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This could have easily been one of the greatest manga to have ever graced the medium, with its brilliant artwork and its story, but there is a point in it that is a make it or break it point for any that will read it.

Without going into much detail, the protagonist Kaneki is undergoing a slowly yet horrific transformation against his own will and he comes into a slow understanding of what he is becoming. As the audience, we care about this character and watch as he has to come to grips with what's happening and it becomes something reminiscent of the Universal horror ... character, the Wolfman, a sympathetic character who is transforming into something that they don't want to become against all their good intentions.

The problem for this story however is that Kaneki reaches a literal breaking point within the story where he goes from being the sympathetic main character to being the "A #1" badass that my 12-year old self would have been cheering on as he delighted in becoming the very thing he did not want to be. This personality shift completely and utterly destroys any semblance of the intent and it feels like the cheapest way out for a character to change.

Once this change has happened, the story becomes secondary, it feels like there isn't much else for the characters to go to and falls into the similar tropes you see in various Shonen series.

This has got to be the best series I have ever seen, it's a combination of almost every single genre and I guarantee that anyone watching will get attached to the genre that they find most interesting.

The story is great and it reels you in from the first episode, where Tenchi stumbles upon Ryoko.

The art is also different from other anime series and there are a lot of backgrounds that are really well done, as well as the character designs.

The sound is amazing, the voice actors for the English version have really given their characters personality (the same could ... be said for the Japanese voice actors), and the music in the series is decent, but some of the vocal songs are somewhat unmemorable.

The characters are the main reason I was hooked on this series, each one has a distinct personality and it travels with them throughout the first OVA up to the third, as well as the spin-offs and other forms of media.

I enjoyed watching this series at my pre-teen age and I enjoy it now.