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By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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Parasyte<\/a> <\/em>starts with its money shot. A husband and wife face each other in a dimmed room; then the man\u2019s head splits and unfolds into a Venus fly-trap, with rows of teeth and a half-dozen eyes on stalks. The woman can\u2019t scream, only gasp in halting, terrified breaths, before the thing chomps her head off. Then a synthetic but spiky opening theme kicks in, by the group Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, previously heard on the end of Hunter x Hunter. <\/em>The music races like a hysterical heartbeat, as if the woman\u2019s terror outlives her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn Earth,\u201d the original Parasyte <\/em>manga began, \u201csomeone thought, if there were half the number of humans, how many fewer forests would burn?\u201d (This was long before the idea entered blockbuster culture with Thanos in the Marvel films.) As the tale opens, mysterious tiny pods, the size of tennis balls, drift over the night-time Tokyo streets, and break open to produce delicate, translucent, worm-like creatures. Instinctively these things scuttle into houses, under doors and into beds, seeking sleeping humans. They usually enter their victims by ear, zeroing in on the luckless host\u2019s brain, to change them from within.<\/p>\n

In these kinds of story, we usually follow the human authorities trying to work out what the monsters are. But while there are such investigations in Parasyte, <\/em>they\u2019re only the subplot. Parasyte<\/em>\u2019s twistis that the main character knowswhat the monsters are already, but he\u2019s helpless to tell anyone. High-school boy Shinichi is one of the humans targeted by a worm-like invader. He\u2019s saved by his unhealthy teen habit of listening to music as he drops off; his earphones block the worm\u2019s first try at brain invasion. Shinichi wakes and desperately tries to fend off the creature; it burrows into his hand, but he stops it by making a tourniquet from his earphones before it can get higher than his arm.<\/p>\n

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The upshot; the thing fails to take over Shinichi\u2019s brain, and must instead settle for possessing the boy\u2019s hand, as it explains to the shocked Shinichi. (\u201cI matured before I could eat your brain\u2026 Such a shame!\u201d) Because it\u2019s taken over Shinichi\u2019s right<\/em> hand, Shinichi christens the thing Migi, or \u201cRighty.\u201d As well as growing a talking mouth, Migi can mutate Shinichi\u2019s hand into a range of strange shapes, but it often manifests as a fleshy lump with a humourless grin and restless eyestalk. The good news is that Migi doesn\u2019t need or want to eat people, as he\u2019s fed by Shinichi\u2019s circulatory system. The bad news is that Migi is determined to survive, and is ready to snip squidgy bits off the boy before he can amputate the parasite. (Evil Dead <\/em>fans, put down that chainsaw.)<\/p>\n

For the same reason, Shinichi can\u2019t tell anyone about what\u2019s happened, even when he sees reports of grisly killings carried out by Migi\u2019s fellow parasites. The media dubs them \u201cthe mincemeat murders\u201d because of their extreme levels of splatter. Meanwhile, Migi wants to meet his parasitic kin, drawing Shinichi into a shadow world of shark-mouthed predators in human clothing. Like many anime heroes, Shinichi comes to lead a double life; home and school on the one side (including a pretty girl classmate who senses something different about Shinichi), and blood, guts and deathmatches on the other. But Shinichi can\u2019t keep his two lives apart for long, and when they come together explosively\u2026 Welcome to Shinichi\u2019s real <\/em>nightmare.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe the protagonist in a story is like a traveller in places ordinary humans seldom see,\u201d said Hiroshi Iwaaki, who created the original Parasyte <\/em>manga. \u201cI hope that readers will follow him into the inhuman world. The further we get from human, the greater our understanding of what it is to be human becomes, I hope!\u201d Iwaaki suggests there\u2019s little point making the journey with someone who\u2019s already a hero at the outset. \u201cI believe mental frailty is part of what makes humanity so appealing. If you\u2019re telling a story about a brave hero, the weaker he is inside, the more dramatic his bravery becomes. Characters who start out strong remain strong, and so we never see them become brave.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Parasyte <\/em>is in a tradition of anime and manga which play like gruesome parodies of X-Men, <\/em>putting teenagers through monstrous transformations that are empowering and terrifying (Akira, Attack on Titan<\/em>, Tokyo Ghoul<\/em>). On the other, Parasyte<\/em> is also part of a classic horror film tradition, dubbed body <\/em>horror. One of the most famous body horror scenes in cinema involves an alien parasite, one that clings on to your face and plants its offspring in your stomach; the same offspring later bursts bloodily out of your chest. Of course, we\u2019re talking about the first Alien<\/em> in 1979.<\/p>\n

