Netflix Sets a New Live-Action Parasyte Series, 'Parasyte: Tamiya,' for 2027

Netflix expands the Parasyte universe

Netflix has confirmed a new live-action project set in the world Hitoshi Iwaaki first built as a manga. Titled "Parasyte: Tamiya," the series is slated to arrive on the platform in 2027. It marks the latest attempt to translate Iwaaki's premise of invasive, shape-shifting organisms into live action, following the 2024 Korean live-action take on the material.

Shioli Kutsuna has been announced to star. Her casting is one of the few concrete details attached to a production that otherwise keeps most of itself under wraps for now.

The Yeon Sang-ho connection

The name likely to catch fans' attention is Yeon Sang-ho. He served as planner and director on the 2024 Korean live-action "Parasyte: The Grey," and he returns here in a planning role. That continuity suggests "Parasyte: Tamiya" is being positioned as an extension of the same live-action lineage rather than a standalone one-off, though the specific relationship between the two productions has not been spelled out.

For readers coming to all of this fresh: the franchise originated with Iwaaki's manga and was adapted into the 2014 television anime "Parasyte -the maxim-." Everything since, including the Korean series and now this announcement, draws from that same well.

What you can watch on AnimeSphere right now

Here is the honest part. If the news has you wanting to revisit the source anime, "Parasyte -the maxim-" is not currently free to stream on AnimeSphere. The 2014 series has no free episodes in our catalogue and is handoff-only, meaning we point you elsewhere rather than play it here.

That said, if what draws you to Parasyte is the cold, creeping body-horror mood, we can offer a free alternative that sits in the same emotional register. "Boogiepop Phantom" is available in full on AnimeSphere, all 12 episodes, from episode one through twelve. It streams in Japanese audio with an official English subtitle track, not an English dub, sourced from the "It's Anime" channel and viewable in the US and Canada.

The series leans into horror, mystery, psychological tension, and the supernatural. Its fractured, unsettling storytelling is arguably the closest free cousin to Parasyte we have on hand, trading the parasite premise for a quieter dread but keeping the same interest in what hides beneath ordinary lives.

What is actually confirmed

We will update our coverage as more concrete details about "Parasyte: Tamiya" emerge ahead of its 2027 window. For now, the confirmed facts are modest: a title, a star, a returning planner, and a platform.