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Parasyte (Manga)

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Parasyte (Japanese: 寄生ç�£, Kiseijuu) is a Science Fiction seinen manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It ran from 1988 to 1995 and is particularly famous for its usage of Body Horror. It's kind of like Devilman meets The Thing if directed by David Cronenberg.One night, strange spores fall from the sky onto the earth. Out of them hatch weird little worms that quickly infiltrate human neighborhoods, looking for host bodies. The worms crawl or burrow their way into the head of a human host, transforming it and the brain inside. This effectively kills the victim, replacing the host's personality and intellect with that of the parasite. These parasites have a ravenous appetite for the flesh of the species they take over—in this case, humans.But one specific worm goofs it up - he tries and fails to take over the brain of a teenage boy named Shinichi Izumi, but instead ends up stuck inside Shinichi's right arm. Because of this unique situation, Shinichi and the parasite, who eventually names himself Migi (meaning "right") are sharing the same body, but still possess their own individual intellects. This gives them an edge in battling the other parasites, who see Shinichi's ability to think independently as a threat. Shinichi also feels compelled to fight other parasites, who kill and eat humans as a source of food, in order to protect humanity; Migi on the other hand, like most other parasites, is incapable of emotion and only fights to preserve his and Shinichi's lives. Thus, Shinichi is forced to deal with all kinds of teenage issues while keeping a horrifying secret and having to battle against hordes of enemies who want to use him or kill him.Parasyte was first published in North America by Mixx (now better known as Tokyopop), which Americanized every character by changing their names (Reiko Tamura was renamed Tamara Rockford, while Migi was "Lefty" because the pages were reversed, for example), censored some sexual elements (though the graphic violence was left untouched), and did away with many Japanese cultural signifiers in the story. Publishing rights were later obtained by Del Rey, who re-released it, reverting the changes Mixx made and using a more accurate translation, as well as compiling the chapters into a more compressed format, changing it from 12 volumes to only 8.A 24-episode anime adaptation◊ by Madhouse titled Parasyte -the maxim- (Japanese: 寄生ç�£ セイã�®æ ¼çŽ‡, KiseijÅ« Sei no Kakuritsu) aired from October 9, 2014 to March 26, 2015. The anime modernizes the manga, using the same premise and main cast but also integrating things that were not commonplace during the manga's original run, like smartphones and the internet.The manga was also adapted into two live-action films in Japan in 2014 and 2015. The films also modernize the setting and are more condensed compared to the anime. A Korean live-action drama version, known as Parasyte: The Grey, was released via Netflix worldwide on April 5, 2024.Two collections of short stories set in the world of Parasyte, Neo Parasyte f and Neo Parasyte m, were published in 2016 and 2017. These stories occur during and after the events of Parasyte, showing what became of Shinichi, Satomi, Migi and the parasites. A spinoff, Parasyte Reversi, was published with 8 volumes by Moare Ohta. It center on Tatsuki Hirokawa, the only child of East Fukuyama mayor Takeshi Hirokawa, as he tries to investigate whether his father has secret links with parasites after some of his classmates were murdered by them. Storywise, it takes place simulateneously with the original manga.Sentai Filmworks has announced home video license and distribution for the anime in five territories (North America, South America, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand). Parasyte is one of the most requested titles to air on [adult swim] Toonami (even long before Sentai Filmworks made their announcement for home video rights), and eventually aired on the block beginning in October 2015.
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Heroic Host
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Heroic Host: Shinichi and Uda, whose parasites weren't able were take over their brain and were thus confined to other parts of their bodies.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: How did Shinichi stop Migi from reaching his brain? By tying his earphones' wires into a tourniquet around his own arm. Lampshaded — his parents walk in soon after to see the aftermath and ask if he's using drugs.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Uragami's knife is able to slash a guy's throat open and decapitate a girl with ease (though the girl appeared to have no backbone...).
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You Are Already Dead
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You Are Already Dead: Many humans hit by a parasite's blade don't realize they've already been decapitated or cut to pieces, which gives them enough time to scream before they fall apart.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: When Hirokawa gives his final speech, calling humans "worms - or parasytes." In the original Japanese he calls them parasitic insects (kiseichuu) and corrects himself to parasitic beasts (kiseijuu AKA the Japanese kanji). In the Del Rey translation, this is one of only two places where the "Parasyte" spelling is actually used, the other being as a nickname for Uda's parasite before he settles on "Jaw".
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Feel No Pain
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Feel No Pain: The parasites are connected to the host body's nervous system so they can sense injuries and negative stimuli, but they have no psychological or physiological attachment to the discomfort they feel. As such, they can't be psychologically distressed by any sensations from injuries, nor can these sensations affect them physiologically (a large amount of pain can do all kinds of nasty things to a person like shut them down entirely). This becomes evident when Yamagishi blasts away a parasite's hand; he doesn't so much as blink.
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A Lighter Shade of Black
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A Lighter Shade of Black: While the parasites are ruthless killers (some of whom want to take over humanity) they're definitely much better in comparison to Uragami. In fact, some of the parasites even develop human emotions over the course of the series.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: Since parasites only feed on the same species they take over, the first parasite-dog is seen eating another dog. Which would make it literally a dog-eat-dog world out there.
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Unable to Cry
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Unable to Cry: Shinichi finds himself unable to shed any tears after he is turned partly parasite by Migi, even when he witnesses the death of his mother's body or when Kana is killed by a parasite. He's finally able to cry again when he watches Tamura sacrifice her life for her son.
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The Quisling
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The Quisling: The mayor was Human All Along.
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Discard and Draw
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Discard and Draw: In a successful effort by Migi to save Shinichi's life, Migi sacrifices part of himself by traveling inside his body and patching up his heart; as a result, he now has to go into hibernation for a few hours each day, during which time he cannot wake up at all, which means he can't fight or use his parasite detection sense to help Shinichi. On the plus side, this incident left Shinichi with superhuman physical capabilities at all times.
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Nigh-Invulnerability
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Nigh-Invulnerability: Goto. Since he's five parasites in one body, all his limbs are tough and lack human weaknesses, and he has enough cell-mass to armor over his torso as well.
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Ominous Latin Chanting
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Ominous Latin Chanting: Used for upcoming episode previews and sometimes in dramatic scenes.
