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The anime is about a boy named Ken Kaneki who was an ordinary boy before encountering with a ghoul who he was on a date. Ken Kaneki was saved but he is badly injured. In order to save him, her (ghoul) organs are transplant into his body which in fact resulted him to be an half ghoul. From ordinary life to becoming a ghoul who only eats human flesh,will he able to survive??

It was incredible from starting to end. I'm happy it has some more seasons so I don't have to say good bye to this now.

Some stories are just too much fun to see. Tokyo ghoul has a thriller type awesome story. Art style is really great too. Don't look at those who gave it a bad review. Season 1 was great.

A beautifully written show with an unique plot line that questions about the methods of living ''survival of the fittest'' or ''Co-existence" of two species together .This show arouses questions about the right way of living through a war between the two species who claim to be the dominant race.With the amazing soundtracks and beauty of animation technology they have built an masterpiece. The story set's in Tokyo where the protagonist is attacked by a ghoul but somehow he survives due to organ transplantation and is now a Half Human Half Ghoul now. The story describes his struggle as he is neither a Ghoul nor a Human,While struggling he start's to understand the true nature of Humans and Ghouls. The story will rapidly expand in the sequel of the show in which A War will uncoil that will decide the absolute dominance of one of these species.

Initially I thought the first half of season one was too slow paced and kind of boring because I just couldn't figure out the direction of the plot and the main point to the whole story. What happens to the main character just wasn't enough to drive the plot forward in my mind; the "now what? so what?" question kept nagging at me. But I was patient and kept watching and realized how wrong my initial impression was. I realized that the slow pacing and lack of a central purpose/goal of the early episodes actually works to improve character development so that the finale hits us that much harder. From the midpoint on Tokyo Ghoul turns into an absolute masterpiece; I began to see depth to the whole story and the shows profound take on ethics and psychology.

This series has potential to become one of the best anime's in recent memory if it gets a few more seasons. In fact, I think that the plot is thick enough here to warrant many more seasons. Season 1 does a excellent job setting the context and introducing us to the characters. It would be a shame if Tokyo Ghoul ended after just 24 episodes. I want more than that. If you fail to reach the midpoint of the first season, you will judge this series inaccurately based on limited data. If you make it to the midpoint, however, you will have that epiphany you've been searching for and the show will appear before you in a new light, as it has to me.

Don't judge this series based on the manga; they're totally different artforms and should be judged separately. It seems to me that a lot of people who negatively judge this series are extremely biased in favor of the manga, and that's just unreasonable.

If judged by the first half alone: 7.0-8.0/10.

If judged by the second half alone: 10/10.

If judged in hindsight taking into consideration everything I mentioned: 10/10.

I really enjoyed the first season of this series, but after that it went kinda downhill - I also watched second season and I didn't think it really lived up to the hype of the first season. The ending of second season got to me, and I actually thought it was quite okay anyways - but as soon as :re came out I was out the door. "What the heck is wrong with this" I thought to myself multiple before finally dropping it around the third episode of the latest season.

OK, so it's not often an anime this dark comes around, and so I just had to check it out. I haven't read the manga (if there is one), so I'm not sure if this follows closely or not. And without dropping any spoilers, it would appear a second season may be coming. Hopefully it will wrap things up.

Tokyo has two types of inhabitants, humans and ghouls. Ghouls look like humans, but can transform into monsters, have special blood-type weapons and other powers and have to feed on human flesh. All other food is repulsive to them. One day, Kaneki, a normal high school boy, has an accident and is given an organ transplant from a ghoul and becomes a half-human, half-ghoul hybrid. He learns that not all ghouls are horrible, man-eating monsters and some just want to live normal lives. He also learns that isn't easy for his kind.

This show had great character depth and animation and was pretty hectic with the violence and despair. But it was also censored to pieces and the ending was vague. The second season may clarify some things. Watch it...without your kids haha.

This is a story about a boy who is changed into something he fears. He then has to learn how to live on the border between what he is used to and what he fears.

The show is tremendously violent and gory, but not extraordinarily so in it's genre. It kind of falls into the Supersayan-problem of ever more powerful enemies that can only be defeated by the main character after becoming stronger, but it varies enough (more so in the second season than the first). Despite the characters feeling all over the place in the first few episodes, there is a point to that and after two seasons I actually quite like how the character arcs turned out.

What makes this story for me is it's underlying themes. It's about the big subjects of life and death and love and hate, but it does so in a different way than I am used to. The show seems to ask by showing murder after murder, battle after battle, slaughter after slaughter: isn't this pointless? Every time it sets a character up to be violently taken apart it makes a point to say that that character had value and now he or she is no more. It makes the point of the show, despite it's extreme violence one of pacifism.

It is a tremendously depressing watch, but definitely something I haven't seen before and something I don't know if I should recommend. Watch this if: a. you like violent anime and just want to see the pictures, because it is well made and not focus on the plot or b. you like feeling like crap after binging on short episode after short episode.

