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#26: Oct 15th 2014 at 8:32:15 PM

PENIS HAND

THERE IS A GOD

Also, Migi confirms what I've been thinking since ep.1 and acknowledges the perverted potential of a mutant hand.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#27: Oct 15th 2014 at 8:35:03 PM

Certainly, the shoubu guy is an asshole. If you challenge someone to a fight, they have to accept your challenge before you start hitting them, you jackass!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Marionnn Since: Jul, 2012
#28: Oct 15th 2014 at 8:44:29 PM

Penis hand is hands down the best part of the episode, just because I never expected it to actually appear.

That scene with the cat was great too. I'm a bit worried for Shinichi's psychological state, but it was cool.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#29: Oct 15th 2014 at 10:09:39 PM

He's just going through the usual Ordinary High-School Student's process of Growing A Spine, which makes him all cool and attractive etc.

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LDragon2 Since: Dec, 2011
#30: Oct 15th 2014 at 10:10:08 PM

Seriously, I really like this show so far. And the fact that they didn't censor the penis hand (so tempted to make a Zardoz reference XD) only adds to my enjoyment.

Also, for some reason, I find Migi to be really adorable. Maybe it's due to his voice.

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#31: Oct 16th 2014 at 8:28:37 AM

Episode 2: Final thoughts. OH SHIT, THEY'RE GOING TO MATE WITH HUMAN BODIES!

Ruise Nyanpasu~ from your subconscious Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#32: Oct 16th 2014 at 3:37:16 PM

[up][up]Migi is adorable...and possibly a defrosting ice queen-type tsundere?

[up]Yeah....well, that does explain a few things about their biology, at least.

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kiukiuclk from 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693 Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: My TiMER is ticking
#33: Oct 16th 2014 at 8:47:18 PM

[up] Well, Ep 2 did have Migi taking an interesting in things other than his own survival. Which seems to be kinda new for him.

Malchus Since: Jan, 2001
#34: Oct 16th 2014 at 11:31:14 PM

And the fact that they didn't censor the penis hand

They did kinda blur it, though. But, yeah, not quite enough to be anywhere near a censor.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#35: Oct 16th 2014 at 11:41:40 PM

When did that happen? There was a bit with Migi trying to fap the poor boy on its own, and him washing his Johnson, but I don't remember Migi herself turning into a dick.

"Is that your attempt at sounding disdainful?" -> "Look at all the fucks I give."

edited 16th Oct '14 11:42:38 PM by TheHandle

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Malchus Since: Jan, 2001
#36: Oct 17th 2014 at 12:18:06 AM

Relevant link.

EDIT: I'll just provide the link to the randomc review. It's among the screenshots.

edited 17th Oct '14 12:43:40 AM by Malchus

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#37: Oct 17th 2014 at 12:28:46 AM

[up]"NO HOTLINKING!"

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Malchus Since: Jan, 2001
#38: Oct 17th 2014 at 12:43:57 AM

Edited.

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Ruise Nyanpasu~ from your subconscious Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#39: Oct 17th 2014 at 1:15:43 PM

It happened really fast.

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fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#40: Oct 18th 2014 at 9:54:30 AM

Okay, did not see penis hand before. That is hilarious.

Ruise Nyanpasu~ from your subconscious Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#41: Oct 22nd 2014 at 3:21:08 PM

Episode 3

- She is very gifted though.

- He's not being irrational, he's been attacked twice by you guys (technically three times). And you just said yourself that you couldn't kill him there without being mortally wounded.

- Wait, normal human babies even with two parasite parents? How does that benefit them as a species? Well, I guess we'll find out.

- Looks like A-san doesn't want to hear any of it.

- The spoon trick terrifies you that much?

- Protected just like a school of fish.

- Not really, deers commit suicide all the time, in the most dickish way possible.

- Too bad he has to fight with his left hand.

- What? Don't cut it off there, I want to see the fight! sad

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#42: Oct 22nd 2014 at 3:53:43 PM

The new parasite character is very interesting. I wonder what her relationship with her child will be like when its born. Maybe it'll cause her to be a bit more sympathetic towards humans.

Argh, I was looking forward to the ending, but it just cut off like that. Do your best, you two.

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#43: Oct 22nd 2014 at 4:18:12 PM

Dolphins also commit suicide. So do parrots. You'd think they'd know this tongue

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Arilou Taller than Zim from Quasispace Since: Jan, 2001
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#44: Oct 22nd 2014 at 4:22:50 PM

I think the implication is that the parasites aren't a natural species, but possibly some kind of bioweapon.

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#45: Oct 22nd 2014 at 4:34:15 PM

[up][up]I don't think that's something you'd learn from your typical biology book.

There's also a species of ant that can chemically blow itself up to destroy intruders. I only know about that from watching Animal Planet.

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RJSavoy Reymmã from Edinburgh Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#46: Oct 22nd 2014 at 5:19:51 PM

Many animals sacrifice their bodies to further their genes, which is what evolution favours (a body will last a few decades at the most, but after many generations the genes that spread best are the most common). Ants and other eusocial animals will do it for the hive, since the hive queen carries the genes they can't spread individually. Others will do it to help their children or siblings. But human suicide requires more sophisticated explanations.

Excellent animation, though I think the colours are a bit too clean. No fights with jarring stills. Tamiya talks of humans being irrational but her colleague seems far more so. Good to see we're getting into what they want. The budding relationship between these uneasy bedfellows is also engaging. I hope there is inventive use of those tentacles.

I am also constantly aware that this is the setup to a post-apocolyptic setting.

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majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#47: Oct 22nd 2014 at 5:54:20 PM

This is easily the best show of the season.

Marionnn Since: Jul, 2012
#48: Oct 22nd 2014 at 7:33:07 PM

I'm kind of surprised the other two didn't take one look at A-san and say "he is clearly detrimental to literally everything" because that's honestly what I was thinking. He's clearly a lot less stable than Migi or Ryouko and I'd be worried about being in his presence, much less having his kid.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#49: Oct 22nd 2014 at 8:03:29 PM

It's a damn good point that they no business calling humans irrational, considering what A-san's doing.

The point they're driving at but can't quite articulate, I think, is that humans are social creatures while the Parasytes are not, so there are different kinds of irrational behavior inherent. And neither side is entirely understand where the other is coming from.

There's an interesting contradiction inherent in the Parasyte's nature there- they're clearly designed to be able imitate the behavior of the host in order to not draw attention, but their status as asocial beings whose preferred hosts are intelligent and social makes that difficult. Tamiya, the only one we've seen who seems actually able to pull it off, is portrayed as a genius for being able to do something they have strong evolutionary pressures to be good at. How the police have yet to notice weird, dead-eyed folks walking away from the crime scenes I'll never know.

But- Migi just demonstrated understanding of the concept of safety in numbers, and then of cooperation, but both times seemed to see it as a clever and unorthodox strategy rather than a matter of course. He's starting to see the rational benefits of acting as a social creature, in other words.

Crinias from The Bleak Academy Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Mu
#50: Oct 22nd 2014 at 8:14:10 PM

Pretty much. These general themes are going to get explored more as the anime goes on. Speaking of which, I imagine that they might pull off a full adaptation all the way to the end, by cutting the more extraneous stuff. Is this two cours? It'd have to be, to fully adapt it.


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