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Neo Parasyte f

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Neo Parasyte F is mediocre. Simply mediocre. Nothing about it is really unique, and it just comes off as a simple cash grab by Kodansha to cash in on the popularity of the anime. Of course, I'm not saying that this anthology is bad...just rather...lacking.

Now, why is it really...okay? How could you screw up a simple anthology comic?. Well, this series ran in ARIA, a shoujo magazine that is really underground and not popular anyways, so the authors could've done whatever they wanted. Considering all things, using shoujo authors to portray Parasyte is a horrible idea. Half of these stories are just stupid declarations ... of love, and the other half are legitimately good. The tone is incredibly botched, ranging from serious to silly, to just dumb, all with no consistency. Really, why would you throw in Ema Tooyama, known for romcoms, and Kaori Yuki, known for incredibly dark gothic horror, into the same magazine? The styles are incredibly different and don't mesh well at all.

And, that is really what kills this series. It is just not very consistent. Some stories are horrible, and others are really good. Overall, I would recommend this for hardcore fans, and shoujo fans. Overall, the good stories are the only thing that really saves this incredibly shallow tribute to one of the best seinen of all time.

So this was difficult to score, since it's essentially a wack load of short stories rolled into one. The art style changes from one story to another, but the art is excellent in each one. Actually, it reminds me a lot of art that Haruko Ichikawa would draw. And that's a biiiig plus for me. Characters are all different so it's hard to say if they're good or not, but since they were all written by the same person, you get some pretty high quality writing. Though, the enjoyment is good, you kind of feel short changed after a few chapters because you begin to ... get invested into the character, only to have it end quickly. Overall, it's a good read, nothing heavy, but some stuff is really interesting.