Manga 81117 Tokyo Ghoul Re Reviews

"If lets say, you were to write a story with me as the main character, it would certainly be a tragedy" What an amazing ride this manga has been for the last seven years from the first one to the sequel. In this review i will try to cover only the sequel.

Story: 9
I feel like the story is not the strongest part of what makes the manga that much enjoyable but is the characters and their development as well, but after a certain point of this manga we finally saw what the true purpose of this story is about, as we saw what characters were ... the actual main villains and who were eventually the savours. I won't say much more so I don't spoil anything else, but after 60-70 chapters we learn so much about all this untold story which sounds like a completely different take which was awesome and actually made sense!!

Art:10
At the first 1/3 of the manga the art was a bit difficult to understand at some points mostly because there were so many new characters introduced, plus that the old cast came back and we could a lot of times get confused(mostly in the fights) and also because Kanekis' hair as with his personality chanegd so many times sometimes you could get confused of who is fighting who especially at the Rose arc, but after we got used to the characters and Kaneki finally had a more stabilized haircut , it was easier to understand. Other than that the art is just outstanding i would even say that it was better than the anime graphics at least at the first season of :re, Ishida's art is just unbelievable beautiful.

Character:10+++
The strong part of this manga is their characters and the development that happens. Almost every single character gets his own "screentime" with his own background past story(which a lot of times included fights and confrotations with other characters in the show), which builds such a heavy tension if i could say on these characters. It feels like the author makes you feel the same for every character in this show as everyone has his own tragic story, so even when the worst character dies and his past gets revealed we could all feel something for him. The strongest character development is obviously on the main protagonist of the show Kaneki Ken himself, and outstanding development from the first manga up to this one.

Enjoyment:10
I feel like this is a modern classic at this point, it has been on the top 5 best selling mangas for a while and there is a reason behind it. It is because the manga is so full of character building and action that you never get bored, even if a chapter will be short, or will only have discussion, it will still keep your interest to see what is going to happen next. Especially from like 140 chapter to the end the tension was so big that waiting a week for a new chapter was almost like a tortute haha. I would only give a 9 to the first arc of the manga as it is building up the universe almost from start again, until the old cast gets in to it as well and everyones' fate collapses.

Overall:10

It was honestly an amazing ride, for me i really hoped for a third part, as I thought the author Mr Ishida Sui would go for a trilogy but unfortunately he decided to close the story there, but that was definitely fine because the finale is actually satisfying and closed up every hole that he has left open, so I don't think a lot of people will get disappointed from this manga, but obviously there will be a lot of haters.

For me just don't read any negative review but you don't have to believe every positive as well, if you want to find out if the manga is eventually good or not you should give it a chance and I can assure you that if you liked the first one just be a bit patient with this one as after a couple of arcs it shows its greatness.

Alright, so I read the whole manga after watching the anime and I LOVED IT. I start reading the first couple of chapters and to be honest, I had to adjust to it. I read the first chapters a couple of times to realize what's going on. After I had finally got what was going on, I now loved the story. Its great that this is around 2 years after the Anteiku Raid. So many questions still unanswered since that latest chapter was 25. This follows Haise Sasaki (who looks almost exactly like Kaneki), a CCG investigator and the supervisor of the newly formed Quinx ... Squad, which are humans that have built-in quinques. Old characters emerge, but the new characters so far are very interesting. The art is the same from the original manga, which is great. I enjoyed EVERY chapter. I will conclude this review by saying this, it will ONLY GET BETTER. So far, its another masterpiece in the making.

So it has finally ended, what a ride it has been. This review will contain minor spoilers but will not refer to any specifics.

In the later half of the original Tokyo Ghoul, Ishida had begun to explore the maddening, fracturing psyche of Ken Kaneki. Tokyo Ghoul:Re is the natural continuation of this exploration and delivers an extremely satisfying resolution about halfway in.

However, things deteriorate after this. The second half of the Manga is sadly lacking in my opinion, delving into a long, uninteresting and poorly plotted arc (with a few standout sequences) which ultimately only leads to a sort of doubling down on the ... conclusion reached midway through the manga. This is a shame, and even the ending feels somewhat bland. It is almost as if Ishida reached the conclusion he had been building towards midway through and was then forced to keep on writing.

However, it must not be understated how truly fantastic the first half of this manga is. If the second half of the original TG and the first half of :Re where one piece, it would be a clean 10 for me, a masterpiece.

The exploration of Kaneki's psyche is alluring and intimate, punctuated by Ishida's fantastic art which can be both haunting and insane as well as loving and beautiful. It always manages to retain a poetic and calligraphic quality, dipping into the hellish and soaring into the serene, but never losing its cohesion in style.

Tokyo Ghoul:Re was a spectacular conclusion to probably my favorite Manga, offering a truly mature story of living with the horrors of the world, the cruelty one must embrace and an intangible, fractured self. I wish that conclusion had also been its ending, but it does not bother me anyway near enough for it to sway my recommendation.

Read Tokyo Ghoul, read Tokyo Ghoul:Re.

Tokyo Ghoul is one of the more prominent figures in the Anime/Manga industry as of late. With the two anime shows showing in the last year, and the original story ending late last year. Tokyo Ghoul:re is the second manga by the author, Sui Ishida, and the continuation of the story which takes place a few years after the first. It is full of everything the first manga series brought to the table. The author certainly has not lost an edge in the years.


Story: 8/10.