Parasyte, <\/em>though, seems to owe more to the 1982 film The Thing, <\/em>in which a monstrous alien is unfrozen in Antarctica. Like Parasyte\u2019<\/em>s parasites, The Thing can impersonate humans before turning into a howling blob of flesh with snapping teeth. Later in Parasyte\u2019<\/em>s story, <\/em>we learn the creatures alter the human body so that every small part is an autonomous creature; this means you can tell if someone\u2019s a parasite or not by plucking a strand of his or her hair. Anyone who remembers The<\/em> Thing\u2019<\/em>s most terrifying scene, involving Kurt Russell tying up his colleagues and testing their blood samples one by one, should know where this comes from.<\/p>\n

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As well as The Thing, Parasyte <\/em>also parallels a much-filmed chiller called Invasion of the Body Snatchers. <\/em>(The best film versions were made in 1956 and 1978.) Based on a 1954 novel by Jack Finney, this involves aliens hatching from pods, making contact with sleeping victims, and duplicating and replacing them. As in Parasyte <\/em>and The Thing, <\/em>it\u2019s an intensely paranoid <\/em>scenario; the \u2018pod people\u2019 look just like us. Or if you want a really <\/em>gross precursor to Parasyte<\/em>, try Shivers <\/em>(1975), <\/em>an early work by the Canadian director David Cronenberg, who later made The Fly <\/em>and Videodrome<\/em>. In Shivers, <\/em>parasites crawl into the bodies of humans, but turn them into much <\/em>worse things than mere carnivorous monsters! Here\u2019s a clue; Shivers\u2019<\/em> working title was Orgy of the Blood Parasites.<\/em><\/p>\n

Parasyte, <\/em>though, isn\u2019t primarily about gross-out, for all its shock images. It\u2019s more of a dark adventure story. Like Battle Royale, <\/em>it flings its young hero into a terrifying situation and continually challenges him to find a way out. Parasyte <\/em>is also a blackly comic twist on the buddy genre, as Shinichi is forced to live with the unwelcome lodger in his body. Migi may be amoral and uncaring in any human terms, but his intelligence, curiosity and tactlessness is most entertaining \u2013 \u201cYou wish to mate with that female, I can tell by your blood pressure!\u201d An outsider to human values, he can\u2019t see any difference between humans eating farm animals and parasites eating humans. Perhaps he was an influence on a certain character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The original Parasyte <\/em>manga ran in Japan between 1988 and 1995. It was acclaimed critically, winning the prestigious \u201cSeiun\u201d science-fiction award for Best Manga in 1996, and was the subject of an unprecedented scramble for foreign rights — on either side of the Atlantic, translators Toren Smith and Jonathan Clements both offered to translate the first volume for free<\/em> if their publishers would consider acquiring it. The next year, Parasyte<\/em> debuted in English from the ultimate victor in the publishers’ race; it was serialised in the US manga anthology Mixxzine, <\/em>where it made quite a contrast with another of the magazine\u2019s serials, Sailor Moon<\/em>! Since then, Parasyte <\/em>has been collected in several English-language editions, starting with a twelve-book version published by Tokyopop. Infamously, this was back in the days when manga was \u201cflipped\u201d to read left to right, Western-style, so Migi (which as we noted, means \u201cRighty\u201d) had to become Lefty instead! More recently, a Kodansha unflipped edition serialised the manga in eight books, and included Iwaaki\u2019s answers to questions asked by his Japanese fans.<\/p>\n

