Anime & Manga
- Great Teacher Onizuka: At one point Uchiyamada compares Onizuka to various kinds of real-life parasites, and also to Migi.
- GTO: The Early Years: In Chapter 107, Makoto imagines Samehara, a guy who threatened him, as a Parasyte opening up its face to eat him.
- My Hero Academia: Shoji looks like he crawled right out of Parasyte.
- No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!: Among the terrible fates Tomoko wishes on her classmates are being attacked by the midget aliens from Gantz and Shimada from Parasyte.
- Sgt. Frog: Nevula (Alisa's "Daddy") appears to be something between a Parasyte and Venom.
Video Games
- Yandere Simulator: "2" – Blade Hair Mode Explanation
- Resident Evil 4: The Las Plagas parasite, when matured, can grow out of the head of the person it infects and manifest organic blades like in Parasyte. It was even confirmed by the developers that Parasyte was the major inspiration for Las Plagas.
- Life of Black Tiger: Unintentionally so. Already an infamously bad game as it is, its trailer went ahead and stole a fan remix
of Parasyte's "Next to You".
Western Animation
- Steven Universe: In "Onion Friend" Amethyst turns into something resembling Migi from Parasyte; Vidalia had painted a picture of it.
