Ok this is gonna be my first anime review. I watch a lot of anime read a lot of manga. Usually I don't feel like writing up big reviews and stuff not because I don't like to talk about this but because writing about games its way more fun, I guess I like the probability aspect of analyzing games actually for the most part and the technology parts sometimes. And of course how to understand the players in a game. A series is far less interesting but this really rubbed me the wrong way.
So Parasyte is a show about a guy who gets is hand eaten by a parasyte and it replaces his right hand and call it self Migi as its on his right side. Most other Parasytes have taken over human head and are then in control of the body and go around and eat people.
The main character pretty much does nothing so it really is far from a shounen main character, it has to die like 100+ people in his surrounding until he starts to do anything. The best part with the whole anime is that its Aya Hirano doing the voice of Migi and I am big Aya Hirano fan and even knowing its her doing the voice I have a heard time hearing its her so she did that really well. Also the whole interaction between Shinichi(MC) and his hand Migi(second MC) was clearly the best part of the anime.
It definitely remind me Midori Days about a guy who gets a girl on his right hand. And is actually pretty decent anime. Mainly as it does not try to be something its not its just a comedy.
I did think Parasyte started of really well but it just became worse and worse and the worst part was that when I was reading a lot of the comment about it per episode must people seemed to love it...I can only say those people are likely blinded by the Blood and Gore. I found people acting the exactly same with Elfen Lied back in the days when it was new, just because its super bloody and "mature" people for get it almost had zero plot and really uninteresting characters. When I look at peoples view om parasyte its the same thing... "OH its soo good because X in his life died". Or "omg its so deep".
No its trying to be deep but actually is in an extreme shallow way pushing on philosophical points a huge issue with Parasyte, is the that villains the Parasyte in the end of the show start to pretend they have some kind of cause and that humans are wrong but nothing at all in the show ever shows any Parasyte ever working towards that. So it really is not motivated what so ever.
I found it almost disturbing how easy it seems to create depth by just throwing in some stuff at the end or the overall view that a show which is gore focused and has a lot of death is automatically deeper then other shows. So this is why I am gonna talk about some of the huge number of plot holes and otherwise faulty characters in this anime.
Then SPOILERS (gonna spoil most of the show so warning)
Ok so I did think the part when his Mother died was really good. The flashback about her burning herself was great and how she then dies of course where he thought she would be safe from any danger, which was kinda the MCs fault and then he gets "killed" by her and then has to go and kill her for revenge. This was really good so the show was not only bad.
However it was so expected, the main character had zero motivation before to do anything with his new powers so it was clear something would shake him up to make him change a little and maybe do anything with all the rampage murders around him.
And is here when it all went to hell.
After his mother's death storyline was over the story just became worse and worse.
This was especially bad since when he got "killed" by his
mother he showed a massive resolve to kill all parasytes and later after
returning to his home after saving his dad (only person he ever saved
from a parasyte his other save was his GF from a human,,,which he did
extremely poorly being first trapped in the small space between houses,
after having several battles one would think he would better to not fall
for such an obvious trap) he was determined to get ride of all
parasytes and save humanity. Of course he instead does nothing when the
next parasyte comes, his school friends got maimed in front of is GF..and
he still manage to get a few more killed next to the parasyte. And even
after this he never starts hunting or trying to stop parasytes...so
yeah that massive resolve with even a new hairdo was completely
pointless and seemed forgotten.
The main character was really
all over the place and his action almost never made any sense when
looking at them at a detail plan, yet he is claimed to now think like
the parasyte logical..but no not at all. He trust a new Parasyte send by his known enemy right away after promising to kill them all, he trust the P.I which he just met to not tell anyone about him, he knows the weakness of the Parasyte at the Purge raid and can help people yet he just sits there. Really he does fucking nothing for the most pat of the story but just simply telling the cops in the end about stuff in general would save both cops and civilian lives and he still would not be ave to fight personally he would also eliminate more Parasytes overall which is good as they want to kill him. He never took any logical decision even do the story constantly says hes is now a machine who cant cry, he is now beyond humanity. I guess beyond humanity means being really stupid, as the parasytes while claimed to be far smarter then humans for the most part and more logical(its extremely heavy implied that being cold and with no emotion is far better for all decision making), always end up doing really horrible decisions.
