Story 6/10 - it starts off with an amazing concept of parasites taking over the body, being as intelligent as humans, with a lot of philosophical points to prey v predator, nature v nuture and many other themes. Sounds good right? Except it goes all over the place and the story felt like it was written on the go, with many points unexplained (Like Migi's decision at the end).
Art 9/10- No complaints, not anything spectacular but there were a lot of little touches such as Migi's view being different than Shinichi in his dreams, and the fights were clear to understand with a nice touch on horror.
Sound 5/10 - Not for me. Other than the piano pieces, the dubstep felt all over the place anbd there were many a times where the music would be some funky type then suddenly change to piano , and then back again.
Character 8/10 - Unlike a lot of other reviews, i felt like they did a really good job at this. The main character shows the stages of Denial, Rage and understanding really well and isn't a one dimensional character. This include Tamiya and Kana as well - they were characters that stuck to their values and followed what they thought was right.
Overally 7/10 - It's a really high 7/low 8 for me. There were just too many plotholes, such as in an age of social media, only one guy (a PI) is recording the parasytes? what happened to all the other parasytes across the world? The story felt more of a philosophical discussion on the nature of humans except, unlike other shows that does this (such as attack on titan/cowboy bebop, Shouwa genroku yujin cho), the story just wasnt there to back it up. That said, i found the romcom side of it really enjoyable and honestly it was definitely worth a watch!
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