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Blackiris_ Posts: 132 |
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I strongly disagree with the music part, for me it made the show much more compelling and effective (and I'm not even into dubstep). I guess it's love or hate here. | |||
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FloozyGod Posts: 24 |
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^^ for real, literally everyone hates on the music. I can understand if it's not your genre, but it's not bad. It goes perfectly with anime!!! | |||
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meiam Posts: 1002 |
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Definitely a show that peak early for me. The beginning was great and the changing relationship between Shinichi and Migi was fun.
But boy does it go down quick after that. The middle portion of the show is pretty much filler, complete with some random character that show up and disappear as soon as the show is ready to get back onto the real story. Then you'd hope the it would get back to the good stuff after that, but not really. I mean you literally have a character turn to the audience and do a little 5 minute speech about the morale of the story. It gets very preachy, and really downright snobby, at the end. Sinichi gets super inconsistent, freaking out about people dying, yet at some point he directly cause the death of some people and doesn't even mention it. I was also pretty disappointed with Ryoko arc, spoiler[having her just become a mother over night felt out of character, or rather just boring and predictable and, again, overly preachy.] |
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Wyvern Posts: 758 |
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Parasyte has a lot more going for it than just violence and gore, but I'd forgive you for thinking it doesn't since the Blu-Ray cover IS A GUY WHOSE HEAD IS EXPLODING IN A BLOOD GEYSER.
Subtle! But I really did enjoy this show, it's got a really interesting, empathetic perspective on the whole "monsters want to kill us" trope. It's very smart horror that forces you to consider the perspective of the monsters. That said, I agree with Meiam about Ryoko: afterspoiler[ spending the entire series going "I MUST EAT ALL THE HUMANS, MY BIOLOGY COMPELS ME, OM NOM NOM NOM," suddenly she sees a baby and is all "Wait, never mind, humans are cool now." I can see what they were going for, but it just comes off as silly.] Still a fine show otherwise, though. |
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Levonr Posts: 364 |
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The music in the first two episodes is off but then it improves. | |||
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Lemonchest Posts: 812 |
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Only got half way through Parasyte before giving up. First impressions were good. Then they decided to have the first hint that Shinichi's hand was possessed by having it grab Satomi's boob (FUUUUUUUUUDGE!) Then the atonal fart noises that some people call dubstep & drum & bass happened. Then they decided to that the parasyte would turn Shinichi into a ripped as fudge gloomy badass. Then they made a half arsed effort to have Satomi repeatedly say "you've changed, Shinji-kin" except for the time he leapt out of a third story window & over a fence to save her, whereupon all she had to say was thanks. I called it quits when suddenly psychic girl had the naked on a unicorn dream & promptly spoiler[went all Gwen Stacey on us so Shinichi could have another dead woman to mark the latest step in his journey to becoming the ultimate parashite]
Futurama did it better. |
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Greed1914 Posts: 2184 |
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Parasyte has been even more entertaining than the basic premise led me to believe it would be. It's also nice to see an older manga get an anime adaptation since it meant they could work with a complete story, instead of just stopping.
I have to disagree with the assessment of the music. I enjoyed all of it, especially the opening. I usually don't find background music sticking in my head, but it did for Parasyte. |
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Takkun4343 Posts: 203 Location: Gahanna, Ohio |
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>not liking the music
And I thought ANN was unfairly biased towards IGPX's soundtrack... |
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ParaChomp Posts: 479 |
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Glad to hear the dub's good. Liked Parasyte and am definitely picking this up. |
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Parsifal24 Posts: 375 Location: Holland MI |
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I read the entire manga prior to watching the tv show and I was happy that it cut out on the long drawn out fight scenes. I never liked the more philosophical parts of the series it felt unearned and out of place. | |||
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penguintruth Posts: 6830 Location: Penguinopolis |
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The music isn't a problem. That terrible stock Sentai English dub is the problem. The main character's voice actor is utterly incapable of emoting with any genuine emotion and sounds like he's just wearily reading from cue cards after taking a bunch of lithium. Most of the rest of the cast is little better, save for perhaps Migi (though Japanese Migi is far better). It's laughable that Sentai still believes it can dub anime on its own. They should farm out their work to people who can actually cast and direct. | |||
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Levonr Posts: 364 |
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I thought it was one of Sentai's better dubs. | |||
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penguintruth Posts: 6830 Location: Penguinopolis |
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It's pretty embarrassing if true. I have not been impressed by a single Sentai Filmworks dub I've heard. Funimation uses some of the same VAs and leaves them in the dust in almost every effort. Parasyte is a pretty entertaining show, that aside. Kind of a junk food title, but compelling. |
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BadNewsBlues Posts: 947 |
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While I like the music in Parasyte especially the track that plays during the encounter with the second (or third) Parasyte Shinichi and Migi meet. I could understand people not liking it.
One other thing I will say about the series that I'm not too big on how certain scenes are written like Shinichi saving the little girl from that car. Which unintentionally sets up this ambiguity of whether Shinichi killed or injured the driver stopping the car since apparently the director could give zero damns about it. |
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Dayblack Posts: 62 |
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art and animation are both polished throughout?
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