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ANIME ActionTokyo Ghoul
ANIME ActionTokyo Ghoul √A
MANGA ActionTokyo Ghoul:re
ONE SHOT ActionTokyo Ghoul
MANGA ActionTokyo Ghoul: Jack
NOVEL ActionTokyo Ghoul: Hibi
NOVEL ActionTokyo Ghoul: Kuuhaku
NOVEL ActionTokyo Ghoul: Sekijitsu

REVIEWS

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  biogundam

  68/100
  good idea, but very rough on its handling

  Warning this review may contain spoilers.

  First impressions,
  So after watching the first season of the anime,
  I got pretty hooked into Tokyo ghoul so I decided to check out the manga to see what happens next and what not and for the most part I wasn't disappointed,
  But after reflecting on my experience with Tokyo ghoul I realized it had quite a few problems which needs to be talked about and addressed.

  Story, 6/10

  " if you where to write a story about me, Then it would certainly be a tragedy"
  And that is definitely what this story is about.

  The story of Tokyo ghoul is pretty much about these humanoid beings known as ghoul's who kill and feed on humans there basically glorified vampires, who are hunting down by the CCG ( which are basically ghoul hunters)
  So you see it's one of those humans Vs insert treat to humanity here type of story's similar to eflen lead, ajin and parasite.
  The story begins with are Main character ken kaneki who is collage student waiting at a coffee shop for a girl named rize who he has interest in and it seems like she is also interested in him,
  so after getting the chance to go on a with date with rize, He soon finds himself into very deep shit when it's revealed that rize is a ghoul who has plans to make him tonights dinner, so after trying to escape he ends up in a building site where he ends up badly injured, but it seems like fate had another plans in Mind as a bunch of steel beams fall on rize almost by accident and kill her with kaneki on the verge of death,
  He then wakes up in a hospital and finds out that in order to save his life the doctors transplanted some of rize organs into him.
  Which has now transformed him into a human - ghoul hybrid,
  With him now unable to eat human food and can only feed on human flesh,

  Now with his life thrown into the pits of despair and so begins the tragedy,
  (But in all honesty I think the real tragedy here is that he wasn't able to tap that sweet piece of ass)

  But luckily he is found by a group of peaceful ghoul's known as Anteiku who decide to take kaneki in and teach him how to live life in his new half ghoul state.

  So the first half of Tokyo ghoul is mainly focused on kaneki trying to find his footing in a world which is completely alien to him, so on his journey to trying to become useful
  For his new ghoul ally's and find his place in the world now that he no longer human any more, We learn about the culture , politics , social aspects of the ghoul world,
  Which was for the most part interesting to watch how ghouls operate in human society and how there society is very parallel to our world, it almost like its a shadow world that takes place with out us knowing about it.
  It is also In this part of the story where we get into introduced to the Main concept of Tokyo ghoul which is the kind of gray morality conflict between humans and ghouls,
  It basically trying to do this social political thing with ghouls, where there misunderstood and discriminated against and there not all evil monsters so on and so forth , with Kaneki trying to show to humans that ghouls aren't just all killing machines.

  So around the halfway mark as kaneki is getting a good flow going what happens next,
  He gets kidnapped and tortured by a ghoul organization known as aogiri tree and becomes ka-edgey as a result and has decided he is going go on his own for awhile in order to achieve his goals of protecting his friends and his place in the world,
  It basically where he becomes an anti hero,
  (in edge we trust I guess)

  So the second half of Tokyo ghoul is focused on kaneki quest for answers,
  Like who was rize, the disappearance of the Doctor who did his operation, and what is aogiri tree plans are.
  So In this part it's mostly kaneki fighting people and being a badass about it while finding out vague information which won't be of any relevance intill Tokyo ghoul:re,
  It basically telling you that there is some sort of conspiracy / mystery going on in the background,
  it basically one of those you kind of know the answer but you some more information to be more accurate.

  So after Getting over his anti hero phase he decided to return to Anteiku,
  Which is where We get to the unexpected ending
  Which came out of nowhere,
  And it pretty much ended on then most pain In the ass cliff hanger and thank god there is a sequel manga because it leaves you with more questions than actual answers.

