Tokyo Ghoul: "Pinto"

Shuu Tsukiyama is a "ghoul": a creature who eats human flesh, and he likes to enjoy his meals to the fullest. One night, while relishing in the premeditated murder of his dinner, Shuu's much anticipated first bite is disturbed by a sudden flash of light.

The flash turns out to be from the camera of high schooler Chie Hori, who presents Shuu with the perfect picture capturing his true nature; the extremely clear shot of a bloody corpse and an overly excited Shuu threatens to expose his ghoul identity, thus Shuu needs to sort out this situation quickly.

After Shuu discovers that Chie attends the same high school as him and is even in the same class, the reason behind his feelings of obsession changes from self-preservation to morbid curiosity. As he grows closer to the absent-minded and extremely odd photographer, he challenges them both to learn more about each other's conflicting worlds; Shuu promises that Chie will come out of this experience with a photograph superior to the one she already has.

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Tsukiyama, Shuu Main

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Hori, Chie Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Matsumae Supporting

Nakamura, Chie Japanese

Ikaru Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Nurse Supporting

Satou, Rina Japanese

Female Student Supporting

Hotta, Tetsufumi Producer

Matsubayashi, Tadahito Director

Haraguchi, Noboru Sound Director

Shimada, Souichi Script

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Sep 21, 2025

Scanerior

Recommended

Tokyo Ghoul OVAs are great! While Jack has a more classic but still engaging story about hunting Ghouls, Pinto uses an already established character who has a "refined taste". Although I don't really need Tsukiyami, I appreciate that they took advantage of the fact that they have an established character and introduced an interesting conflict with a person who is controlled by a similar "obsession", just in a different industry. It was fun to watch both characters and their reactions to each other and it's just a well-crafted side story. By the way, bring some food and take some screenshots from this refined OVA.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 11, 2022

lamaraptor

Recommended

How is it that these side episode managed to be more interesting to me than anything the main series was trying to sell?

The camera girl is instantly compelling as a character, and probably for similar reasons to the creepy gourmet guy you become fascinated with the way she sees the world. It's all just photography and watching things through a lens, which may be a pretty blunt metaphor but it works for this setting. My favorite moment had to be when he was in the process of throwing her out a window to her death and her only reaction was "this would make a cool ... picture." Gotta love it. From the first few episodes of season :re that I've seen it looks like she's going to be a recurring character, though confusingly her personality seems to have completely been rewritten.

The gourmet is ever the creepy guy you love to hate and surprisingly fun to watch. 8/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 30, 2024

Shirogari

Mixed Feelings

Pinto is a Tokyo Ghoul OVA about the character known as: 'The Gourmet'. It's about how he met a human girl who he befriended instead of ate. Since the gourmet appears a lot in the first season you can watch this after the first season of Tokyo Ghoul but watching it after the second season makes just as much sense.

Honestly with the story being about the gourmet, arguably one of the most messed up characters in Tokyo Ghoul, I didn't have high hopes for the OVA. Yet while the story wasn't amazing, it also wasn't bad and I do think it's nice that you can ... see how the gourmet's character naturally evolved from how he acted in the past. The story itself isn't too impressive but the dialogue between the two characters can be amusing.

The characters were acceptable. The gourmet wasn't as crazy as we've seen him in the main anime and he frequently gets shut down by the girl's silly behaviour. I kind of wish she was with him in the main anime because she's able to provide some kind of counterweight.

The animation, voice acting and music are comparable or the same as the main anime.

Overall this can be worth watching if you like tokyo ghoul and would like to know more about the gourmet. The story is a bit disturbing but such is tokyo ghoul.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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