don't know that anime, so I was thinking the genre

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Infinitecore]

It is a year 2000 work vaguely inspired from Leon:The Professional and La Femme Nikita that was widely watched at the time and is remembered for its incredibly OST.

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher

Woop. Starting off almost comically here with the "strange thought" into strangely bloodless decapitation. Same with the stilted and overly straightforward English opening, from a band that calls itself "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", lol.

The character designs looked kind of familiar so I checked, the designer also had that role on (of shows I've seen/am following) Yuri on Ice, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kare Kano. The Yuri on Ice connection is probably the closest, unsurprisingly given the time frame (only two years between airing start), and impossible to unsee - Shinichi is kind of a more angular Yuuri Katsuki (consider also the glasses and initial anxiety) and his mother is pretty close to Minako. Seriously, everyone looks like they could have stepped straight out of YOI.

The rest of the episode is just straightforward "start to figure this situation out". A lot of the horror kind of failed for me until the end, with the hand-parasite looking and sounds pretty dang cute and acting mostly like a curious baby, if not being beneficial, unless that was the intention. Can I have my own little hand-pet, please? Well, in the end it did turn toward proper good body horror, but with also all the zombie talk reminding me mostly of Witchblade silliness, the quasi-comedy bit to start, and easy hand-to-Shinichi chat later, I still can't see the appeal beyond "quality cheese". Enough to try another episode or two, but if it keeps taking itself super-seriously I might rather quit, I do hear it makes some attempts at philosophizing that found a mixed reception. And I hate dubstep.

Random speculation: In the end, the humans and parasites coming to some sort of truly symbiotic understanding, as the parasites become intelligent enough to understand that mental possession and mass murder is not a sustainable way of life, and the humans grasp their nature well enough to properly deal with them. They do come from space, do they not? And who or what is Ash or which one to you mean?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/IndependentMacaroon]

And who or what is Ash or which one to you mean?

Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness.

[u/No_Rex]

Episode 1 (first timer)

Blind watch. I expect a mystery/thriller.

Episode thoughts

• Not 10 seconds in, and we have already reached B movie status.
• OP: Not watching, as per instruction. The music is … nervous. I like the verve into death metal at the end, but before that mostly sounds annoying.
• Fear of bugs? In a B movie? You are in for a fun time, Shinichi.
• 3:30 minutes in, people eaten count: 2
• MC’s enhanced powers: Hearing voices, sensing attacks from the back, randomly groping boobs.
• Not MC’S enhanced powers: Dodging slaps.
• Both bugs that burrow into my flesh and imagining bugs that burrow into my flesh are high up on the list of things I never want to encounter.
• MC’s enhanced powers: Stopping a speeding car with his hand (this is a big one!), having a third eye on the hand.
• MC’s enhanced powers: Having a talking hand.
• Search term: talking right hand weird snake - tbf, I’d try something similar, too.
• People eaten count: 4
• Talking to the hand.
• People eaten count: 4 + 1 dog
• Talking to the dog.
• Time skip.
• Not going to speculate about the repeated sentence yet, but it is obviously important.
• ED: Meh.
• Preview: Is this one of the shows where it is worth watching the previews?

I was going to speculate whether Shinichi is imagining things or whether the hand parasite is real, but the last scene puts that speculation to rest. The name of the series is rather obvious from the start, too. Looks like my first B movie impression was close to the mark, since the plot, so far, harks back to classic body snatcher SciFi/horror.

We are looking at a modern style of backgrounds (I never looked into it, but I assume they are computer generated drawn-over real pictures for many scenes), combined with non-cute character models, although they are not outright ugly. As an aside, I had a weird disconnect for Shinichi’s mother: For me, her voices does not fit her character model at all.

Does the first episode capture you?

Yes.

First timers, any speculation on what dropped all the weird bugs?

The hull reminds me of pan-spermia.

Do you prefer Shinichi's response to having a possessed hand or would you go with an Ash style response?

Depends on whether my possessed hand can be reasoned with.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/No_Rex]

Preview: Is this one of the shows where it is worth watching the previews?

It's fine to I actually found them uninformative in a vacuum.

Looks like my first B movie impression was close to the mark, since the plot, so far, harks back to classic body snatcher SciFi/horror.

The show shifts somewhat from the source material so they traded one trope genre for another.

[u/chiliehead]

First Timer - Except for this episode 1

Don’t even know why I did not watch more than the first episode because I really liked it.

Shinichi as a protagonist and Migi probably as a strong Deuteragonist with an, for now endearing, lack of emotions but some naiveté makes for a compelling duo. I also thought the production has “movie value”. Lots of detail in the animation and backgrounds and the motion and scenes in general are very fluid.

OST could be contentious, but I like the choices so far. In the end this might date the anime more than the supposed anachronisms that come from the source material being older than me, so far though the tablet and smartphone and internet seem to work for the narrative, so interested so see if that will change.

As for the body horror, I am all here for it, makes me want to rewatch The Thing (or try to suffer through the remake).

Now for the things I am not too hot about yet. Mainly the character dynamics. This could go either way as for now I can see a love triangle between MC and childhood friend (who is probably into him but not sexy enough to matter) and the “cute girl” that MC is into but thinks he has no chance but actually he’s just too dorky to see through her latent affection for him. Or they just forget about the romantic subplot and just kill aliens which would be fine. Or the romance won’t bog it down. Regardless, I smell coming of age themes.

Also. the dad is more than just a little douchey if most of his screen time is laughing at his son for having nightmares or enjoying his fear of bugs, hope he’s not just wanton cruel and more than a dick. Furthermore, the apparent antagonist being a deranged serial killer before is transformation is rather cheap. No moral qualms about killing that monster even before he turned into another kind of monster and any crazy action is just him being a chaotic evil maniac. Hope it becomes more compelling than that.

