Netflix hasn’t been working for me the past couple of days. I never figured out why, but it seems to have come back just in time for this: Parasyte The Grey. I have really been waiting for this. Granted, I am still in the middle of watching I Am Nobody, the Chinese, super powered, martial arts drama I wrote about earlier, and I will try my best not to take a detour and binge this new show, which I suspect will be short anyway.

The great thing about Parasyte, starting with the comic/manga, the anime and even the live action films, is that even though it follows a Japanese character, who gets partially infected and gets powers from this, and grows to involve police forces and even the government, it is clear from TV news reports, and other bits of information that this is happening everywhere. It is a worldwide phenomenon. This means any country can do their own Parasyte story, showing how things played out in that country, without needing to just remake the Japanese version.

You could do one in France or Indonesia. You could even do one in America. (Not sure I’d want to see that these days, but…) Basically, the sky is the limit for creating new Parasyte stories anywhere in the world. It’s a brilliant way to build a franchise, if that’s what they’re up to.