The original story was an absolute masterpiece. Everything tying together, with certain what if moments and twists sprawled out throughout every ... single chapter. The developments and maturing of characters seemed to run off the page and made you experience something that is real. These characters bloomed with life and vivid details. :re takes this concept and continues it seamlessly through the time skip, and notably brings forth some really interesting changes in characters we came to love in the first manga, as well as new characters that we come to enjoy that were not previously involved. The reason why this rating is in an 8 range is because the story itself hasn't had that much happen in it, with only the real "IT'S HAPPENING" moment starting around the recent chapters I have read at this time (27-29). This isn't to say the story itself isn't impeccable already with plenty of really intriguing moments. Even recently a character we saw in the previous manga, coming back in a way I don't think anyone even anticipated. There just isn't enough of the story to rate accurately yet. In the future this could be subject to change as more moments and broader arches come into play, with character developments of course.


Art: 10/10.

Ishida is one of those manga artists that know how to portray emotion and passion into the paper he draws on. As mangaka, they tell their story not just through the words and spoken dialogue, but the images being presented. This allows the reader to construct a story within their mind, much like novels do. The difference being, novels are done with words, manga is done with images. The story is beautifully drawn, and absolutely mesmerizing at certain high points. The characters all seem to have their own aura when watching them go about this crazy world Ishida is painting. Each one with their own unique characteristics and styles. Their own images, set apart from others. Furthering the relation the reader can express while glancing across the black and white surface. The art makes the characters come alive.


Characters: 8/10.

Much like the story portion, we simply do not know enough about the characters at this point to make any real judgement calls. The characters we do know about however, have really come a huge way from the first series. The developments that now span two different series, tie together in a way that are so satisfying for the reader with their own new quirks. The uniqueness of even the "throwaway" characters really comes to mind, especially in the recent Nutcracker portion of the story. Ishida being the master he is, paints this character in a unique light and puts so much mood and feelings into the short amount of time the character is in the spotlight, all done on a few short pages. Many other stories in a lot of other mediums seem to always have a copy paste method of characters. The whole "seen it all before" stereotype that we all come to expect from certain stories. But Ishida is adept at not falling victim to this ploy in his works. Even if you think you know the character through and through, something surprises you about them. And to that I give so much credit to the story as a whole. Hopefully this trend continues into the later chapters.


Enjoyment: 10/10.

Tokyo Ghoul is one of the only series of mangas I have actually sat down and read through and through. The hook of the story in the first few chapters of the first manga really packed a huge punch into my interests, a typical non-manga reader. Even today, the only manga I look forward to every week for release is :re. The story here in :re like the original knows how to appeal to the person's life. Their feelings. Their struggles. Because let's be honest, many of us don't have perfect lives. We all experience some bad. Some tragedy. And Tokyo Ghoul plays onto this fact. It shows you tragedy. It lets you know that people are out there. We are all out there. Living a life. One life. And in that fact, we all have some weight to bear. It brings a huge down to earth feeling to the reader, that many can really relate to. Life isn't always a shounen after all.


Overall: 8/10.

It's hard to rate a story fully without seeing it in it's completion. At the time of making this, I am currently up to chapter 29. With a lot more story and chapters awaiting in the coming weeks, months, possibly years, I will edit this review as it sees fit. Much of the perception of this is hinged on the fact that the person has read the prequel to this story. Highly recommend doing such, because you cannot truly grasp everything in this story without the background and the perception the first series gave to the reader. For now, the story cannot be perfect or close to it. Too much needs to be done before rating it that high. For now though, an 8 is a good place to put it for all that we have now. Looking forward to the future of this series.

A wise man said ''it’s better to burn out than to fade away’’, and this is exactly what sprang to mind throughout this sequel, especially during the last few arcs.

:Re is the continuation of TG, a prequel that offered an intense journey, delving deep in the characters’ psyche. Kaneki, Shuu, Touka, Suzuya, Amon-- they all got a fair share of character development, making the audience care about them, their backstory and struggles. Since the ending of the prequel, :re’s task was to wrap up all the loose ends and offer another side to the story, the CCG’s, ultimately ending in a non tragic way.

While ... I certainly enjoyed reading up until Rose Extermination, it soon became apparent that :re had some fatal flaws. For one, the characters stopped getting any attention. They only served as plot points, vehicles that will move the story forward successfully. Touka was shown fleetingly before becoming Kaneki’s woman, Suzuya is just CCG’s fight tool, Hide is just a person that comes in handy for Kaneki and the CCG. Their rushed treatment erased any kind of nuance and originality they used to have.

A second mistake was Ishida’s obsession with parallels. Foreshadowing and parallels do not necessarily equal good writing. Making parallel arcs in :re that mirror TG’s means ultimately nothing if it seems forced, rushed, inconsequential or involves overused plot devices.

Thirdly, while TG has always had fight scenes, :re was filled to the brim with them-- to the extent of sacrificing character growth and reflection. New characters, new battles, new missions. All of those would be cool as long as you were getting a glimpse of the characters' struggles, thoughts and emotions. That's the only way you can care about whether a character lives or dies. If you don't have that, the battle arcs seem pointless and dull. TG’s brand and originality stem from Ishida’s masterful psychological writing. If you add a really large cast of characters and just put them in fight sequences then, even if you cared about said characters, you will disconnect from them precisely because you’ve stopped seeing what you used to love about them.

Truth be told, there were a few glimpses of excitement in :re, however it winded up a huge let-down for the aforementioned reasons. I can’t help but look back to my 16 year-old self, who was begging for a sequel announcement after TG ch.144 was released. Back then, the story was still vibrant and immersing, full of potential that :re could seamlessly explore. But now, all I see is that this sequel has come at the cost of indifference. As painful as it is, it’s better to see something you love end quickly than to slowly stop caring about everything you used to love about it.

This is an absolute slog of a manga to read. Toyko Ghoul:re tosses out every major character that we grew to know over the previous story and complicates things with another dash of vague narrative and some very off-model characters.

