New Teaser For Parasyte: The Grey Fails to Impress Anime Fans

Summary:

• The teaser for Parasyte: The Grey has just come out.
• Fans criticize the two-minute video, claiming it can’t hold a candle to the original.

Netflix has just released an official teaser for the beloved anime Parasyte. Earlier, it dropped an official poster, but it was too early to tell what the show would look like. Now we can draw some conclusions, and let us tell you: the original’s fans are quite disappointed.

The remake will have the same world-building and different characters. And, apparently, different genres. The original was more of a psychological horror, depicting people losing their humanity and parasites gaining human conscience. It was very unnerving and intense to read and later, to watch, and this nerve-wracking experience made it one of the best-selling mangas of all time.

The live adaptation, though, lists action and horror as its main genres, which makes us think it would consequently overlook some of the more psychological thriller elements we all know and love. Netflix’s show doesn’t seem to focus on things like that, instead opting for the ever-present action à la Hollywood.

Don’t get us wrong; action is good, but it should be dosed, and it shouldn’t overlap with what made the story great originally.

Besides, live-action adaptations are rarely good. It’s usually a hit or miss, and what we’re seeing right now does not look like a hit to us. The two Japanese adaptations, for example, failed hard because what works in anime rarely works with real people on screen.

This is why fans believe that the teaser looks unappealing; it lost some of the original charm when it decided it would rather be an action-packed sci-fi horror than the original study into the human psyche.

It’s not all bad, of course. Some claimed the teaser looked surprisingly good, and the creators made the right call when they decided to tell the story of different characters rather than trying to bring the manga to life. Many are hoping to go reference-hunting, looking for Easter eggs and allusions to the original manga and anime.

It’s too early to tell if it’s going to be Hollywood or bust—well, in our case, Hollywood or success. It’s always rocky with Netflix; let’s just hope it’s done its homework and will honor the source material.