  Now I am pretty sure a lot of you are going to ask me this question,
  Biogundam why didn't you talk the mature themes of Tokyo ghoul and how it's a very mature and what not,
  Well good question because I am going to talk about that right now,
  I would like to state that Tokyo ghoul isn't a mature series or as mature has some people hype it up to be, and before you down vote me the hell let me explain,
  a Mature series is all about subtlety and yes Tokyo ghoul dose have the theme's and concept's that could make it mature,
  But when it comes to theme and concept exploration it is as about subtle as a brick to the face, because it mostly relies on over the top edge to try and get its point across,
  Now you can argue that the violence makes it try hard but in all honesty I think it trying way to hard when it shouldn't have to.
  I think what they could have done to fix this is add more slice of life moments or just add more chapters focused on that, because it really doesn't give you enough time to breath every time a death happened or something fucked up happens,
  They could have done something similar like parasite where we had a lot of slice of life moments that fleshed out more of the concept and also when shit hit the fan it had more impact, because we had more cool down moments.

  So while we're on this topic let me also address some other problems,

  For one there seems to be quite a few gaping holes in logic,
  For example when kaneki was in the hospital after his accident ,
  Why wasn't there any police or some sort of health and safety organization that has questioned kaneki or having a investigation into what happened,
  Because you would think that a event like that would have been invested,
  It was big enough event to end up on the news.
  Another example gaps in logic I would also like to talk about the holes in the ghoul hunters logic or CCG as they are called,
  If ghoul anatomy and physiology are so different from humans then why is it that no one can tell the difference, you would think that they would come up with more precise and simple ways to find out if someone a ghoul or not,
  and those are just a few examples of the gaps of logic you will find here.

  Another problem I had was that the pacing was Very slow and it made things drag out a bit longer an they actually had to.

  Now I know that I have been mostly negative though this review,
  Well it time for me to talk about what I think Tokyo ghoul dose quite well,

  It has a very good sense of atmosphere, you can feel tension you can feel the emotions of the characters while there going through there events,

  It also contains a lot of world building, that mostly involved the ghoul world and how things work and what not.
  Another thing I would like to add is that it's narrative has good foreshadowing all the events that happen don't always feel random because Tokyo ghoul dose have this sense of grand scale planing,
  but the problem which I was talking about before is that it forgets the small details it try's to establish.

  Characters, 6/10

  The main character of Tokyo ghoul kaneki ken was interesting for the most part,
  At first glance I definitely thought he was a bitch though,
  He was pretty much like your typical shounen protagonist,
  He has no back bone doesn't know what the hell he is doing,

  But then I had to take into account that In the first half that there was some decent development there so I give his character credit for that and also the fact we get a lot of internal monologue with him so we what exactly is going on in his mind,

  But Instead of a gradual transformation to not being a Bitch and being more alpha,
  He gets tortured and suddenly transform into this total badass
  Which was cool to watch,
  But in all honesty it kind of came out of nowhere,
  I mean development stops right there and the only thing we actually see is how psychology damaged he is,
  Which was good fleshing for his character and also some foreshadowing to things that we won't be told intill later or the sequel

  The side characters,
  Most of them where very uninteresting and pretty one note for the most,
  Now the main side characters for the most more interesting,
  They all had an descent personality for most part,
  The good parts about them are,
  You could pretty much call ether two or three dimensional characters,
  Quite a few of them have good reason for doing what there doing,
  They some off them also get some fleshing out,
  We get know some back story about them and also get some decent inner monologue,
  there also a lot of turmoil.
  Now the negative are,
  That by the first 20 chapters we already have 20 + introduced to us
  And the it's feels very disjointed at times when the story try to make them all relavent and I know it's the manga way of trying to make this inter connectable Universe
  Which is pretty good on paper,
  But for the most part A Good majority of these characters don't actually have much of impact or importance to the plot intill much later on and some of them won't have any intill the sequel.
  Another problem with the big cast of characters is for most I forgot who half these people are, I actually have to go to the wiki to see who half these people are,
  And it doesn't help that quite a lot of them don't have enough characterization in order to help differentiate them.

  I really like the character interactions and some of them where pretty interesting to see.

