Rebirth of the Father of Anime

This is a war whose outcome has already been determined.

Although the individual parasitic beasts are powerful, they are not invincible. Their bodies are still human bodies. If their bodies die, they will die too, and they cannot reproduce.

Facing humans who have an overwhelming numerical advantage, even if the parasitic beast can kill hundreds, thousands, or ten thousand people, facing a heavily armed army that has learned how to distinguish parasitic beasts, the parasitic beast's defeat will be a matter of time. .

During the battle with Goto, Xiaoyou and Shinichi ambushed Goto, but their calculations failed. Goto was too powerful, causing their sneak attack to fail.

In this sneak attack plan, Xiaoyou separated from Shinichi's body to interfere with Goto's induction. You can't fight for a long time like this, otherwise Xiaoyou will die due to being out of the body for too long.

After the sneak attack failed, Xiaoyou and Goto were in a stalemate.

In order to save Xiaoyou, Shinichi rushed over, but Xiaoyou told Shinichi not to come over and let Shinichi escape. Only by holding Goto down can Xiaoyou buy enough time for Shinichi to escape.

As a staunch egotist, the parasitic beast has always made ensuring its own survival its primary purpose. For this reason, it can attack anything that hinders its survival without hesitation, even if the other party is its own kind. At this critical moment, Xiaoyou actually chose to sacrifice himself to save Xinxin.

If it had just been a parasite, Xiaoyou would never have made such a choice, and even said that he did not understand such a choice at all. When Tamiya did not run away in order to protect his children, he was surprised and shocked by this behavior. The confusion is still echoing in my ears.

In its judgment, it will die regardless of whether Shinichi comes over or not. For a parasitic beast, if it is destined to die, then everything will not matter. If Shinichi came over and fought back desperately, he might still be able to win a glimmer of hope.

However, he chose to die by himself and left his life to Shinichi.

It no longer thinks only for itself. It learns to think for others.

"Goodbye, Shinichi. We will say goodbye here forever, Shinichi. Fortunately, you were the first one I met. Fortunately, I didn't take your brain away, so we can become friends and share all kinds of happiness..."

"My consciousness is getting further and further away, I feel sleepy, and my loneliness is getting stronger and stronger. Is this death?"

Xiaoyou's increasingly weak voice is heartbreaking.

In this war for survival between humans and parasitic beasts.

Born as a parasitic beast,

But Tamiya received the greatest maternal love in human nature.

There also appeared the perverted murderer Urakami, who was human but had lost his humanity and looked more like a parasitic beast than a parasitic beast.

Xiaoyou, who is a parasitic beast but stands on the side of humans, is born.

The mayor who was a human but took the position of a parasitic beast was also born.

At the same time, humans and parasitic beasts were also born. Shinichi is neither a human nor a parasitic beast, hovering between the two.

The difference between humans and parasitic beasts. The earliest expression lies in the choice of self-interest and altruism. Xiaoyou is parasitic on Xinyi's right hand. His instinct is absolute rationality and the criterion for judging individual survival. He is puzzled by the irrational sacrificial behaviors that humans sometimes make. Gradually understand human nature while living together.

"It scared me to death. I thought Xiaoyou was completely dead."

Xiaoyou completely merged with Shinichi's body, and what was separated was 70% of it. The unconscious part that remained in the body, he seemed to be talking to it in his sleep. I feel that Xiaoyou is not dead yet.

Finally soothed the delicate hearts of fans.

Psychologist Maslow proposed the hierarchy of human needs theory, which are: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. This theory can be said to be an explanation. It can be seen as a result, a conclusion drawn from a large-scale survey of people.

"After thousands of years of evolution, it is a fact that human beings do not meet their needs of food and clothing; with more needs, humans will definitely take more from the surrounding environment. This is also a fact. I am very interested in this The fact of the matter is, it’s here and it’s irreversible, so accept it.”

"I can accept the self-satisfied nature of human beings. However, human beings seem to be more willing to use some beautiful words to cover up some cruel facts. For example, protecting the environment is moral and eliminating factors that are detrimental to oneself (be it biological or other) It’s this kind of statement of justice. I don’t like this kind of statement. It is obviously just to satisfy a desire to make oneself better, but it is disguised as being superior to others. I think this is unreasonable and a kind of hypocrisy. Feel."

"However, denial or whitewashing is also a human psychological defense mechanism that has been developed over a long period of time. People are really complicated. Although I know this, I still don't like it."

"As for me now, what I prefer is to fully understand my actions, then act, and then take responsibility for my actions. For people around me or two-dimensional characters who have the same ideas, I will More recognition.”

