1. The Parasyte anime was released more than twenty five years after the manga first began.
2. The original Parasyte manga started in nineteen eighty eight, but the anime didn’t arrive until twenty fourteen.
3. The anime had to update parts of the story because the original manga was written before smartphones even existed.
4. More than twenty five million copies of the Parasyte manga have been sold worldwide.
5. Hollywood acquired the film rights to Parasyte years before Japan made the anime adaptation.
6. A live-action Parasyte movie was already being discussed as early as two thousand five.
7. The anime and the first live-action Parasyte movie were both released in twenty fourteen.
8. New Line Cinema’s rights expired in twenty thirteen, and just one year later Parasyte finally got its anime.
9. Parasyte got two Japanese live-action movies and an anime almost at the same time.
10. Parasyte was published in only ten volumes, yet sold more than twenty five million copies worldwide.
11. China banned the Parasyte anime and manga nationwide in twenty fifteen for glorifying violence.
12. Hitoshi Iwaaki originally conceived Parasyte as a romantic comedy, then completely rewrote it as a body-horror manga years later.
13. The first live-action Parasyte film topped the Japanese box office on its opening weekend.
14. The word Parasyte with a Y is a deliberate respelling of the original Japanese title.
15. The anime was simulcast to more than one hundred countries and regions shortly after airing in Japan.
16. The English dub premiered about one year after the original Japanese broadcast.
17. The live-action film borrowed motion-capture technology from video game companies to create Migi’s transformations.
18. Parasyte won the Kodansha Manga Award in nineteen ninety three, long before the anime adaptation existed.
19. The entire Parasyte story was adapted into just twenty four anime episodes.
20. One of the central ideas behind Parasyte is questioning whether humans are the biggest parasites on Earth.