Thread 281267226

Chapter 59: Old Woman

>>281267226 (OP)
What a cover

Last thread: >>281190297

>>281267322
ENTER
LA GRAN MADRE

>>281267386
I hate mosquitoes so fucking much.

>>281267338
Really like how he looks like a stray dog here

>>281267359
Armless teen shows up at night, wat do

>>281267408
Yeah, guess you could call it "bullying"

>>281267453
Shinichi you just spent the night with a JK. Going after grandmas already?

>>281267427
Yeah, that one's impossible to translate without taking some heavy creative liberties

>>281267386
Based baa-san

>>281267453
dirty old woman
Is there also a doujin of this scene?

>>281267453
I love this lady

>>281267535
I can't get a read on her at all

>>281267486
Again, I'm getting serious Ajin flashbacks (or flashforwards)

>>281267540
It's actually less exotic than it looks and can be seamlessly translated into Russian and a number of other European languages that have exact same overlap between kinship terms and forms of address to unfamiliar older women

>lose migi
>instanly lose the chad hair
Shinichi the fraud.

>>281267667
Shinichi openly recognizing Migi's personhood is so touching

>>281267724
>right hand
>is that your gf?
Grandma's brutal

>>281267453
What a bad girl

>>281267724
Migi won

>>281267746
migi the stool

>>281267714
Shinichi's real personality is that of a dork.
>>281267704
What a good boy.
>Sake name is "Oni-killer"
Jesus. How strong is that drink?

続く

>>281267783
Okay, so parasites have a mental link to each other and they're all brain tissue in the form of muscle. Does that mean that this Migi that is growing out of Shinichi will remember everything, or will his memory be cut short at the exact moment of their separation?

>>281267837
Thanks old OP

>>281267687
REAL HUMAN BEAN

>>281267837
Thanks, OP. If Migi doesn't come back, this might be worse for Shinichi than if he just died. Like how having a vegetative relative hurts more than them just being completely gone for good,

>>281267226 (OP)
to be honest I think it was unnecessary for shinichi to run away and abandon Migi.
Goto was in a bad state, mige should have had the time and opportunity to reattach to shinichi and then they could finish him off

>>281268331
Gotou was in a bit of a worse state than when he started but he still had more than enough power to kill Shinichi in the time it would take for Shinichi to reach Migi, or vice-versa. Even if his head were severed his parasite limbs could function at least semi-autonomously (remember Miki?). Migi told Shinichi to run because they couldn't get a clean ambush kill, leaving Shinichi dangerously exposed whether or not Migi was with him. As a result Migi could only try to distract Gotou while Shinichi runs away to save himself. At least one of them might survive instead of both getting killed by Gotou.

>>281268331
Nah. Migi was just keeping up with the blades and running out of gas while Goto reattached his head. We saw the last second before he was overwhelmed.

>>281267837
Sankyuu.

>>281267808
>>281267837
Peek-a-boo

>>281267763
Interesting, Migi's big spread from last chapter used the same airbrushing technique you see on this page.

>>281267667
Migi was the coolest guy (unironically)

Migi was a great friend to Shinichi. You could say he was his right hand man. Without him, Shinichi can never feel right again. The pain of being left runs deep.

>>281267453
damn lady

>>281267837
Thanks OP. I love how slow and casual this section here is when compared to before and after it. Like a last little break

Nearing the end huh.

>>281267408
i like how perceptive she is

>>281267540
Yeah fairly nonsensical in the tokyopop version lol

>>281267386
Sweet, I think there was also a based Baa-san in Ajin, no?

>>281267453
Holy shit tokyopop

>>281275700
Kek, saved.

>>281267667
Migi being gone in one chapter feels absolutely unreal.

>>281275700
>>281275700
my grandma looked exactly like her, so seeing this page is.... well
very odd

>>281267837
Thank you, OP

>>281267453
Anyone keeping a tally of Shinichi's uh, fans?

>>281267427
stupid sexy tsundere grandma

>>281267843
Too small to remember. I recall Migi went over this earlier when he experimented with splitting up. The smaller pieces can't handle anything complex.

>>281275700
wtf tokyopop

>>281275638
Could've done better than that.

>>281267226 (OP)
pretty old

>>281278461
kek

>>281267226 (OP)
are undersirable

>>281275700
>Go an extra mile to mirror the manga, rename migi to make it more palatable to wider burger audience
>add this

>>281267587
ENTER

>>281275683
Yeah

>>281275683
Makes me think of night of the hunter
They stunt cast Lillian Gish who was a silent film era starlet as a little granny that saves the kids

>>281275638
>>281267540
>Um.. . Granny
I don't have any grandkids.
>Aunty?
No nephews either.
I'm Mitsuyo.

It's completely possible in this case if you're going for the complete sanitization of Japanese culture type of translation.

