Parasyte
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Key facts
- Animanga/Header.image
- Parasyte 4.png
- Animanga/Header.caption
- Fourth volume cover, featuring Shinichi Izumi and Migi
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- 寄生獣
- Animanga/Header.ja_romaji
- Kiseijū
- Animanga/Print.type
- manga
- Animanga/Print.author
- Hitoshi Iwaaki
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Kodansha
- Animanga/Print.imprint
- Afternoon KC
- Animanga/Print.first
- March 2, 2018
- Animanga/Print.last
- May 7, 2021
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 8
- Animanga/Print.volume_list
- List of Parasyte volumes#Parasyte Reversi
- Animanga/Video.type
- tv series
- Animanga/Video.title
- Parasyte -the maxim-
- Animanga/Video.director
- Kenichi Shimizu
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Shōji Yonemura
- Animanga/Video.music
- Ken Arai
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Madhouse
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13 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Development
- Media
- Manga
- Tributes and spin-off
- Anime
- Live-action films
- Live-action TV series
- Reception
- China ban
- Notes
- References
- External links
is a Japanese science fiction horror manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It was published in Kodansha's Morning Open Zōkan (1989) and Monthly Afternoon (1989 to 1994). The manga was published in North America first by Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kodansha USA. The series follows Shinichi Izumi, a high school senior who is the victim of a failed attempt by a parasitic organism to take over his brain. The parasite, Migi, instead infects and takes over his arm, and both are forced in a peculiar partnership to fight other parasites.
The manga has been adapted into two live-action films in Japan, in 2014 and 2015. An anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse, titled Parasyte -the maxim-, aired in Japan between October 2014 and March 2015. The English-language dub aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States between October 2015 and April 2016. A South-Korean live-action series spin-off, titled Parasyte: The Grey, premiered on Netflix in April 2024.