Tokyo Ghoul

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.

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.

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.

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

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.