  Art, 6/10

  The artwork at the start looks very cartoony but it starts getting better after the ch 30,

  At times the artwork can be choppy at times Especially in fights scenes
  Because some times you can't tell what the fuck is going on half the time and speaking of fight scenes the gore is pretty well done,
  But my one complaint is that it seems like at times they tone down the blood a bit because there are parts where you would think there would be a lot of blood and by lots.
  The back grounds are very basic.

  It has a vary edgey and depressed looking style to it.

  The character design where quite nice,
  Because there is pretty decent variety there In Character Designs and also you can also tell most of the characters a part which is always a plus,

  But I don't really like how some of them are so cartoony especially some of the antagonists
  Like there this one character who has bug eyes and looks like a walking corpse.

  Enjoyment, 7/10

  I really enjoyed this series and it was a pretty interesting ride over all,
  I was never bored while reading this and I was always on the edge on the my seat,
  Wondering what you happen next and honestly I found the things it talked about very interesting and also how ghouls try fit in human society which was pretty cool and even though it's concept has been done before,
  I think it did an alright job with it.

  Overall, 6/10

  So if you looking for a story that covers basic ideas of ethnics and morals and is full of edge and all that good shit then Tokyo ghoul is what your looking for.

  But if you looking for something mature or something that doesn't use edge to get its point across then probably look some where else and if you like the concept of Tokyo ghoul them probably go watch/ read parasite.

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  CryingLad

  58/100
  Tokyo Ghoul had a really good start with amazing plot but sadly turned really sour at the end wasting its plot.

  [This review will contain Spoilers for the Manga!]()

  
  
  Yeah I know that I already did a review for Season 1 but since I haven't watched Root A and read the whole Manga I might as well comment on the whole entirity of the series.

  [(SPOILER AHEAD) STORY:]()
  Tokyo Ghoul is a story of a human who enters the world of Ghouls by unknowingly going on a date with a Ghoul who got smashed to bits and the organs given to Ken Kaneki.

  Honestly I loved most of the volumes of this series, the plot was really interesting. Originally Ken wanted to prove that Ghouls and Humans can co-exist together. The combat was fun and engaging and the characters also were interesting.

  But sadly the further we get into the story the more "off" it starts feeling. The story is less about Ken wanting to have a peacefull life and more about him corrupting and becoming the "ULTIMATE BEING" that eats other ghouls.
  I found myself honestly confused and even angry at times due to the decision the author decided to pick for this series.

  Especially the last few volumes. (big spoilers, I suppose)
  Kaneki loses his mind, eats his friend WHO HE TRIED TO PROTECT FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRITY OF THE SERIES he just eats him in a second. Then he gets killed and a clone of him is made. What the actual fuck was that ending honestly.

  To say that I am dissapointed is too little, I honestly loved the starting portions of the series. The world building combined with character development. It was amazing but then they had to try and set up a forced seqeul and it just messed up the perfect story in my opinion.

  

  
  

  [CHARACTERS:]()
  Ken - The main focus of the story. At first he wants a calm life but then goes psycho mode and just kills everything. Despite him being originally a weak wuss of a character I liked that, it showed his Human side very well.

  Touka - Big tsundere. She likes Humans and just like Ken would do nearly everything to protect their friend. We got to see a lot of her at the start but then her panel time decreased, sadly.

  Amon - Ever since that first fight with Kaneki he has been interested in him. Why was Ghoul pleading for mercy, that was the question. His character was cool, even in the end he kept his original form of a strict and yet caring Dove.

  Suzuya - He is quite insane even from the start. He does his job very well without mercy. He also kept his original character at the end which was nice.

  Tokyo Ghoul does have MUCH more characters but these are the ones that made the most impact on me. Or in other words these are the characters that I would be able to name if someone asked me out of nowhere about the series.

  

  
  

  [ART:]()
  Tokyo Ghoul has a very good art style, very detailed. The fight scenes looks really good. It does a wonderful job at telling us the vibe that Kaneki is giving off at the moment. It gets more insane as the volumes go to probably potray Kaneki's mind.

  

  
  

  [OVERALL OPINION:]()
  Tokyo Ghoul is a series that has incredible potential and that I liked but then it just...flopped.

  I honestly wish we could get a proper ending, I keep hearing the RE series is a big mess due to the reason that it tries to add too many characters and doesn't explain much. Honestly I am quite saddened but hey what can ya do.