>>281277449
I think six including granny.

>>281284324
Translators/localizers are a scourge.

>>281287110
He might break double digits at this rate.

>>281278461
based.

>>281275683
>>281285998
I thought of her too.

>>281267453
kek

>>281267724
He's a sad drinker huh.

>>281267837
Thanks.

>>281285998
What a juxtaposition with this manga./

Chapter 60: Resolve

>>281293633
>Bullets don't work, Jon.

続く

>>281267453
What is it about country females in this universe that makes them so frolicsome?

>>281267647
>>281267628
Widow/widower living alone are typically like that. You'll find that they tend to talk in a round-about way, or even going off on tangents. Diminished memory and information processing capacity of the brain of course play a role. But more often - they're lonely, and will try to prolong a conversation with another person when given the chance

>>281293800
Shinichi can stay at my house.

>>281267687
>>281267667
God fucking damn it, my nose's becoming stuffy again

>>281293856
Why is this random widow in the country side so cool and likeable?

>>281293521
>>281293540
So that whole time Goto was within an hour of him. That's cool.

>>281293332
He's fast!

>>281293800
Weird flex, bro

>>281293605
Just a flesh wound

>>281293899
She's like
>斧

>>281293787
I'm not convinced, he needed to use chopsticks

>>281293577
Shinichi's expressions are one of my favorite parts of the manga

>>281293605
You can just imagine Goto ravaging that man like a wild animal

>>281293684
Under normal circumstances yeah, but Shinichi does stand a better chance here than those people. Now, of they brought in the army they could kill Goto, but I can't imagine a way to do it that wouldn't result in a lot of collateral damage

>>281293856
Really like how her face is framed

>>281293899
Shouldn't he have taken a box of matches too?

>>281293921
I really love this change in context around Goto. During their first fight he was essentially a hitman operating at the behest of a powerful shadow organization. Now he's alone and just a monster in the woods, or a big predator that needs to be hunted down. It's like the layers of civilization surrounding the conflict between parasites and humans are stripped bare to pure animalistic fighting.

>>281294016
Yeah, my grandma is a bit like that.

>>281294078
I know, right? She just shows up at the end of the manga and is just one of the best characters. Although to be honest, most characters in Parasyte are memorable and interesting in some way. They also disappear quickly, which makes them feel more valuable.

>>281293593
grimm

The "I must have been walking in circles" bit and the feisty granny stock character are part of why I've never really liked the ending. After the slaughter it just feels like a switch flipped to lead a manga that was very "simulationist" before that, where Iwaaki was mostly reasoning through what would happen given his premises, to a contrived cinematic conclusion. I guess there's no worse place to criticize a beloved manga than a storytime though.

>>281293577
Sick page
Looks like some classic 80s horror shit

>>281293619
Been a while since we heard that term

>>281293647
If Tokyopop renamed Shinichi to Shin, I wonder if they gave him a new nickname

>>281293824
Badass
Chicks dig a cool scar

>>281293836
>the last person I met
Man...

>>281293921
Thanks old OP

>>281275700
what did she mean by this

>>281293373
Being lonely must really sad. I should know...

>>281293481
Shit is getting weird

>>281293619
When I watched the anime recently with a friend of mine I read Minecraft murders in the subtitles.
We had a good laugh at how brain rotted I am

>>281297308
Nice cut.

bump

>>281293593
Is he going to be alright?

>>281293921
Thanks OP. Great final page.

>>281286335
I don't know why people have a problem with what you suggested.

>>281293899
Awww...

>>281291699
That arc in Ajin could have been down the street from Mitsuyo here in Parasyte.

>>281303192
It's missing the seething /biz/nessman

>>281303192
It's funny to think about.

>>281295615
She just calls him Little Shin

>>281295546
Whats wrong with either of the things you mentioned? It makes sense that Shinichi wouldn't make it far, nor would he know how far he made it since he was in such a state of shock. Granny is a good character, I don't see why you dislike this part.

I thought the implication was supposed to be that Shinichi could settle down as a one-armed derelict and be kind of okay for the rest of his life, the short distance works for tearing that down in a second. Maybe some angst too that he didn't accomplish more distance with what Migi bought him, to help drive him back out. What threw me is I forgot any environmentalist messaging from earlier, so pollution being the solution and the character feeling guilty for humans about it felt like a swerve to the end of an 70s monster movie.

>>281301652
I don't think anyone does?

>>281306494
That's his street name

>>281293481
>humans can't be 3 meters tall
Manlet cope at its finest.

>>281309432
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people

>>281267226 (OP)
the older the better

>>281267226 (OP)
Nice

>>281305377
Sato vs Goto and neither knows the others abilities.

>>281293605
That wasn't in the anime

>>281309555
Damn, what are they feeding those Americans

>>281312279
Unironically, it's hamburgers.