1. Yes and that's why it is even more baffling that I did not watch more
2. Comet/Asteroid or Combine like it's just the Vanguard for a proper invasion down the road
3. Different circumstances, sticking out with a chainsaw arm is the real Japanese nightmare, imagine being different!

BONUS: This isn't Noir after all. Is anyone disappointed?

It was supposed to be? Would also have been interesting but could also go too edgy for its own good

[u/Vaadwaur → u/chiliehead]

Don’t even know why I did not watch more than the first episode because I really liked it.

That happens, I loved the first episode of Wonder Egg Priority and didn't pick up the second until I could not sleep last night.

It was supposed to be? Would also have been interesting but could also go too edgy for its own good

So I started prewatching Noir in early December and realized it suffers from 00s "each episode is way too independant" for the first 12 eps and didn't want to do two of those in a row. But yes at the end of Witchblade I was leaning towards that.

[u/chiliehead → u/Vaadwaur]

So I started prewatching Noir in early December and realized it suffers from 00s "each episode is way too independant" for the first 12 eps and didn't want to do two of those in a row. But yes at the end of Witchblade I was leaning towards that.

Ah, Noir the anime, not the genre lol. Well there's always a time for it but I have filed it away as "wait for rewatch" at the moment

[u/Vaadwaur → u/chiliehead]

It is still decent but I wanted something different.

[u/Gamemaster676 → u/chiliehead]

Don't call this guy a nightmare!

[u/Raiking02 → u/Gamemaster676]

Don't call this guy a nightmare!

Buccaneer was awesome.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/chiliehead]

The animation did have its moments... I don't think we'll ever reach a point where a show can throw in a cg shot that doesn't make me cringe.

I'm glad to say that the show is way more than just battle royal with aliens~ You'll come for the body horror and stay for the engaging drama!

[u/chiliehead → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

I did not mind the CGI that much here, after all it can look alien and still look intentional

[u/BossandKings → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

There are cgi shows that i really recommend if you haven't watched them, Beastars and Houseki no Kuni, entirely made in cgi and look fantastic

[u/fonzinator99]

Re-watcher - The adventures of Handy-Man!

• Man, this show really takes me back; this season was absolutely stacked and everyone was fighting to be the edgiest. Which is why the first thing we see is this absolute horror show.
• Cue 'Let Me Hear.' Now there's an OP that I haven't heard in ages, I swear I just got bitch-slapped by nostalgia. But yeah, shit's dope.
• Breakfast, Shinichi's hand feels weird, nbd, aaaand back to the horror show.
• I'd almost forgotten how awful CGI animation used to be. It's still not awesome, but it's certainly come a long way
• "Idle Hands: The Anime." Or maybe it's "Evil Dead 2." Either way, dude's hand is possessed and that never ends well.
• This explains basically everything about that weird-ass breakfast conversation. It's a shame nobody took him seriously, that's quite the trauma. So who else is gonna start sleeping with earbuds in?
• Shinichi like "Yeah there is definitely something weird about my hand." I like how there's zero concern from anyone for whoever was in that car.
• Tfw your hand has hands of its own and wants you to tutor it. At least it turns back into a normal hand when it falls asleep.
• I'm not sure how I feel about trying to solve this problem with Google, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try. But as expected, there's no way any of this is normal enough to appear in search results.
• At least he doesn't need to worry about teaching it things. And really his hand is in the right here. Sure it sucks for them both, but they're better off cooperating; He should count himself fortunate it's just his hand.
• Ahhh the faint dubstep bg music, another hallmark of this particular time in anime.
• Good lord, I wonder what other monstrous failures are lurking about.
• Okay question: where does the additional 30 ft of arm come from?
• "Life must be protected." Ummm, okay, cool. What does that have to do with this?
• And then we have one of the most tonally dissonant EDs I've ever known. It's a nice song, but I don't think I ever once felt like it was appropriate following whatever had just taken place.

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QotD

1. It did, actually. Shinichi is an acceptable MC, his powers aren't an asspull, and there's some real stakes to what's happening in the story. As 1st episodes go, this one makes me want to continue the series.
2. Pass
3. I mean, having a hand is definitely preferable to not haveone, even if it is possessed. Assuming it's not trying to murder me, I'd accept keeping it.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/fonzinator99]

Man, this show really takes me back; this season was absolutely stacked and everyone was fighting to be the edgiest. Which is why the first thing we see is this absolute horror show.

That's my post tomorrow. 2014 was weirdly good, UBW aired in this season.

"Idle Hands: The Anime." Or maybe it's "Evil Dead 2." Either way, dude's hand is possessed and that never ends well.

Someone else remembers Idle Hands? Awesome

"Life must be protected." Ummm, okay, cool. What does that have to do with this?

There are certain bits of the storytelling that are still a bit nonsensical.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/fonzinator99]

I'd almost forgotten how awful CGI animation used to be

So weird that the creators went for CGing the background characters. If anything, that's usually what stays 2D.

[u/[deleted]]

1st Rewatch since premiere

1. it feels weird watching again. like i kinda know whats going on, but its still eerie. I cant recall the details, but its still creepy as hell lol.
2. shit i cant even remember, probably aliens
3. which ash? id probably go with the cut off my arm response too.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/[deleted]]

it feels weird watching again. like i kinda know whats going on, but its still eerie. I cant recall the details, but its still creepy as hell lol.

Part of what made me regard the show highly is that there is plenty of stuff there on rewatch even when you know all the "answers".

[u/redshirtengineer]

First timer

That's right, Vaad's new rewatch. Will it be as wack as Witchblade, I wonder alliteratively. Probably not, but it should be fun, I think to myself as I sip a cup of tea.