If anything really his issue is that he does not do anything, he just sits and hope shit wont hit the fan. Every time he expect it will and well of course it does, and more people get killed. He is one of the worst main characters I have ever seen when it comes to his chance of saving anyone in his vicinity.
The stupidity of pretty much all characters were definitely a huge let down for the anime. Its like many horror movies I guess all characters has to be complete utter retards to get killed. However, the cops, the monsters, the main character, his friends etc all are really, really stupid.
And don't get me started on the people on the streets just wow.
I don't remember this guy name as he was just random rapist number 34. I read a reddit tread a week back or so about what anime got the worst civilians. Parasyte definitely ranks high. Another major plot hole is that apparently almost every person on the streets is a mugger/gang criminal/rapist or all the above. In the
beginning if the series when its more humans and less monster fighting we get to learn that except the main character Shinichi, pretty much all other boys (he is the only boy in the story all others are girls or grown up, well or monsters), are all serious criminals who just spend all their days fighting and trying to gang rape girls. As these guys are all faded out in the story(very standard) Shinichi is after ep 10 or so the only young male in the whole anime. until the last episode when he accidentally walks into 2 guys on the street and they force him to to beg on his knees for forgivingness while one of them stamp on his head...in broad daylight in the middle of a busy street.
I mean honestly, the author most have a really low view of ordinary humans especially teenage males, he couldn't drop the storyline that all humans are crap so first 2 new teenagers that appears after 10+ episodes are of course also willing to do anything to anyone they just met.
This whole idea is so utter ridicules and a horrible way to portray the story it was just a joke how much these thugs all the time wanna fight him, his friend, try to rape his GF or fight other people like the Parasyte.
Kana is actually the only character I could get behind in this part of the story. Yes she also got herself killed in a really stupid way. Running toward a monster because she thought it was Shinichi even when he had told her multiply times she shouldn't do that and even told her about Parasyte.
But, it made SENSE. Her stupidity is the only stupidity that actually makes perfect sense, she can feel Parasytes around her with the wave length thing (the story never explains this at all, we have te mass murder who does it from what he believes being a true human(animal) but why can Kana do it...). So she think they are made for each other. Her getting herself killed was complete fine as it was build up she was retardedly in love with him and was 100% sure they were absolute soul mate.
This was good storytelling as it was build up for several episodes that she believed this and whatever he said she wouldent listen. All other characters especially the Parasytes however lack of intelligence is never explained they are just epically bad at whatever they are doing.
Like this character Yuko. Been a while since I hated a character so much in an anime. Her actions are the worst logical lacking ever + the story is sooooooooooo badly written. I don't know what is worse her actions that I am 100% sure no one ever would be stupid enough to do or the aftermath where she just wanders around like nothing happened the story never for once goes back to her what she did or how she reflects about it. Its horrible, truly horrible written. The score for this anime is absolutely lowered by at least -1 from her subplot as it was just complete pretended it never happened.
What happens that she figures out her new classmate is a parasyte (a parasyte Shinichi is well aware of but does nothing as he is one of the most selfish mcs ever). She is smitten by this guy and follows him around, sees his face get smashes in by a baseball, she him change face, see him threaten people etc.
She by far know something is off about him, her brother happens to a be cop and like her likes drawing so he draw portrait for the police investigation. Her brother is involved in the Parasyte hunt and she spots his drawing of Shinichi's mother's murderer.