We're introduced to a new cast of characters, including Ken, who is now working with the ghoul hunters in a specially created squad. What then follows is 32 (up to where I got) chapters of boring filler, with Ken playing Scooby-Doo with various ghoul characters. The new cast members are not fleshed out enough to carry this story any further than the initial premise. If anything ... these chapters feel like they should be one arc, not half the entire manga.

Bit characters from the first are introduced but seemingly do nothing, some having their designs changed completely to ensure that you forget who they are. Once again furthering the confusion by adding additional characters who you may remember to an already over-crowded cast.

The author seems to have taken the vague exposition of the final chapter of the first story and applied it to everything here. You will become very, very lost as characters talk over each other about subjects that you are not savvy to. Some characters become off-model to further infuriate you.

But that vague narrative style is being applied to a very simple story, Tokyo Ghoul:re simultaneously manages to be too dense and too thin, it's not worth the effort to figure out what some of these characters are doing and you'll find yourself becoming very, very frustrated over how little of significance is occurring. After smashing through the first in a few days, I rapidly ran out of steam trying to get through re.

Through around chapter 60, TG:re is a solid 10 in every single aspect. It's beautiful with great characters and expands the world of Tokyo Ghoul while still keeping us tied to the themes and characters introduced in the first part. It's a masterpiece.

However, post chapter 60, little cracks start to show, and the issues in storytelling explode in the final arc, causing the story to cave in on itself. The main theme is truncated. The story relies on build up towards a thematic ending; however, all the build up goes nowhere in a clumsy rush towards an unsatisfying finish. Essentially, TG:re could be used ... in a creative writing class as a perfect example of what not to do in writing, and how to ruin a story's themes in a rush to end it.

(a quick outpouring of my myriad feelings after thinking about the most recent chapters of RE. aka don't expect quality)

Ishida Sui is a genius. His story is sprawling, with twists and turns and foreshadowing in every corner.
Small, maybe insignificant details you may have written off on a first read through carries new meaning afterwards. For example, a reveal in a relatively recent chapter (~mid 50s) will ensure that I will never be able to read any part of the original, beginning to end, the same way ever again. This reveal was foreshadowed everywhere, from Kaneki Ken's psychological mindset, to indications in the art, in his ... actions, in his words. This reveal is (hopefully, for the sake of my poor shredded heart) one of a kind, but such like it happen on a smaller scale everywhere in the story, echoing the "Black Goat's Egg" - Rize foreshadowing.

In terms of actual story, the central message seems to be that there is no bad, and there is no good. There are only people. And people can be anything at all.

The original story had what essentially amounts to cannibals, the ghouls, portrayed as the sympathetic figures, while those who were saving humans, the CCG, were not the heroes. In almost any other story, the protagonist would be saving lives, and the cannibals would be the villain. But, what seems to be the impassable dividing line between humans and ghouls is not the dividing line between good and evil. Everything is in shades of grey. If anything, Aogiri Tree would be the villain, and yet characters from Aogiri are also fleshed out and portrayed as sympathetic, such as Ayato. There is no apologizing for their "evil", their grey, either. They are acknowledged as morally reprehensible, and that is amazing.
[slight spoilers?] Even Eto, the "big bad", is portrayed in shades of grey. Abandoned by her father, belonging to neither of the two worlds, author of multiple novels that Kaneki is enamored with, slightly insane a la half-kakuja Kaneki. If anything, she needs to be sent to a therapist. (They all need to be sent to therapists, lbr) [end spoilers]
RE is showing all the good sides of CCG that we could not necessarily see just through Amon and Suzuya in the original, after ghouls were already established as sympathetic figures in Tokyo Ghoul.

The beginning seems a bit slow, especially if you're coming in straight off the Anteiku Raid, but in all honesty, looking back at the beginning of Tokyo Ghoul, RE escalates much faster. Once the tragedies start, they just never stop.

All of Ishida Sui's characters are amazing, nuanced, and flawed, all in one. The sheer diversity of characters is amazing - ghouls and humans both good and bad, both with morals and without. Male, female, nonbinary. The only romances I can think of that play a role in the story are Akira & Amon, which is peripheral, and that of Kanae, which debateably goes either way, so I won't count diversity of sexuality as something Ishida explicitly includes, though there are certainly hints. But the best part is that none of these characters are pure good or pure evil, they simply are. Not even the protagonist is some sort of fount of goodness in the world, as happens with many protags. He makes mistakes, he makes bad decisions, he has issues with morality and he hates. The best compliment you can give characters is that they're people. And Ishida Sui's characters are people.

[spoilers - you probably already know this one, tbh]
When Haise is revealed to be Kaneki without his memories, Haise is revealed to be yet another step in the tragedy of Kaneki Ken. He provides meaning to the quote from the original: "my only salvation is to sleep and have a happy dream."
Haise is the happy dream Kaneki dreamt up when he was cut down in Arima's garden of corpses. Haise is the Kaneki who has never known tragedy, who woke up one day in his twenties with a place to belong to and people to belong with.
RE is, at its heart, still a continuation of the tragedy of Kaneki Ken, and he can't dream forever.
[end spoilers]

tl;dr: RE is amazing and ingenious. It is mainly character driven, just like the original, and yet its plot is phenomenal on its own merit. Read it; you won't be disappointed.

Money is good. Money is great! Tokyo Ghoul :re is the proof of it. The proof that popularity makes the manga most of the time. Ishida Sui (the author) sold his soul to the money devil, and along with it went Tokyo Ghoul, RIP. Not that I blame him, I mean, he must definitely be wiping his tears in money right now.

Disappointing, disappointing, disappointing. That describes Tokyo Ghoul:re.
I am someone that began reading the original back in the beginning. So we have definitely come a long way. And I can say proudly that Tokyo Ghoul, the original is a masterpiece. Amazing. Fantastic. *Insert similar adjective*. ... I loved everything about it.

