Parasyte
Japanese manga series and its franchise
Japanese manga series and its franchise
Parasyte (Japanese: 寄生獣, Hepburn: Kiseijū; lit. 'Parasitic Beasts') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It was published in Kodansha's seinen manga magazines Morning Open Zōkan (1989) and Monthly Afternoon (1989 to 1994). The manga was published in North America first by Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kodansha USA. The series follows Shinichi Izumi, a high school senior who is the victim of a failed attempt by a parasitic organism to take over his brain. The parasite, Migi, instead infects and takes over his arm, and both are forced in a peculiar partnership to fight other parasites. The manga has been adapted into two live-action films in Japan, in 2014 and 2015. An anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse, titled Parasyte -the maxim-, aired in Japan between October 2014 and March 2015. The English-language dub aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States between October 2015 and April 2016. A South-Korean live...
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