Here any reasonable person would put 1 and 1 together and get that that guy is a fucking monster,. Note she has seem him change his face completely all aspect of its
And its here the the story goes really stupid. She confronts her brother and he decides to tell her everything about her the Parasytes and he emphasize and how much they need to caught a live one. Clearly she should fucking tell him. BUT NOOO she instead decides to ask the person she should be 100% sure is not a human and simply beg him to stop killing humans at the highest floor of the school alone in a dark room.....
THIS is just so fucking stupid, she does it in the absolute worst way possible. Its disgustingly bad written, not only is her actions super dangerous for herself which would stop most from doing it, she has no way to know he will listen to her so better tell her brother from that perspective. She could have confronted him with a lot of people or with her teachers etc w.e why alone at the worst place at the school, just asking to get killed.
Lastly why in gods name did she not leave any note or anything its such a bad story. For example I sometimes play the game Salem where you are supposed to investigate otehr players and find what type of character they are one of those classic find out who is in your team or not. In Salem a lot of characters can kill you if you visit them, but you can always write a note. E.G today I am visiting player 1, if I die he was the culprit.
If the show just showed her for a split second writing a note in her room it would be so much better. If nothing happens she can easily remove it, if she killed off(which she would expect) her brother can easily find it later and then he would know who the killer is. Nope, she just goes to get herself killed.
But she ends up hurting the Parasyte with some acid this is also never explained what it was and why it worked so well, could be good to tell the cops or something. She finds a bottle of something in a schools art room (so it most be pretty easy to manufacture) and its like the biggest weakness the Parasytes ever has in the story it is of course never used again..
Anyway instead of wining over him she just makes him lose control. And gets 17 of her school buddies killed...where most of them saw a corridor filled with blood and body parts she also ad to jump out from the highest floor into tree to survive from the freakish monster she just meet.
And here the story is even worse then her actions. She is just supposed to be a normal teenager with a pretty normal life, family, friends etc. And kinda introvert personality. AND she is now responsible for 17 of her friends getting killed of and teacher students getting whacked of, her school closing down for some time. Herself taking a lot of damage from the massive fall and her being attacked and fighting this monster.
And.....this seems to have zero effect on her. The MC who has lost his hearth and cant cry anymore reflects on stuff constantly, she is shown to be the exact same person after this. Not like she has much story but she is in several small dialogs next to the mc and his GF or her talking with the GF etc. She is the exact same person nothing changed. We are never seen her coming over any type of grief having killed of so many people. Never seen her with any real injuries. No no she can just sit at school and talk about stuff like murder and the things that happened with no emotional effect at all.
Yuko Tachikawa is one of the worst anime characters I have ever seen.
Overall most of the character are really badly written, the only characters I liked was the mother and father, which were both really good characters. The mother dies and so does his father storyline as well who is not in the story after that either unfortunate. I used to like Migi but the more I think about this anime the less I do. Because Migi is so heavily emphasized being really smart always doing amazing strategy plans in battle, knowing everything etc. Yet he cant do plan for anything long term. Face it Migi was a really stupid character outside battle, which does not make sense as the Parasyte are supposed to be really smart, much smarter then humans. Instead they are all really stupid and not in just their lack of understanding humans but how they act in everything. The anime ended on such a crap ending and this is mainly from how bad the Parasytes do anything.
And thats the 2 last major issues in the story, the lack of explanation of Parasytes and their actions. As they never do anything smart. The lack of Parasyte effectual plans really undermines the extremely forced ending.
Crap ending, it seems the mangaka just went all the way
around to not having to come up with a real plot for why the parasyte
existed. The story suddenly try twist it into something like, world is dieing or world is to much humans. So it goes the make room make room idea, which the movie Soylent Green is based on. Which the book did better then the book and that its we are way to many humans so its gonna be super crowded in the future. The characters like Gotou kinda pushed that on suddenly at like the 2-3 last eps and before they had been talking about pollution and stuff but that also kinda came later in the story.
