Parasyte -the maxim-

Noooooooo!

Well, someone redid the OP with the manga designs... So comparison screens!

edited 19th Dec '14 4:57:58 AM by MyssaRei

Looked like a hybrid between JOJO, HNK and Berserk. Mostly HNK in spirit, though; the only Jojo that's a Knight In Shining Armour is Jonathan. He's also may favourite.

Now waiting for episode 11 of Parasyte.

Episode 12 is out.

I get the impression that they upped the romance factor in this whole mini-arc. It feels slightly overdone, I think. Lately, killing female side-characters to give male protagonists angst or motivation has felt kinda antiquated, and Parasyte kinda falls guilty of this, even if it was well-executed.

I'm sorry, Wossname, but First Girl Wins. Resign yourself!

SHINICHI, YOU IDIOT! When Migi said he'd reveal himself to her, he meant he'd slash her up. How dumb are you?

Shinichi, you're not calm, you're bloody furious and utterly miserable. You're about as cold as molen iron and as calm as a Maelstrom.

You're saying "Hello" to sadness at this point?

edited 24th Dec '14 2:19:17 PM by TheHandle

Poor Kanna. Should have listened instead of creeping so much.

If you've got a nice sense
for a beautiful babe
do the creep! (HAAA!)
Yeah do the creep! (HAAAR!)

edited 24th Dec '14 3:27:21 PM by TheHandle

Boy I'm glad this anime reminded me of why I was frustrated by this manga years ago.

guess the character on today's episode of Jeopardy

edited 25th Dec '14 5:58:13 AM by lazybanshee

Keep in mind though, the Parasyte manga is from 1988, and the trope might not have been as prevalent back then. And since the anime can't really stray away from something this major, execution is the only area they can work with.

Dunno about it not being that prevalent. That trope's namer happened in 1973, and I can name several examples from around the same time. I won't argue that the anime was limited by the source material, but if there's a single thing I disliked from Parasyte proper, it would be this aspect in particular.

It's anime (manga). It's all about using the same tired cliches 10,000 times and still being really good.

Sounds like Hollywood, and the New York Times, and... pretty much all of fiction.

I would argue cultural differences also affects prevalence, but if you have a lot of examples from Manga as well, then I have nothing. It's just that, considering there are writers today who can't write women properly *cough* Kishimoto *cough* I would have expected older writers wouldn't have even bothered with the effort of writing a recurring female character.

I'm not saying that a dead woman necessarily indicates that she was killed to motivate the protagonist or whatever - but it peeves me. You rarely see the same happen with men. There's exceptions everywhere, of course - when a show kills off a large number of characters regardless of gender, or when the death was more incidental. But I find it too common nowadays, and it was already pretty common back in the day, too.

In Devilman, there's Miki, who is brutally killed along her family by an angry mob. Devilman arrives too late to save her and is treated to a horrifying view of her head impaled upon a spike. Before her, there's Sachiko, a little girl who is eaten by a demon and then subjected to a Fate Worse than Death until Devilman kills him. In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, lots of people die, but Lalah Sune's death ends up furthering Amuro's and Char's hatred and rivalry between each other through the sequel and a movie. There's many others, but those are the most notable ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Parasyte's still Top 20 material overall, and my opinion of that is not going to change even if I had stronger thoughts on this general subject - but it bothers me a bit.

edited 26th Dec '14 7:32:26 AM by Crinias

At least glasses girl knew what she was getting into and came prepared with a plan when she confronted that parasite. In this episode, Kana was just asking for it.

The OST and the full version of the OP came out recently. OST is awesome; full OP is...extreme. I knew the band was hardcore, but I wasn't expecting that.

Oof. This week was a misfire. Painfully 80s.

I liked this week, I wanted her to survive, but eh, dramatic deaths.

Episode 13: I wonder how exactly Tamura "trained" her baby to become so obedient. This was my favorite scene of the episode.

Shinichi should just tell anyone (re: Murano) who doubts his new-found personality, "I've been messed up ever since my mom died". It's technically true, and "Oh, it's nothing" is getting really old really fast.

She's starting to realise that it's not just a personal tragedy. I'm not sure that would fly any more.

For one thing, your mum dying doesn't allow you to jump out of a third-storey window and then just walk it off. Unless you're Batman.

Yeah but I'm really tired of other people harping on Shinichi that he's not taking the situation hard enough. People grieve/deal with stress differently and I'm seeing nothing unnatural about his way of coping. What ups the annoyance is that it's not just that the other people are projecting on him how they think he should behave/feel, it feels like the work as a whole agrees with them.

Yeah. I would agree with that. I mean, his mom died, by all appearances he's dealing with it well.....and people are upset about this? No pleasing some people I guess. I suppose it makes a little sense with Murano, since she could see the change, but still.

and I don't think the message is so much "people should grieve more" as much as it is "Shinichi should grieve more." He used to be a wimpy, emotional kid, and he said it himself this episode that he used to obsess about minor things. For the people who've been around him through his school years, his coldness seems out of character. I don't think the work or the characters are claiming stoicism is bad. If I recall correctly the government officials from the last episode weren't particularly suspicious of how detached he was, and neither was the detective guy this episode.

This.

And Shinichi should have said to Murano something along the lines of "I wish I could tell you, but it's a secret that effects others besides myself." Or the old "if I told you, I'd literally have to kill you."

That's a good line. Comes off as altruistic, loyal, and responsible.