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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Parasyte, Volume 4.
Themes labels used: humanity, identity, environmentalism, dehumanization, coexistence, morality, social integration, psychological change, fear and paranoia, self-preservation, weakness, loss
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A teen partially infected by a parasite struggles to stay human as a hidden alien threat spreads through his school.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · identity · moral ambiguity · survival · coexistence · empathy · dehumanization · instinct versus reason · public fear · societal response · nature versus humanity · loss and grief · ethics of violence · otherness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0745
A swamp-born monster discovers his true nature and is pulled into a dark, eco-horror journey across America.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · humanity · nature versus industry · ecology · environmentalism · politics · racism · sexism · feminism · loss · fear · death and rebirth · body horror · existentialism · spirituality · social critique · nuclear anxiety · memory · self-knowledge · power and responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0841
In the final volume, Shinichi faces the deadliest parasite yet while confronting what separates humans from monsters.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human nature · identity · coexistence · morality · survival · anthropocentrism · environmental damage · ecological balance · selfhood · empathy · soul · species conflict · evolution · death · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0846
In a ravaged England, an infected father hunts for his daughter while rival factions fight to survive and dominate.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · identity · dehumanization · tribalism · war · terrorism · family · loyalty · control · anger · addiction · societal collapse · morality · othering · displacement · coexistence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0970
Misfit children with psychic gifts form a shared consciousness and must decide what power, identity, and humanity mean.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · belonging · loneliness · morality · ethics · human evolution · individuality · collective self · symbiosis · alienation · power · conscience · difference · social acceptance · humanity · psychiatry · sanity · morality and power · group purpose
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0972
Seven amnesiac strangers wake on a drifting boat and must follow cryptic orders through a misty, ruined London.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · trust · survival · humanity · control · free will · sacrifice · paranoia · morality · responsibility · self-preservation · dehumanization · unknown threat
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0987
A recovering zombie and his allies flee a hostile takeover while his past and a darker new threat close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · prejudice · control · power · community · trauma · loss · change · rebirth · free will · coexistence · resistance · class hierarchy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1002
After a bite in the middle of a world-spreading virus outbreak, a slacker must survive as neither fully human nor fully infected.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · identity · trust · fear · morality · human nature · social collapse · adaptation · responsibility · redemption · prejudice · community · immunity · social ostracism · civility breakdown
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1003
A teen search for a missing sister pulls her into a parallel world where breathing itself is dangerous.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · breath · freedom · identity · dehumanization · asepsis · fear of difference · grief · love · sisterhood · survival · memory · gratefulness · danger of conformity · sensory deprivation · body and mortality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1013
A woman wakes with no memory on a sailboat and must choose between uncovering her past and staying alive in a climate-strained future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · selfhood · memory · climate change · environmental collapse · migration · refugees · survival · choice · reinvention · trust · human connection · loss · regret · morality · belonging · truth vs safety
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1014
Bioengineered outcasts maintain a deep-sea power station where isolation, trauma, and something far older begin to collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: transhumanism · trauma · abuse · survival · humanity · dehumanization · corporate power · psychology · adaptation · alienation · ecology · energy crisis · social marginalization · moral compromise · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1014
A rabies outbreak at Heathrow traps travelers and staff in a lethal quarantine as fear turns people against each other.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human nature · fear · violence · dehumanization · survival · civilization · morality · science and ethics · good and evil · social critique · human cruelty · apocalypse · collective guilt · marginalization · responsibility · nature versus civilization · panic · isolation · humanity versus animality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1018