A massive issue is that Migi has no idea of why they exist, especially not vs over crowding after the talk in the later episode he does talk about pollution which is of course how they defeat Gotou. The main issue is that it seems just some parasyte come to this conclusion so its not at all a consensus that this is why they are doing stuff.
And don't give me the, "stop human" like a good plot
point, first of all the parasyte did horrible job killing humans. They
would just aimlessly kill and eat humans and not at all target any
specific humans to stop pollutions. Or for that matter why not take over
more humans in high places? Take over the president and so on, they
really did a poor job for either invading earth(if they were aliens) or
stopping pollution if they were some type of anti thesis to humans. Regardless on why they are doing it they are doing it wrong.
This is really a huge, huge fail in the storyline. Suddenly after 60-70% or so of the story the Parasyte group in Japan want to stop pollution? Or they feel they can kill human for its so many w.e something like that they cant really make up their mind of their goal it seems. But its said 100 of times in the story that they have zero moral. They have zero feelings they are willing to do anything for survival and later then for the cause, the one with the major. Which also made no sense, as yes these 50 or so Parasyte have banded together out the story so far.
Migi's standpoint is that self-perseverance in any animal especially for him and all other Parasytes is their only true motivation, well for anything really, its the strongest force in the universe and the only true righteous one. Killing anyone for saving oneself is always right and so on. So suddenly these 50 are willing to die for others? This makes zero sense as they are just goons not the story important Parasyte like Ryōko who do have seem to be more and more human. But these guys are supposed to be the more ruthless Parasyte doing anything or their survival. However, at the raid they are then suddenly willing to die for the others to let them escape. As their species cant reproduce either their willing to die is utterly stupid not just as a complete turn in personality but also in how if they have some big plan they need to stay alive its not like they can become more.
Another problem is of course that its implied there were aliens in
the majority of the story, having a directive, falling from the sky etc.
Its mainly later the protect earth comes in to place. IF they are
aliens..so
not from the earth and as
they cant reproduce they are just bio weapons to wreck havoc on the
planet. Overall they really are a typical First wave type of alien
attack where they send in beings that can create distrust between
humans. This would clearly void all the talk about the environment.
Another reason why the story should have explained if they truly
were from earth as now we are left with just an ambiguous explanation to
why the exist and aliens seems to be the most likely. Given their actions until the end raid.
Regardless the reason they exit they really did it bad, why not conduct
mass murder against humans, why not use weapons. They are supposed to be willing to do anything. Yet they can just go around killing 1 human at a time for almost no effect of w.e goal they have. They are truly horrible at what they should be doing, without knowing as a watcher what these evil guys are supposed to do I know they are failing at it, really failing.
There is even one scene
when Migi would read up on guns. They know guns exist they can use them they figure out they can kill easily with a good hit. The humans later uses shotguns for great effect destroying their bodies as Parasyte are only strong where their body parts are.
Its quite retarded that not a single
parasyte would use firearms or other type of weapons. Its really ridiculous as they got no morals, they are supposed to alway do the most effective way to win. Yet not 1 of them ever think of the great idea to bring a gun to a knife fight.
They are having these knife fights all the time, I am not saying a gun would automatically win. But why not when this fight is happening take out a hand gun or preferably something with more fire power and shoot at the other Parasytes body. "Bam" while its busy defending your knife attack you kill its body. Or at least injure it so its easier to kill it with the knife duel fight. Especially the main character as they are 2 persons the Parasyte and the human intact should by far use firearms and other weapons they kill a Parasyte with a fucking stone but cant fathom to use guns? And it makes even less sense as Migi clearly studied fire arms there...just wow they are so bad at fighting.
Its not just the gun lack, they never use traps except fighting in woods/corridors etc. What about actually planing a trap ahead. Migi is supposed to be super smart and get all human stuff, knowing Gotou is chasing them why not build an actual trap? Once in the whole anime they drop a car at him...that made no fucking sense. The chance of being able to drop the car at the exact location with the time frame, given the speed etc. It was like the worst kind of trap he could come up with. + the damage would just be a blast force trauma which wont work vs Gotou's body why not make a trap to seal his movement instead.
