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Parasyte (12 Volumes Edition) #1
Parasyte, Volume 1
It all comes down to this...
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Hitoshi Iwaaki
160 books201 followersHitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明均 Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".
In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie. In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.
In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie. In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.
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July 30, 2021
Madrugada.
August 18, 2015
Real rating: 5.2/10
Manga/GN rating: 6.9/10
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Parasyte starts like a hundred other sci-fi horror stories with alien/monsters suddenly appearing and mimicking the human populace. Like most of these works there is an underlining philosophy or metaphor and the author has no qualms with bashing your frontal lobe with this philosophy time and time again.
The story is interesting in the beginning but does fall in spots where it becomes a little too stereotypical as well there are numerous storyline starts that seem to fade away without any progression or even consideration after their initial construction.
What ultimately ruins parasyte from being a higher level work is the victory over what one would dubbed the final boss. It is on par with war of the worlds or signs. The hero does not win it is a simple mistake or error that turns a build up of at least three hundred pages into nothing but another shot of the author trying to drum home the philosophy of the work, like a heavy handed version of King Kong's finale.
Manga/GN rating: 6.9/10
***************************Spoilers*******************************************
Parasyte starts like a hundred other sci-fi horror stories with alien/monsters suddenly appearing and mimicking the human populace. Like most of these works there is an underlining philosophy or metaphor and the author has no qualms with bashing your frontal lobe with this philosophy time and time again.
The story is interesting in the beginning but does fall in spots where it becomes a little too stereotypical as well there are numerous storyline starts that seem to fade away without any progression or even consideration after their initial construction.
What ultimately ruins parasyte from being a higher level work is the victory over what one would dubbed the final boss. It is on par with war of the worlds or signs. The hero does not win it is a simple mistake or error that turns a build up of at least three hundred pages into nothing but another shot of the author trying to drum home the philosophy of the work, like a heavy handed version of King Kong's finale.
November 5, 2014
I really like this manga, I watched the first episodes of the anime and found it interesting.
May 28, 2016
ingenious
May 5, 2026
The art is extremely rough. Holds back an otherwise perfect series.
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