The Human Parasite: Identity, Sacrifice, and the Ecological Uncanny in Parasyte: The Maxim
The subtitle The Maxim refers to a rule or truth. The series’ central maxim is: No being survives alone. Shinichi’s victory is not the extermination of parasites (many remain), but the acceptance of hybridity. He retains a fragment of Migi within his dreamscape—a permanent otherness within the self. parasyte the maxim
