Feb 17, 2024
TLDR: You should never expect respect from someone who put a 6 page sex scene in the middle of a war instead of literally ANYTHING else. Fuck Sui Ishida.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
After taking time to reflect on my opinions about Tokyo ghoul re I can say proudly that this series was garbage with no respect to its predecessor and even less to the reader.
When a sequel series starts and throws 20+ new charterers at the beginning that is how I should have known it wasn't going to get us to form bonds with these characters and just kill them off. Bad thing is that no
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one is ever killed off. If these characters are super strong and blah blah blah, why aren't more characters that "matter" dying? Where is the blood shed and anguish? Yeah CCG officers are dying but its not sad or even cathartic. "oh wow this guy died" is as emotional as I got and in comparison I cried a lot during Tokyo ghoul.
With such a big cast I couldn't for the life of me remember who's who. I had to flip to the beginning with all the characters profiles to figure out who these characters are for all 12 volumes that I read. I know my memory isn't the greatest but if in the same sitting I can't recognize a character that was introduced in the previous volume your doing a bad job. I think what also doesn't help is the way appearances are changed from Tokyo ghoul. Good for Touka for getting blue hair but I didn't know who she was.
These characters also just drastically change. Suddenly all the people we know and love are shells of their former selves. Touka doesn't even do anything except get pregnant and fuck and be motherly to orphans. Relationships like this entire manga go from 0 to 100 real quick. All this insta love which seemingly comes out of nowhere is meant to make me feel something which I dont. I also don't understand how anyone thought this was a seemingly good gift to people who are shipping these pairings. Im not happy when i see my favourite pairings speedrun marriage why would anyone.
As for the actual plot it was boring and never explains the initiatives of the villains. The big bad wants to be the head of the family or whatever and the clowns just do this for fun I guess??? Crushing the ghoul society and killing people for fun doesn't make sense? They are ghouls wouldn't that mega impact them? I also don't get why we didn't end that Haise Kaneki dilemma sooner? It does create tension but messes up everything else. At the very least why didn't we get previously established characters if we wanted to do a CCG route. Its also a big "fuck you!" to bring side characters back from the dead. Your not even doing anything substantial with them WHY ARE THEY HERE??? Im not going to even dip my toes in the whole "one eyed king" thing because I thought some of it was interesting but it fell flat in the "make sense story wise" department. In 2014 did no one ever think to hire someone to help with the continuity or did money overtake the eyes of all.
My last compliant is the art, I get the covers are now pretty but im looking at some of these fight scenes confused. Its sometimes not even just the fight scenes but any part where there's meant to be suspense. The whole reason I read manga is for the art and you're giving me scribbles but selling them for 17.99 dollars. Im fighting Sui Ishida and anyone who worked on this garbage.
Art: 3 / 10
Story: 0.5 / 10
Characters: -9 /10
Enjoyment: -100 /10
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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