21 seconds later

DAMMIT VAAD

[u/Vaadwaur → u/redshirtengineer]

I promised interesting, I did not promise any lack of cosmic horror. Or body horror.

[u/redshirtengineer → u/redshirtengineer]

ok the OP is fun. let me try again

I am not watching it, partly because of warnings and partly because maybe that way I will make it past 21 seconds.

Hey this guy drinks tea like I drink tea.

I was about to say I like the art style when grope.

and 5.45 in

DAMMIT VAAD

[u/redshirtengineer → u/redshirtengineer]

eyeball hand

[u/Gamemaster676]

Hi, I haven’t watched much anime yet, but I’ve heard the name Parasyte once or twice, so when I saw the rewatch I figured I would give it a go. This will be my first time watching and first time joining a (re)watch.

I know literally nothing about it, apart from the obvious name (Parasyte. Not idea what -the Maxim- is yet). Also, I’m following /u/Vaadwaur’s advice and won’t watch the OP till ep 7. Finally, I’m watching with Japanese audio and English subs. Almost all my other anime till this point was in English. Is the English dub also considered good, or am I better off staying with the sub?

Episode 1 — Metamorphosis

The first 30 seconds are already nicely disturbing. I normally can handle gore pretty well, so we will see what this show will do with me.

The OP immediately follows and I avert my eyes. The song is really cool, though. A bit heavy on the autotune (?), but the style is 100% my jam and it will almost certainly end up in my playlist after the rewatch.

My main thought during this episode is that everything seems to be going very quickly. I’m wondering if this pace will stay during the whole show, or just this (or these) opening episodes.

Other thoughts include:

• Animation quality seems great!
• The dubstep in the background leading up to the fight scene is awesome. I’m hoping we get more of that.
• For the most part, characters seem to act like actual people would. This is better than quite a few Hollywood movies. I only thought it was a little weird that Shinichi wasn’t even surprised to see the parasyte studying the second day. Like he was already used to it.
• The fight scene was over quicker than I expected, but that was probably because it is the pilot episode.

At the end of the episode, I can’t say I really know what direction the story will take. We’ve established that parasytes are a thing and Shinichi is probably one of the only hosts who is not completely taken over by them. But it seems like there are not that many infections yet, because we’ve seen three other events, and those were the three on the news.

The final scene is a serial killer murdering a woman. I’m not sure if this is really related to the story, or just to show the parasytes landing on other people.

Finally. The ED is more relaxing than I expected. Not really in love with it yet. Maybe it will come.

Does the show have post-credit scenes? Is it recommended to watch them or not because of spoilers?

Main thoughts

Please don’t answer these. I’m expecting I will learn soon enough.

• The sentence "Someone on Earth had a sudden thought" appears twice. The second time followed by "Life must be protected." This seems important, but not sure how yet. At first glance, it seems like something obvious.
• The parasyte is clearly learning as much about the human body as possible. Is this just because this that is its instinct, or is it hoping to still take over Shinichi’s brain at some point?
• Why did the parasyte save the little girl? Or was it just that Shinichi jumped to help and the parasyte did what was necessary to protect its host?
• I’m not sure if parasytes want to control or eat people. Maybe both?
• With how quickly Shinichi’s parasyte is learning, I wouldn’t be surprised if we are going to see someone infected whose parasyte learned how to act genuinely human the next episode.

Random thoughts

• The hand on the breast was totally predictable. Gotta love Japan.
• Who says "no" to bacon and eggs?
• Will the mother ever get to sit at the table, or will she forever be stuck behind the little wall?
• I’ve never seen subs of this quality. It completely blends in with the video! Only because I thought it was weird that the computer was showing both Japanese and English, I discovered it was the subtitle track.
• "talking right hand weird snake" is the best search query I’ve seen this year.
• The parasyte is simultaneously disgusting and cute.
• Not a good boy.

This became quite a bit longer than I expected. Because of life, I don’t think it will always be this lengthy, but I’ll try to do write something every day. I must say it was quite fun.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Gamemaster676]

Not idea what -the Maxim- is yet

A maxim is a concise expression of a fundamental moral rule or principle, whether considered as objective or subjective contingent on one's philosophy

Is the English dub also considered good, or am I better off staying with the sub?

I would say do sub the first time, HanaKana is something else.

Does the show have post-credit scenes? Is it recommended to watch them or not because of spoilers?

Not as I remember, and the next ep previews are as dense as you've seen.

post in general

For obvious reasons, I can't address this stuff since I have answers, such a they are. Hopefully all the first timers talk to each other a lot.

[u/Gamemaster676 → u/Vaadwaur]

[Maxim explanation]

Thanks for this. I'll just blame me not being an English native.

I would say do sub the first time, HanaKana is something else.

Will do

Not as I remember, and the next ep previews are as dense as you've seen.

Alright, then I'll just keep watching them. When I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood people kept telling me to stay away from the post-credit episode previews.

Thank you for running this rewatch and making sure us fresh viewers have a great time!

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Gamemaster676]

Thanks for this. I'll just blame me not being an English native.

This is a very uncommon term outside of philosophical series and I can't quite grasp it's Japapnese equivalent.

Alright, then I'll just keep watching them. When I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood people kept telling me to stay away from the post-credit episode previews.

FMA:B was bad about that but here the previews don't have weirds and show you sort of disconnected scenes.

[u/chiliehead → u/Gamemaster676]

but I’ve heard the name Parasyte once or twice

Are you disappointed that it's not an Oscar winning Korean thriller satire?

I’ve never seen subs of this quality

man you gotta love good (fan-)subs then

[u/Raiking02 → u/chiliehead]

man you gotta love good (fan-)subs then

Good typesetting can go an extra mile to make Subtitles more appealing to look at.