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Primal Fear
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Primal Fear: Shinichi can cause people to experience this by delivering a bone-chilling Death Glare, especially when he's being threatened. It's unclear as to whether or not he's always conscious that he's even doing it.
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Vomiting Cop
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Vomiting Cop: One of the two cops who catch Uragami at the scene of a parasite meal can't help but throw up upon seeing the body.
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Wainscot Society
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Wainscot Society: Hirokawa's group of parasites function a lot like a mafia. Hirokawa serves as the mundane mayor of a city and establishes feeding areas where dead humans can safely be disposed of. Their status as a society is cemented by having territorial rules, which also apply to Shinchi: When a parasite kills Kana at Shinichi's school and Shinichi kills him, they let it go because the guy was clearly a dangerous fuckup operating on turf they recognized as Shinichi's, but when Shinichi kills one of their own in the dining garage, it's an act of war and Tamura has to reluctantly give the go-ahead to wax him.
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Literary Allusion Title
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The anime seems to go all out with Literary Allusion Titles for nearly every episode of the series, including, but not limited to: The Metamorphosisnote Episode 1, Tangled Hairnote Episode 4, The Strangernote Episode 5, The Sun Also Risesnote Episode 6, Freezing Pointnote Episode 8, Beyond Good and Evilnote Episode 9, What Mad Universenote Episode 10, The Blue Birdnote Episode 11, The Selfish Genenote Episode 14, The Adventure of the Dying Detectivenote Episode 17, and Crime and Punishmentnote Episode 20.
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Accent Adaptation
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Accent Adaptation: Mitsuyo is given a Southern Accent in the dub.
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Bare-Handed Blade Block
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Bare-Handed Blade Block: The first time that Migi speaks to him, Shinichi tries to stab the thing with a kitchen knife. Migi catches the point by clapping it between two of his miniature hands, and uses a third appendage to slice the blade in half.
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Diagonal Cut
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Diagonal Cut: A parasite's organic Absurdly Sharp Blade can cut through a human so quickly and cleanly that they'll have time to get scared before they realize they're already dead. In Chapter 3, a parasite performs a three hundred sixty degree Clean Cut all around him, remininiscent of a helicopter blade, which causes the humans in front of him to fall to pieces right away, but the woman behind him is seemingly left standing. She raises her hands to her head and screams, only for her head and hands to belatedly separate from the rest of her. In Chapter 6, Tamaya kills The Chikan who came back to get revenge on her for calling him out with a single cut. At first his hand comes off and the sight of it makes him freak out, then he turns his head to see the wound opening in his neck, and as his head falls off his eyes are transfixed on the bleeding stump of his neck, as if he can't believe what hit him.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: About ten men shoot Goto with assault rifles, shotguns and a grenade launcher at the same time. He doesn't care. See also Catch and Return.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Uragami, who is shown remembering how he got captured, which includes visuals of some of his victims, one of whom he raped after he decapitated her.
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Humans Are Flawed
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Humans Are Flawed: Going hand-in-hand with the subverted Green Aesop, this is Shinichi's view at the end, but he concludes that our flaws do not make us necessarily bad.
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Asteroids Monster
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Asteroids Monster: The Shapeshifting Blob Monsteresque parasites can separate into fairly small fragments.
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Catch and Return
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Catch and Return: During the military's move against the parasites, Goto catches the 16.8mm buckshot they're shooting in his parasite flesh, and then massacres everyone in the room by launching them back.
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Character Development
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Shinichi very briefly goes into Blue and Orange insanity when he decides that humans have no right to kill an organism just because it's harmful to humans and no right to impose human values on parasites. He changes his mind after coming to the conclusion that all he can do is act as a human and protect humans, though at this point in his Character Development, he pities Goto more than hates him, and finally reluctantly finishes him off.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Also Mitsuo, another bully and Kana's ex-boyfriend. After Kana dumps him, he tries to beat up Shinichi again in revenge. It ends about as well as one would expect.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After the rest of the series has had superhuman battles between the parasites, Uragami as a Post-Climax Confrontation makes a big show in targeting Shinichi and Murano — and then gets downed in a single good punch to the face that breaks his jaw. Even without Migi's powers, not only is Shinichi's body still at peak capability, but Uragami is a mere human that isn't experienced in a direct fight. He was way out of his league besides having a knife on-hand.
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Five-Finger Fillet
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Five-Finger Fillet: When Shinichi first tries to confirm whether his right hand has been taken over by an alien, he places his palm on the table and prepares to stab a knife between his fingers, reasoning that it will dodge of its own volition if it isn't his.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The parasites' organization is broken, Hirokawa and Goto are dead, and parasite violence is almost nonexistent. Once again without a "natural predator", it's left unclear if humanity will render Earth completely uninhabitable one day. Shinichi and Satomi are happily together, and she's now in college; however, because of all the school he missed while fighting the parasites, Shinichi didn't go to college at the same time as Murano, and will take another year to catch up with her (but she agrees to help him study for the entrance test.) Tamura is dead, but she ultimately sacrificed her life to save her baby, which allowed Shinichi to feel emotions again. Detective Hirama assures Shinichi that if the boy is fully human, he will see that the baby is adopted by a loving family, and since Tamura assured Shinichi that he was, it's safe to assume that Tamura's last wish, that he be taken in by good humans and raised well, is coming true..
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: The soldiers don't wait to the end of Hirokawa's speech to shoot.
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2D Visuals, 3D Effects
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2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The office workers when talked to in the lobby in episode 19 and 20.
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Honor Before Reason
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Parasites eat humans because that's how they survive as a species, and they feel no more guilt about killing the sapient lifeforms who serve as their prey than humans do about eating livestock such as pigs and cows. Most are either incapable of emotion or don't care enough about it to try, so whenever they explain the reasons behind their actions, it's very matter-of-fact. Furthermore, each individual of the species will do anything to ensure its own survival. Migi is frequently baffled by what he sees as Shinichi's irrational human behavior and thoughts, and considers Shinichi's objection to plans he suggests—such as using his classmates as human shields in order to defeat A, or even just pickpocketing money to purchase a cab ride to safety—to be a misguided case of Honor Before Reason.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Uda's parasite gives him a ridiculous, inhuman jawline when he and Shinichi have to kidnap Kuramori.
