Many guts and many laughs are had, but perhaps the parasyte were the friends we made along the way.
Art style is nice and all but not spectacular. What you'd expect from a modern animu with decent budget. OST gets repetitive real fast specially during battles/tense scenes.. OP is annoying in my opinion, screamo-trying-too-hard-in-your-face annoying kinda. Not gonna lie bros, I skipped it errrry time. ED is kawaii and bretty good 10/10 (but it doesn't make up for the rest of the ost being sorta repetitive). Decent characters overall, though some could've used more development, but the MC is really the star of the show so maybe it doesn't even matter. Highly enjoyable and probably somewhat gory for most people but not all that much really.
Great if you're looking for Seinen/Horror/Sci-fi stuff. I suppose great overall regardless as far as animu goes, story has some originality and it's rather entertaining to watch it play out.
That said and funnyspeak aside, Parasyte does draw some inspiration from Horror Classics that use body horror for their storytelling. If you like movies like The Thing, Body Snatchers and such other titles, then I think you'll have a great time watching this show. Body horror is of course not the only thing it has going for it, although that's a big part - Parasyte manages to weave in some light philosophical themes into its narrative (although let's not kid ourselves here, don't expect to get any depth similar to reading Hegel or Evola, or Wittgenstein here... who reads Hegel anyway?).
For me, one of the most striking features of Parasyte was to remind me that sometimes in life we think we're bothered by something - that we're inconvenienced by a certain situation, or that you wish for some drastic change, not taking into account all of the intricacies implied within said change, only to realize when it comes, that your previous state (or situation) wasn't as unfavorable or uncomfortable as your perception made you rationalize it - and that maybe you actually enjoyed it, but didn't give it enough attention or did not appreciate it as you should until it was gone.
For me, that's how I'd describe the main character's relation with Migi (the parasyte). And I can relate it to many instances of my own life... and perhaps so can you, avid reader.
Final warning (maybe might be spoilerish, but I don't think so, but I mean maybe): Characters die. And then they're gone. Don't expect a "favorite" character to live "just because". It can be brutal out there.