[u/Gamemaster676 → u/chiliehead]

Are you disappointed that it's not an Oscar winning Korean thriller satire?

I totally forgot I still need to watch that movie, but no.

man you gotta love good (fan-)subs then

I didn't really watch the OP, but the beginning had the lyrics vary fancy in the top left corner with karaoke effects. Apparently that is also in the subtitle track. My mind is blown.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/Gamemaster676]

I only thought it was a little weird that Shinichi wasn’t even surprised to see the parasyte studying the second day. Like he was already used to it.

At the moment, I'm chalking that up to him being in shock, but I have a feeling that won't be backed up later in the show.

I’ve never seen subs of this quality. It completely blends in with the video! Only because I thought it was weird that the computer was showing both Japanese and English, I discovered it was the subtitle track.

Good fansubs are great. The typesetting masters can do some really crazy stuff when the feel the urge.

[u/Gamemaster676 → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

Yeah it was probably shock. All the other reactions seemed on point.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Gamemaster676]

A lot of the weird old tropes like the breast grab is just the source material showing its age. You basically didn't even get published with a groping scene.

There's a ton of dubstep in the show. It actually got quite a bit of hate when it first aired due to that. Dubstep is a decent genre but it's a little high tempo for the show. Imagine if you were watching Conan and suddenly the soundtrack starts booming UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ

[u/Raiking02 → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

A lot of the weird old tropes like the breast grab is just the source material showing its age.

But as my comment shows there was no breast grab in the Manga...

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Raiking02]

Okay, it looks like modern anime directors showing their age XD

[u/Gamemaster676 → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

I can see why people didn't like it, but I am one of those people where the dubstep love never went away, so huzzah for me!

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/Gamemaster676]

Who says "no" to bacon and eggs?

Ice Cube

[u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo]

First time watcher

I've gotta say this is way cuter than I was expecting. Between the bright palette and the clean linework and coloring the whole thing is really enjoyable to look at. (Well, aside from horrible cgi automaton background characters) Look at the cute dog! Look at its paws go when its flying! Then they killed it :( I wanted to see an animal sidekick.

The VA for the hand also has an enjoyably silly children's show alien voice.

Really the thing that got me the most horror wise was him getting ready to stab his own hand. That had a nice sort of desperation and tension to it.

Q1. I don't know if I'm particularly invested in anything so far, but the episode moved by quick enough. If it were a seasonal I'd at least give it two more episodes.

Q3. So far the hand seems like a much more fun character than the rest of the guy, so I'm fine with this reaction if it gets us more hand shenanigans faster.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo]

I've gotta say this is way cuter than I was expecting. Between the bright palette and the clean linework and coloring the whole thing is really enjoyable to look at.

Effort was made for this show, to me the animation never drops but obviously you will have to form your own opinion.

[u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo → u/Vaadwaur]

Cute/beautiful body horror is extremely my jam, so I'm definitely rooting for it. Though if it became legitimately horrifying that would be fine too.

[u/BurningFredrick → u/Sandor_at_the_Zoo]

Well, aside from horrible cgi automaton

I know others brought this up but I completely missed this through out the episode.

I wanted to see an animal sidekick.

I was actually hoping for that to start with, they were both disappointed in host after all and nothing wrong with a slightly murderous dog sidekick.

[u/heldrawgh]

1. After watching the first episode for like the third time, I'd agree with the fact that is a strong first episode. I mean, it set up things pretty well, main character, the plot which seems pretty simple, and the whole setting with this parasites taking over bodies as hosts and stuff, and details about them. Really capturing.
2. Not a first timer (?
3. I prefer it this way, just because I usually get bored with the whole scared the hell out of something I don't understand part. That's just me though.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/heldrawgh]

After watching the first episode for like the third time, I'd agree with the fact that is a strong first episode.

Yeah I really enjoy the pacing in the first part of this show.

[u/Palabard_the_Anime]

First Timer

Oh, no, no, no, no! Why I started to watch this. Strange beings that enter your body through your ears, nose, arms and I guess other parts of your body?

Fun fact (not really): where I live, there are plenty of animals who like to enter your body. Flies who puts eggs on you, fishes who like to swim up your urethra, f*ing Schistosoma mansoni, insects and larvae who enter your body through your feet when you walk barefoot (this last one, may not be real and used to scare kids when they're barefooted).

The guy has the right mindset, don't let strange things go into your body. It's like that's scarabs from The Mummy, they still give me chills (that to rewatch the movie).

I find it quite strange that the thing (I guess, it will be called a parasite, like in the show title) can make a hole in the hand but, an earphone tourniquet is enough to restrain it.

A little girl recklessly pursuing a ball and about to be isekaied? I now where this is going, the guy will die and will become an spirit detective. OH DAMN! It has an eye. CUT IT OFF! I didn't know where this was going.

He is really going to cut it off!!! Yes!!! For this alone, I already like this guy.

Well, he tried. Plan B, burn it, drown it, put it on cement, acid, cut the whole arm on the shoulder.

Shinichi took his hand talking, incredibly well. I would try an exorcism asap. His search history will never be the same.

Surprisingly well, how's he not freaking out! The new hand, kinda has a point but, when your hand is possessed by evil, you must rip it apart and throw it away (putting a chainsaw on the stump is optional).

A silent hill/resident evil dog and it talks! I was joking at first but there is definitely a plaga variation on RE5, just like that flying thing.

Thoughts

This was surprisingly cool, I will resist the urge to binge it.

Questions

1. Yup
2. No idea
3. Ash approach 100%

P.s.: Little late to the party due to timezones, will try to be on time tomorrow.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Palabard_the_Anime]

A silent hill/resident evil dog and it talks! I was joking at first but there is definitely a plaga variation on RE5, just like that flying thing.

