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Status: Completed
Aired: Jul 4, 2014 to Sep 19, 2014
Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Psychological, Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural, Seinen
Duration: 24 minutes per episode
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Producers: Studio Pierrot, FUNimation Entertainment
Score: 8.11 (by 218,822 users)
(According to MyAnimeList)
Sequels: Tokyo Ghoul Root A, Tokyo Ghoul Season 3 (NOT AIRED)
My Rating: 10/10
In a world where ghouls and humans coexist and ghouls must eat human flesh for their survival, this 12 episode thriller by Sui Ishida displays a world where ghouls eat humans and humans are on the attempt to eradicate ghouls in a bid to rid their society of this evil plague. But did you know they can also drink coffee?
Tokyo Ghoul shows the struggle of a boy who becomes part human and part ghoul. His inner struggle of a clash between morals and extreme hunger as he experiences first hand that Ghouls are far more normal than most humans make them out to be.
Although some argue otherwise, I believe character development is one of the stronger points of this anime. If you want to witness a normal boy unwillingly climbing up the levels of monstrosity, as he fights his desires to consume human flesh while in the same time trying to keep his humanity, then I highly recommend this anime.
Although it is categorised as horror, it isn't particularly scary, or predictable for that matter. However, the themes are more horror-like as this anime includes brutality, blood, brutality, innocent scenes at a coffee shop and then even more brutality. I can't promise you will enjoy this anime as much as I did, but one thing I can promise you is brutality.
What made me like it is the very dark, twisted and tragic storyline, which I feel is something this anime does very well, and is in this sense a step ahead of all other animes.
The show on the other hand can be criticised for not explaining how this world of ghouls came to be, but I don't think this takes anything away from it. It's also criticised for not following it's manga counterpart although Tokyo Ghoul itself has been popularised by the success of the first season of anime and fans say that the changes from the manga is what has made this anime successful.
The anime delivers quite stunning art and animation, often criticised as bland with an amazing soundtrack that probably portrays the emotional aspects better than the animation itself and is well paced (well, it is only 12 episodes).
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Oh, and the voice acting of Kaneki by Natsuki Hanae just as incredible if not more incredible than the soundtrack.
It does have other cool characters as well, but quite frankly, who cares?
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