PS I don't like the title songs, but I am sure many people disagree.

There being so much hype around this anime, I decided to give it a shot. I've watched a lot of anime so I consider myself ft enough to judge whether an anime is worth watching or not. Tokyo Ghoul has an interesting premise but as I started watching it I started to notice a lot of senseless things and poor detailing that render this show unwatchable. Well not fully, as it starts out good, gets pretty messy in been and ends poorly. I can't understand why did they rush it so much. The ending is so poor that you won't feel a thing. No connection with the characters or the story whatsoever. The writers did not care about to end it, it feels like as a result you don't really care about what is happening. Only a couple of episodes in the start, maybe up to episode 4 or 5 are worth watching. The middle episodes are okay too but kinda illogical. The end is horrible.

This show has a nice dark feel to it and I loved watching it at night, in the dark before sleeping. The animation is not bad, but nothing ground breaking. The Tokyo scenery has been animated well. The voice acting is fine, but Kaneki's character is kinda annoying. Especially when he's crying.

First season has the one of the best writing i have ever seen. After that they diverged from tha manga and.. lets just say Tokyo ghoul has only one season

Believe it or not this is a masterpiece. One of the best I've ever watched. Although some people might disagree. Because after season2 it didn't follow the manga. But it doesn't matter to me. The story was great,the art was great also the ending was great what more do you want. I really recommend it to watch.

In my opinion,one of the greatest anime's ever. The end of the second season made me cry, although the beginning of the third isn't the best so far. This anime has ideals like what it is to be human, battling your inner demons, etc. I highly recommend it, although it does have intense actions and gore. so it should not be viewed by people ages 13 and under.

Its a brilliant take on Sui ishida's manga Tokyo ghoul,let's start with negatives first.it would have been better if they made it longer than 13 episodes,because I felt that it was a bit rushed,the first episode was brilliantly done and left you wanting more,but the next 4 episodes were a tad bit slow paced.I would really loved the added the gore and violence that the manga has.The Positives the art and animation is brilliantly done,the voice acting is absolutely brilliant,it actually makes you feel the despair and anguish that kaneki goes through in certain parts(not giving spoilers).but by far the best thing about this series is the soundtracks,it is absolutely superb,in the story and in the opening,normally I just skip the opening and go straight to watching the episode but "UNRAVEL"by TK kept me hooked,heck I even re-winded to listen the opening for the soundtrack over and over again.This anime is really well done I enjoyed the story very much and I hope this review helped.

One of the most striking anime series that I have ever seen. A completely new approach of Director Shuhei Morita, who created ten years earlier "Kakurenbo"(Hide and Seek), an anime series that did not catch the audience much. "Tokyo ghoul" is quite another matter! The story is fascinating from the very first seconds, and then you just start living inside this complex multi-faceted world. A world that very much resembles our real world. The eternal confrontation between good and evil in "Tokyo Hum" is presented with all possible contradictions that the main character Kaneki has to face every time... How do you make the only right choice when you realize that there is simply no perfect solution? Or rely on the lesser of evils? Kaneki does not hesitate, and his beliefs are so strong that it is really only HIS own choice, for which he takes full responsibility. Good-natured and childishly naive, he trusts almost everyone he meets, for which sometimes you have to literally pay with your own blood. Without retreating, standing up after each wound inflicted, he resists the evil even within himself. Consciously trying each time to overcome vicious temptations, Kaneki offers his game, the rules of which he learned for himself from childhood (only at the end of the first season before the viewer opens the veil of secrecy about his childhood and maternal parting words, which the young hero will keep in his heart forever). Throughout the series, you can't stop admiring his purity of views and desire to change the principles accepted by his friends and enemies at all costs. Words can't Express the constant tension that you feel when you watch a young ghoul rush into the thick of things, risking everything for the sake of his friends and family. Interest is aroused by all, without exception, characters! The creators seem to have instilled living strings in them, and at some point you start to realize with a bit of madness that they are as real as everything that is happening around us today. Anime in General, in my opinion, has a mystical power that can invade the human world, thanks to the deep immersion of human thoughts in this fantastic culture. And since the thought of a person is material, it is worth recognizing that many motives of Japanese animation, especially such as the story of the "Tokyo ghoul", have long been settled in our living environment. Someone this thought may seem creepy, but I hasten to reassure - I, of course, do not mean the material embodiment of monsters on the streets of cities and villages, but rather, I mean a kind of perception of the surrounding reality (few people know, and it is not so easy to count, but according to the most conservative estimates, the number of people on the planet who regularly (!) watch anime, in 2020 reached about 870,000,000 people! Although there are more bold conclusions based on Internet queries around the world, talking about 20% of the total population of the globe. And this, by the way, corresponds to the population of the entire planet at the beginning of the 20th century). I know a lot of people who have reviewed this anime more than once. I think that I will soon become one of them. As a good friend of mine (a fan of anime since childhood) said, "Tokyo ghoul" can be compared to the Bible, after a while you read it again. This is probably the case when I could recommend this series for the first acquaintance with anime to those who have not yet discovered this page of the wisest Japanese culture. Here, in a surprising way, almost all of the foundations of morality and virtue presented in human society are combined. Caring, self-sacrifice, a sense of duty, tolerance and respect, the eradication of vices within yourself and love, expressed here in a special way, as the only way to salvation... For me, this story (I think, as for many others who do not consider anime only entertainment) is another step towards self-discovery. That's how I took this magical combination of wisdom and anime colors. Or rather, their beginning is season I. There is a continuation of the story ahead. And if you haven't met Kaneki yet, find a few hours of free time. You will definitely not regret and will never call these hours spent!