Gotou is like 5 or more Parasytes in the same body(its 5 before and more later I guess, 6 at least in the last battle).
It is mentioned its hard to maintain the form but...why don't more try to do this. Yet again a power thing that makes no sense. SO ok you can fuse? The second Parasyte they face in like episode 2 already suggest this and yet only Gotou and his buddies are doing it. Why not have someone else with like 2 parts or something at least. Not as good as Gotou but at least someone tried to power up except him.
Gotou action also heavily undermines the story. He talks about pollution, man are evil etc. OK so what is your plan big guy? His plan is to fight? Enjoy fighting? He becomes some kind of monster that just travels around for a good challenge said by himself and Migi. Yet he gives speeches about saving the Earth. His actions are so extremely inefficient for saving the planet. He also could have saved the Mayor and most of his Parasyte friends if they had just fought the humans. Overall the Purge raid battle was a joke in the Parasyte perspective they would have it 100 times easier just fighting the humans head on. And if Gotou would have helped instead of letting everyone die just so he could then win alone...alone vs all afterwards easily. He could have saved his kind. His actions are utterly stupid. More so when he claims to both live for fighting but has to somewhat justify killing as humans are evil.
This is what I call really bad writing. Its a way for the author to force, really force feed philosophical point with no bearing on the character that actually says it. Basically a dog could have walked in the last page and said the authors view of the wold and it would make more sense as the dog at least wouldent have been doing the opposite of what it said it believed in for several episodes.
Lastly the other massive miss is the Mayor, where the story had a chance to explain shit.
It
really dropped the ball where the mayor was just killed of without us
getting his plans, there it could have been explained what the parasyte
in general was planing with the earth and why not only in Japan but the
rest of them lay low after the purge. Instead the Mayor's action was
really stupid. He could just have walked out..he could just have left
the dam building instead he spend time getting a lot of parasyte killed
and instead of escaping he goes so he can make a speech?
For who? It was
like 8 people who saw that speech if he truly believed in the cause he
have do so much more then is life then sacrificing himself for that
speech it was so pointless. He could have done so much more alive. And when he died it was another plot hole drop, ok hes human someone says and its 1 second of "ooh shet" expression on the cops and then its never mentioned again..just WTF.
Is not someone like the main character gonna talk about this, reflect over this. Why did a human ally with them? Gotou drops one line to Shinichi, it goes something like yes he was a special man. OK thanks that explains the story and the character motives.
And this is really bad in every possible way. Its not a good way to set a mysterious plot open for debate. No its just lazy writing, Bam shock he was human. And then not being able to explain it reasonably in anyway why he was human. It also made the Parasyte action make so dam little sense. They are supposed to always strife for survival and die for a human? A human that could just leave. Yes it was a shock he was a human as it makes zero fucking sense and not giving an explanation to it just cemented bad story.
Also...its never explained how he started
working with the parasytes. A huge blunder the whole government story.
Then it was of course all of other just overall plot holes most of them had to do with Ryōko. First of all she gets a kid, and she seems to invoke more humans emotion and stuff. But its so many plot holes with her.
She is said to be the smartest of them all, she seems to be behind the Mayor plot line and she was the one who come up with the Gotou idea(which is not entirely true the story we viewers have seen as already parasyte 2 had that idea...). She basically knows a lot still just goes and die before the raid never explains her motivation at all etc. I can live with that she stopped being as rational when she got a baby and become more of a human. But her powers and all other motivation are never explained.
Already at her first appearance she as a better morph(image above) um OK? So Migi says oh we cannot beat her shes way stronger then us. And then Migi wonders on how she can do those moves etc.
