before i begin, id just like to say that i hate to be /that person/ but please read the manga. i prefer to watch the anime rather than read the manga, but im glad i read tokyo ghoul or id have given this anime an even lower score. this story is elaborated upon so much more in the manga as well as the characters and the manga is actually really good ! im trying to be as unbiased as possible but its kinda hard when the anime is so crappy.
story: 7/10
the story of kaneki the "social outcast" isnt the most original thing ever but the ghoul community vs the ccg is pretty interesting and with the added opposition from the aogiri tree it made for a cool overall feel. however, while i was more excited to see the aogiri tree and white hair kaneki arc than the rest of it, i felt the anime should have took its time and gotten to there later rather than sooner. the anime rushed waaaaay too much and covered like 60 chapters in only 12 episodes, which left me disappointed and left the characters and plot with absolutely no development. who wants to watch an anime thats just fighting when you dont understand the reason for why they fight?
art: 6.510
i feel like im one of the few people that actually didnt like the art. the colors picked for it were ugly and dull compared to the official colors of the tokyo ghoul characters. the animation was sloppy most of the time and the fights werent too interesting to watch. i do give props to studio pierrot for making the kagunes look really cool though. they were probably the best part of the anime imo
sound: 3/10
THE OPENING WAS AWFUL. IT MADE ME WANT TO COVER MY EARS AND SCREAM. this honestly was not an overexaggeration like, the opening sucks so so so bad please i know theres a second season out and i really hope its opening doesnt suck as bad as this one. im the kind of person that leaves the page the second the ending starts unless its really good so ill be completely honest and say ive never heard more than 10 seconds of the ending but i didnt like those 10 seconds either.
the voice acting was okay i guess, though it could be better. i didnt focus too much on that when giving it my score, so read another review on that.
characters: 8/10
characters were one of the mangas strong suits, so thats why im giving it such a high score even though theres like, zero character development in the anime. kaneki seems like a whiny bitch in the anime and he kind of is for the first bit of the manga but after a while he comes to realize that things arent in his favor and that he is in fact a ghoul. he puts his human life behind him and focuses more on surviving even when things are looking down on him and [spoilers] he gets tortured in some weirdo's house for a while before Finally kicking his ass and becoming this cool white haired guy. [end spoilers] he is able to fight for himself and isnt ashamed of his ghoul side anymore. the anime took away all of his good moments because studio pierrot wanted to get to the Cool White Haired Guy asap so they could rake in the cash.
enjoyment: 5/10
i watched the anime first, then while waiting for the next episode read the entire manga. after seeing how it all actually went down, it was really really hard to watch this anime and see such a good manga get butchered like that. not to mention i watched this only for the gore and the gore was overcensored to the point where you could barely see what was going on.
so my advice is to watch this anime only if you dont love yourself/havent read the manga first. then once youre done the anime read the manga so that you too can realize how bad this is and regret wasting like 6 hours of your life watching it.