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_49f20c6a
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Gory Discretion Shot
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_49f20c6a
comment
Gory Discretion Shot: Used exactly once: Shinichi's mother's death occurs offscreen and her injuries are never shown, unlike other offscreen deaths.
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
type
Humans Are the Real Monsters
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
comment
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Some of the more socially-conscious parasites at least believe this is the case.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4d070ee3
type
Power Perversion Potential
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4d070ee3
comment
Power Perversion Potential: Averted; Migi's ability to turn Shinichi's hand into a giant penis or mass of writhing tentacles never comes up, since he isn't out to make either of their lives harder.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_4d070ee3
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_4d070ee3
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_504a1991
type
Body Horror
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_504a1991
comment
Body Horror: To put it mildly, it's the page image on the trope page for a reason.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_504a1991
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_506bf16a
type
Sex Signals Death
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_506bf16a
comment
Sex Signals Death: Shimada baits a fat girl to follow him to an empty alley, where he eats her alive. The fact that the girl is seen completely naked when Shimada brutalizes her (while he is topless) means she was probably fooled into believing she was getting laid.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_506bf16a
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_506bf16a
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_51b6fe40
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The Chikan
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_51b6fe40
comment
In Chapter 6, Tamaya kills The Chikan who came back to get revenge on her for calling him out with a single cut. At first his hand comes off and the sight of it makes him freak out, then he turns his head to see the wound opening in his neck, and as his head falls off his eyes are transfixed on the bleeding stump of his neck, as if he can't believe what hit him.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_51b6fe40
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_566f1565
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10-Minute Retirement
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_566f1565
comment
10-Minute Retirement: Kuramori emphatically decides to opt out of further investigation after witnessing a parasite battle firsthand. He's just an ordinary human — he has a wife and child, and the whole thing is just not his fight. Little late for that. The parasite syndicate goes after him, but they flub it and kill his wife and child instead; this causes him to be thrown back into the conflict when the police question him to find out what happened.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_566f1565
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_56b53152
type
Green Aesop
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_56b53152
comment
Green Aesop: Actually subverted towards the end. Shinichi comes to the realization that no matter how much humans want to empathize with other creatures and understand nature, at the end of the day they're just humans and can only live as humans, for better or worse.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_56b53152
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_59907e4f
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Police Are Useless
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_59907e4f
comment
Police Are Useless: Played straight early on, when the cops are just as clueless about what's going on as the rest of the country. By the end of the series, however, they've learned all about parasites, classified them as public enemy number one, come up with methods to differentiate them from humans, and developed tactics to kill them.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_59907e4f
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
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The Un-Reveal
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
comment
The Unreveal: We never find out where the parasites really come from (aside from outer space) or why they have such an innate killing intent for their host species. Some individual parasites such as Tamura do ponder these things, but most don't really care since it doesn't impact their lives.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a3b8032
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a67551c
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Surprise Jump
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a67551c
comment
Surprise Jump: A nervous Shinichi is tugged at from behind by a young girl. Because of his newfound powers, he jumps a good 20 feet or so.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a67551c
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_5a67551c
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9
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Central Theme
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9
comment
Central Theme: What makes a human a human, and what makes a monster a monster? Can a human become a monster, and can a monster become human?
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_5ce7dbb9
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_603f1a80
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Pragmatic Adaptation
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_603f1a80
comment
Pragmatic Adaptation: The anime is taking some liberties with the story since the original manga took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the overall premise, story, and tone remain unchanged.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_603f1a80
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_627264e0
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Death Glare
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_627264e0
comment
Death Glare: Being host to Migi gives Shinichi the ability to unleash awesomely powerful glares, representative of people being able to sense how deadly the pair of them are (the manga supposes that animals are able to instinctively tell when another animal is more powerful than them, and Shinichi and Migi are FAR deadlier than any human).
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_627264e0
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Losing Your Head
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_62cae28a
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Losing Your Head: Shinichi cuts off Goto's head in their first fight. Goto doesn't care.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_62cae28a
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Heroic Sacrifice
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6439de78
comment
Heroic Sacrifice: Migi, in a very touching scene
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6439de78
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_657f77e4
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Caught with Your Pants Down
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_657f77e4
comment
Caught with Your Pants Down: Played With. When Migi tries to stimulate Shinichi's erection, it is Shinichi's right hand that's doing it, but he's not necessarily masturbating but it becomes an assumed excuse for a situation where Shinichi's mother barges into his room without knocking and he has to hide Migi.
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_658f7193
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Lack of Empathy
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_658f7193
comment
Lack of Empathy: All of the parasites are supposedly completely incapable of emotion. Migi and Tamura eventually get a little better about it. Shinichi finds himself incapable of crying for a while as Migi's influence on his body grows, eventually getting over it when Tamura gives him her baby.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_658f7193
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_658f7193
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6651bba7
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Bio-Augmentation
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6651bba7
comment
Bio-Augmentation: Shinichi gains superhuman powers after Migi heals his heart using his own blood.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6651bba7
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_66cdb21b
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Gag Penis
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_66cdb21b
comment
Gag Penis: After discussing with Shinichi regarding his attraction to Satomi, Migi shapeshifts into a giant erection while the two are at a restaurant. She doesn't notice.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_66cdb21b
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6b5a92dc
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Uncanny Valley
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6b5a92dc
comment
Uncanny Valley: In the story, parasites are generally indistinguishable from normal humans. However, they tend to have completely blank expressions, and the artwork often endows them with slightly overlarge and sharply-defined eyes that give them a sinister appearance. Extremely twisted humans such as Uragami also have these eyes.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6b5a92dc
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6c87dbef
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Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6c87dbef
comment
Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: While screening people for parasites, Uragami gets turned on by an attractive woman brought in front of him and starts masturbating to her. This freaks the woman out and leads her to believe he has a parasite.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6c87dbef
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_6c87dbef
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Masquerade
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6ef09297
comment
Masquerade: The parasites try to maintain one, but it breaks down very early. The government, meanwhile, is less about "masquerade" and more about "information control," releasing information to the public as needed to avert panic.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_6ef09297
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7115b262
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Repeat Cut
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7115b262
comment
Repeat Cut: When Hideo is hit by the rock thrown by Shinichi.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7115b262
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_7115b262
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_71268450
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Adaptation Title Change
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_71268450
comment
Adaptation Title Change: The anime adaptation was titled Parasyte -the maxim-.