And of course this is completely dropped to ever being mentioned again. There is never any other Parasyte that can do this. Ryōko and Shinichi never fights so its never shown what those power can do etc its just completely ignored while it was presented like a major plot point when she first appeared as she as seemingly so strong that even as Shinichi knew she was at his school endangering his friends he could do nothing as she is so strong. (however that was also him being extremely inactive as always so..)
She later does kill 3 Parasyte alone with some kind of split ability with ease killing them. Also then of course never explained. So she has at least 2 other powers no one else has.
Basically she is the strongest parasyte by far excluding Gotou, but ends up being killed by mare human with guns...
This is from her storyline being all over the place as well. She got like 20 different motivations and her story is really badly implanted into the story as she kinda goes in and out of the story. But to do this we as a viewer need to see more from her side so we get what is happening, we do a little but just a little and she is just extremely irrational across the story as whole. She is extremely inconsistent in her powers (level) and what her agenda is.
Her whole death also was really stupid. So she is surrounded by some humans...ok she is shown to be vastly superior then other Parasyte not like she couldn't just run away, jump away from them etc. Yes she was protecting the baby with her morph hair power(that only she has for whatever reason) and it supposed to look really beautiful and deep.
But is utter shit. That plan is retarded, she can run fast jump high etc. She can avoid the bullets while protecting her baby with her metal hair. Just because she sacrificed herself for her baby does not make it a good scene, I completely honestly thought the scene was really crap, as the why she did it was so weak. Not saying that it couldn't end the same but simply running towards Shinichi with the baby while being gunned down would make 1000000x more sense.
Exact same scene but more cops and cops with real fire arms and not just hand guns. They shoot at her with assault rifles etc. She could survive this if she did not care about the baby but she decide to move as best as she can towards Shinichi while using most of her powers to defend the baby.
That would have made fucking sense. Not having like 5 cops shooting at her with weak handguns and she as slow as possible take every bullet on purpose.
One can argue that she died so her baby could have a normal life, but she wanted the baby to be raised by Shinichi so her action does not make sense in that regard either. Excluding the fact she could have just given the baby to him with no cops there...or do it at a later date. Not that complicated. Secondly she is supposed to by far be the smartest character in series she most have known he would not being able to keep the baby, she is smart enough to get how social service work and foster care, adoption etc.
Given that, if her plan was just to get the baby into the system she could have just left the baby earlier. Or even just approaching the cops given it to them and maker her escape. Not matter how I looked at it, her actions was really stupid, her obsession with Shinichi is the only thing that make sense. But that story never really goes anywhere either even do its get the P.I involved we never get to see her reflect on the results and so forth so its just really badly written together as a whole story. Its way to one sided and her involvement is way to scattered.
Otherwise I kinda liked her character but her death wow, what a let down. Like I said its not that she died is how it made zero sense even if she wanted to die, which I guess it the only reasonable thing to assume the baby survival chance was still lowered by her just moving slowly forward. Her moving quickly forward standing in the way between Shinichi and the cops giving him the baby and then drawing their fire away from the baby while blocking with her hair would been way better then what she did.
Just that she just moved and did not even try to morph her body to better protect the baby was stupid. This scene could have been so much better, so much better.
See I get the novel idea here,the story focused on a mother love for her child earlier as well. So it is supposed to be this really nice way to show that parasyte also can get feelings and care about their kin.
But its just makes no sense, not her motivation but how it happens. She could easily have survived and taken the baby with her(which also makes more sense then dieing to give the baby a new life she can do that without dieing...) that overall would be so much higher chance for it to survive.
Like I mentioned the police force simple looked like a joke to take her on. The concept is there but its really badly done. We also never get to see what happens with the baby, it would make sense to have it in the last episode as half it was just filler of nothingnesses..
The last episode also to not surprise drops a huge plot hole, a very wide hole.
An overall issue was also the classic overly focus on Japan
its some kind of major changes across the globe and its like mentioned
2-3 times that "people talk on the net" and then in end all parasyte not
in Japan simply just stopped because the Japanese ones got killed
of,,,very weak writing.
