Parasyte
| Parasyte | |
Cover of the Mixx edition of volume 4 featuring Shinichi Izumi and Migi.
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寄生獣 (Kiseijū) |
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| Genre | Body horror,Psychological thriller, Science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hitoshi Iwaaki |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Morning Open Zōkan (1988-1989) → Afternoon (1990-1995) |
| Original run | 1988 – 1995 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Parasyte -the maxim- | |
| Directed by | Kenichi Shimizu |
| Written by | Shōji Yonemura |
| Music by | Ken Arai |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Original network | NTV (and other NNS stations) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 9, 2014 – March 26, 2015 |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Live action films | |
Parasyte (Japanese: 寄生獣 Hepburn: Kiseijū?, lit. "Parasitic Beasts") is a science fiction horror manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki, and published in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1988 to 1995. The manga was published in North America by first Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kodansha Comics USA. The manga has been adapted into two live-action films in Japan in 2014 and 2015. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse, titled Parasyte -the maxim- (寄生獣 セイの格率 Kiseijū Sei no Kakuritsu?), aired in Japan between October 2014 and March 2015. The English-language dub aired on Adult Swim's Toonami block in America between October 2015 and April 2016.
Parasyte centers on a 17-year-old high school student named Shinichi Izumi, who lives with his mother and father in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo. One night, worm-like creatures called Parasites appear on Earth, taking over the brains of human hosts by entering through their ears or noses. One Parasite attempts to crawl into Shinichi's ear while he sleeps, but fails as Shinichi is wearing headphones, and enters his body by burrowing into his arm instead. In the Japanese version, it takes over his right hand and is named Migi (ミギー?), after the Japanese word for 'right'; Tokyopop's version, in which the images are flipped horizontally, has the Parasite take over Shinichi's left hand and it is named Lefty.
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