I'd received pretty good feedback about Tokyo Ghoul these past few months, but honestly the first ten episodes had me more than skeptical about the entire thing. The finale of the last episode is amazing; Ghoul Kaneki is really charismatic. The whole background thing and the scenes between Rize and Kaneki took too much of the episode in my opinion; the time they took up could have been used to show some of what happens later between Hide and Kaneki.
The opening song and final generics were pretty damn cool.
Final rating: 7/10. Disappointing for most of the series, but the last two/three episodes and the Finale make up for that a little.
Original rating (after seeing Episode 1): 5/10.