But this, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls. This, is shit. If we compare it to the plethora of garbage out there, sure, it is ok i guess. But if we compare it to the original, than :re is bad.

Story meh, characters meh, art bad in some aspects (though not all). And now that this is popular, terrible community.

The thing is, Ishida seems to have reached a consensus with his team. Crazy characters = awesome. The story is pathetically predicable now. Just random arcs with crazy people appearing left and right. Not to mention ass pulls. You know Ishida, the whole go crazy after torture and gain power up worked once. You can stop now ok?
Yes that's right Ishida found his magic formula and is rolling along with it. Damn you money!!! Anyway, here it is:

Step 1: Get one of your characters
Step 2: Make them seem relatively happy
Step 3: plot twist
Step 4: Character actually has a dark and sad past
Step 5: Torture them or something similar
Step 6: Is the character already crazy? If yes, then make them more crazy. If no, just make them crazy
Step 7: make their hair go white
Step 8: make them super crazy strong
Step 9: make 15 year old teens across the globe squeal, because they think they are super mature and cool by reading this dark edgy stuff.
Step 10: ???
Step 11: Profit. (literally in this case)
Step 12: Repeat from step 1.

That is how predicable :re has become. Ishida now seems to just be doing stuff to please fanboys. Pick any character. There is a pretty good chance they are fucked up in the head. woooooo so fun, so dark, so smart.

But I gotta admit, if this was Ishida's plan all along he has earned my respect. He has so thoroughly brain washed his audience, that anything he does is seen as "OMFG KANEKI KYAAAAA!! ISHIDA SO SMART!! TOKYO GHOUL BEST MANGAZ!!". And if you say anything it is always "OMG YOU STUPID GO READ SHONEN! DERP THIS IS TRAGEDY MANGA DERP!".

And this is all sad, remember that I was someone that loved this manga... Oh how the mighty have fallen...

I can't even go ahead and say which category made :re worse. It is now a convoluted mess, each category bringing the other down. A plethora of new characters that sprout out of nowhere just to make more fodder. Instead of reusing good developed characters, it is apparently a good idea to disregard most of them, introduce a bazillion of new ones and develop 6 of them. Some of the old side characters haven't even re-appeared yet. Pretty sure Ishida forgot about them.

This flood of new characters just helps bring the story down since there are so many new characters you can barely get their names. And no, I'm not going to re-read the chapters 5 times just to try to get who is who. A good manga like original Tokyo Ghoul only had me reading the chapter once to understand everything. This is not thick plot. This is bad writing.

One example of the characters bringing the story down are the random grunts from each side that serve just as fodder. Some of them have less than 3 pages dedicated to them, yet have whole fucking chapters showing their super sad past, right before they die. Why even? What is the point? Do you think anybody cares?

Speaking of bad, art got a lot worse in fighting scenes. Now it is just a drawing mess with blurs appearing in each fighting panel. I'm going to be completely honest. I barely understand what is going on most of the time. And no again fans, no, I'm not going to read the same chapters 15 times.

But it is not all terrible. Art outside of battles did improve. It is amazing now I really like it. And although the story doesn't touch the original's feet, it still is better than most stuff out there. Also when :re does shows glimpses of the originals glory, damn, tears flows through my eyes remembering the good old times. But that is quickly fucked up by another character going batshit crazy.

Yeah sure, years and years of reading manga and watching anime made me grumpy and weary, But then again, it also made me achieve a state of nirvana in which I can distinguish masterpieces from disguised shit.

So, should you read this manga and are you going to like it? Well, honestly, if this wasn't a continuation but a stand alone, it would be ok. But it isn't is it? Still everyone should read it if they have nothing better to do.

But the real question is, are you going to like it? Well if you are a teen you will probably love it. If you like stories that characters get power ups because they go super batshit crazy but don't make sense, then you will also love it. If not, then no, you will find it "meh", so go read Golden Kamuy or something better.

I honestly do hope I end up editing this in the future, because I do want to enjoy this. I really do. But as of now. Nope. This is as of chapter 81.

EDIT 7/19/18: Imagine giving another chance to a series that already self destructed just because so much time was invested. The result? A tremendous loss. Yeah, I'll take this L because I was hoping that Tokyo Ghoul REEEEE would be anything but droll, but it consistently let me down and it got to the point where a chapter of porn was the highlight of the entire sequel. The characters continue to display unlikable traits, poor interactions, and just god awful dialogue. Accompany it with unclear art direction and you got Tokyo Ghoul REEEEE. The rushed ending was a secretly a blessing because readers just couldn't ... stand the last chapters looking like rough sketches. And the final arc was actually the most poorly constructed idea I've seen in literature. It tried to be Persona 5 so badly, but it ended up a regurgitated idea with poor execution. I really gave Tokyo Ghoul REEEEE a shot, and the 120 additional chapters I read since the initial review did not improve my opinion of this godforsaken manga. Thought Urie was bad? Toru Mutsuki takes the cake as the biggest POS in manga.


Talk about a complete farce of a sequel, RE does not live up to it's expectations that the predecessor set for it. While Tokyo Ghoul wasn't amazing, characters had distinct personalities and the action was abundant. It is what I expected Tokyo Ghoul to be. RE takes on a different tone, shifting to a new cast of characters and taking the route of delving into the other side of the faction, the CCG.

