Parasyte shifted into cop procedural mode this week, leading to a few scenes that were kind of accidentally hilarious in their genre-standardness. In spite of that silliness, it was definitely an easy [...]
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After an emotional and climactic episode last week, we take things slow on this episode of Parasyte. It seems like every time, they’re so close to discovering Shinichi’s secret, but then they just [...]
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So I don’t throw out spoilers in the opening paragraph for people who glance through posts while scrolling the site, I’ll instead mention how nice of a surprise it is that Parasyte has really caught [...]
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Kana reminds Satomi about her feelings It certainly looked like Reiko’s days were numbered at the end of the last episode, didn’t it? Standoff! Hirama finally confronts Reiko With Reiko facing off [...]
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And Tamiya’s story comes to an end. This episode was somewhat hampered by the aesthetic neutrality that’s weakened Parasyte all along, but its conclusion was strong enough narrative-wise that I [...]
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I think I was supposed to say, “She finally became a mother!” I’m not feeling it, though. There’s a lot of things I don’t really feel. Reiko’s talk with Shinichi seems to imply that life’s questions [...]
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The story of Tamura Reiko comes to a close this week as Parasyte closes off this arc, and starts a new one. Reiko reveals that parasites are capable of surviving on human food. With this, they’re [...]
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Yessss I’ve been waiting for this moment. The bit where Reiko meets people in the street, pulls her head apart and completely shocking them, then running off laughing like a maniac. There were 3 [...]
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Satomi just can’t forget about Shinichi Welcome back to Parasyte! For some reason, 2-cour shows at around episode 16-20 feel like they’re starting to wrap up, but 1-cour shows always feel like they’re [...]
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We finally got a pretty solid rallying episode this week, after many weeks of subpar episodes. We’re not exactly at first-few-episodes strength again, but after the Kana arc and subsequent [...]
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I’ve come late to the Parasyte -the maxim- party, but I can’t say I’ve been as impressed as my associates have been. Before I started watching, I was in a position to observe my Twitter feed and the [...]
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Toodle-oo! — The three parasites confronting Reiko are also working by themselves. The guy who seems like the leader of the trio confesses that he’s basing his decision off of his intuition. On the [...]
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The other parasites have finally had enough of Tamura’s rational thinking and want to give her the boot. The parasites think they have the upper hand simply because there’s three of them against [...]
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After a couple of not so hot episodes there, Parasyte has been back to its best lately. If I’ve remembered the sequence of events correctly, this current arc we’re on and how it plays out is my [...]
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Oops, that didn’t work as well as Migi hoped We’re at that time of the season where things can start to go from bad to worse, especially in a 2-cour show. So is that what’s going to happen in [...]
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We finally got some of Parasyte’s energy back this week, with a pretty solid fight sequence and some general character-rearranging back in the city. It’s kind of sad to admit that Parasyte seems to be [...]
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If the show’s going to be less psychological body horror, and more standard action fare these days, then it really needs to step up in the animation department. After all, the former is potentially [...]
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