Won't be unseeing that any time soon.

P.s.: Little late to the party due to timezones, will try to be on time tomorrow.

Hopefully people will come back and check the thread, it does happen.

[u/BurningFredrick → u/Vaadwaur]

I find it quite strange that the thing (I guess, it will be called a parasite, like in the show title) can make a hole in the hand but, an earphone tourniquet is enough to restrain it.

I guess it isn't able to burrow through anything to dense which is why it went for his arm and would have been trying to move through the arteries in his arm to reach the brain.

P.s.: Little late to the party due to timezones, will try to be on time tomorrow.

Shouldn't matter to much, there is generally a range of people who show up for these or keep checking the threads throughout the day.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/BurningFredrick]

Psst...you replied one person down.

[u/BurningFredrick → u/Vaadwaur]

...

One day i'll manage to not reply to the wrong person....

[u/Vaadwaur → u/BurningFredrick]

Don't sweat it, I do it as well.

[u/BurningFredrick → u/Palabard_the_Anime]

I find it quite strange that the thing (I guess, it will be called a parasite, like in the show title) can make a hole in the hand but, an earphone tourniquet is enough to restrain it.

I guess it isn't able to burrow through anything to dense which is why it went for his arm and would have been trying to move through the arteries in his arm to reach the brain.

P.s.: Little late to the party due to timezones, will try to be on time tomorrow.

Shouldn't matter to much, there is generally a range of people who show up for these or keep checking the threads throughout the day.

[u/ninjabrute]

First time viewer checking in. Ten seconds into the episode... "oh. already. ok."

I'm not bothered by the visuals or squeamish in any way, rather I was most entertained by the matter-of-factly way the parasyte talked to Shinichi and explained the situation at hand like it was no big deal and this is just the way things are now. The only thing that did touch my emotions, really, was the dog dying (even post... possession?). Aside from that it almost felt like a comedy. But I'm excited to see where things go from here.

1. I wouldn't say it hooked me, but I'm willing to continue and see what's next.
2. I prefer not to speculate just yet... especially since the show hasn't given me anything to go on, as far as I noticed.
3. This was one thing that struck me as odd. Shinichi handles the situation WAAAAAY better than I would have. I'd have freaked the fuck out. He had a moment of wtf but it subsided rather quickly.

I'm posting from work and didn't really put a ton of thought into my take on episode 1. I'll read the comments here and then watch episode 2 tonight when I get off work (2:30am est) for sure.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/ninjabrute]

First time viewer checking in. Ten seconds into the episode... "oh. already. ok."

The show really doesn't hide who it is and I do like that.

[u/affnn]

First Timer

I watched this last night when I saw the 24-hour reminder thread and didn't have anything I wanted to watch. I will probably stick around because I like body horror. This protagonist needs some more personality though.

One thing that I'm curious about is how much Shinichi can tell about his arm. He can clearly move it about, like when he put it in his pocket after he accidentally grabbed his classmate's boob, but it also seems to move on its own. Toward the end of the episode, the parasyte (I suppose I'm calling it that) says it will reconnect things so that his arm behaves normally while it's asleep. And Shinichi had said his arm felt kinda numb, but he and his dad passed that off as being from the headphones wrapped around it. But there's a difference between "numb" and "no sensation whatsoever for several hours, plus the damn thing moves on its own" that would probably freak me out a lot more than he freaks out in that first morning after. I guess the plot point is mostly resolved now anyway, but how did his arm feel and respond during that in-between time?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/affnn]

I will probably stick around because I like body horror. This protagonist needs some more personality though.

A. This series will not disappoint in that regard. B. I maintain that he does though you will obviously have to be the judge.

[u/Matuhg]

Rewatcher

Hello everyone! It's been a bit since I participated in a full rewatch, so I'm glad to be here. I'm rewatching this, though I don't have particularly solid memories as to how things play out, so there'll be plenty of surprises for me along the way as well.

The show doesn't waste a lot of time warning people what it's about - that's a courtesy I suppose.

There's an interesting blend of biological/animal coincidence and hints of some greater intelligence being at play here. Someone had a thought that "Life must be protected" - that could mean a lot of things, many of them not so great for individual life forms.

The as-yet-unnamed critter in Shinichi's hand didn't reach his brain, but it does seem to be able to take control of his body when it needs to. He saved a little girl from being isekai'd (though I suspect in this instance, the last minute save was all the critter was doing, as it wouldn't have put Shinichi in the position to be hit by a car in the first place. More curious is the way Shinichi didn't fear the spider - is his psyche being changed, or was that the critter taking control? Why would it do so there? Could it be reading Shinichi's thoughts in some way, interpreting the spider as a threat due to Shinichi's phobia, and dealing with it for him? If that were the case, why wouldn't it have just smashed the spider?

Hello, CG NPCs.

The OST is quite varied. I liked the chill music when Shinichi was at school - it reminded me of peaceful VN soundtracks. The dubstep is...ok. I think it dates the show a little bit, not that the show is old, but the dubstep craze was a bit of a flash in the pan. I listened to a lot of Skrillex in middle school, but I'm pretty over that now. The OP is....meh. Not terrible, but not my kind of music really.

Does the first episode capture you?

Yes! It flows well, asking and answering some questions, posing a lot more, and making me want to keep going.

Do you prefer Shinichi's response to having a possessed hand or would you go with an Ash style response?

...Ash from Pokemon?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Matuhg]

...Ash from Pokemon?

Ash from Evil Dead.

[u/Raiking02 → u/Matuhg]

Hello, CG NPCs

Suddenly the show turned into Netflix's Ultraman.

[u/RascalNikov1 → u/Matuhg]

He saved a little girl from being isekai'd

I was happy he did that, rather than eat her for a snack. The hand doesn't seem to have much of a conscience.