Tokyo Ghoul didn't focus heavy on one faction, equally balancing both factions of Ghoul and CCG. Some psychological elements were present which made the story feel like there was tension and had some emotional impact. RE fails to set up in what was suppose to be a coherent action/fantasy story. With the focus on a squad within the CCG, expect a lot of exposition-heavy panels which is pretty insignificant to the story as it reaches the late 40 and into the 50 chapters. Much of the story felt stagnant with the exception of the late 50 chapters where it is looking like it's following its predecessor's footsteps. Everything leading up to that point feels like a waste of time as well with the few plot twists that pop up. It's almost as if the reader was supposed to be incredibly bored to lead up to a few chapters of action and adversity. Above all, the story just isn't fun. The stagnant nature of it with lots more dialogue then the author knows what to do with makes for an incredibly boring read.

The new cast of characters feature a squad within the CCG. All of them are poorly characterized with the exception of the main protagonist who is only interesting because of his alter ego. One guy for the WHOLE story just thinks about getting promoted within the organization. That's about it for that guy, I mean talk about one of the worst motives coupled with forced reactions in other situations makes him easily the worst character in RE. The other characters are very bland as well, making it seem like RE would've been better off having high school kids save the damn world vs what RE offered. The mindboggling thing is the previous cast of characters that made Tokyo Ghoul interesting get little panel time. Reading the first 20 chapters, the reader has to wonder if this is the sequel to Tokyo Ghoul.

A bland story coupled with terrible characters made RE easily one of the worst reads in all of literature. The more I think about it, the more I would have rathered read an economics book. It's complete shift in tone is what did it in and the open ending to the first season doesn't help. Actually, it makes RE look even worse because of that. Lack of personality within characters made for a tough cast to follow and ultimately connect with. The opposing faction was more interesting and all the reader gets in RE are little snippets of the things going on behind the scenes with minimum dialogue. I can't see RE getting any worse from here on out though, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It absolutely baffles me that I can browse the internet and find that this POS can lead in manga sales. The Tokyo Ghoul franchise is on a 90 degree downhill rollercoaster and avoid this if you can.

Tokyo Ghoul Re was pretty phenomenal. The story starts off pretty slow but once it picks up it doesn't stop with the enjoyable plot progression. Characters are all pretty interesting and none feel like throwaway characters and are given ample amounts of character growth and screen time. The only character I had a real problem with was the final antagonist, Furuta. He seemed far too perfect of a villain during the final arc, constantly having the upper hand and getting his way at every step. I didn't have an issue with the plot progression but it seemed crazy to me how good of an antagonist ... he was and how effective he was being at opposing the main character. Otherwise, I think he was pretty good of a villain despite the series making him seem untouchable until the end. The story arcs in the series were all amazing, especially the arcs at the middle point of the story. The only gripe I have with the story was the final arc of the series, the final arc seemed like they were trying to rush the end of the series and push the main character to face off with the final villain. To me it didn't seem as fluid as the other story arcs, however I generally liked the ending. The ending of the series in my opinion felt deserved, despite all the main character's efforts, the problems of Tokyo never magically went away. Sure his efforts created change that made his situation better, but never did the problems of Tokyo become 100% fixed, which I liked.
My main complaint with the series was the art during fight scenes. Some fight scenes were really all over the place and it was quite hard to tell what exactly I was looking at during some scenes. This is the only low point of the art.
Overall the series is pretty amazing and well worth a read.

To start this off I would like to say that tokyo ghoul was a manga that took me through my freshman year of highschool, I went to the library and saw all 14 volumes, and proceeded to check out all of them at once and proceed to read and extend my library checkout throughout the year. It was a very good manga. However, the sequal, tokyo ghoul Re is a complete mockery of what made the original so good. one of the main gripes i have with the series is that there are so many plot lines/character arcs going on at the same time it ... becomes a headache to keep up. A second gripe is that the fight scenes are poorly choreographed, sometimes it feels like ishida just sribbled on the page and called it a day, that doesnt discount the talent he has, I do think he is a very great artist, however i felt it was lacking in the fight scenes here. To end this off, if you are massive fan of the tokyo ghoul series, and very much enjoyed the first title, by all means read this one to continue on.

This review is based on what I've read in the 53 chapters that are out so far so everything should be taken within context,

Art: The art is decent. It definitely saw some improvement from the original series. it's difficult to understand sometimes but after reading it some time it becomes tolerable. Ishida picks his spots on where to show off his skills and you can tell in certain chapters. Not expecting quality like One Punch Man type because thats crazy to ask for but it's quite obvious Ishida picks his spots. 7/10

Story: I was quite skeptical about Tokyo Ghoul Re. In fact I held ... off of reading it for about a year since it came out. I was disappointed in not seeing the main Protagonist Kaneki instead we see someone else. But, after returning, Sasaki has grown on me quite alot. The story itself is done very well. Amazing foreshadowing. We see content that is foreshadowed in part 1 even in the early stages of part 1 taking fruition in the current story. The planning is God tier level and it's what makes TG great in general. Each chapter may require several readings in order to fully understand whats going on. For other manga I find it tedious and annoying having to read a chapter over again. Tokyo Ghoul is actually fun to research about and to see fellow fans theory craft. Nothing is spoon-fed. Ishida really understands how to make a series great without the need of constant action. The Dialogue between characters always has meaning. Even if it's not obvious the first time reading the dialogue between characters a few weeks or months down the line or even years down the line it will make sense.


Characters: The Characters are very realistic and they're not what you see in typical manga. They are complex and they all have goals and desires. There is no Black or White with characters. Even the main Characters is quite grey. The characters are written in such a way that it's highly possible to meet a character like this on the street. I wouldn't put it in Doestoyevsky's level of characterization but for a weekly series it's top notch. Each character is relatable and even the ones we dislike are humanized further emphasizing the gray aspect of the series. The characters are evolving and don't remain Flat and stagnant and the development in each character is a joy to behold.

