Neo Kiseiju f, Vol. 1

ネオ寄生獣ｆ [Neo Kiseijuu f] #1

by Hitoshi Iwaaki (Original story), Asumiko Nakamura, Ema Tōyama

LOVE IN THE TIME OF PARASITES
Parasites: shape-shifting aliens whose only purpose is to assimilate with and consume the human race... but do these monsters have a different side? A parasite becomes a prince to save his romance-obsessed female host from a dangerous stalker. Another hosts a cooking show, in which the real monsters are revealed. These and 13 more stories, from some of the greatest shojo manga artists alive today, together make up a chilling, funny, and entertaining tribute to one of manga's horror classics!"

Genres: Manga, Horror, Short Stories, Comics, Humor, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 24, 2015

About the author

Hitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明均 Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".

In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie. In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Reviews

[Ignacio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quedaría fino al decir que no son las historietas sino soy yo, pero Neo Parasyte no lo merece. Entiendo que el reto de hacer algo meritorio en este contexto, una historieta de homenaje de entre 8 y 30 páginas a una obra que se caracterizó, sobre todo, por ser un magnífico serial adolescente, era casi imposible. Obliga siempre a hacer otras cosas: una deformación del original para sacar punta a su sexualidad reprimida o convencional, vistazos a otros parásitos que formaron o no parte de la historia de Migi y Sinichi desde una mirada más macabro, la charlotada para salir al paso... Y, claro, se caen con todo el equipo porque tampoco estamos precisamente ante una selección de grandes talentos del manga. Hay un par de historias notables, con mala leche e inteligencia. El resto es material de chimenea.

Repite conmigo, Nacho: "No volveré a caer en esta jugada editorial".

[Lexie · Rating 3 out of 5]

In some ways this was a nice celebration of Parasyte, with some very nice callbacks to the original series (a story about Shinichi's father, a short interlude of Reiko's child & Shinichi talking, a 'what if' story if a fujoshi had been the real cause of the school massacre) as well as some other intriguing parasites inhabiting their hosts only partially.

Some were just....eh tho, or felt too rushed. Surprisingly while I liked the idea of Kaori Yuki's story (case 5), the execution felt messy. Mikimaki's story (Case 11) was weeiiirrrddd. it's one of the fetish stories that are uniquely Japanese (in that, you wouldn't see a Western mainatream comic randomly explore it).

Overall it was fun to go back into the universe with some manga-ka to investigate further. Definitely something only fans will enjoy - if you pick this up before reading the original series you'll be rather lost as it barely covers the basics of the world.

[Hsu Jui-Ting · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with any anthology championing a specific franchise or work, you're bound to have dips in quality and stories - what's surprising about this one is that, for all of the reverence by each artist, the resulting stories are actually quite engaging. The standalone ones I find typically work the best, though not always.

The biggest strength of this anthology, I find, is the organization of each one - it ends, suitably, on a moment of reflection - one that can easily be channelled into the work's themes and its reception since being finished.

[Rin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it

[OZZY · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essa é a segunda e ultima parte de uma comemoração do lançamento do anime de "Parasyte", décadas depois da finalização do mangá original, aqui, igual a sua contraparte "Neo Parasyte M", cada autor escreve uma mini história para homenagear o autor e a história, algo ao estilo que tivemos aqui no Brasil no aniversário do Maurício de Souza.
Diferente de "Neo Parasyte M", esse volume traz histórias que levam o conceito do mangá original a um lugar mais comum, a maioria sendo tramas que se passam no ambiente escolar. Me parece que diferente da primeira parte do projeto que era mais experimental e voltado para fãs da obra, esse volume foi pensado para apresentar a obra para pessoas que ainda não tem tanto contato com a obra anterior. Isso é uma espada de dois gumes, por que por um lado é uma experiência que pode ser interessante para leitores novos, mas também acaba por ser uma leitura pouco estimulante já que soa repetitiva.
No quesito qualidade "Neo Parasyte F" é superior à "M", aqui os autores conseguem desenvolver bem melhor as histórias, porém a constante repetição do ambiente e arquétipos de personagens, e até mesmo o fato de que os autores tem traços bem similares, acaba cansando na metade da leitura, e até tornando outras bem previsíveis.
"Neo Parasyte F" é a versão mais comercial de seu companheiro, menos ambicioso e com mais foco, porém acaba por ser menos cativante e empolgante também.

[Sheila Moreno Moreno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una mirada desenfadada a Parasyte desde autoras que homenajean la obra. A mí me ha gustado mucho. Son como fanfics, muchos tienen humor, la mayoría mantienen el tono de terror. Me ha gustado volver a leer a Kaori Yuki en español (ojalá más). Y las autoras (al igual que yo) son muy fans de Parasyte.
Solo para fans de la historia original que no les importe leer relatos con otros registros

[Mat Francis · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good but I found some of the stories in here were a bit too jumpy, I feel maybe with the restriction on pages they felt they needed to jump from one part to something completely different in the same story without that smooth transition of letting us know what's happening

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although not quite as interesting as its shounen counterpart, there's still a lot to enjoy here, especially the stories that take a look at some of the side characters.



Full review eventually appearing on ANN.

[Domini Phillips-Perkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice compilation of Parasyte inspired shorts. They vary from fun to gory. Nice addition for fabs of the Parasyte series.

