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Parasyte -the maxim- (TV).

Thanks.

Author is still alive -- and not even old -- so, theoretically, he can come up with a continuation? Yes, most of related to the concept themes were already explored, so it might be unnecessary, but author seems to be smart enough to be able to come up with something intricate and not repetitive with this Parasyte thing. No chances for that, maybe he has hinted something in interviews?

I am interested because most of anime is so much worse than this. I would trade maybe a dozen or more of regular anime titles for project of quality like this one. Give-me-give-me-give-me, I-want-I-want-I-want-I-want to see really good anime like this. I am starving for more of better anime like this one.

Most notably, the Murano character was a highly frustrating character. For almost the entire series, she seems to somehow stay in the dark about this whole parasyte thing spoiler[but then suddenly appears to "get it" all in the last moments of the finale.] That was a bad writing decision. It meant that she was an annoying "tag-along" character for the whole series spoiler[(she even seems to acknowledge it at the end by saying she's been playing "catch up" to Shinichi the whole time)]. These types of characters generally serve as convenient victims and hostages for the bad guys, such as spoiler[what happened here with Uragami.] They also rarely contribute anything useful to progressing the plot, and serve as mindless sounding-boards for the protagonist. For most of the show Murano fit that archetype perfectly. I think they could have made her a much more interesting character by letting her be shown to be actively figuring things out and either doing things behind the scenes to help Shinichi or being a confidant for him.