5 reviews
In a less twisted than expected first episode, we meet Kaneki and learn about the ghoul epidemic.
- Amari-Sali
- Jul 4, 2014
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I'm impressed
In my mind, there's no much more you can wish for in anime. This one got all i was searching for. It got me interested in the first couple of minutes, then ruined my night with this episode(because now i need to see them all).
- JosephPorta2000
- Mar 24, 2020
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Exciting start of an interesting story
The plot of this anime begins by introducing most of the characters involved in it with taking a quick look to the "Ghouls" creatures and it explains the problem and suffering of the protagonist Kaneki after the tragedy he had because of Rize, I have to say that the voice acting is very good and feels kind of realistic to me.
I'm so excited to watch Tokyo Ghoul.
I'm so excited to watch Tokyo Ghoul.
- Mebrouk_Larbi
- May 26, 2022
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"I'm... human!"
Ken Kaneki is a university student in Tokyo with a date with a beautiful girl called Rize. Kaneki seems pretty shy and bookish, particularly in contrast to his wise-cracking and gregarious friend, Hide. He probably can't believe his luck.
It's unfortunate, then, when Rize turns out to be a "ghoul" and almost kills him. You see, "Tokyo Ghoul" is set in a version of the city in which creatures called "ghouls" live among regular folk and can pass themselves off as human. Human, that is, until they get a taste for flesh.
They seem kind of like vampires, but with more opportunities for gore: they don't just drink blood, they eat organs.
Kaneki is almost killed by Rize, but then she herself is killed when a beam crushes her. Kaneki's life is saved when some of her organs are transplanted into his body, but it leaves him as half-a-ghoul, with only one eye that turns red-and-black when he gets peckish.
The rest of the episode is concerned with Kaneki's attempts to preserve his humanity against his growing hunger for human flesh, and foreshadows his soon-to-be immersion in the ghoul subculture... and I wonder if that's the correct word.
Future episodes will tell.
I liked this as an introduction to the series. I liked the main character. There was a brilliant sequence, no doubt taken straight from the manga, where Kaneki is standing motionless amid a throng of people, barely keeping it together, and he looks up and sees that the crowd has parted to give him a wide berth, like they have distanced himself from him without realising it, perhaps realising he is no longer one of them, subconsciously.
I predict this'll be a show about outsiders. Do you see what I mean about the monstrous creatures called ghouls actually being a "subculture"? Maybe they're like goths, punks, emos, whatever.
Such a metaphor makes the show more interesting to continue watching.
It's unfortunate, then, when Rize turns out to be a "ghoul" and almost kills him. You see, "Tokyo Ghoul" is set in a version of the city in which creatures called "ghouls" live among regular folk and can pass themselves off as human. Human, that is, until they get a taste for flesh.
They seem kind of like vampires, but with more opportunities for gore: they don't just drink blood, they eat organs.
Kaneki is almost killed by Rize, but then she herself is killed when a beam crushes her. Kaneki's life is saved when some of her organs are transplanted into his body, but it leaves him as half-a-ghoul, with only one eye that turns red-and-black when he gets peckish.
The rest of the episode is concerned with Kaneki's attempts to preserve his humanity against his growing hunger for human flesh, and foreshadows his soon-to-be immersion in the ghoul subculture... and I wonder if that's the correct word.
Future episodes will tell.
I liked this as an introduction to the series. I liked the main character. There was a brilliant sequence, no doubt taken straight from the manga, where Kaneki is standing motionless amid a throng of people, barely keeping it together, and he looks up and sees that the crowd has parted to give him a wide berth, like they have distanced himself from him without realising it, perhaps realising he is no longer one of them, subconsciously.
I predict this'll be a show about outsiders. Do you see what I mean about the monstrous creatures called ghouls actually being a "subculture"? Maybe they're like goths, punks, emos, whatever.
Such a metaphor makes the show more interesting to continue watching.
Tradedy
- awolochinedu
- May 25, 2023
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