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_71268450
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Mugging the Monster
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7276d0de
comment
Mugging the Monster: A bully and rival for Murano's affections tries to beat up Shinichi. Shinichi tries to avoid the fight at first, but the bully is having none of that. It doesn't end well. Also Mitsuo, another bully and Kana's ex-boyfriend. After Kana dumps him, he tries to beat up Shinichi again in revenge. It ends about as well as one would expect. There is another time when Mitsuo tries to take on Shimada, the time when Yano is shown to be the real leader. Subverted when the leader knows very well that he is outmatched and walks away when he has the chance.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7276d0de
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Serial Killer
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7301ae04
comment
So, you remember Uragami, the Serial Killer the police brought in to help identify parasites? The one who escaped and disappeared during the big police raid after shooting his handler? He comes back in the last chapter.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7301ae04
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_7301ae04
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Arc Words
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: "Are you really Izumi-kun?" Satomi asks this when Shinichi starts acting strangely. At first, it's a joke, but it becomes an increasingly real question over the course of the series, as Shinichi's secret struggle to survive changes him mentally and physically.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7464705c
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_77666408
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Combat Tentacles
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_77666408
comment
Combat Tentacles: Parasites fight by twisting into long whiplike stalks with razor-sharp blades on the end.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_77666408
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Lovecraftian Superpower
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_77a5657
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Lovecraftian Superpower: Migi, a parasitic blob of cells in the form of Shinichi's right arm, gives him shapeshifting, super-strength and speed, and supreme emotional control.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_77a5657
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7831b670
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Gaia's Vengeance
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7831b670
comment
Gaia's Vengeance: Reiko Tamura (at least in the beginning) and the totally human Takeshi Hirokawa believe the parasites were created to cull the human population to preserve the earth.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7831b670
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7b6e47a5
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Armor-Piercing Question
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7b6e47a5
comment
Armor-Piercing Question: The manga is filled with these. The moral and ethical standards we humans built for ourselves are put to question when a third party enters our paradigm as a mirror to our inhumanity and savagery.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7b6e47a5
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Paranoia Fuel
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7e07f634
comment
Paranoia Fuel: The police's efforts to avert full-scale public panic should the parasites' existence become known are a recurring plot point.
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7e6c0522
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Off with His Head!
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7e6c0522
comment
Off with His Head!: Parasites tend to go for the head, whether they're infecting or just feeding.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7e6c0522
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Expository Hairstyle Change
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7efd2e30
comment
Expository Hairstyle Change: Shinichi has one after he and Uda take down the parasite who killed his mother.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_7efd2e30
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Right for the Wrong Reasons
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_83cef301
comment
Right for the Wrong Reasons: How did the flatfoots finally bring in Serial Killer Uragami? They caught him fiddling around with the Gorn left by actual parasites.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_83cef301
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_84249fbc
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Nerd Glasses
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_84249fbc
comment
Nerd Glasses: Shinichi has these from the start. When Shinichi wakes up after Migi heals his heart, Shinichi tries putting his glasses on and realizes he now has perfect vision without them. This is the first hint that Shinichi's physiology has changed dramatically.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_84249fbc
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_85bfd195
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They Look Like Us Now
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_85bfd195
comment
They Look Like Us Now: As time goes on, the parasites become more and more human, until finally there's no obvious physical differences between them and ordinary people.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_85bfd195
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_863fa679
type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: Characters such as Mitsuo, Detective Hirama and Miki disappear from the story without mention. Happens in-universe to all the parasites after the raid on City Hall — after their existence becomes public knowledge, virtually all attacks and sightings of them disappear. They realized that open attacks and attempts to organize against humanity is dangerous for their survival — most adjusted their diet to eat regular human food to accomodate. It's also possible that those small few who continued to kill adapted to disguise their feedings as more conventional murders.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_863fa679
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_863fa679
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type
Bad Powers, Good People
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_86ba007a
comment
Bad Powers, Good People: Shinichi is one of the kindest people in the entire series, but he has a Lovecraftian Superpower and has to share his body with a sapient creature with Blue-and-Orange Morality.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_86ba007a
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_86ba007a
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8e20979
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Wham Episode
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8e20979
comment
Wham Episode: Chapter 11 contains horrifying amounts of wham.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8e20979
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8e20979
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8f9f71a8
type
Crazy Enough to Work
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8f9f71a8
comment
Crazy Enough to Work: Invoked. When Migi and Shinichi split up to fight Goto, Migi pretty much thinks, "This is an extremely reckless strategy, but that means Goto is unlikely to anticipate it."
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_8f9f71a8
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 Parasyte (Manga) / int_916c72b3
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Rule of Symbolism
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_916c72b3
comment
Rule of Symbolism: Tamura holding her baby close to her chest and shielding him from bullets while the cops are shooting her to death is reminiscent of a certain virgin....
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_916c72b3
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1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_916c72b3
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1.0
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Parasyte (Manga) / int_916c72b3
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Nothing Personal
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_921cdca8
comment
Averted when Shinichi's beaten Goto, and the pieces of his body are trying desperately to reunite, which Migi estimates only has a 50% chance of succeeding. At this point in his character development Shinichi has developed empathy towards the parasites and makes it clear that it's Nothing Personal before finishing him off, thereby also nicely averting Once is Not Enough because he makes sure that he's dead.
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Revival
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Revival: In 2014, as both an anime and Live-Action Adaptation after over 20 years!
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Battle Amongst the Flames
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Battle Amongst the Flames: The climatic battle takes place in a nuclear waste incinerator in the movie adaptation.
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: Shinichi gets into something of a Love Triangle with his current girlfriend, Satomi Murano (Betty), and the rebellious girl Kana (Veronica). Kanna sadly ends up dying, and Shinichi ends up with Murano for the long term.
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Not Me This Time
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Not Me This Time: Uragami was caught by the police when they stumbled upon him at the scene of a parasite meal; he doesn't deny that he's the serial killer they've been looking for, but he does loudly object to their idea that he's the culprit of this particular killing.