>>281311770
Genre: Comedy.

>>281299650
Another one.

>>281293899
>kinda rusty
That's +1 poison damage

>>281314136
I don't think he has time to wait for tetanus to kill him.

>>281267551
>new boyfriend?
he's joking i'm sure but I'm gathering that this lady had quite the reputation in her youth. See also:
>>281267453

>>281295595
Yeah it's pretty cool after the bombastic events at city hall and a big encounter with goto with a car chase, things revert to a much smaller scale and we're reintroduced to this early stage of the plot term.

>>281293921
Thanks.

>>281315239
this

>>281267250
They choose them well.

>>281306946
WRT not getting very far, it's just very obviously artificially making a fateful encounter with final boss Gotou work in a story that hasn't had much of a sense of "cinematic plot magnetism" before that. It's not impossible and I don't blame anyone if it didn't break their suspension of disbelief especially on a first read, but the contrast with the rest of the story seems really obvious to me.

Chapter 61: Sinister Form

>>281319060
First off, Shinichi is a city-boy through and through. Secondly, I love the sad reminder of the loss of his friend and limb

>>281319081
I never quite like when a third person narrator is introduced to clarify some events, unless they were there from the beginning. Otherwise it feels like a crutch

>>281319210
This kind of reminds me of a vampire story

>>281319278
Surprised he still wants to cling on to his hair

>>281319278
>>281319306
He looks more pissed than usual

>>281319403
going back to hunter mode

>>281319450
I wasn't being that serious when I compared this to a vampire story, now I can't even deny it

>>281319513
FUCK

>>281319381
Parasyte is message driven. This is like a curtain drawing moment as the story concludes. Someone has to deliver the message as the characters play out their lives

>>281319562
I like the possible double meaning behind Goto's line about looking human

>>281319147
The true form of their species

>>281319605
Reminds me of when he was so on edge about Goto that he punched those guys, and now he's doing it to the man himself

>>281319649
Maybe Shinichi can hide now and plan another attack

>>281319379
Migi looks different from how I remember

>>281319670
Good God

>>281319629
Nice callback to the last time he did that little trick

>>281319710
Still the MVP from beyond the grave

>>281319447
Just like a real human man

>>281319747
My man has too good a prize waiting for him back home to die here

>>281319747
A
FUCKING
NIPPLE

続く

>>281319803
Thanks old OP

>>281319803
You miss all the shots you don't take. C'mon Shinichi!
Also, thanks old OP

>>281319747
POWER UP

>>281319430
This is almost exactly creeping up on one of Dracula's coffins. The secret ones without gypsy guards.

>>281319024
How much could you expect him to walk in that situation? I would have been shocked if he was more than 2 miles away from where he was fighting Gotou.

>>281319356
>>281319306
>>281319278
>>281319403
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3472Q6kvg0

>>281319499
>hair pops up again

Kinography

>>281319210
>Hey Gotou!

>>281319803
Thank you OP!

>>281319726
>>281319784
Reckless pollution saves the day.

>>281319747
Tiddy

>>281319024
You've never read any accounts about what happens when someone gets lost in the woods, particularly somebody with little experience, have you? It would be more unrealistic if a distraught city boy made it very far.

>>281319147
Eventually, Goto stopped thinking

>>281267308
man...

>>281319450
chew

>>281319629
THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING

>>281319710
brain blast

>>281319747
She looks extremely pretty here.

>>281319747
I miss casual nudity in manga

>>281324291
She's being seen through the eyes of young love.

Somewhere in the same forest, Sho Fukamachi is eviscerating a strike team of corporate furries.

>>281324291
>>281326122
Also she's naked.

>>281326384
ALL
STORYTIMES
ARE CONNECTED
parasytes were sent by earth-chan after she got tired of earthchildren

Dungeon Meshi hadn't finished the last time I reread Parasyte and now I'm thinking of Laios stuff like Gotou would probably reinforce the lungs so they could process more air, and that he'd need to open up some extra air paths to them. All the Laios food and air stuff seems like such fundamental monster insight at this point I can't escape thinking it.

>>281326384
Having only just regained the ability to bioboost

>>281326384
>Fukamachi

>>281319747
Placing a shirtless Satomi and Goto next to each other on the page is pretty funny to me for some reason. Yes Iwaaki, we do know the two of them represent life and death to Shinichi, thanks for driving the symbolism home.

>>281319747
>>By the power of pussy I shall survive to see another day

>>281319803
Thanks OP. I can't lie, I liked this segment better in the anime. It's a bit too wordy here

>>281319803
Attaboy Shinichi. Fight to the bitter end. I like the buildup where his mind keeps jumping frantically but all the little bits guide him to that small detail.

>>281319803
Thank you for posting.