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4 Live-Action Parasyte TV Ads Preview Bump of Chicken Song, Action
posted on by Kyle Cardine
The official website for the live-action Parasyte film began streaming four new TV commercials for the upcoming live-action films of Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte (Kiseiju) science-fiction horror manga on Sunday. The commercials feature the theme song "Parade" by BUMP OF CHICKEN.
Sinichi: My right hand!
Migi: I ate it!
Shinichi: You ate it?
Narrator: The high schooler, whose right hand has been taken over, and Migi's battle begins.
Ryōko: We are monsters.
Migi: This is a high stakes adventure!
Shinichi: Migi!
Narration and Text: Parasyte
Shinichi: My right hand!
Migi: Pa!
Shinichi: Won't my right hand go back to normal?
Migi: Pa!
Narration and Text: Parasyte
Migi: Teach me...words.
Narration and Text: Parasyte
Ryōko: You've really screwed up.
Text: To be continued in theaters
Migi: Call me Migi!
Satomi: You're Shinichi Izumi, right...?
Man's Voice: These things are taking over humans?
Ryōko: We are monsters.
Narration and Text: Parasyte
The first of two live-action Parasyte films by director Takashi Yamazaki (live-action Space Battleship Yamato, Always: Sunset on Third Street) will open on November 29. The second film is slated for April 25, 2015. These films adapt Hitoshi Iwaaki's original manga serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1990-1995. The 10-volume series (later reprinted in an eight-volume version) has more than 11 million copies in print.
The manga takes place in a world where alien beings called Parasites come to Earth and start taking over humans by entering in through their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. One alien called Migi is only able to take over high school student Shinichi Izumi's right arm, and is unable to control Shinichi completely. Migi and Shinichi learn to co-exist, and the two battle other Parasites who see humans only as food.
Mixxine, the company that eventually became Tokyopop, published Parasyte in its Mixxine magazine and later in compiled book volumes. Del Rey then republished the series from 2007-2009, and Kodansha Comics republished the manga again from 2011-2012.
The manga also inspired a television anime which premiered on NTV in October. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan.