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Riddle for the Ages
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Riddle for the Ages: It's never revealed what exactly the parasites are or where they came from.
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Shotguns Are Just Better
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Shotguns Are Just Better: The task force commander figures out very quickly that a shotgun blast to the heart will kill a parasite near-instantly. A load of buckshot is also much harder for them to deflect than slugs fired individually.
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Big Bad
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Earlier in the story when Migi met another parasite that had succeeded in possessing its host, it mentions that Migi should move off of Shinichi's body and into his right hand. Migi wonders if it's really possible. The Big Bad Goto turns out to be a mass of parasites in a body, with two capable of controlling them all as the head.
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Chick Magnet
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Chick Magnet: Shinichi is depicted as one. His crush Murano obviously likes him. On a trip, he meets a girl on a boat who, later on, keeps following him around and seems to be interested in him. Kana also develops a crush on him after sensing that he's not totally human and begins to keep an eye out for him wherever she goes with the help of her special powers, which allow her to sense whenever he's nearby. She also dreams about him in a sort of white knight scenario in which he saves her from monsters and they embrace; she remembers this dream as she dies and chuckles, remarking that it's too embarrassing to talk about.
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Shapeshifter Weapon
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Shapeshifter Weapon: Parasites can transform the parts of their hosts' bodies that they've taken over (usually just the head) into blades that can shred human flesh faster than the eye can see.
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Crippling Overspecialization
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Crippling Overspecialization: The parasite who killed Shinichi's mother always goes for a One-Hit Kill by stabbing its enemies in the heart. When Uda's parasite Jaw realizes this, he's quick to protect Uda's heart in anticipation and behead the enemy parasite from behind.
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: After recovering from the stab wound that pierced his heart, Shinichi can run at what looks like more than thirty miles per hour, jump more than twelve feet high without a running start, develops Super-Hearing and Super-Reflexes that allow him to anticipate and dodge parasite attacks, which are faster than the human eye can see.
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: Strangely averted here, as practically everything else gets used — dismemberment, impaling, gunfire from bullets to shotguns, and on one occasion, a rock. Flamethrowers are briefly considered, but rejected. After Goto has proven nigh-invulnerable to the weapons that Yamagishi and his troops had been using to great effect against other parasites, Yamagishi's last thoughts are that maybe a flamethrower would have done the trick. The one time it's used (Shinichi's plan to hit Goto with a flaming spear while Migi takes off his head) it fails.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: When a parasite kills and takes over Shinichi's mother, Shinichi becomes hellbent on taking it down. Averted when Shinichi's beaten Goto, and the pieces of his body are trying desperately to reunite, which Migi estimates only has a 50% chance of succeeding. At this point in his character development Shinichi has developed empathy towards the parasites and makes it clear that it's Nothing Personal before finishing him off, thereby also nicely averting Once is Not Enough because he makes sure that he's dead.
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Half-Human Hybrid
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Half-Human Hybrid: Shinichi becomes one when Migi uses some of his body mass to repair the stab wound caused by the parasite that took over Shinichi's mother. This results in advanced strength and reflexes, and also in Shinichi seemingly becoming more emotionless for a time.
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Award-Bait Song
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Award-Bait Song: The ending theme, It's The Right Time by Daichi Miura.
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Double-Meaning Title
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Double-Meaning Title: Parasyte is titled 寄生� (Kiseijū) in the original Japanese, literally meaning "Parasitic Beasts". On the face of it, this refers to the Puppeteer Parasite alien species which appears among humanity and begins to prey on humans. At the same time, however, it refers to the theme of humans being a threat to themselves and the earth through overpopulation and environmental destruction. Toward the end, the leader of the parasite conspiracy, Takeshi Hirokawa, accuses humanity of being the real parasites by destroying the Earth, performing a Title Drop by calling humans "parasitic beasts". However, the author states in the interview that humans' being parasites is Takeshi's opinion, not his; in fact, the author goes on to mention that perhaps all living beings on the Earth can be considered parasites from the Earth's POV, implying that the title isn't referring to one organism in particular.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: One of Shinichi's classmates, a girl with glasses named Yuko who briefly appears in the manga, appears as a friend of his in the first episode where she even has more lines than Murano. Her role is expanded more later in the anime.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: While separated from Migi and thus having a stump for his right arm, Shinichi manages to catch six mosquitoes in less than a second.
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Shinichi really realizes he's not acting right when Migi tells him that his decreased empathy is normal for his species.
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Deliver Us from Evil
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Deliver Us from Evil: After giving birth, Tamura starts to take on increasingly human traits, eventually becoming driven to protect her child at any cost, even when it means laying down her life.
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Humanity Is Infectious
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Humanity Is Infectious: Ultimately the case with Tamura; she comes to care about her baby boy and even sacrifices her life to keep him safe.
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Clean Cut
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In Chapter 3, a parasite performs a three hundred sixty degree Clean Cut all around him, remininiscent of a helicopter blade, which causes the humans in front of him to fall to pieces right away, but the woman behind him is seemingly left standing. She raises her hands to her head and screams, only for her head and hands to belatedly separate from the rest of her.
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Weirdness Censor
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Weirdness Censor: It takes a while before people other than Shinichi realize that nonhumans creatures are among them, despite the fact that, on multiple occasions, the parasites shapeshift right in front of many witnesses (such as the incident when a pouncing lion is turned to mincemeat by a parasite, and witnesses desperately and fearfully concoct the explanation he somehow managed to hit the lion with an explosive weapon in mid-flight despite never moving his arms). The sudden massive spike in grisly murders around the world is initially believed to be the work of an international cult.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is given the title of a famous book.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At first Kuramori refuses to help Shinichi fight the parasites out of fear for his family. However, the parasites associated with Tamura decide to eliminate him because of his knowledge. The attempt fails, with Kuramori's wife and daughter ending up murdered, turning Kuramori into a grieving, vengeful father and widower with nothing left to lose. Tamura chews out the parasites responsible.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: The parasite who took over Shinichi's mother's body has several during its fight against Shinichi, who is able to follow and dodge its movements.
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Scars are Forever
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Scars are Forever: Shinichi picks up large scars on his chest and back as a result of Migi saving his life, and a scar through his right eyebrow thanks to Goto.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: Not the parasites, but the human Uragami kills and rapes for no other reason than because he wants to.
