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!