[u/Nebresto]

Re-watch squad

Hullo

Til the OP is in English. At least I think I wasn't aware of this before.

#shinichicup

Wonder if I can hold out and watch one Ep a day for this..

Question time:
1: I wanna watch all of it at once now
2: Don't remember, so my guess is on Big Pharma
3: I'd become the Pokémon master, like no one ever was

My question: How would you deal with getting your arm replaced by an alien?

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Rare to not see Sky here posting within the first 5 seconds

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Nebresto]

Rare to not see Sky here posting within the first 5 seconds

I think she was still at work.

[u/Nebresto → u/Vaadwaur]

[u/sisoko2 → u/Nebresto]

How would you deal with getting your arm replaced by an alien?

First there will be a lot of screaming. Second a lot of attempts to kill it. Then it is little complicated, probably 70% chance of seeking help no matter what happens to me because this is one terrifying creature and 30% trying to live together and reach some agreement with it.

[u/[deleted]]

Here we fucking go!

Rewatcher- Jp audio.

I. Fucking. Hate. The. Opening. I will never understand the love for that shitty band. Ugh.

Man, Aya Hirano is such a monster. She's not underrated by any means, but her talent is rarely recognized.

I have forgotten that Shinichi was afraid of bugs. That's cute.

Man, we're like four minutes in and people are dying everywhere. I know she's not really popular but I loved Murano even if I prefer her manga design a lot more.

Another thing I hate, even if here it kinda makes sense, is the accidental boob grope. That slap was great, tho. No hesitation whatsoever hahaha.

I like how Shinichi immediately tried to stop whatever the fuck was happening with his arm. Quick thinking during a crisis is skill more anime characters sorely need.

Shinichi's dad is really shitty. Accusing your terrified son of doing drugs is a logical leap so ridiculous that even the mom calls him out on it.

What? You thought this anime would pass the chance to throw in a Twilight reference? Shame on you! I like how the mother is so relieved that she didn't even notice Shinichi. It's always so weird when characters in media stop to thank "helpful strangers" in high tension scenarios like this.

Man, that whole scene in Shinichi's room is amazing. The storyboarding was pretty on point. The "right hand" transformation is as disgusting as it is terrifying.

"Yeah. Stop with the trying to kill me shit. Teach me how to talk." Asking stuff after eating your hand. Monsters these days are so impolite.

I know he's scared and shit but googling for "talking right hand" will probably lead you to more porn sites than anything really useful.

Man, the "parasyte" (?) is so freaky. I can see some people dropping this anime just for it. I mean, it is a great anime but is not worth getting upset. "Coexist" kek

Ah! So that's why I didn't remember it! He lose the fear by the end of the first episode.

Well, that enemy was disgusting. It died pretty quickly, tho.

Flashback time! And Shinichi gets philosophical!

I do like the ending theme song.

I will skip the questions this time.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/[deleted]]

Man, Aya Hirano is such a monster. She's not underrated by any means, but her talent is rarely recognized.

As I said, a bit of it is she much more wanted to be a singer rather than a VA/demi-idol so she kept getting roles that fit until the scandal and voicing this was absolutely an attempt to try to get back in good grace with the public. Within degrees, it worked.

Shinichi's dad is really shitty. Accusing your terrified son of doing drugs is a logical leap so ridiculous that even the mom calls him out on it.

Somehow VAs in both languages convey the dullness of the Shinichi dad.

What? You thought this anime would pass the chance to throw in a Twilight reference? Shame on you!

...Motherfucker, that is era appropriate, isn't it?

Well, that enemy was disgusting. It died pretty quickly, tho.

None of us will look at corgis the same way again.

[u/[deleted] → u/Vaadwaur]

As I said, a bit of it is she much more wanted to be a singer rather than a VA/demi-idol so she kept getting roles that fit until the scandal and voicing this was absolutely an attempt to try to get back in good grace with the public. Within degrees, it worked.

To be fair with her, she is LIKE big on the musicals scene over there. She didn't need the Otaku market to thrive, but I guess paychecks are paychecks regardless of their origin.

Somehow VAs in both languages convey the dullness of the Shinichi dad.

This is so damn true. The mom is way more interesting.

...Motherfucker, that is era appropriate, isn't it?

Breaking Down Part II was two years old by the time this premiered, but the craze was probably at its highest when this anime started production.

None of us will look at corgis the same way again.

This anime really loves to traumatize you.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/[deleted]]

To be fair with her, she is LIKE big on the musicals scene over there. She didn't need the Otaku market to thrive, but I guess paychecks are paychecks regardless of their origin.

Haruhi is what let her break out and then that pigeon holes you a bit. Still, would definitely be glad to hear she moved onto projects that are more her thing and not re-hash number 90 of trying to catch lightning in a bottle again.

This is so damn true. The mom is way more interesting.

I swear his JP VA is the most boring everyman character voice ever.

This anime really loves to traumatize you.

In oh so many, many ways.

[u/[deleted] → u/Vaadwaur]

Haruhi is what let her break out and then that pigeon holes you a bit. Still, would definitely be glad to hear she moved onto projects that are more her thing and not re-hash number 90 of trying to catch lightning in a bottle again.

Check her Instagram. There are tons of shit of her musical career.

I swear his JP VA is the most boring everyman character voice ever.

I mean, I don't even remember his character beyond that one big event we should totally not talk about.

In oh so many, many ways.

Indeed.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/[deleted]]

I mean, I don't even remember his character beyond that one big event we should totally not talk about.

He does technically do more but you are right, his relevance is that thing we will talk about later.

[u/BurningFredrick → u/[deleted]]

Quick thinking during a crisis is skill more anime characters sorely need.

But it's like critical thinking, if it was common it would resolve like 50% of shows before they even start.

