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 151,589 users)

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Ranked: #322²

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Popularity: #21

Members: 292,518

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MangaYoung JumpIshida, Sui (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

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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Kirishima, Touka

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Sasaki, Haise

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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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Nagachika, Hideyoshi

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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

Mixed Feelings

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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Aug 27, 2024

tabbycatcircus

Not Recommended

Tokyo Ghoul obviously needed a sequel because it was so incomplete and awful without one. I'm late to the party, but I finally read it all.

I was honestly going to put this as "mixed feelings" but seeing how I listed Demon Slayer as "recommended" I might as well do the same.... is what I thought but Demon Slayer was more enjoyable in a way because it was simple enough for the narrative's capabilities. So therefore I'm going to put this as "not recommended." Here's why.

Tokyo Ghoul was just too ambitious and complex. There are way too many characters for the author to handle. Characters you ... forget about from the original suddenly appear and have a major influence for about five chapters. And characters that were antagonistic towards the ones you were rooting for get converted to the "good" side for no reason (well of course there's always "a reason" but the point is Ishida hardly makes the time to explain why). The character designs and art consistency really didn't help because you often couldn't tell who is who, and so many characters look similar to one another. MC suffers the most from this terrible deviance in his facial features.

The story also often had no breathing room for moments to develop relationships between characters, which is largely the fault of having too many characters and their conflicts. This leads to important scenes such as a sex scene feeling like it was much too soon to happen for a romance that already had a shaky foundation writing-wise. The only relationships that weren't one-sided admiration that felt properly developed were Juzo Suzuya and his mentor, Akira and Kotaro, and Kaneki and Hide. Which isn't much considering the sheer amount of characters and Ishida's obsession with making sure you know the backstory of each and every single one of them. And speaking of one sided admiration, how those admirations came to be largely made no sense or were noticeably retconned in later chapters, such as Mutsuki's obsession with a certain character. All of this makes the story of MC really diluted and lacking in impact, as praised as he is for that.

The premise of the story, the conflict between humans and ghouls, strangely wore me out despite knowing what I was getting into from the beginning. That's because the entire time a doubt was lingering in my mind that I couldn't quite express. And it was that doubt that led me to conclude in hindsight that this story really didn't need so many chapters after all. Because the solution is presented to you as a side note in the epilogue that had no reason to had not been come up with even before the story began given the setting's technological level. I mean, this would be fine, if like I said before, there was actually breathing room to address the characters' personal journeys, but the manga couldn't even do that.

That being said the worldbuilding was truly awful. A "big reveal" that happens about halfway through the story about the higher ups of an organization really shouldn't have been all that surprising given the setting's briefly alluded to history, which is that humans have always dealt with ghouls. Now I won't elaborate further on this but if you spare any amount of effort to think about it the conclusion is really simple. Given the level of technology needed to fight toe-to-toe with ghouls and considering that this level of technology was not available for millennia, what would the ghoul's relationship to human society be in the past?

Now onto the female characters. The side female characters weren't bad, which is enough. My concern though is about the main female character Touka, a concern that extends from the previous manga and is never really addressed, which is her own motivations and how she relates to her brother and her friend. This is largely the fault of the manga being MC centric in spite of the sheer amount of characters. I would have said that "this is not a problem because male characters suffer from this too," but they still manage to feel much more fleshed out than Touka, as one of them (Tsukiyama) gets an entire arc devoted to him with a whole host of side characters that relate to him and properly wrap up their relationships with him. Meanwhile Touka never has a single conversation with her brother in this manga, and I don't think this is fair at all. Also, the only memorable female "villain" who has a strong connection to MC is barely developed and is simply kidnapped again and again for breeding stock, even though she is so prominent in MC's subconscious every time he has a mental breakdown.

Also, it's not bad writing at all, but if you're a female reader who has similar tastes, then you're going to want to see female character's relationships with other female characters holding as much weight as important male characters' relationships with other male characters. This is largely not the case, as exemplified by Touka never once interacting with her high school friend, a relationship that was supposed to parallel a certain other ghoul-human friendship. Ironically the narrative really tried to sell you on the idea that Touka was supposed to stop fighting to live a normal life with her, but these puzzling writing decisions really make you wonder if Ishida likes her at all and only included her to appeal to the target audience. Moreover Touka's relationship with Hinami (the girl she was living with and took in and killed her parents' killer for her sake) largely revolved around Kaneki and Hinami's relationship with Tsukiyama was far more engaging and humanizing. You know what, nevermind. The complete character assassination of Touka as any sort of character apart from Kaneki IS bad writing while the male characters actually have fleshed out relationships with other characters is quite frankly sexist.

TL;DR Justice for Touka and God forbid women in seinen actually mean anything

I truly, truly wanted to like this, but in the end I was sorely disappointed. Now I know why hardly anyone talks about it in mainstream these days besides jerking off Unravel every now and then.

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