Ok, so I'm swamped working on many things at the moment, so updating is sparse and far between. But I'll take a moment to do this because it was one of the recent things I managed to uhhh..."complete".

I don't watch TOO much anime, and take what interest I can under my own judgement, but they're usually on high-end when it comes to getting it yourself (Twenty bucks for four episodes?? WHAT THE HECK?!). Thankfully Toonami plays some anime for free. yaaaayyyy!
Sword Art Online was one of those, as was it's sequel batch later on. But there were a few others. One I just remembered I should take a look at again but it's rather....gorey...but anyway! Let's see about one of them I just finished!

When your run-of-the-mill-kinda-sorta high school non-so-geek Shinichi Izumi tries to sleep away a night of mundane life, he's assaulted by a tiny snake-like creature that bores itself into his hand. Needless to say, he freaks out his parents who, like any parents, take no concern whatsoever and don't think to take him to a doctor....
...bad thing too, when his hand starts acting on it's own and grows an eye and a mouth and starts speaking to him. At first, it just states it's regrets about not boring itself into his BRAIN instead, alas poor parasite.
As time goes on, and Shinichi tries to figure out what to do about his rogue hand, MURDER comes into the picture! People are being killed, and as the viewer learns, it is another parasite! This one, succeeding in what Shinichi's couldn't, takes human form, albiet not too well, and goes on to kill humans and uhh....have shish kabob.
I won't go into too much detail, as I've got other things I need to get to, and there's always wiki-ying it, but I will say that things escalate quickly for Shinichi. He loses people he loves, sees so much death (which would make anybody fall apart, which Shinichi does...at first...but there's a reason he gets stoic later on), and comes to picking up a pseudo-hero task of trying to hunt down and stop the more dangerous parasites. His own, Migi, named so because it means "right" in Japanese, is not the best help at first, considering humans in the same circumstance as like cows or something. Migi works with Shinichi mainly do to her reliance on him. If he dies, so does Migi.

The main draw I see, aside from the events that spring from Shinichi's interaction, is the concept on the value of human life and ethics. Parasytes, as they mature through the anime, go from simple lone killers to close groups that stay together for safety. Some even try to adapt to lives as the human they have become. It also seems that the more thoughtful of them even question their own existence. A popular theory is that they were an evolutionary creation to counter human beings.
By the end, we see such things as humans killing each other, a parasyte sacrificing themselves for their human child, and Shinichi's struggle with losing his humanity.
The anime really makes you question humanity and their actions. I've already had my conversation on the topic with ALMA way back after a...ahem...incident I'd like to forget...so I'll just leave it up to other people's viewings to see what they think.

So! Holo-time! Which...I instantly regretted. Nothing against Migi, but that human mouth just throws me off. Unfortunately, the program decided the parasyte didn't manage to enter my hand....but somewhere else. I think this is an anime I'd rather not try out for myself like SAO.