"In "Parasite", I will unconsciously like Xiaoyou more. He has a good understanding of himself, his surroundings and the entire world, and he will continue to learn, update his knowledge base and deepen his understanding of the world. Cognition of the world; in contrast, they will also ignore many human characters. They rarely know what they are really doing, and they have never thought about whether the things they do can bear the consequences. For example, the parasitic character The female students who threw acid at each other, such as the dead second female student Kana. However, it may also be because she knows the whole story, while the characters in the drama don’t know much information.”

I started to like Xiaoyou because of its novelty - the random right hand, as well as its fun and cuteness.

However, as the story progresses, as a parasitic beast and living with Shinichi, he gradually understands humans, understands human nature, and possesses humanity, which makes people start to reflect on creatures, survival, humans, nature, etc. again.

"The most touching part of the story is that at the end, Xiaoyou knew he was outmatched, but he tried his best to block the attacks of his kind while asking Shinichi to run away."

"This cold-blooded animal who insists on his own survival as the first priority and regards killing to achieve this goal as a matter of course, finally has emotions like humans and understands the preciousness of emotions and the meaning of sacrifice. In Xiaoyou's life In my mind, it is unthinkable that human beings would sacrifice themselves for others, something that violates the laws of survival, and was even regarded as an instinct for the continuation of the race, like the protection of their nests by ants and bees."

"But in the end it made such a decision because of this unusual friendship. Presumably in the eyes of the porter master, this is the preciousness of human beings. Unfortunately, the feelings between people now It is becoming increasingly indifferent. As a result of the development of free and open ideas and diversified society, it has become more and more difficult for people to communicate, and because of this, people now are more willing to pay for all kinds of touching consumption."

"Even so, it must be admitted that although this powerful emotional force cannot be a powerful tool to save mankind because it cannot be effectively organized, it at least gives individuals as individuals a glimmer of hope because it allows people to do The possibility of self-sacrifice out of good emotions rather than survival interests, and further understanding of moderation, so as to reflect on oneself as an individual and implement it into actions starting from small things. In order to realize self-respect The sublimation and leap of the spiritual level.”

"It would be better if they could further influence each other and gradually produce a difficult reversal of the overall development direction of seeking common ground while reserving differences. However, considering that on this truly meaningful path, the pace of mankind is always slow and almost despairing. , so I don’t think this is the hope of mankind. In fact, mankind’s progress has always been to heal the scars and forget the pain. It is just a high-profile tightrope walk.”

"In my opinion, Shinichi's last and difficult slash was more like a slash to humans themselves, because Goto is no longer a species whose goal is to survive, but has become a species that attacks and kills humans. A real 'monster' for his own pleasure, and how similar this is to humans."

"They are also parasitic beasts. Xiaoyou has obtained the beautiful part of the human spirit, while Goto has unknowingly possessed the evil part of human nature. This invisibly enhances the depth of the work and will also bring a stronger shock to the audience. Power. Perhaps with the rapid renewal and development of human material civilization, accumulation and thinking are destined to be forced to a dead end, but I still sincerely feel that it is a wonderful thing for human beings to have such masters of thought."

Philosophers always advise people to always reflect on themselves, but how many people can withstand the torture or even denial of themselves during the "reflection" process?

Neither Xiaoyou nor Shinichi are philosophers. They only experienced real feelings in daily life and later in contact with other parasitic beasts. To borrow the classic concept of Marxism, it is "alienation".

Putting aside complicated explanations, the real feeling of "alienation" is: "I always feel like something is wrong?"

That's how it was. Or it was supposed to be that way, but in the end it was completely different.

Xiaoyou is like this. This is how Shinichi is, and this is how humans are. The same goes for parasitic beasts.

In the early stages of the story, a horrifying world is shown: parasitic beasts quietly sneak into human bodies and wait in the darkness for the food that comes to them - humans. Human beings can only become food in their mouths without knowing the truth. .

But in the middle period, the situation changed. Human beings who were aware of the existence of parasitic beasts began to resist vigorously. At this time, the parasitic beasts hid in the crowd and were inspected one by one. If one was found, they would take a shot.

The strong became weak, and the weak became strong. In this mutual transformation of positions, both parasitic beasts and humans began to have to think about the meaning of this situation.

Overall, they are antagonistic, but there are also some symbiotic companions, and a rare parasitic beast like Tamiya, because it breeds human life, has also begun to think about the meaning of its own existence. After all, parasitic beasts devour humans, not breed them. Humanity.

Parasitic beasts like Goto took the ultimate approach. The parasitic beasts merged with each other to form a powerful individual, but they completely collapsed under the influence of the garbage toxins created by humans. People can't help but think of what Tamiya said at the time: "We are very fragile."

Power and fragility, rationality and bestiality, symbiosis and engulfment, conflict and reconciliation, together constitute the tone of this work. (To be continued)