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Setting Update
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Setting Update: The anime is set in 2014 or at least the 2010s. The manga was written before cellphones and the internet became commonplace, which naturally affects the plot. The update also extends to adjusting the character design from Iwaaki's 1980s style to a more contemporary one, as seen in elements like Satomi's new hairstyle and a completely different design for Kana's jerk boyfriend who no longer looks like a classic Japanese Delinquent in a military-style uniform.
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Xtreme Kool Letterz
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Parasyte, Mixx's Market-Based Title for Kiseijuu; Mixx used it to refer to the parasytes; Del Rey used the normal spelling to refer to the creatures and instead implied that the titular "Parasyte" was humanity.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Early on, Shinichi wishes that Migi would fall asleep forever, and when he finally seems to in the end, Shinichi is devastated.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Subverted — taking the head clean off should kill a parasite, but they can regenerate from most partial injuries. Going for the vital organs tends to work better.
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The Worm That Walks
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The Worm That Walks: Goto is made of several parasites, each controlling a limb.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Kana’s final fate. She ignores Shinichi's warning against trying to detect and follow him using her "power," since in her infatuation she's convinced herself that she'll be able to tell the difference between the aura of Shinichi and another parasite. It turns out she can't, and when she walks in on a hostile parasite instead of Shinichi it impales her through the body. Since she's a baseline human in all other aspects, she has lost too much blood to be saved by ANY means by the time Shinichi finds her.
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Tin Man
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Tin Man: Played with: the parasites all claim to have no emotions, but in truth it's actually more complicated. They generally lack empathy and are cold and expressionless, but some such as Goto seem to have something akin to bloodlust. As for human emotions, many feel them, just less strongly than humans; they apparently can (with time) develop complex personalities and emotions. This is evidenced by Tamura protecting her son with her life and Migi sacrificing himself for Shinichi's safety and internally thanking Shinchi for his friendship — he even says that he's glad he didn't succeed in taking over his brain.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: After the battle in volume seven, Goto drops the civilized act and claims that he's a wild animal who only lives to fight.
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Radiograph of Doom
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Radiograph of Doom: A large x-ray is used by the military to spot the parasites in volume seven.
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Horseback Heroism
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Horseback Heroism: Shinichi in Kana's dream.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: A grand total of one in the anime, dropped by Migi of all people. Serves the double purpose of showcasing Migi's Character Development and how scared he is of the coming fight with Goto.
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Sparing Them the Dirty Work
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Sparing Them the Dirty Work: Uda deals the killing blow to the parasite who killed and took the form of Shinichi's mother to spare Shinichi from having to kill his own mother.
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To Serve Man
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To Serve Man: The parasites have a desire to hunt and consume the species they take over, and their preferred hosts are humans (we do see one parasite who took over a dog eating another dog). The kicker is that they can actually survive perfectly well off of a non-human diet, but (most) parasites don't feel empathy and thus see no reason to change their lifestyles.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Shinichi has one when Uragami is about to cut Satomi's throat, and again when she's falling from a building.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: During Goto's pursuit of Shinichi, Migi drives a car off a mountain road to land on Goto's car further down the mountain. It doesn't work.
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Neck Snap
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Neck Snap: Manga-only, Miki snaps the neck of a girl he was dating, and is caught red handed by Abe. Miki proceeds to do the same to Abe. The act itself is not shown in the anime, only the girl's corpse.
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Parasites Are Evil
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Parasites Are Evil: Plays with this trope extensively: The titular parasites may be sapient creatures who see their human hosts as nothing more than livestock to kill, devour, and impersonate, but they're not always chaotic evil for it, nor are they treated as such by the story. Instead, they operate under Blue-and-Orange Morality; at best they're logical, ruthlessly pragmatic beings who only do what they do because they believe it's how they survive. Some even learn human emotions and empathy over time. In fact, the majority of outright evil characters are a handful of ordinary humans. Shinichi, the protagonist of the series, even goes as far as to call this trope into question, deciding towards the end that humans have no right to hold other species to their values. Though adjusts his view quickly to clarify that he does still have to put Goto down, he still lets go of any malice against the parasites.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Migi spends a lot of time reading and studying when Shinichi is relaxing in his bedroom. Shinichi averts this due to having to spend so much time fighting or fleeing from the parasites and it comes back to bite him big time; see Bittersweet Ending.
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Rōnin
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Rōnin: Shinichi fails the university entrance exams due to missing so much school, and has to study and catch up in the epilogue. Fortunately, Muraro is there to help.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: Migi finally agrees to allow Shinichi to let Kana in on the loop about the nature of Parasites. She dies before he's ever able to do so.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Panty Shot on a woman chopped in half. Later there's a necrophiliac and a humanitarian moment — at the same time. And then there's also the scene of Uragami polishing his rocket when seeing a pretty girl.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Shinichi and Murano contemplate seeing a movie called Sadako 2D. The anime seems to go all out with Literary Allusion Titles for nearly every episode of the series, including, but not limited to: The Metamorphosisnote Episode 1, Tangled Hairnote Episode 4, The Strangernote Episode 5, The Sun Also Risesnote Episode 6, Freezing Pointnote Episode 8, Beyond Good and Evilnote Episode 9, What Mad Universenote Episode 10, The Blue Birdnote Episode 11, The Selfish Genenote Episode 14, The Adventure of the Dying Detectivenote Episode 17, and Crime and Punishmentnote Episode 20.
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The Symbiote
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The Symbiote: The parasites can be categorized as either the parasite type (those that harm their hosts while also benefitting) or the mutualist type (those that co-exist with their hosts to mutual benefit). The parasites that take over humans are obviously the first and can also be parasitoids if they have to find new hosts (parasatoids are different from normal parasites in that they specifically end up killing hosts) which entails them lopping off the head and quickly taking the its place before the body dies. Migi and Jaw, who only take on a portion of the host's body, are mutualists that protect their hosts from harm while giving them enhanced abilities, and while they feed off their host's blood for nutrition, it only results in their hosts needing to take in more calories.
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Dubstep
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Dubstep: Sometimes used for action scenes.