This is something that its common from Japanese authors their complete disregard of anything outside Japan, USA is mentioned once as the only country ever mentioned in the anime of course they are mentioned in a classic racist hint to USA being an evil warmonger nation. And I really man racist comment it was 100% racism towards Americans.
But even more so it was such a blatant narrowed minded ending. Japan's major group of parasyte was killed of, ergo all other parasyte in all other countries also gave up. Just woooot? Just because Japan is now saved all is saved, saving Japan automatically is the answer to the world invasion.
Normally I wouldent care about some mangaka dislike for none Japanese but I think its actually so obvious from all the early hate towards teenagers and "street people". Like who dies for the most part? Females who get picked up by male Parasyte while our mc faces both female and males its not one scene where any female parasyte tricks a man.
SO female sluts get killed ok, all young males are douchebag rapist. Americans are probably the cause at least they are worse then aliens after all they are Americans. Solving Japan problem - saves the Americans and the rest of w.e countries that exist.(seems the author hates a lot of people I guess)
Also then the major plot hole of that now suddenly they can all eat normal meat.
There was always a major pot hole why they were killing humans in the first place when it was explained by Migi and later Ryoko that they could eat other flesh to sustain. And it really never made any sense anyway why they would specifically need human flesh over cow flesh.
And here the environmental forced philosophical gets thrown out of the widow right way again. Because suddenly they all care about just survival? So they where not there to kill humans or save the planet...ok then. What was the dam overall plot then? How is adopting and just living like humans gonna save the planet? This is as massive plot hole, the last episode was just silly we get this mass murder human who further points at what is a human and humans are evil bla bla, ok but these so called salvation are just living the evil human life so ..well w.e then.
However, the bigger plot hole here is something that irritated me from episode 1. Given that their main objective is to be alive, they say they want to kill humans for w.e reason, which they never do in good anyway so that is clearly also a massive issue in the story yes you eat human sometimes but you could kill so many o much faster then hunting them down 1 and 1.
The only real consistent in the series is that they do anything for self-perseverance. If this is what is important, why hunt human in the first place it makes no sense. They can just eat normal human food and take zero risk in life. As soon as they understand how the world works, money etc. They should just take control of a decently wealthy person and then just live. Hunting humans to eat is just a 100% pointless risk they are taking because they got some kind of directive but its proven with Migi, with Ryoko, with Gotou etc that directive is not something they will follow + then in the end they all just decide do to care about it anymore as its to dangerous. If that directive did not matter so much to them, from the start they should be less and less inclined to hunt humans, yet most of them are mindless killers to the end.
And one cant motivate that form the save the planet bullshit as they all decided in the end to not care about that.
Yeah this series had so many faults, it was so extremely shallow and the "depth" it had was just blasted in from no where in the latter episodes but then 100% ignored in the last episode.
The good thing with this anime is clearly, the animation in itself. Madhouse does a great job with the overall quality and the manga who is old and pretty badly drawn is clearly way worse then the anime adaption.
The story was also great in the beginning excluding that all people seems to be crazy thugs, the first like 10 or so episode was pretty solid.
However, after that its clearly to me the author had no idea where the with the story. The sex scene for example with Shinichi and Murano was just kinda thrown in there. Out of nowhere they have sex, this shows the story was not at all planned a head. Suddenly the evil are good in the end but then the good guys(parasyte) are lazy so they go evil? The whole ending was just, well let pretend nothing of these Parasyte ever happened anywhere derp the end. Same with completely trying to ignore any explanation on what the things are instead a lot of not very well thought was given out, to just make it look interesting but really shallow.
That to me if anything just showed it was a really bad anime instead of being able to explain stuff they just throw in more confusion to make it "open ended".
3/10 - Extremely inconsistent characters, story plots just dropped constantly and ridiculously stupid villains, while they are claimed to be really smart and 100% ruthless, why did not anyone just take the leader of the country and use mass destruction weapons to kill humans.
