Recently, after watching "Parasitic Beast" again, it made me feel more and more that the behavior of the female partner Junjima Kanai (hereinafter referred to as Kanai) is to "lick the dog".
But strangely enough, instead of "licking" at the beginning, she developed slowly.
First, meet
The first time he meets the male protagonist, Shinichi Izumi, he witnesses him being beaten, and the beater is Kanai's classmate Mitsuo.
Why is Shinichi beaten?
The reason was that he was outspoken and saw that his classmate Nagai had been beaten and went forward to persuade him, and Xinyi, who was already weak, was naturally beaten to the point of "no skin".
If kanai hadn't stepped forward to stop him and said that he didn't like to hit weak people, it was estimated that he would have had to take a few more punches.
Kanai already likes men with wild nature, so Shinichi is naturally not her dish at the moment.
But here's where things get interesting, and it happens that the two look at each other, and Mitch's sudden appearance impresses her with Shinichi.
Conversely, Kanai herself possessed a special ability to sense signals from parasites, and she was unaware of the parasite's existence at the time.
Out of a certain curiosity, coupled with the slow understanding of the depths, and the spring dreams he often had, Kanai began to like Shinichi.
Even if she knew that there was a rival heroine, Rimi Murano, even if she saw the moment when Shinichi kissed Rimi.
But Kanai still firmly believes that his special ability is a chip to compete with Rimi.
When Shinichi's body changes dramatically (Mitch saves him after being penetrated through the heart), he thinks he has a mission to protect humans from parasites.
So for people like Kanai who can sense parasitic signals, they will definitely pay special attention. Coupled with Shinichi, Rimi's relationship at that time was relatively stiff, and even developed to the point of breaking up quickly.
That's why Kanai mistakenly thought that there was still a chance to fight harder.
The author has also expressed this view in interviews.
When depicting a brave hero, the more fragile the protagonist's heart, the more it shows the strength of the courage he shows, if he is strong at the beginning, he is only a strong person, and he cannot become a brave person.
Perhaps because of this point of view, Kanai was obsessed with Shinichi from shallow to deep.
Two, minority
Kanai will die, and I guess she herself is very surprised, because it is not the same as the situation in the dream.
In the dream, Shinichi is a brave man who kills the monster chasing Kanai in a few clicks, and finally does not forget to kiss naked.
One might say that if Kanai had listened to Shinichi at the beginning and tried to avoid encountering parasites, he would not have suffered this disaster!
Personally, I think this is too one-sided.
Kanai is a "minority" among most humans, and often this minority is the object of death in Parasitic Beasts.
Such as Ryoko Tamiya, who is close to human intelligence; Mickey, who did not succeed in seizing the human brain and parasitized on the right hand of humans; and the murderous demon Urakami, and so on.
By the way, Urakami can also distinguish the parasites hidden in humans, as for the method, the manga does not explicitly say, may be related to his cruel killing and decontamination methods.
In addition, the author is a person who does not follow the trend casually.
In the years of serial "Parasitic Beast", the so-called environmental protection issues were far less intensely discussed than they are now, and when everyone began to pay attention to environmental protection issues and then look at this work, the most discussed was environmental protection.
When the author learned of this, he did not want to define this "Parasitic Beast" as only an environmental work.
I guess this is probably one of the reasons why the author spends a lot of ink describing the "minority"!
3. Follow-up
In short, Kanai's naïve "dog licking" behavior is an important reason for her to pay for her life.
Later, the film "Parasitic Beast" was adapted to remove the character of Kanai, and when it was introduced to China, it was cut into two parts, and I personally felt that it was a pity to remove the character of Kanai.
Because she can have a "chemical reaction" with the protagonist, to a greater extent, she can show that her relatives and friends have been brutally killed, and she is determined to eliminate dissident attitudes.
-Ends-
"Encounter valuable two-dimensional content"
Source: Koga Ninja Dharma
Author: Man Classmate