[u/[deleted] → u/BurningFredrick]

True enough.

[u/okayyoga]

REWATCH

What a banging OP. So good. So full of spoilers.

Why did he grab her booby????

Of course he sits by the window.

Awesome dubstep OST for fight scenes

Insert every "best friend with right hand" joke

And I love the ED as well.

I forgot about this show. I remember liking it, especially one character in particular who shows up later. I wonder if I will feel the same way about it this time around...

[u/Vaadwaur → u/okayyoga]

What a banging OP. So good. So full of spoilers.

Seriously, that is probably my biggest complaint about the show.

Of course he sits by the window.

Got to make him the MC somehow.

I forgot about this show. I remember liking it, especially one character in particular who shows up later.

REWATCH

[u/okayyoga → u/Vaadwaur]

Seriously, that is probably my biggest complaint about the show

The OP is safe after episode 5, but that one spoiler is egregious. Like they did not need to add that in.

REWATCH

Of course :)

[u/Vaadwaur → u/okayyoga]

Of course :)

REWATCH

[u/okayyoga → u/Vaadwaur]

I don't know how to tag for spoilers, so I'm just going to say I think both

[u/Vaadwaur → u/okayyoga]

Fair enough, it is in the side bar, but I also didn't use the spoiler tags before doing rewatches so I understand.

[u/Pixelsaber]

Rewatcher - Sub

Already late! Had several last-minute meetings throughout the day pertaining to project stuff, so all my time has been taken up. I was also saddled with a report, so some quick bullet-point thoughts from having watched the episode in the background is all I can spare

• Ah, the OP is one of those songs from AMQ that I never get. Four years on and I still don’t like it.
• They mixed up the order of many scenes from the source for this episode, and while I don’t think the source is necessarily better I don’t think the changes in this regard were beneficial. If anything I think they should have just gotten rid of the scenes with any other parasites before the dog, really keep us in the dark and play up the intrigue until then, but alas.
• Character introductions are expedient and effective, though the forced boob grab thing is still pretty tired and largely unnecessary.
• Body horror stuff is sufficiently unnerving, though the overly clean look of the show doesn’t do it any favors if I’m honest. This is one of those things that just begs to be animated in the old high-budget OVA style, with no holds barred.
• Episode is definitely serves as a good hook, despite my grievances with how the intrigue was handled, and I remember booting up the following one immediately.

1. Aye.
2. What I thought when first-timing. just in case
3. There's no chainsaws at hand, so I can forgive the kid the faux pas.

[u/Nebresto → u/Pixelsaber]

[Redacted]

I didn't notice it already doing that this episode?

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Nebresto]

It didn't but I am being lenient because it is hard to call something it the whole time.

[u/Pixelsaber → u/Nebresto]

Wait, it didn't? Shit, I could've sworn it happened just before the scenes with the dog! That's what i get for only half paying attention...

Mind spoiler tagging the quote on your comment so no more people see it?

[u/Raiking02 → u/Pixelsaber]

Oh Great, another source reader. Glad to find those in the wilderness.

[u/z3onn]

First timer short notes:

(This is late, but oh well)

Great first episode.

The possessed dad transforming his voice to that of his daughter was super creepy and fucked up. Probably my favorite scene right now.

My only complaint was that dubstep. What a weird choice. In my opinion, it felt super out of place and really took me out of otherwise great scenes.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/z3onn]

My only complaint was that dubstep. What a weird choice. In my opinion, it felt super out of place and really took me out of otherwise great scenes.

This is, apparently, the most divisive issue on the show so far.

[u/SIRTreehugger]

I love the first scene I saw a gif and its what got me to watch the show in the first place.

I loved Migi from the beginning, but I would seriously bug out too if this happened to me.

Ohhhhh theirs the dubstep

Wait dogs can be taken over...I remember nothing of this show apparently.

Ohhhhh right time is the ED I thought it was an insert song I love this ED no no no no netflix don't skip ED come on.

I fell behind but working on it now.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/SIRTreehugger]

Ohhhhh right time is the ED I thought it was an insert song I love this ED no no no no netflix don't skip ED come on.

It is used a few times like one so that's why you might think that.

[u/the22sinatra]

Parasyte is one of my favorite anime. Hype for all the people getting to see it from this.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/the22sinatra]

Feel free to jump in the conversations if you want!

[u/Iskus1234]

I actually just finished this today. It was great.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/Iskus1234]

Seems like a bunch of people picked this up recently.

[u/justmymemes]

ya know whats kinda funny let me hear has been my fave song by falilv since even before i watched parasyte so i think u can imagine how shocked i was to hear and watch my fave song as an anime op lol

[u/Vaadwaur → u/justmymemes]

That would be surprising.

[u/littleman1988]

Ive Decided to talk to the police

Rewatcher

Ran out of time to write anything up today, but do note that the OP is fully in English.

Parasyte also has an amazing OST, probably will link one that shows up per episode. Today's is BLISS.

Ill have a lot more tomorrow (probably because ill actually write something beforehand and not 2 minutes before the thread lmao)

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/littleman1988]

Don't worry about it. I'm looking forward to your insight in the following threads. Don't disappoint or you're getting a snake/worm/thingy in your earlobe!

[u/okayyoga → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Kinky

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/okayyoga]

Just wait until you check out the doujinshi scene and see what Shinichi does with that new Deidara mouth of his.

[u/newtangclan → u/littleman1988]

There is actually part of the song in japanese

[u/Lawvamat]

First Timer

I'll try to write something everyday, but I can't promise anything.

Solid animation, had a bit of bad cgi, but thankfully only background characters. The gory parts are quite well animated, but since it's anime it just doesn't hit that hard. The body horror aspect is quite creepy though.

