With the home video release for Parasyte -the maxim- out already through Sentai Filmworks, Netflix is looking to get some attention with the title as they’ve now scheduled it for a February 1st, 2020 debut on their service. The series page can be found here and upon its actual release, we’ll have a look at what language options they’ll be included beyond the basics of what the home video release had.
Check out our review of the series with its first half and second half.
The series was directed by Kenichi Shimizu at Madhouse with series composition put together by Shoji Yonemura. Tadashi Hiamatsu handled the character designs for the series. The Japanese cast includes Nobunaga Shimazaki as Izumi, Aya Hirano as Migi, Kana Hanazawa as Satomi Murano, Miyuki Sawashiro as Kana Kimishima, Atsuko Tanaka as Ryoko Tamiya, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Uragami, Kiyono Yasuno as Yuko Tachikawa and Rena Maeda as Akiho Suzuki.
The series features the opening song “Let Me Hear” by Fear, and loathing in Las Vegas as well as the closing sequence song “It’s the Right Time” by Daichi Miura to check out.
Plot Concept: They’re the perfect killing machines, blending invisibly into human civilization by taking the form of their last victim. For Shinichi Izumi, infected with a deadly parasitic organism that’s determined to devour his brain and turn his body into the Earth’s new apex predator, they’re the ultimate nightmare. But instead of being consumed, Shinichi manages to partially foil the attack, leaving him with the parasyte known as Migi taking the place of his right hand. Now forced to share the same body, the two must become unwilling allies. Because Migi isn’t the only one of his kind, and unless they work together, they’ll both be killed as abominations. Prepare yourself for a horrifying new world where monsters lurk behind every corner and every face as the human race becomes prey in PARASYTE ~ THE MAXIM ~ THE COMPLETE COLLECTION!
