moody_bish's manga / #gore(2)

The overall concept is amazing! Although, the execution is somewhat disorganize and chaotic, the message surfaces. The art is pleasing and fitting to the concept of apocalypse and supernatural. The conclusion is also promising because it opens a new story instead of capping it off. I'm a little disappointed that Eric's identity stopped at acceptance but i guess everyone's identity in the story showed enough to keep the theme vampire x human going. I was expecting his identity to be more flambouyant, but the author did great at keeping it more of a subtle and invisible trait that is helping the world adjust to a new system of equity. bottomline: this is more of a societal documentary that included key people's love story.

some infos are inconsistent and redundant. The author tried to be obscure many times, especially about the emotions of Shinichi or the epiphanies that some parasites think of. The end was... okay, I guess? so migi decides to be dormant but still a ‘helping hand’. Shinichi learns to mind his own business because he’s just one man who doesnt have the power nor the ‘right’ to choose if a parasyte deserves to live or not. The lecture which the mother parasyte went to helps me understand human nature as well as how the parasytes learned to co exist with humans. Our altruistic characteristics make us think of our ‘small family’ and sacrifice ourselves for them because our life is given value by their existence (which is why the mother protected her human baby and gave it to Shinichi). That is self preservation anchored on someone or something else. Then there is self preservation anchored on our body, where we feed on power and greed to be on top of the food chain. These two are mere types of self preservation but our standard of morality makes the former ‘self-less’ and the latter ‘selfish’. We consider murder and other ‘crimes against humanity’ immoral because they endanger our self and those whom we attach our self to. That’s my two cents anyway. Overall, it is a good read.