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It Can Think
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It Can Think: The first few parasites seen are slow-witted and relatively dumb, but as the story goes on, the parasites quickly display the ability to learn and adapt to their circumstances, not to mention prioritize their actions. This is particularly the case with Tamura, whose scientific bent allows her to anaylze situations and perform experiments such as Goto, and even sacrifice other parasites to ensure her own safety and well-being.
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Playing Possum
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Playing Possum: Jaw made Shinichi's mother's parasite think it was dead and waited before finishing it off from a sneak attack from behind when it was distracted.
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Spoiler Opening
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Spoiler Opening: The opening theme sequence shows most important characters in the story like Reiko, Kana and Goto, most of whom didn't appear in the first episode. It also shows that Shinichi will lose the glasses and change his hairstyle, and hints at the death of Shinichi's mother in episode 5, as well as Shinichi's Relationship Upgrade with Murano in episode 21.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Has a one-shot crossover with Fairy Tail where Migi is less terrifying and there's a lot less blood.
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Horror Hunger
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Horror Hunger: Every parasite is driven to eat humans by nature, even though Tamiya Ryoko proves that they can survive by eating the same way humans do. Migi and Jaw are the sole known exceptions of their species as they never took over a human brain nor do they need to eat; they get all the nutrition they need directly from their hosts' bloodstreams.
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An Arm and a Leg
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An Arm and a Leg: Shinichi loses his right arm when Migi seemingly sacrifices himself to stop Goto from killing them both, but he gets better.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Mitsuyo. She takes Shinichi in after his fight with Goto, loudly defends him from the suspicious neighbors, drinks with him, and gives him some parting words of wisdom as he leaves to finish Goto off.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: When Shinichi picks up a puppy in the middle of the road who was hit by a car, Migi determines that it would be dead within ten minutes. Shinichi goes to a quiet park and sits the puppy in his lap, petting it and giving it a good final few minutes. Murano finds him and they sit together in somber silence. Sure enough, the puppy finally dies, but the moment it's gone, he loses all sympathy — he even calls it "meat in the shape of a dog" and just throws it into the trash bin. Satomi angrily calls him out on his sick callousness and it makes him realize how much he's changed. He gives the puppy a proper burial afterward, but Murano isn't around to see.]]
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Parasite Zombie
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Parasite Zombie: The parasites infest a host's brain and proceed to Kill and Replace them. They're not obviously nonhuman unless they're feeding or fighting, in which case their heads turn into Combat Tentacles and mouths with More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
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Good Eyes, Evil Eyes
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Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: A good way to tell who's a parasite is by their emotionless gaze. Subverted a few times - some humans have the same look in their eyes as the parasites do. There's also Miki, a parasite who learned how to look and act genuinely human.
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Cannibal Larder
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Cannibal Larder: Horribly mangled body parts are found all over the world. Unusual in that the culprits are not cannibalistic humans, but alien bodysnatchers who eat people as a source for food.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: Shinichi's parents just so happen to be on vacation in the immediate vicinity of a parasite who, thanks to a series of accidents, needs a new body. The result is that Shinichi's mother is beheaded so her body can be taken over.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: So, you remember Uragami, the Serial Killer the police brought in to help identify parasites? The one who escaped and disappeared during the big police raid after shooting his handler? He comes back in the last chapter. Earlier in the story when Migi met another parasite that had succeeded in possessing its host, it mentions that Migi should move off of Shinichi's body and into his right hand. Migi wonders if it's really possible. The Big Bad Goto turns out to be a mass of parasites in a body, with two capable of controlling them all as the head. When Goto escapes from city hall, he is shown to have two bullet wounds where Yamagishi and his troops shot him. In the final volume, hoping it's the tiny chink in the armor he's been looking on, Shinichi stabs him there with a metal rod — the rod was covered with poisonous pollutants, leading to Goto's defeat.
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Absurdly Sharp Blade
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Uragami's knife is able to slash a guy's throat open and decapitate a girl with ease (though the girl appeared to have no backbone...). The parasites' blades, cutting through people cleanly with almost no resistance.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Tamura of all people managed to pull this on Kuramori when he made a move like he was about to drop her baby off a cliff; after she stabs him, he says he's surprised that she actually cared enough about her son to act, and she says that she's surprised too. She takes it as far as possible when she cradles her son to her chest and shapeshifts to shield him from harm when the cops get there and begin to collectively fire on her; she simply takes the bullets unmovingly to avoid the chance that her son might be hit, and before she dies, she hands him off to Shinichi and asks that he find a good human family to take care of him. Once he agrees, she peacefully dies with a smile on her face.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: In the live-action adaptation, the parasite known as "A" survives his first fight with Shinichi and Migi so he can take the role of the nameless parasite who killed Shinichi's mother and took over her body.
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Blue-and-Orange Morality
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The titular parasites may be sapient creatures who see their human hosts as nothing more than livestock to kill, devour, and impersonate, but they're not always chaotic evil for it, nor are they treated as such by the story. Instead, they operate under Blue-and-Orange Morality; at best they're logical, ruthlessly pragmatic beings who only do what they do because they believe it's how they survive. Some even learn human emotions and empathy over time. In fact, the majority of outright evil characters are a handful of ordinary humans.
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Creepy Monotone
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Creepy Monotone: How all the parasites talk (except for Uda's, who he named Jaw — he learned to talk by watching TV, so he speaks animatedly and uses slang). When a human starts speaking this way, it's a tipoff that they've been taken over.
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Chucking Chalk
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Chucking Chalk: Shinichi's teacher does this twice to him early on. The first time, Migi instinctively catches and crushes it without Shinichi even noticing, much to everyone's amazement; the second time, the chalk hits him because Migi had fallen asleep.
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My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
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My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Migi to Shinchi about Murano. He even shapeshifts into a gargantuan penis.
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Early-Bird Cameo
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Early-Bird Cameo: The first episode of the anime shows Uragami long before his first appearance in the manga.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: Migi decides to fall asleep permanently at the end of the series, but wakes up suddenly and silently after Murano is pushed off the roof of the building Shinichi is on to grab her just in the nick of time.
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Impostor-Exposing Test
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Impostor-Exposing Test: The military figures out a way to use an x-ray machine to detect parasites among humans. Before that a simpler method was devised in which you pluck a hair off the person's head — in the case of a parasite, the ambulatory but non-sentient cells would writhe and shrink before dying.