Overall TG is about to join my list of GOAT tier manga. It's quite amazing. The fans on the internet are all curious and are always finding things that go unnoticed. If the Story or Chapter or series in general is confusing, the forum is always available and there are some good reviewers on youtube that do a good job on delivering the knowledge. It's definitely a must read!

Tokyo Ghoul started and ended as an average "seinen", but we had Tokyo Ghoul Re some months later and the average seinen transformed into the typical below average shonen.
I can't understand how as the time of this review both manga have a 8.52 and 8.24 score, when it is so bad, boring and using the same clichés as the typical shonen.
--Spoiler ahead---
First of all we had the most useless and important character at the same time, and no, is not Kaneki. Rize, she gets "killed" at the beginning of the show, just to get kidnapped for getting killed again to get kidnapped over and over ... again...
The main character, Kaneki, I'm not going to talk about his Tokyo Ghoul version but the Re version, he starts the story as another person because he has amnesia FIRST CLICHÉ and we only have started the story. He gets his memory back (of course) and starts doing the same of the previous manga, fighting CCP, helping their ghoul friends...
Now we have Quinx, because it is a shonen so we have to balance the scale power, and after defeating the Aogiri we need a villain so we now have the main antagonist that cames out of nowhere trying to make it a plot twist.
And to finish the manga we have a "shitty" version of the "God tree" arc in the Naruto manga (because it wasn't bad enough in Naruto...) that here is a "dragon" that appears because of convenient plot making it a nonsense.
The only thing good about the manga it's the happy ending, and not even that save the story, so I can't give it more than a 6 score.

The original Tokyo Ghoul is, by quite a few metrics, your standard action manga. What made it particularly unique however is that it did a fantastic job humanizing the conflict it presented. Writers that tackle this theme have this tendency of making one side of the conflict comically evil while the hero’s side unbearably good. Ishida did his best to avoid this cliché entirely by making the two groups, humans and ghouls, quite literally natural enemies of each other, while also implementing a main character that was forced to represent both. Not only was this dynamic interesting, Ishida also applied the finishing touches to this ... theme by humanizing these characters outside of the fights themselves in a natural way. While Tokyo Ghoul didn’t always clear this hurdle every time, I would still say that it did a great job *providing* context to the fights instead of just letting them happen, utilizing its unique setting to provide conflicts instead of pulling from typical ones.

The unfortunate thing about Tokyo Ghoul: re is that it’s literally just non-stop fighting from start to finish. This is a bit of a hyperbole, but it is very telling when re manages to have almost twice the amount of fight scenes in almost the same number of chapters.
The important thing to note about the original Tokyo Ghoul is that what made it particularly emotional is that many conflicts centered around the idea that ghouls just wanted to live like normal people, and the inherent tragedy is that they often couldn’t. Anteiku was a place to call home for much of the main cast, which is why it’s destruction was contextually meaningful. The problem with Tokyo Ghoul: re is that very few of the conflicts themselves really deal with more humanizing dimension of the story. Not only does the main conflict of the story shift between fighting major groups like the Cochlea rather than tackling smaller and more personal events like the original did, re also introduces characters at an extremely haphazard rate while giving them very brief backgrounds, if any at all. Even main characters like Urie and Shirazu are given extremely brief expositions while characters like Saiko are basically given none at all, and by the first 40 or so chapters you’re introduced to dozens of doves that you can’t possibly be expected to keep track of, and frankly even less so to care about.
It seems apparent that re seemed to prioritize far more on the fights themselves then really who comprised of them, possibly to capture a sense of scale and pace, but really this can be summarized by quantity over quality. The latter half of the manga unfortunately devolves into a more basic concept of this “evil mastermind pulling the strings” which magically dissolved much of the basic contrasts between humans and ghouls. Once again, this failed to take advantage of a conflict that would be unique to Tokyo Ghoul and instead takes one that could quite literally be in any other narrative.

If the fights themselves were good then this would at least be somewhat acceptable, but the fight scenes in Tokyo Ghoul have never really been that amazing by themselves; in my opinion have only seemed so because the manga did a great job establishing the context to each one. Not only is this dimension extremely neutered in re, but the rough art that initially defined the aesthetic style of the original Tokyo Ghoul was, combined with the consistently abhorrent paneling and the frequently busy fights, far too messy, and it was often unnecessarily difficult to tell what was going on (though to give credit where credit is due, I still like Ishida’s art style and there are some scenes where it ended up working phenomenally in his favor).

The original Tokyo Ghoul isn’t some untouchable masterpiece; like I said, by many standards, it can be considered a fairly average action manga. Perhaps re can’t be completely blamed for what it came to be since the original did start some of the gears that saw its conclusion in the sloppy final arc of re. But it at least did an honest, (and I would say) successful job on trying something different, even if it had to borrow from a few ideas along the way. It tried to be a piece much more than just the fights that it had and gave personality to characters that we will now remember for years. Re is incredibly soulless in comparison, trying far too hard in making the narrative all about the fights while misunderstanding the power characters can have on them.

Absolutely one of the best manga I ever read. It has everything you need: great plot, a lot of character differentiation, even more deeper analysis of the main characters than the first manga and a lot of plot twists.

Plot (it can contain SPOILERS from the first manga): after the end of Tokyo Ghoul, the manga starts focusing on CCG, in particular Haise Sasaki, supervisor of the Quinx, the newest addition to the CCG's arsenal. These are teens with Ghoul implants, quite the same as Kaneki but "perfected", and used to counter ghouls. Starting from here, the mangaka managed to answer alot questions but open new ... holes in the "big picture", holes full of suspance and hype.

At the moment, chapter 92 is the last that came out, but also with this small number of chapters I can easily say that this manga satisfied me so much, that I decided to give it 9/10.
If you liked the first manga, you will like this more, its a whole new level of hype and psychological drama, of amazing fights and new great characters.
Also, you will likely reconsider one of two characters descripted previously.

