List of Parasyte characters
This is a list of characters for the manga and anime series "Parasyte." Parasites. The antagonists of the series. The Parasites are creatures of unknown origin which start off as worm-like creatures that instinctively enter the body of the nearest life form and travel to the brain to completely assimilate it while destroying the host's identity in the process. From there, using the vital organs of the host bodies to survive, the Parasites would be driven with a need to kill humans and Parasites with failed host bodies. After assimilating their host, Parasites exhibit  a variety of abilities that make them dangerous adversaries: the immediate area around their entry site (typically the head) is morphed into a versatile "parasite tissue" which can take a variety of offensive and defensive forms, and a parasite that successfully takes over a host's brain can then maximize the physical potential of that host. In general, Parasite intelligence is comparable to humans, though their thought process is strictly rational and cold, with very little emotion. They are also capable of learning extremely quickly depending on their environment – Migi, for example, mastered Japanese after one night of reading books  on the subject. While most Parasites initially acted alone, causing a chain of multiple grisly deaths coined the "mincemeat murders", they eventually form groups for safety in numbers. By the time of the final chapter, Shinichi speculating that they might have been created as an evolutionary countermeasure to humans, the surviving Parasites are assumed to have gone into hiding and adopt themselves further into human society to keep their activities to a minimum. Names in Tokyopop publication. In the Tokyopop publication the main character's name was Shin and his hand was called "Lefty", as the image had been flipped  to read left to right. Satomi Murano is Sara. Jaw, Uda's Parasite, is referred to as Jaws, in reference to the film "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg. Reiko is known as Tamara Rockford in the Tokyopop version. Gotō's name was written without a macron.