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Apr 7, 2015
Summary:
Parasyte adopts many characteristics akin to previous great, popular anime. Specifically, it introduces an original fantasy concept and attaches it to an ordinary main character (such that the viewer can imagine themselves in that situation). The chosen concept allows for cool fight scenes and cliffhanger episode endings, both of which give the viewer a constant sense of anticipation and excitement.
Sadly, Parasyte offers little beyond this enjoyment. While the anime attempts to explore themes relevant to modern times, it offers little incite into these areas beyond "humans are polluting the earth" and "human values are often inapplicable and illogical". In fact, the points it tries to
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make are often illogical or portrayed via a poor example. The idea that humans are demons and that
Overall, you should watch this anime if you're looking for something exciting to kill time.
Story 8/10:
As mentioned, the initial concept/premise of Parasyte is great and offers a world of potential. Additionally, the episodes cliffhangers are done really well, constantly forcing you to watch the next episode. Based on this alone, the story would be 10/10. However, the plot progression is unrealistic. Often you will be left wandering why character A did this and character B did that. Worst of all is when the special force teams get involved and take an idiotic, casualty-heavy approach to fighting the parasites.
I was not a fan of the final episode, but others may disagree. The ending scene was felt tacked-on to the main arc and felt like a poor attempt to re-iterate the points the anime was trying to make (that were already pretty in-your-face).
Character 6/10:
Let's start with the main characters. Migi and Izumi are great characters. Their actions completely align with their character progression throughout the series. The development of both these characters is great and well fleshed out.
Almost every other character is awful. All the female human characters get significant screen time. During all of this time they do nothing but hopelessly chase after or fantasize about the main character. They hold no real personality and have no objectives of their own. Each antagonist's character can be summarised by "I like to eat humans when I'm hungry". The detectives/special-forces are constantly endangering lives and hold no objective except "kill the monsters" without any thought towards gathering information. The female parasite is an acceptable character but her main appeal is just being different from the other parasites.
Many characters die but none of them are developed well enough for you to really care. You're left thinking "ah, they got themselves killed, that was stupid of them". If done well, events as significant as death should leave an impact.
Execution 9/10:
Parasyte is (or at least looks like) a high budget project. The art, voice acting, and dialog are all great.
Overall 7/10:
The cliffhangers will keep you watching. The concept will peak your interest. But at the end of it all you might feel a little bit empty and wonder if it was worth your time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 30, 2015
The idea of an intelligence/logic/game based anime is extremely appealing to me. I actively seek these types of anime out; death note, one outs, kaiji, liar game, usogui, even code geass to an extent. No Game No Life is not an intelligence based anime. If you are looking for anything similar to what is listed above then do not watch this anime.
In fact, if you're not looking for a heavily fan-serviced based, often illogical anime you should not watch this anime.
If you want to enjoy this anime, you should view the "intelligence" of the main characters as a super power. In the same way spiderman
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can shoot webs, the main characters can perfectly predict every action that every other character in the show makes with little to no knowledge of their personality or general abilities (and no logical thought process).
Story 5/10
The story gets most of its points for an enjoyable premise. The idea of a "world of games" is pretty original, or at least hasn't often been portrayed successfully within anime (or literature). The world is generally a pretty well thought out one, and the situations that they are put into are interesting enough.
Some of the things they do/say are pretty dumb. I'm also confused as to why the "challenged" team can't just create a game that makes them a 99.99% favourite (stakes are decided beforehand, and they're clearly allowed to make a game that favours them).
Characters 3/10
So.... the main characters are smart? I doubt there was really much more thought put into characters besides that. There was no development in any of the characters, they are all identical to how they are when they're introduced. If they are identical to the start, what was the point of the 12 episodes?
Still the characters have some amusing traits. If you watch the first episode and fine them funny then you'll probably enjoy the show.
Execution (art,sound,dialog etc.) 7/10
Production quality/budget is high, so art/sound are generally pretty good. Fan service is drawn well I guess, the incest lolicon fan service is kinda weird.
Dialog is okay. Sometimes they say some incredibly cliched or stupid things but in general it's pretty typical dialog you come to expect from anime.
Overall 5/10
I didn't like it much, but it was entertaining enough for me to watch the entire thing. Don't look for anything of substance, it's more of a show you want to watch
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 30, 2015
It is rare for an anime to be able to make you genuinely smile, cry, hope, and despair to the same extent as Your Lie in April. As such, people caught up in emotion after finishing the (fantastic) final episode, take the average story and label it a masterpiece. This is why the show currently ranks 13th on MAL, competing with the best the anime industry has to offer.
Nevertheless, you should watch this show. It will motivate you, explore the pains of love and loss, and show the importance of using the time you have to influence other people.
Anyway, onto the review. A simple
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summary is that the show delivers an average story in a masterful way. The dialog is the true star of this show, it often reads like poetry evoking genuine happiness and concern for the characters.
Story 7/10
The core of the story is used throughout anime in many sorts of genres. An apathetic main character who is struggling with a dreadful past is pulled from his despair by his seemingly polar opposite.
For this anime, the vessel for plot progression is classical music competitions. It doesn't really matter whether music interests you. Just like in many sporting anime, you watch to see whether characters can overcome their internal struggles to do well in these competitions. Sometimes you wonder whether they'll even turn up at all.
Characters 7/10
You watch this show for the characters. Specifically Kousei and Kaori. And you genuinely care about these characters, the show makes you care. You hope and think "please play", "please succeed", "please fight". And when they cry your heart sinks, and when they succeed your heart jumps. It's as if they were real people that really connected to your life.
Kousei especially is one of the best developed, three dimensional characters I've seen in anime. Which is why it's so surprising when most of the other characters are so poorly made. They all exist for a single reason, as if the writer said "I need someone to look up to the main character" or "I need a mother figure" and then drew the character model and moved on to designing another character. The worst example of this is Watari, who doesn't change at all, existing for the sole purpose of being Kaori's boyfriend.
If the author had limited the number of characters and fleshed them out to a similar extent as Kousei and Kaori, I would rate the characters 10/10. Heck, this show would get 10/10.
Execution (dialog, art, sound, etc.) 10/10
The true star of this anime, and the reason for its success. As mentioned before, the dialog reads like poetry, using imagery to sculpt the beauty of Kaori's outlook of life into our minds. It is often the trigger for sorrow or happiness within the viewer.
Additionally, sound is used brilliantly to reinforce emotions by exploring character backgrounds at the same time as they perform common classical pieces. It is a true credit to the author/director that the show was able to link the desired emotions of stories to that of the music.
The art is used splendidly to convey the ideas of "colour" in music. It should be fairly easy for you to judge the overall quality of the art yourself.
The only real issue I had with the execution was the dragonball Z style flashes of character's faces whenever something significant changed in the song. Usually this was okay because the characters would have a meaningful comment to make, but sometimes they would just flash five faces one at a time with each of them saying "wow".
Overall 8/10
The show did good. I cried lots. But there are clear shortcomings within this anime which seperate it make it fall short of the true masterpieces within anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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