P.S. I'm italian, so sorry if you read any language error. I tried to make this short and enthusiastic review as understandable as I could.

I am not going to give a very detailed review of this manga because one, it is still ongoing and two, I don't quite remember everything so clearly. Around chapter 40 I stopped keeping up with each new chapter week after week. There are 80+ chapters out now so that means I didn't read the manga for 40 weeks. That is 10 months. I don't know if I am doing the math right here, but anyways I just recently picked up the manga again and got up to chapter 67 before dropping the it. My memory isn't so fresh but I do have my complaints.

Tokyo ... Ghoul was good until it ended so ambiguously. Fortunately, there was going to be a sequel so that would clear all of the confusion up, right? Wrong. Ever since Tokyo Ghoul ended, the story has only gone downhill in Tokyo Ghoul:Re.

In Tokyo Ghoul, I skipped over most of the chapters where the story would go to the CCG's point of view. I've always found the organization quite boring compared to the ghoul side of the story. I've never found any of the CCG characters interesting and I have never sympathized with any of them, even when they have died. I only feel irritated by them.

They are boring. There is endless bubbles of dialogue about their plans to take down the ghouls and it takes forever to wade through it all to get to what actually happens. I know it is necessary to talks about tactics sometimes, but it just gets ridiculous. Has this manga ever heard of show don't tell when it comes to the CCG?

So when I realized that the story was basically going to permanently be from the point of view of the CCG, firmly moving away from the ghoul side for good, I was distraught and disappointed. Again, endless bubbles of text were thrown at me as I painstakingly read through each chapter. Random new characters were introduced that I could hardly care about, even when they died.

Suddenly all sorts of new weapons and grades and ranks are introduced (or elaborated on, either way). Everyone just keeps getting more and more upgrades and more and more angsty and the story just gets further and further away from what we all once knew it to be. When something interesting finally starts to happen, it is dropped and not returned to for another 10 chapters. Just when the big climax happens in one of the arcs, the next one starts, killing all of the excitement and making the new arc even worse than the last. I just couldn't read it anymore.

The story sucks. What story is there even? Kaneki has lost his memories and isn't Kaneki anymore and now he is just getting missions and killing ghouls and trying to take down Aogiri as a member of the CCG. Interesting.

While people think that the art for this manga is good, I disagree. Half the time I have no idea what I'm looking at and I have trouble distinguishing between characters and who is killing who in fighting scenes. I feel half blind as twenty different things happen all on one page.

The characters were bad. I disliked all of them. I even grew less attached to Kaneki even though I thought he was a cool character before. This sequel managed to change that.

Honestly I can't bring myself to read this manga anymore. There is nothing good about it. Just when you think it is going to get good, it gets bad again. I apologize if this review seems jumbled, but this basically covers all my problems with the manga. If you disagree with my review, message me as I'd love to see if this manga can redeem itself in some way.

I absolutely love this sequel. In my opinion, it's one of the best, no, it's THE best manga out there right now. If you're wondering if you should read this - if you liked Tokyo Ghoul, you'll LOVE Tokyo Ghoul:re.



Story: (10/10)

When the first Tokyo Ghoul manga ended, there was a TON of unanswered questions. At first, what many people here said is true - we see a lot of the CCG and not much gets answered...

The main character doesn't remember who he is. He's surrounded by new people, it feels like an entirely new series.
That's because the author is a troll.
...
When the ball gets rolling all hell breaks loose.
The plot is my favorite part of Tokyo Ghoul - the author has been planning everything SINCE CHAPTER 1. You'll get answers to questions you didn't even think to ask. Trust me, everything will make sense.


Art: (10/10)

Ishida's art has improved dramatically. Nothing more to say here (except that whenever he releases a two-page spread in the manga, I immediately make it my wallpaper). In fact, he's redrawn chapter 1!


Characters: (10/10)

Even those who give TG:re low reviews agree that the characters are awesome.
The new characters are also just as awesome! As long as you keep in mind that THEY AREN'T REPLACING ANYONE, you'll find that characters you thought you hated are now your favorite ones.

And the old characters... Well, during the time skip they've also grown and you can see them from a new perspective. Basically, it's awesome.


Enjoyment: (10/10)

I'll just leave that old Harry Potter quote here:
"You'll suffer, but you'll be happy about it."
If you like TG, you'll fall in love with TG:Re.


Overall: (10/10)

It's an amazing series. A lot of people are put off by the fact that it starts out with the CCG and the old characters have seemingly vanished. I myself was wary of starting it for this reason, and I only regretted that once I caught up with the series. Everything you loved about Tokyo Ghoul WILL be in here, especially the later chapters... They'll absolutely break your heart, it's amazing.

When you have and end like Tokyo Ghoul, it's obvious to be anxious and excited about what will happen? Actually what just happened? Did he die? Did he become a quinque? Is this the end?

NO fellow reader it is not the end, here we have Tokyo Ghoul:re, same author, same amazingness and the most important 'the same twisted world'. (Yes there's kaneki too).

In part 1 we saw how twisted both humans and ghouls are and a protagonist that lies between both, not just because he has been both, (there are quite a few who were turned into ghouls), BUT because he has seen that both ... sides are good and bad, he has understood this world. Even at first when he's missing his memories he still understand that, he shows kindness for ghouls even tho he's an investigator, after losing his memories. And it's just a bonus when he regains them.