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was pretty good, but still not the best manga.

3/5

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!

[Queer Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

El caso 8 vale totalmente la pena, el resto... Bueno, para conocer el mundo de Parasyte están bien

[ReadingFrog · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars.

[thyni · Rating 3 out of 5]

i read this for nakamura, didn’t know it was a collection of different artists sooo yaah i haven’t read the parasyte og story so this was all just a bit confusing

[Anddy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Linnette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy entretenido y me gusta como cada mangaka tiene su manera de retratar la historia original.

[Estrella Inglés · Rating 4 out of 5]

Como no he podido hacer las reseñas antes porque la ficha está mal, las pongo por aquí ya que las hice.

1. Tal vez sea un poco imparcial porque Nakamura me gusta mucho, pero me ha gustado muchísimo el relato. Aunque muy cortito, la verdad. La historia es interesante y como siempre el dibujo espléndido.
2. Este está gracioso, sin más. Es como un sketch BL humorístico en un shoujo.
3. Esta ha estado guay. Un poco típico, pero está muy bien escrito y dibujado.
4. Este es más rollo fanfic y cuenta una pequeña escena entre Shinichi y Migi que es súper tierna. Me ha gustado.
5. Bueno, sin más. La historia está guay, pero siento que mete al final a los parásitos porque debía hacerlo.
6. Este ha sido demasiado corta pero original y divertido.
7. Este me ha gustado mucho!!! Corto pero conciso y con la energía que esperaba de estos relatos. Aaah me ha encantado.
8. Guao, este ha sido espléndido, la verdad. También se nota que ha sido uno de los más largos y por eso es el que tiene la trama mejor montada. 10/10
9. Este es súper original y gracioso, ¡me ha encantado!
10. ¡¡Buah!! No sé qué ha pasado en este, pero el dibujo me ha encantado. ¿El cura guapo? Lo mejor. Ha estado interesante.
11. Otra historia de Shinichi y Miggy.... Ha sido muy rara, pero ha estado muy graciosa.
12. Esta ha estado normalita.
13. Este está muy cuqui, la verdad.
14. Hace tanto que leí el manga original que no he entendido las referencias a este y estoy triste porque tiene pinta que está hecho para llorar.
15. Este le pasa lo mismo que al anterior, si hace tiempo que no has leído la historia te pierdes un poco, pero es súper bonito también.

Así en general me ha gustado bastante. Tiene estilos muy diversos y son todos maravillosos. Las historias me han parecido muy originales y divertidas; ha sido un honor conocer a tantas mangakas nuevas y leer sobre su experiencia con Parasyte. Me sentí bastante identificada, la verdad. En general ha sido una lectura divertida y rápida, la he disfrutado mucho y me alegra, sobre todo, haber leído algo nuevo de Asumiko Nakamura.
Lo único “malo” que diría es que solo se la recomendaría a gente que disfrutó de la obra original y que le guste, o soporte, el humor típico de los BL, shoujos y DJ, pues es lo que abunda.

[Jude · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall I'm glad I finally read this. As you'd expect from a short story collection, I didn't care at all for some of the stories, others were just okay, and there were a few that really stood out.
My favorite was Case 8 The Telepathist and the Parasite. Wish I could read a whole volume about it.
Case 5 The God of Never Never caught my attention as well.
And I enjoyed seeing Shinichi, Migi, and other characters from the actual series, even if a lot of the time it was just them doing goofy stuff.

[Derek Royal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this for a recent episode of The Comics Alternative's monthly manga series, one devoted to horror. I am not familiar with the original Parasyte, so I felt that I was missing out on many of the references and significances in this anthology. Still, it's an enjoyable exercise, and it's a great way of being introduced to mangaka whom I wasn't aware of before.

[Bennett Rosner · Rating 2 out of 5]

The tone of the manga is inconsistent and overall unappealing as a result. Although some authors had truly heartfelt and intricate stories, other's were flaky, bland, and simply ugly to look at. Balancing an anthology piece is a tough job, and this manga collection just cannot do justice to its source material because it lacks quality control.

[Comics Alternative · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[holls · Rating 4 out of 5]

some of my favs:
- case 1
- case 9
- case 12
- case 13
- especially loved the art in cases 5 and 2!

[TammyJo Eckhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let me begin by saying that I came to this anthology by way of my love for darker manga, not because I was a fan of "Parasyte" specifically. This is a collection of short stories from 15 well-known manga artists, each of them working within the "Parasyte" science fiction, horror universe created by Hitoshi Iwaaki which ran from 1988 to 1995. Each artist's information is given at the end of the story with a list of a few of their series and a statement about how they felt being invited to this anthology and about the story they created for it. Most are very self-effacing in their brief statements, all are fans of "Parasyte."

The stories are primarily creepy but few are outright horror, many romantic or comedic undertones. You can see small differences in the style of the drawing though to the reader unfamiliar with manga it may all look the same. Male and female lead characters seemed evenly represented and equally believable or not. Some of the stories looked at new characters while others played with original characters in new ways. Only one of the stories was disappointing and I won't embarrass the artist by singling them out.

It satisfied my darker manga interests without being overly sexual or belittling in any way toward any type of character. There some playful teasing about some of the genres however but I'm used to that in darker manga.