Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about PARASITE EVE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: parasite Eve is a Japanese science fiction horror novel by Hideaki Sena . first published by Kadokawa in 1995, the book was published in north America in 2005 . it was later expanded into three video games; the novel’s plot supposes that mitochondria form the dispersed body of an intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve . Eve is able to control people’s minds and bodies by signaling to the mitochondria in their Eve has found the perfect host in the body of Kiyomi Nagishima . Eve causes her daughter to crash her car; she survives but is brain dead . she influences a doctor to ensure that one of Eve influences toshiaki to grow some of Kiyomi’s liver cells in his lab . he thinks that he is doing this as an experiment using different cultures of liver cells . Eve possesses toshi toshiaki rapes a man to capture some of his sperm to fertilize an egg of her own production . the egg develops into a child that is born almost immediately . mariko’s body toshiaki’s sperm carry a separate line of “male” mitochondria that will be wiped out in the new order . in the novel’s epilogue, it is revealed that some samples of the Eve cells survived the book led to three video game adaptations, a book-based manga comic and another manga adaptation . the film was so popular in Japan that a scientific study asked citizens what color mitochondria are stated that they are colored green . the film does not contain an english dub track and is subtitled in hardsubs . the adaptation follows the storyline of the book but has a different ending . Variety projected the film take in 100 million yen ($ music for 1999 sequel Parasite Eve II composed by Naoshi Mizuta . arranged by Hiroshi Nakajima; 2010 spin-off title The 3rd Birthday composed by Shimomura Shimomura worked with Suzuki and Sekito to create a score reminiscent of Parasite Eve . Japanese rock band Superfly provided the theme song “Eyes on Me” for the 3rd birthday . the third game’s soundtrack album, The 3rd Birthday Original Soundtrack, released in December 2010 through Square Enix’s music label . the music of the Parasite Eve series has generally received positive reviews . the manga serves as an adaptation for the video game with some altered events . it was written by Fuji Takashi Toshiko and was also published by Asuka Comics DX. the game was developed in both America and Japan . it serves as a sequel to the novel . Sena approved of the game, stating he was “actually impressed how well the game makers translated the novel” the 3rd Birthday is the third game in the Parasite Eve series . the game was originally announced for doCoMo cell phones . it was confirmed exclusive for the PSP at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 presskits