Parasyte #03 — The Agony of Constipation

October 22nd, 2014

  

Maybe Mr. Milquetoast needs to grow a spine.

Impressions:

My patience with this show is starting to run thin. It’d be nice if the protagonist (and blaring BGM) would at least learn at some point. The first enemy you encountered? Effortlessly murdered the hell out of in broad daylight. The second enemy you encountered? Effortlessly murdered the hell out of in broad daylight. But oh no! There’s a third one nearby! And we have ample warning thanks to our spider sense. Better panic the moment you see them and then look constipated in indecision and agonized conflict! And draw them in a totally different style because… uh…

At least they somewhat stowed the school crap this week, but that doesn’t change that the rest of the content was stretched out as all hell in service of an exceptionally weak cliffhanger. What happened? A couple new ones showed up, invited him out to info dump at him, then one decided to go after him. Christ. Remove the info dump and that could have been covered before the OP started. It’s not even like they fought and he was put on the defensive. One bit a spoon. The other waved its tentacle head at him. That’s it. That’s all it takes to put a look of abject horror on his face. I guess we’re supposed to think that them being in the school ups the ante or something instead of it being just a dull matter of course.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Gorilla13 says:
    October 22, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    What you wanna see man, them two parasytes piitbull each other?

  • shark0week0 says:
    October 22, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    This episode, and the series in general, is about questioning humanity. Slow episode, but important.

  • algorithm says:
    October 23, 2014 at 5:23 pm

    The best character is the worst character’s right hand. What could possibly go wrong?

  • arknoir says:
    October 27, 2014 at 11:31 am

    The alien swingers lost me on the pregnancy angle!

  • kenuran says:
    October 30, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    “Oh no! We cant finish off the guy I we gave a fatal wound to, in self-defense, thats already killed several people on his way to trying to kill me. THAT would be MURDER!!!”

    You already killed a guy two episodes ago! What are you talking about?

    Then later after the whole PTA meeting thing, Shinichi is all like, “Let’s kill Tamiya Ryoko.”

    What? Now you wanna fight? Man during that part when Shinichi’s mom is all upset cause she cant understand whats going on with her son, I kinda felt bad for her cause I dont understand this character either.

    • Aroduc says:
      October 30, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      The word they use there is 人殺し, which is literally “human/person killing,” which is why Righty says back “That’s not a human.”

      Which, yeah, still makes no sense since he knows it’s not and has already killed one before, but the exchange is even cornier/denser in English.