The fact that Parasyte, <\/em>despite its acclaim, was not turned into an anime long ago may reflect the state of the anime industry back then. In 1988, when the Parasyte <\/em>manga started, and even in 1995 when it ended, horror anime tended to be video (OVA) titles. The age of late-night anime shows had not yet begun. Without very <\/em>heavy censorship, Parasyte <\/em>would have been too gruesome for mainstream timeslots. An alternative would have been to make Parasyte <\/em>as an OVA, but most OVAs were very short; it would have been impossible to have offered more than a brief taster of the lengthy manga.<\/p>\n

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Instead, Parasyte <\/em>became one of the early manga to be optioned for a live-action Hollywood remake, and entered the strange dimension known to film fans as Development Hell. It was developed as a Japanese-American production, with the New Line Pictures studio on the American side. James Cameron was reportedly linked to the project at one time; so was the Japanese director Takashi Shimizu, who\u2019s best-known for his work on The Grudge<\/em>\/Ju-on <\/em>horror franchise. Most intriguingly, the film was planned to have physical, animatronic effects by the Jim Henson Company. It\u2019s strange to think of the Muppets <\/em>studio involved in a gory horror movie \u2013 though it had been involved in some scary kids\u2019 films \u2013 <\/em>but it would have put Parasyte <\/em>in the proud \u2018real effects\u2019 tradition of The Thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

If the idea of a Jim Henson Parasyte <\/em>sounds odd, how about Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s version? In 2015, Ghibli founder Toshio Suzuki revealed that Ghibli and Miyazaki had wanted to adapt Parasyte <\/em>too, but were blocked because the rights still lay with New Line at that time. We can only imagine what the Miyazaki Parasyte<\/em> might have been like\u2026<\/p>\n

These plans came to naught, but when the Hollywood rights expired in 2013, Parasyte <\/em>slithered free. Japan quickly brought out two <\/em>glossy screen versions of Parasyte<\/em>. One was the 24-part anime \u2013 a late-night TV serial, naturally, by the Madhouse studio \u2013 called Parasyte The Maxim.<\/em> The other was a two-part live-action film version, directed by Takashi Yamazaki. His other films range from the new monster spectacle Godzilla Minus One<\/em> to the nostalgia-soaked trilogy, Always: Sunset on Third Street, <\/em>set in 1960s Tokyo; he also made the CG animation Lupin III: The First<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Focusing on the Parasyte<\/em> anime series, its story is enormously engrossing. That\u2019s largely because there\u2019s no reset button, no way to take back the enormous developments that come quickly. The anime was by the Madhouse studio (Death Note, Ninja Scroll<\/em>). Character expressions and acting are often good, while the morphing Migi is a gift to animators, squashing and stretching ickily. Apart from the flexing Migi, the show has no \u2018super-deformed\u2019 humour, but the early episodes have a surprise touch of goofiness, like an old Hollywood teen comedy. But then the horror ramps up and Parasyte\u2019<\/em>s episodes start ending on masterful killer cliffhangers.<\/p>\n

There are also moments of delicate humour. In one scene, Shinichi\u2019s maybe-girlfriend tentatively takes his right hand, then hesitates and takes his left <\/em>hand instead. The very next scene switches to two emotionless monsters about to have sex. Parasyte<\/em>\u2019s gender politics are as fascinating as they are contentious. The manned-up Shinichi becomes a magnet for girls who continually fail the Bechdel test, including a supporting character \u2013 a bad girl turned stalker \u2013 who\u2019s written cruelly and shallowly, which doesn\u2019t stop her having good scenes. Parasyte <\/em>also has a running obsession with motherhood which becomes comically obvious. <\/p>\n

Yet at the same time, there\u2019s no worship of male \u2018macho\u2019 ideals, which the show provocatively presents as a female <\/em>illusion. And then there\u2019s the multi-shaped, freeform Migi at the show\u2019s centre, portrayed as male in the manga and the live-action Parasyte<\/em>s\u2026 yet played in the anime by a woman, Aya Hirano, who\u2019d previously voiced the iconic Haruhi Suzumiya.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of <\/strong>100 Animated Feature Films<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Parasyte<\/a><\/em>, the anime series, is released in the UK by Anime Limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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