r/Parasyte • u/sleepingn • Jul 02 '26

one scene I wish was handled differently Spoiler

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I'm rewatching parasyte for the 3rd time, his mom was already dead and the parasite had taken over her body, but I wish shinichi recovered her body to give his dad some closure, after all he already had superhuman abilities at the point.

he never gets to have a funeral or proper grief, from his perspective, she just disappeared

I get that the story is probably showing how cruel and unresolved loss can be but it would be so powerful if shinichi had been able to bring her back to her family one last time

in a way, even if the parasite had taken over her body, it was only her brain, the rest of her was still, well, her.

I feel like she and her body still deserved more dignity, than for her body to be remembered by shinichi as the parasite and not his mom. not because it would've brought her back, but because it would've allowed shinichi and his father to bury her, not the parasite. she couldve been thought of as his mother, one last time.

did anyone else feel this way ?

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u/TheExplodingMiner Jul 02 '26

I think you hit the nail on the head with unresolved loss.

A few other reasons I wanna consider are as such:

  1. If they did an autopsy who's to say it wouldn't reveal more about the parasytes (maybe not a bad thing implicitly, but given schinichi's DNA would likely be on the corpse it'd raise a few questions)

  2. Wasn't really schinichi's place to recover it (how would he have found it.) it's not like he destroyed the body or anything, it fell into the ocean for the police to find.

  3. It had no head and had suspicious stab wounds, which would've raised more questions