Parasyte, Volume 5

Parasyte (12 Volumes Edition) #5

by Hitoshi Iwaaki

Shin is an average teenage boy, except for the alien living Inside his left hand Unable to kill the parasite without killing himself, Shin is sucked into a secret alien plot that threatens to destroy all of humanity. Written with dark humor and filled with social commentary, Parasyte is a thinking fan's mix of science fiction, horror and well-developed human drama. It's this generations' version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Hollywood movie rights sold

Genres: Manga, Horror

175 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2000

About the author

Hitoshi 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.