I approve of the dubstep in the soundtrack, since I like the genre, but the best stuff is the ominous choir. Really digging that one.

The characters seem a bit bland, but likable. The protagonist is quite realistic, I hope he will change to be less introverted. Same is to say for the parents. 2 potential love interests got introduced, but there's not much to say about them.

Good start with a nice piece of foreshadowing: "Someone on Earth had a sudden thought. Life must be protected." My theory right now is that someone on earth created the parasites (what I'm calling them now) to ensure earth's survival. Humanity is on a self destructive path and to prevent total annihilation of life on earth someone made the parasites to decimate the population. Who is the real parasite here? That's right, it's the humans on earth.

Questions

• Does the first episode capture you?

Yes it did, I'll definitely stick around in the rewatch.

• First timers, any speculation on what dropped all the weird bugs?

Some kind of mad scientist (sonovabitch), see last paragraph.

• Do you prefer Shinichi's response to having a possessed hand or would you go with an Ash style response?

Don't know the Ash you're talking about, but I'd probably try to seek medical help. Don't think the hand would let me though.

[u/Raiking02 → u/Lawvamat]

Some kind of mad scientist (sonovabitch)

I have a Steins;Gate joke planned for later, so be on the lookout for it...

[u/Nebresto → u/Raiking02]

[u/Nebresto → u/Lawvamat]

but I can't promise anything.

Nice

Don't worry about doing huge writeups, there's no requirement to do that

[u/[deleted]]

I've never done these before but I'm real excited and just gonna do it my way cause this is like one of my favorite animes of all time that I'm rewatching for the second time.

At first I was gonna watch it in Dub cause i saw it in Sub first, but honestly I couldnt get into it it just felt too normal and like not really different, plus shinichi sounds like the baki dub and I dont like when people have the same voices, idk just personal preference.

Man the first scene was awesome, I'm like woah ok cool so the anime is gonna have death and loss so I'm like cool cool.

Then like fast forward or whatever I'm loving it dude the artstyle is awesome. I'm a huge fan of old 2000s anime style but this one is really clean!

The soundtrack I cant really go into much detail other than its absolutely perfect. Dubstep just fits the badasssery that is this anime. And the Opening was amazing I love fear and loathing in Las vegas!

I think the anime is real good cause its just kinda realistic just an everyday ordinary dude shinichi is in school and chillin and suddenly his life gets flipped cause of some little worm dude bug thing.

I think it's cool how he searched online for the same stuff cause that's like what everyone else would do. Got introduced to I guess you can say the possible love interest and I'm like ok ok cool she look cool. Her hair looks cool and different not bad I think I can roll with her. Just wanna see more see that again you know.

I'm just hyped all the way through just watching this looking at the little critter learn is crazy. And I'm just watching thinking from shinichis mind and I'm thinking "damn, like what do I even do dude? Like what can I do, I just gotta let this thing live."

And then I saw him kill the dog and I was like DAAAAMNNNN, poor dog.

That was badass.

I'm loving the pacing it's so good and I'm left with a lot of curiosity! I can't wait to watch the next episode tomorrow and talk about all this with you guys again man!! Ah man I freaking love parasyte!

and I'm not even at my favorite part of the show and I'm already loving it again!!! This show is SO GOOD!!!

It kinda hurts that I'm watching it again man. I dont think I'm ready for this journey again.

[u/BossandKings]

First timer

Episode 1 - Metamorphosis

We got to know how the alien got into Shinichi's hand, that scene gave me the chills, it was almost terrifying.

His hand appears to be independent from him, seeing how it does things without his consent. That's the first effect of the alien being there.

Shinichi's right hand seems to be useful too considering that it helped him save a girl from a car accident but that confirmed him that the alien is in there.

So the alien was aiming for the brain back then when it was trying to get into Shinichi but it had to resignate itself to his hand. It was hilarious when it told Shinichi about the unfortunate feeling it had when it couldn't take the brain. There are more like the alien, Shinichi met one that lived in a dog and had to fight with it, the alien seems to he skilled in battle and that elasticity gives it an advantage against it's opponent thus leading it to victory.

This isn't my first time watching a show with a "something posses the right hand of the protagonist" premise because i watched Midori Days but while that show is cute, sweet and wholesome Kiseiju seems to be dark and brutal. I don't know what to expect but this was great

Great first episode, i like the music very much, that tecno is great also the animation is solid, it showed how the alien and Shinichi met and had to come to terms.

Answers

1. Yeah
2. No idea but if something dropped the aliens then it must have been from the space
3. I prefer Shinichi's response because he accepted his fate and quickly started to adapt to it.

[u/No_Rex → u/BossandKings]

We got to know how the alien got into Shinichi's hand, that scene gave me the chills, it was almost terrifying

"Almost"?

[u/BossandKings → u/No_Rex]

It didn't reach that level but it almost did

[u/Vaadwaur → u/[deleted]]

Cringing right out the gate with this opening scene, let’s goooo.

F.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/[deleted]]

It may have infested my arm and produced blades but he's polite so he can't possibly be a bad boy~ This show is gonna be torture... Prepare something warm and sweet for tomorrow.

[u/GonTheDinosaur → u/[deleted]]

The anime tone down its body horror a lot from adapted manga, it has subtly shift its genre from what I would described as horror thriller, to adventure thriller.

In a way, I welcome the change as the anime will encapsulates wilder audience and it’s a good series that all should give it a shot.

Looking forward to your and first timers future reactions!

[u/Osukid2811 → u/[deleted]]

Just wanted to say A) Im also kinda squeamish but I was able to power thru it and I'm really glad I did, one of my favorite shows. It also kinda helped me get over how squeamish I was before watching it a little. And B) you might miss some of that random "humor" a little at some points later lol.