User blog comment:Dispelling Mage/Omake: Lucy & Migi - Review/@comment-4449950-20150829072752/@comment-4449950-20150829075322

Well, I haven't read the manga, so I don't know if the anime did it justice or not, so I don't want to judge the manga based on the anime :/ That's the only reason.

As for the anime, well, I just really disliked it. I wish I could rant properly, but tbh, it's been quite some time since I watched it. I understand that the story was published years ago, and that that might contribute to why I find it unrefined, but it just didn't appeal to me in any way. From memory:
 * All of the women in the story (sans Ryouko, who was okay) were written horribly. They were always portrayed as stupid (that girl with the glasses), over-emotional (Murano) or obsessive (Kana). None of them added anything substantial and needed to the plot.
 * Murano's point as a character was literally to question Shinichi's humanity. She was always saying he was acting strange or different to the point of pissing him (and me) off, yet when he took her into his arms, leapt out of a three storey building, ran a mile, jumped a school fence in a single bound and was unhurt, she wrote it off as "adrenaline" >__>
 * Ryouko, for all the potential and interesting philosophy she brought to the show, was killed off without achieving anything other than a philosophical speech, which only the main character heard.
 * Every episode ended in a DUNDUNDUN cliffhanger, which went nowhere in the next episode (eg "I know what you are! -> next ep, "Oh, nevermind, I'm mistaken I guess")
 * The bad guys had every opportunity to kill Shinichi, but always left him for no reason apart from the plot demanding it.
 * Kana's character wasted so many episodes introducing a potentially interesting plot-point (of Parasyte sniffers) but was killed off after being shown like a stalker and did nothing to the plot.
 * Shinichi flipped like a pancake between helpless "I don't want to kill people" and "let me kill everyone". I agreed with this at first due to the whole "he's becoming part-Parasyte so his humanity is leaving him", until such a thing started being used as a plot convenience.
 * The last few episodes suddenly became preachy, trying to hint almost that humans were the true monsters. This can and has worked in other stories, WHEN YOU FEEL EMOTIONAL FOR THE ALIENS! It didn't work here AT ALL, mainly because all the Parasytes did was EAT PEOPLE. How the hell am I supposed to support the "they're not so bad" idea if they... uhhh, haven't been shown doing a single good thing in the entire series??
 * Where the Parasytes come from, what their purpose is... anything about them was never really explained.
 * Migi being taken in by Gotou and somehow not being controlled by him made no sense to me.
 * The last episode with the serial killer suddenly appearing was the worst ending omg. I have no idea why that was even included or necessary and Migi reappearing again made no sense.

This is what I remember hating, though in general the series to me was just so poor. Arg, and then there was that random sex scene for no reason.

I did like the fights (apart from the last one they were well done and smart and made sense) and Migi was probably the most interesting character. Plus, some of the side characters were nice or interesting - mainly that guy with the Parasyte in his face.

Apart from that I got so little out of this show and it was such a mess. I have no idea what it was trying to achieve message-wise, and I feel that from start to finish none of the real problems were resolved. Gotou was killed... but then?? Parasytes are still around? More can come? I dunno, I just don't get it .-.