I started watching the anime, and shortly after, a friend of mine told me that I should have read the manga instead. So I made it a point to read the manga after finishing the anime and here I am now.

The main problem seems to be the omission of certain scenes leading to a nonsense season 3.

The first season is great; it is similar to the manga, although it seems like a lot of important information has been lost, if you animate such a popular manga I don't get why you don't do it properly and maybe give it a couple more episodes and more time to refine it.

Personally, I really enjoyed the second season; it lacked structure, but I preferred the anime to the manga, at least in the beginning. It made more sense to me, and I could relate more to the decisions made following what occurred to Kaneki at the end of Season 1, then again they didn't get anywhere with the deviation and just returned to the manga storyline. The issue is the ending; The fact that they chose to deviate from the manga to then return to it as if nothing changed was so infuriating. They avoided many critical storyline elements at the end of the season in order to continue the story in the third season, assuming that everyone is aware of those elements. As I watched it I still hadn't read the manga and I remember being extremely confused.

It's all downhill from there. To be honest, I didn't like Re manga (as much as Tokyo ghoul) , but the anime is unwatchable. It's as if they've given up making sense of the plot.

Finally the fourth season was similar to the manga.

Overall, I'm not sure if I would recommend watching it; it's up to you, I guess. Think about an awesome plot but poorly executed. The manga would provide you with greater enjoyment, but for me there are some parts of the anime that I prefer. If you don't want to read the manga but you really want to watch it then don't expect too much after the first season.

It' s a mediocre anime with a brilliant finale.If you start it i reccomend to finish it.

The story follows Kaneki Ken, who had a deadly encounter with Rize. She, being a ghoul, attacked Kaneki to consume his human flesh. Ghouls are the creatures that look like normal people but can only survive by eating human flesh. After recovering, Kaneki discovers that he underwent a surgery that transformed him into a half-ghoul. This was accomplished because some of Rize's organs were transferred into his body, and now, like normal ghouls, he must consume human flesh to survive.

The concept always sounds unique and exciting to me and the season 1 was almost at the masterpiece level. But it was always going to be a challenge to continue with this concept for so long. I don't think it could offer much scope to continue and develop it into a long saga. Eventually, after the season 1 the writing took the beating. The storyline could be called above average at best. I did not even know how to react to the twists like Kaneki joining Aogiri or he later becoming Haise Sasaki, joining the ghoul investigators. Somehow those things weren't convincing enough.

Tokyo Ghoul, however, does extremely well in terms of characterization. Most of the characters were written extremely well and almost all of them were developed in a proper way. Despite the complex theme, the characters were very human-like and were easy to understand. Even if we talk about Kaneki, he has got a different personality for every single arc. And the way his various personalities converse with each other, every changes that occur to him feel convincing.

The action scenes are intriguing and manage to make or keep you curious. At times, there are more than couple of action scenes going on at the same time but they are usually executed well. The animation feels satisfying as well.

It wouldn't be wrong if I say the anime is best known for its song 'Unravel.' I am certain that even those who don't follow Tokyo Ghoul must be familiar to this song. Even though most of us like other songs more but when it comes to popularity, Unravel must be an anime song of the decade. Having said that, this isn't the only good song this anime has. Other openings and endings are enjoyable too.

The characters, animation, action scenes and most importantly the soundtrack make it more than just a watchable anime.

1. Don't hate blood or gore but Ghoul's story was so bad it felt like they had to make up for it with just more and more blood more and more submissive behavior and more and more torture. At least at any rate they keep the sadists happy and now Tokyo Ghoul has an army of them to protect their show.

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Save yourself some time if you like action its not great and very few scenes...

If you like a good adventure with a character developing story well you're going to have to look somewhere else too...

If you like suffering, death, torture, submissive males and 1000 gallons of blood pouring outta just one dude.... well sir have I found an anime for you. (:

I just watched this anime like a month ago or so and I really enjoyed it i was on the edge of my seat almost the whole time! the twist towards the end of the first season was very cool, I was hoping it could be longer it was a pretty short anime but judging by the end they seamed to leave it open for that.

The version I watched was the DUB I wasn't expecting it to be great because i have watched DUBs before and they tend to be out of time, or completely different to what the characters are actually saying but i was actually surprised in how well the DUB flowed i was really impressed.

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