Parasyte 5: 05

If you haven't read Parasyte yet, you have to read it. It's a fantastic series. The Anime is pretty good, although it missed out quite a few of the concepts the amazingly thought provoking manga explored, which made me question a lot of things about human reality.

The logic and thought processo o the parasytes keeps getting more and more interesting, these books are amazing

Amazing as always. Five out of eight books in and the quality never dips. The best parts of John Carpenter's The Thing mixed into a well written manga equals a compelling read.

10/10

Volume was solid but felt like a lot of padding. Especially with the detective. Interesting (and has a hell of a payoff) but it felt a little long and didn't really give any sort of excitement. So that part of the volume (Which is a good portion) felt a little poor. On the flip-side the whole being chased by a new type of Parasyte it was engaging

This series is a good read.

Use it on my kindle

This is a great series and I'm glad to see it back in print. I had the first four volumes of the old Mixx edition (2001, green covers) and I was really interested in the story but then for some reason my comics shop stopped carrying it. I wasn't shopping online at the time; years later I had lost track of the series and couldn't get back issues at a reasonable price (I have the same problem with Tezuka's "Phoenix" which I guess I will never get to finish because the volumes I'm missing are out of print and crazy $$$. I just can't spend hundreds of dollars on a comic book, no matter how good it is.) Anyway, the Mixx edition ran to 10 volumes - and Amazon's listing for this series still says it is 10 volumes - but people should be aware that the "new" Kodansha edition is only 8 volumes. The story breaks are in different places, and I got vols 5-8 thinking that would complete the series .. but I have to buy volume 4 again because there's a chunk missing between the end of my old volume 4 and the new volume 5. I'm afraid to buy it used because Amazon isn't making a clear distinction between editions, and I might wind up getting the old, smaller volume 4 which I already have. WHAT A MESS. Also, the art on the old edition was flipped (the parasyte was called "Lefty") but Kodansha has preserved the original orientation, so I will get to see Shinichi's mutant arm magically switch to the right .. and the English translation is just different enough to be jarring. Moral of story: If you like a series, keep up with it online and buy issues as soon as you can. If you don't you'll regret it later.Anyway, none of that really has anything to do with the content of the manga. It has horror elements which at first I thought would be a huge turn-off for me, but the gore is not too extreme, and takes up only a small minority of panels. It has a compelling story that caught my interest very quickly. The character development as Shinichi grows and becomes something .. other than human(?) due to his symbiosis with the Parasyte .. it's really fascinating and I'm glad to have the chance to finally read the rest of this series.

Got delivered in perfect condition, love the book

I have been trying to finish the parasyte collection and I finally finished I was only missing the 5th book and the book came in great condition which is nice since in very rare occasions (for me atleast) books have come a bit damaged but I’m happy with the book and will definitely enjoy adding it to my collection and the book as at a great price since other books I ordered can be kinda pricey but this one was a nice price and is fairly cheap in my opinion