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  JanOderSo

  97/100
  One of the best I have ever seen

  __This Review covers the Entirety of Tokyo Ghoul.__

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  There will be spoilers in here at the end of the review, but there is a disclaimer before them. The spoiler tags used before it are only pictures, used to save space This is also my first reviews so don't be too hard on me ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗

  Tokyo Ghoul is about the acceptance of differences and one's self. Ken goes from the sweet shy boy who doesn't open up to anyone to the king of the ghouls who fights for their and human coexistence.

  

  The starts talks about Ken and how he has to find a way to live in the ghoul world, after turning into one, because he was originally a human. I thought it was amazingly done. One thing I hate about isekai and that sort of genre is the main character having to adapt to the smallest things in the new world, but in Tokyo Ghoul, it didn't bother me one bit (tho it also isn't a completely new world of course, he just has to adapt his style of living). The connections he forms with other people seem realistic and believable and are well developed.

  We are also torn between the sides of the humans and the ghouls, with the humans being portrayed as the villains especially at the beginning. We know both sides reasons to fight, and we can't root for any side, without feeling bad for the other one.

  The fights are amazing and among my favourites I have ever seen. They have intriguing dynamics, and with the ghouls kagune and the investigators quinque, there are sheer endless ways and possibilities of power or form they can produce.

  
  
  The best parts are, when it goes about the psyche of the characters and especially Ken. His internal struggle with acceptance, regrets, plans, pain,... It's very relatable and understandable for me, because I have kinda gone through something like that (of course not as much as Ken). 
  
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  As you can see in the screenshots, the art is jaw dropping. It's consistently good, but when it turns up, __it turns up__. It has some of the best art I have ever seen, and I have nothing to complain about in that compartment. 
  
  The comedy was also really good, especially towards the end. At the start it was ok, and also really funny at times, but often didn't really bring me to laugh. But in :re the comedy really shines and made me laugh countless times. A big part in that played Saiko, who also became one of my favourite characters in the series. She can be wholesome, heroic, epic and funny when she needs to be, and it never feels out of place.
  
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  Tho it has nothing to do with the manga, I wanted to mention that the OST's for both TG and TG:re are amazing, and amazing to listen to while reading, I would recommend you do that
  
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  The main part why I love the series is it's main protagonist, Ken Kaneki. His story of evolving from a normal boy going to school to a killer who would do anything to protect the people he loves is juts so touching to witness, I didn't have a second of doubt to put him in my top 5 characters. 
  He can be sincere, loving, caring, but also crazy, ruthless and absolutely epic. He feels like a real person, going through his struggles in life with big problems, but also trying his best to do what he thinks is right, and he will give everything for it. 
  
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  The ending in a whole is also a 10/10 in my eyes, a perfect conclusion. It has everything I wanted and more. While reading the last chapter, I had tears in my eyes and they just wouldn't stop flowing. Even after completing it, I the tears didn't stop for another good 20 minutes. One of the best ending form any series I've experienced until now. 
  
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  __I will now continue talking about spoilers, so if you haven't read/watched the series yet, don't read the spoiler tags__
  
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  <span class='markdown_spoiler'><span>Some of my favourite scenes from any series are in this. It has so many powerful scenes, for example Ken begging Amon not to make him kill a person, Ken going crazy after fighting against investigator Arima, Ken finally regaining his memory after losing it and living as Haise Sasaki, the ghouls and investigators fighting together to finish a common objective, the love scene between Ken and Touka, the last chapter with everybody after some years and seeing Ken and Touka with their daughter,any many, many more.</span></span>
  
  <span class='markdown_spoiler'><span>As you can imagine, I especially liked the love scene <img width='20' src='https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/797176924883124305.png?v=1'>. It was basically what we all wanted since they first met, and it was exactly what we were given
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  <span class='markdown_spoiler'><span>And the last chapter showing everybody after some years just absolutely broke my heart...in a good way. There was no way to end the series better than this. Humans and ghouls, coexisting and working together, just like Ken always wanted. And it was a happy ending for the most part. I could not have wished for more.</span></span>
  
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  At the end I can only say this was one of the best rides I have ever been on. The emotional impact this series has made on me is almost not comparable to anything else I have consumed over the years. Only a few anime and games come close or surpass it
  
  <img width='450' src='https://i.imgur.com/b8jMzmk.png'>~~~

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