Tokyo Ghoul:re

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Synonyms: Tokyo Kushu:re, Toukyou Kuushu:re, Tokyo Ghoul: "Joker"

Japanese: 東京喰種-トーキョーグール-:re

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 181

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 16, 2014 to Jul 5, 2018

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Themes: Gore, Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Jump

Authors: Ishida, Sui (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.29¹ (scored by 150,328 users)

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Ranked: #319²

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Popularity: #21

Members: 290,344

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Ranked #319Popularity #21Members 290,344

MangaYoung JumpIshida, Sui (Story & Art)

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Two years have passed since the CCG's raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organization Aogiri Tree, who acknowledge the CCG's growing threat to their existence.

The creation of a special team, known as the Quinx Squad, may provide the CCG with the push they need to exterminate Tokyo's unwanted residents. As humans who have undergone surgery in order to make use of the special abilities of ghouls, they participate in operations to eradicate the dangerous creatures. The leader of this group, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human who has been trained by famed special class investigator, Kishou Arima. However, there's more to this young man than meets the eye, as unknown memories claw at his mind, slowly reminding him of the person he used to be.

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Tokyo Ghoul:re was the 10th best-selling manga series in Japan in 2015 with an estimated sales of 3,758,541 copies sold.

The series was published in English by VIZ Media from October 17, 2017 to April 21, 2020. It is also published in Spanish by Norma Editorial since June 23, 2016; in German by Kazé since September 1, 2016; in Polish by Waneko since August 14, 2017; and in Portuguese by Panini Editorial since December 15, 2017.

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Kaneki, Ken

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Yonebayashi, Saiko

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Urie, Kuki

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Mutsuki, Tooru

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Shirazu, Ginshi

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Suzuya, Juuzou

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Uta

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Tsukiyama, Shuu

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Apr 16, 2024

AzureGalaxy

Recommended

This book is a masterpiece.
Sui's philosophies are dripping throughout, with compelling and believable characters and intriguing narratives.
Ken is a protagonist who is easy to root for. He isn't perfect and doesn't fit into any of the too-common tropes in many mangas out there. This story is the journey of how he finds happiness in a cruel world.
I disagree with many people saying that the ending was too rushed. In fact, I am very glad that Sui didn't drag out the story with more subplots.
The idea that connection is what drives us, and choice is a gift, is beautiful.

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Jun 8, 2024

JuJuBeans1

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A underwhelming sequel that tries to hard surpass the original manga but fails at doing so.

I love Tokyo Ghoul RE: it retained it's jaw dropping art work. It's amazing character design and terrific cast of main characters. Wonderful use of squeal building upon the original and developing so much more then what we saw. However, that is the main problem, Tokyo ghoul RE: is more, too much more. At some points that's all it feels like, more characters, more plot twists, more powerful character, bigger scale, more spectacle. Fights went from small scale scuffles between two people clashing ideals and only being able to ... solve that through combat. Whereas the sequel is treated like boneified battle shounen. Kagune are no longer small power ups the act like additional limbs. It's now just a big mess of black blobs that are used to attack from anywhere at anytime, with no unique traits or even appearances. Every fight looks and plays the exact same, every one just transforms into shapeless, black sludge whose power depends on whatever the author wants. No strategy or critical thinking, just be stronger then other enemy because of plot then you win. It completely missed the point of the story. This is not a battle shounen, Kaneki only had to get strong because those in power keeping the world in it's corrupted state where powerful themselves. In the original manga there was only two rate SS ghouls, the owl's. Rate SS ghouls are the most powerful and encountering was a story shattering event. In Re: basic side characters are rate ss, we went from maybe 15 ghouls rated s and above, to 50 plus ghouls all being rated S or above. It is ludicrous. A lot pages completely forgo building up it's story in favor of fight scenes. It did not need to go in this direction and it massively hindered the story which was it's main draw. The original manga is maybe 40% fight scenes because it was trying to depict kaneki's struggles in this world he found himself in. Fighting was there to resolve issues amongst characters. Now fighting is the only story.

Tokyo ghoul RE: introduces or greatly expands on so many new characters, they alone are double the cast of the original while still having to make and develop the main cast from the previous story. One can just tell at a glance the series is bloated, it gets so convoluted the every volume has an introductory page for every character in the current arc, that list includes around 20 characters, not including the numerous side characters. If you have to break the 4th wall and plainly spell out what the arc is about and the characters in it every single time, that is a handi cap to try and mask bad writing. Simply put, there are way too many characters, there are no more back stories for characters because it would be impossible to develop over 50 characters. Most of the time you have no idea what's happening because all the 50 people from different factions fighting the same way gets extremely repetitive to read. It lost all of it's original meaning. It was just supposed to be about a guy getting put in a unforuante situation trying to fix the world of it's discrimination and endless conflict between humans and ghouls because he was stuck in the middle, half human half ghoul. Now it's dragon ballz fights with literal humanity ending conflicts. The message has gotten so superficial are lost in such a unnecessarily long and convoluted plot.

In this case less is more. The original was dense and quaint, it was not till the very end where conflicts got to any massive size. It allowed everything to feel like tight knit group of people who kaneki grew to love as a family. He saw the issues of the world and strived to change it. Now basic conflicts are Naruto like battles with bigger stakes, more character, more everything. No one wanted to the story to go in this direction. It gave up on writing a quality story for cool moments. I did like a lot of what I read but it did not show me anything the original already had and when it did it presented those themes in a much worse way.

As a sequel you should obviously read it to finish the series as the original was left on a cliff hanger ending. As on objective piece of media it really is nothing special and most likely only gets praised because of it's Tokyo Ghoul name status and not as a story.

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Apr 6, 2022

Mysteus

Not Recommended

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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 ...

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