2 articles about Parasyte
The subject by its numbers · The Teaching
A 33 by its name: master teacher (33), and therefore the teaching.
What the 33 brings is service. The reference files it as a transmission. Whatever else this section is doing, it is doing it with the 33's devotion to lifting up everyone it touches.
The Teaching — master number — work that made other work possible →Part 296: The Master Teacher: Parasyte, the Number 33, and the Alien That Taught a Boy What a Human Is
Part 27: The Shivers and Shudders of the Soul: Horror Manga's Numerical Echoes in Tokyo Ghoul, Parasyte, and Junji Ito