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Evil Hand
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Evil Hand: Subverted; Migi has pretty much no moral compass and is only concerned with protecting himself and Shinichi, but isn't really evil, just focused on self-preservation to the point that he'll encourage Shinichi to let innocent people die for their advantage or try to kill someone if they discover his existence.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Unintentional, but the appearance of an undisguised McDonald's in chapter 2 is a fairly rare sighting in manga.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Shinichi goes through hell and back and is forced to witness several brutal, traumatizing deaths, but in the end the parasites have pretty much stopped killing humans, and he finally gets to be with Murano.
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Last Stand
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f7cee9b
comment
Last Stand: The battle at city hall is this for Hirokawa's parasites. Ironically, Yamagishi and his troops — the men who eliminated the aforementioned parasites — end up in a last stand of their own against Goto.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f7cee9b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f7cee9b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasyte (Manga) / int_f7cee9b
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f9876f7e
type
Faking the Dead
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f9876f7e
comment
Faking the Dead: That's how Jaw manages to survive the attack from Shinichi's mother parasite. After realizing that his opponent was going for a One-Hit Kill by trying solely to pierce Uda's heart, Jaw changed the locations of Uda's organs and let him be hit. Afterwards, he just needed to wait for the perfect occasion to do a sneak attack — his plan worked without a hitch, and the parasite was killed.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f9876f7e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_f9876f7e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasyte (Manga) / int_f9876f7e
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fbfba1bb
type
Killing Intent
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fbfba1bb
comment
Killing Intent: Comes up a few times; after Migi spreads some of his body into Shinichi's heart's stab wound to save his life, he gains the ability (although it doesn't seem like he's always aware that he's doing it) to give someone a terrifying Death Glare that instantly scares the hell out of them, if not causes them to turn tail and bolt. Parasites themselves can also send out a powerful killing intent that animals can sense keenly; birds with suddenly fly away, and even a lion is intimidated.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fbfba1bb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fbfba1bb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasyte (Manga) / int_fbfba1bb
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
type
Theme Naming
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
comment
Theme Naming: Migi (Japanese for right) and Jaw are named for the parts they're inhabiting in their respective hosts - the right hand and the jaw.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasyte (Manga) / int_fd94c4ac
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fdc1e848
type
Will They or Won't They?
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fdc1e848
comment
Will They or Won't They?: Shinichi and Murano. They will.
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fdc1e848
featureApplicability
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_fdc1e848
featureConfidence
1.0
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasyte (Manga) / int_fdc1e848
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ItemName
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1.0
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Parasyte (Manga)

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
A Sinister Clue / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Adaptation Title Change / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Alien Invasion / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Alien Works / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Animal Battle Aura / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Anime and Manga of the 1980s / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Anime and Manga of the 1990s / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Anime and Manga of the 2010s / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Artificial Hybrid / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Attack Its Weak Point / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Bare-Handed Blade Block / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Battle Aura / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Beat Still, My Heart / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Cannibal Larder / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Catch and Return / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Chucking Chalk / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Clean Cut / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Clipped-Wing Angel / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Coitus Ensues / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Combat Tentacles / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Creepy Cockroach / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Curiosity Causes Conversion / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Delayed "Oh, Crap!" / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Detachment Combat / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Diagonal Cut / int_6d832403
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hasFeature
Died in Your Arms Tonight / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Disability-Negating Superpower / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Double-Meaning Title / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Evil Hand / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Eye on a Stalk / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Eyes Do Not Belong There / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
False Soulmate / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Fearless Fool / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Females Are More Innocent / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Five-Finger Fillet / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Five Rounds Rapid / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Fix Fic / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Flower Mouth / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Gaia's Vengeance / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Green Aesop / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Happiness in Mind Control / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Held Back in School / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Heroic Host / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Horror Hunger / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Human All Along / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Human Outside, Alien Inside / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Humanity Is Infectious / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Hunter of His Own Kind / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
I Love the Dead / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
If I Wanted You Dead... / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Impostor-Exposing Test / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
It's Personal with the Dragon / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Kid with the Leash / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Kill All Humans / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Kill and Replace / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Kill It with Fire / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Killing Intent / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Lamprey Mouth / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Learnt English from Watching Television / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Literal Maneater / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Literary Allusion Title / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Love Makes You Dumb / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Lovecraftian Superpower / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Made of Plasticine / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Mentally Unwell, Special Senses / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Misanthrope Supreme / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Mistaken for Aliens / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Monster Media / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Muggles Do It Better / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Mukokuseki / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Mundanger / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
No Smoking / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Noble Demon / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Non-Protagonist Resolver / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Not Using the "Z" Word / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Off with His Head! / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Organ Autonomy / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Organ Dodge / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Orifice Invasion / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasite Zombie / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parasites Are Evil / int_6d832403
 Parasyte
seeAlso
Parasyte (Manga)
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parents Know Their Children / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parking Garage / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Parrying Bullets / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Pedestrian Crushes Car / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Phlebotinum Rebel / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Power Levels / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Primal Fear / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Puppeteer Parasite / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Raging Stiffie / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Rōnin / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Rooftop Confrontation / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
SWAT Team / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Scar Survey / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Scare the Dog / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Sci-Fi Horror / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Setting Update / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Sex Starts, Story Stops / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Shapeshifter Showdown / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Shapeshifter Weapon / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Sharing a Body / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Situational Hand Switch / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Sparing Them the Dirty Work / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Special Odd Hand / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Species Title / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Surprise Jump / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Surprisingly Happy Ending / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Symbiotic Possession / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Talking Is a Free Action / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Thanks for the Mammary / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
The Chikan / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
The Corpse Stops Here / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
The Dog Is an Alien / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
The Man Behind the Curtain / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
The Symbiote / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Their First Time / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
To Serve Man / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Token Human / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Unable to Cry / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Uncanny Valley / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Unrequited Tragic Maiden / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Vegetarian Vampire / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Victimized Bystander / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Viler New Villain / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Weak to Fire / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
What Happened to Mommy? / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Who Even Needs a Brain? / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
Wounded Hero, Weaker Helper / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
You Don't Look Like You / int_6d832403
 Parasyte (Manga)
hasFeature
You Never Did That for Me / int_6d832403