"Parasitic Beast" is my real home work. I still remember that the thing I look forward to the most when I come home from school every Thursday at noon in the third day of junior high is to turn on the computer and watch an episode of "Parasite" that has just been updated. I even recounted the plot of each episode to my deskmate in gym class... After a lapse of six years, I revisited it again in the summer vacation of the university. I wrote a simple drama review while the various emotions I had while watching it have not yet calmed down.
I haven't read the original manga, just talking about my opinion on the anime. Looking at the whole article, the plot in the second half of the animation is more exciting than the first half. The first half of the campus routine is a bit too bland from my current point of view, which is no different from most animations of average quality, and the depiction of the relationship between the male and female protagonists is even worse. The most drama that our audience sees about the interaction between the two is that Coriander takes the trouble to ask Xinyi: Xinyi, what happened? You have changed, a new machine! This bridge has been repeated at least five times, and there is no obvious emotional advancement, so that after the coriander hinted that "there is no one in my house tonight", a fierce operation made me scream The sexual openness of Japanese high school students is not comparable to that of a single dog like me!
When it comes to the love line, I have to talk about the strange slut character of Kanai. I have never understood the reason for this character's existence, her behavior has always been so inexplicable that at the end of her death my heart was almost unmoved. (Well, I still feel sorry for her, thanks to the atmosphere created by the animation team, which I will mention later.) Her main motivation for the plot is probably that when Xinyi returned to the old building to cherish the memory of the deceased, she was caught by a detective. Sneak a glimpse, and then trigger a series of plots about detectives...
By the way, let's talk about the character creation. In fact, I think the animation's portrayal of the male protagonist is not very good, far less impressive than the impressive Xiaoyou and Tamiya Ryoko. Before Shinichi slashed at Gotou's body, I felt that the character didn't actually grow much. At the beginning of the story, the hero is an ordinary high school student with a cowardly personality. After the death of his mother, Xinyi changed to a new hairstyle, became a lot more handsome, and his eyes became more determined. But has he really become more mature inside? After the death of his mother, he was full of hatred for the parasitic beasts, coupled with the desire to protect his girlfriend, and eagerly wanted to kill them all, but he had no plan at all when it came to action, he just naively wanted to meet him. He only killed one, never had a little strategy, and didn't have an objective understanding of the strength of the enemy and the enemy... He survived until the end of the story, on the one hand, because of good luck, on the other hand, it was thanks to him that he seemed to be hanging. right hand. Do you have any opinions on the award for the best of the show to Xiaoyou?
In addition, the behavior of the male protagonist is almost driven by emotions, and his beliefs are not firm enough and are extremely easily shaken. After his mother and Kana died, he hated the parasitic beasts to death and wanted to kill them. After meeting with Tamiya Ryoko in the park, he felt that they had something similar to human nature, and the previous killing intent disappeared. Instead, thank Tamiya for getting up. After that, Gotou chased him to the countryside, abandoned his right hand and fled to the grandmother's house. After learning that Gotou had killed several villagers, our male protagonist regained his original killing intent in an instant, and accompanied him from somewhere. Confident, I went to Gotou with a rusty knife... Boy, you still have your girlfriend and your dad waiting for you to come home, you just died like this?
Fortunately, Xiao You has his own immortality buff, and with the help of the gods in the plot - the highly poisonous steel rod in the garbage heap, the hero recovered a life and successfully fought back. In the end, when he was about to give his opponent a fatal blow, Shinichi chose to give up killing it and let it be up to his fate... If he really did, I would definitely give up in anger - as an audience from God's perspective, I am indeed I don't want Gotou to die, but the butt decides the head. It's very strange that you want to let go of it with your new machine. If you do this, you will be the virgin bitch and the public enemy of all mankind. Fortunately, Shinichi killed Gotou in tears, and this is when he really grew up.
Of course, I still sympathize with Xinyi's experience. I have to say that this film is really good at shaping the atmosphere. Xinyi's mother was killed, and the fake parasitic beast came to Xinyi to find him. Xinyi looked at his mother and The monster with the same appearance couldn't do it, it was so heart-wrenching, it made me burst into tears in an instant...and the part where Tamiya protects the child is really sacred...
Regarding the pacing of the story...I think it's not handled very well, and the transitions between chapters feel blunt. For example, Shinichi and Goto fought for the first time, and Shinichi escaped from death. Obviously, Goto may find and kill him at any time after that, but he still went back to school and started reading as if nothing was wrong? What a joke... In addition, the plot before and after the animation has a feeling of separation, which may be related to the environment in which the original work was serialized at the time.
After so much ranting, I still like this work very much. The painting level of Crazy House is basically online. The vivid animations similar to fluid movement about the deformation of parasitic beasts are very eye-catching. The plot after the police intervention in the later stage is also getting better, which makes me enjoy watching it. The most valuable thing is that due to the high level of the original work, the ideological height of this work is also unattainable in many works. With the help of an imaginary alien creature, the interference of human natural enemies on human society, the audience's thinking about the coexistence model of different creatures on the earth, and the obvious tendency to call on people to protect the environment, raises the ideological level of the whole work. one degree. Although it is a work that embodies human nature, it rarely has that kind of deliberately disgusting bridges. It is really much better than most of the black and deep remnants of the animation... It's just that the last few episodes of the animation have a slightly heavy pedagogical implantation, and the content itself No problem but it seems rather awkward.
Although I still want to spend a lot of time talking about my favorite Xiaoyou, but the coding is so tiring, let it go. I may not be able to objectively evaluate it because of my love for this character... In short, Xiaoyou is right. !
In the end, I always felt that the unfolding of the story was still a little off. It would be interesting if Guangchuan was really a parasitic beast (of course, it is super ironic that Guangchuan is a human being, and I think it is also a stroke of genius!), I am already gearing up and can't wait to see the parasitic beasts eat into human society and finally realize their human domestication. It's planned!
...Just kidding, I just hope that the parasitic beasts whose physical structure is already close to the limit of living organisms are not so weak. It would be very interesting if there were more parts of wrestling with humans, and it would be great if Kenji Kamiyama participated in the animation supervision... At the end of the work Parasitic beasts are also working hard to integrate into human society. This is just the opening story of parasitic beasts descending on the earth. I really hope there will be a second season (basically impossible)...
If anyone has read this review and disagrees with me, please discuss.
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