So let's start the review:

Story: (9/10)
The story starts with our Kaneki with what he would be if he lost his memories and was used for his strength and turned into an investigator and given a new name Sasaki Haise. This certainly makes CCG looks like really evil. But let's not generalize it, everything has it's bad sides just like ghouls and humans both have. The story starts off with a small arc which has characters connected to his past. Every arc goes and turns into something amazing and unexpected, the hype is just way too much each arc. You thought you knew about kaneki's past? NO you do not, this manga gives some insane revelations that you certainly never saw coming, such INSANE revelations and unexpected scenes that you'll stop reading just to say "HOLY SH*T" and 'WHAT THE F**K", it has more mysterious plot and more interesting storyline as to say. As the manga progresses we see more and more about what happened in a 3 year time skip and how thing have changed and this moves us to how the characters are, so let's talk about that...

Character: (9/10)
Sasaki Haise is just what kaneki would be if he forgot his past ..oh wait I just said the obvious thing right? What I mean is that he's your kaneki so unnecessary hate is not needed, he's just as kind as him but a bit more sane than him. It is interesting to see his character development throughout, from being scared of his past and rejecting it to being slowly starting to accept it and wanting to know more about it, well you can guess what that leads to. As for the other characters Ishida deserves a clap really, even the minor characters who are only supposed to appear for individual arcs ends up giving you feels and you'' be surprised to see how lot of these characters seemed at first and how normal and damaged from inside they are. The element of unpredictability remains and you have no idea whether that certain character will live or die. We also see how the old characters have changed and developed in the past and even those you did not expect to develop, just as the new characters, they all change in the story.

Art: (8/10)
The thing that has most improved is the art, the characters and the scenes are drawn so uniquely it's amazing. Ishida Sui is an amazing artist, the expression of characters are drawn accurately, you understand what the character is feeling and thinking, their insanity and emotions taking over are perfectly expressed on their face, their expression ARE what they are supposed to be, 'scary'. The art has improved a lot.

Enjoyment: (9/10)
How much enjoying is it to read? SO SO MUCH ENJOYING that I really hate waiting for a week for each chapter. The hype is so much, especially in between the arcs, when certain revelations are made and certain characters come and certain fights are about to happen, you are just left wondering and thinking about the possibilities, this manga stays on your mind if you're an attention paying reader and not a speedreader. This is one hell of a ride.

Overall: (8/10)
Been a year since it started serializing, 5 volumes until now and yet it has been so good, so if you are looking for something that will keep you waiting all week, then here is no reason to skip it and old reader who are not reading it yet, you are making one hell of a mistake.

Story: 8 (highest highs were way higher than lowest lows imo)
Art: 8 (fighting scenes can be hard to understand sometimes but it's still so beautiful)
Character: 9 (-1 because of the way some character arcs ended)
Enjoyment: 9 (-1 'cause final arc..)

Overall: 8.5 (bumped to 9 because of extreme character attachment)

I’m not really good at writing reviews but I thought I’d write one for Tokyo Ghoul:re, a manga that has always been one of my top favourites since I started reading manga.

If you can't be bothered to read through this review, my conclusion is that despite its flaws, TG:re more than deserves a try if you're up ... for some well-written moral ambiguity and character development.

It’s quite clear to me that writing-wise, TG:re has been going downhill for quite a while now (imo since about Chapter 150 it became quite obvious and went up and down for the rest of the series), so I can’t say that I was at all surprised to see that the final arc was quite rushed and lacked some of the things that made Tokyo Ghoul Tokyo Ghoul. To keep it short, I didn’t mind that Ishida took the story to a bigger, national, almost global scale, but the fact that he didn’t manage to follow up on the big premise makes it disappointing. The ‘final’ villains all went out in underwhelming ways. I wasn’t expecting shounen-esque fights but it doesn’t work logically when a super hyped up character gets taken out in a single slash. This is honestly the least of my complaints though. Poorly executed redemptions and revivals add to the flaws. One of the best things about TG has always been, for me, the attachment I feel for the cast, and the emotions that swell up in me as I read each chapter. Redemptions when done right can move the reader to the deepest but the way some of the character arcs wrapped up left a bad taste in my mouth despite me loving the characters in the first place. And no comment on what he did with Eto.

The fact that I acknowledge that :re was far from being perfect or the best doesn’t mean that I love it any less, nor does it mean that it carries less meaning for me than it did in the first place. In fact, I’ve never thought that TG, both the original and :re was bad or terrible, even during chapters that invited quite an amount of criticism from the community, or during the final arc of :re (which was my personal worst arc of :re). But I do think that the story could’ve had so much better build up and portrayal by the end. Mostly I think it could’ve done the story a lot better with just more build-up, more details and more chapters. If Ishida could do that all this time, why not do the same when the story is at its final, most important stage? Then again I have no knowledge of the stress and exhaustion a mangaka and his editing and publishing team goes through when working on a series, so I guess I can’t really complain.

Nevertheless…

I hope this doesn’t deter anyone from reading Tokyo Ghoul:re. For me it was definitely one of the best manga at least 80% into the series. The well-developed cast, intriguing moral ambiguity, intense story build-up, beautiful art and well-rounded world-building are all reasons that you should give :re a try. Being a character-driven manga, I think that Ishida was more than successful in leaving a wonderful cast of characters behind. I might have had love-hate relationships with some of them, but it’s undeniable that they were very unique, distinct and well-written.

It’s still so sad when I realize that TG:re is now coming to an end. Though the manga itself was far from perfect, I feel so attached to the characters that it’s probably impossible to let them go. I love the TG cast so much :re is going to stay on my favourites list for a long time to come, maybe forever. Honestly up until chapter 150 I was still loving :re to bits and crying over every chapter and feeling blessed whenever one comes out. In the end, I still think that I was so very blessed to have read this series, to have gotten to know Ken and Haise all his personas, and the rest of the cast. It was an emotional and inspiring ride until the very end.