Jul 6, 2015
Tokyo Ghoul has an interesting concept, humans kills ghouls as they eat humans, ghouls kills humans to eat them as it i their primary food source. The question of who is right and wrong is not easy to answer as they have their reasons on what they do.
Interesting? For me, this was what pulled me into watching this series. So as I finished season 1, I started to read the manga and it was great.
I liked the manga (so I'm writing in the perspective of a manga reader), so when Studio Pierrot announced a season 2 (root A) I was kinda excited and looked
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forward to it. Turns out that my hype was for naught.
Since you're here, you've probably watched season 1 and kind of have an interest in this series (right?). Tokyo Ghoul Root A continues from where it left off in season 1, but Ishida Sui decided to write an original story for the anime. This isn't rare and isn't bad if the story is nice. But here comes the problem, it's supposed to be an anime original story, yet majority of the scenes are just taken from the original manga. If you're thinking it's not too bad, try thinking how is the anime going to be good if you adapt almost a 100 chapters of manga into a 12 episode anime. Original scenes are present, but really, only a few minutes throughout the whole anime can be called "anime original".
The story is all over the place, you won't know what are the characters thinking at all, especially kaneki. Kaneki is the main character and yet the amount of words he speak are so few, you'd probably remember him only because of his white hair or his trademark finger cracking. His character development ended the moment root A started.
The only notable character development goes to Suzuya Juuzou. That's it.
Animation wise, mediocre? (or worse) The fight scenes are so good, people call them dancing. Sure there are some nice scenes, the close up look on kaneki, and...a really nice keyboard?
Sound wise on the other hand, are pretty well done, OST's are fitting the anime quite nicely. As for the OP, I wouldn't say it's bad, but the OP from season 1 just outclassed it. ED on the other hand, is really nice.
I wouldn't recommend to watch this. If you liked season 1, read the manga instead. Root A can be a real disappointment for you (as for me) if you're looking for the character developments and story continuation from season 1.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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