Another huge minus that ''Tokyo Ghou Root Al'' had was the animation. Even though ''Studio Pierrot'' is not the best anime studio in Japan it can do some pretty decent animation sometimes. And while the first and the second along with the last episode had really good animation and aesthetics the rest of the episodes were really average. Also after episode 5 we have another one of the anime plagues. Censorship. Yeah it returns and while is less annoying than the first season it still hurts your eyes and makes you loose all of the interesting parts and fights.
Before moving to the character section I will say first of all about the sound because especially for this anime it deserves at least one paragraph. I put a 9 mainly because I want to piss off all those fan boys/girls who were bitching about the new opening. They were all saying that it was shit compared to ''Unravel'' and while a big fun of the first opening myself, I have to say that this opening was better than ''Unravel''. With it's really simple (and not stolen from another anime...yeah I'm looking at you ''Unravel'') visuals, it brings us Kaneki's character development and with it's somehow twisted lyrics it unravels (get it? XD) the fucked up world that we are seeing. Even better was the ending. Man that song was a masterpiece. In terms of voice acting every single one of the voice actors did their job really good but the one who stood out was the new in the voice acting business Natsuki Hanae as the tragic protagonist Ken Kaneki. He captures Kaneki's character so amazing that you are forgetting you are seeing a character made from pixels. This voice actor i going to be the next big thing I'm sure.
And now we move to the character section. The results were really disappointing. Tokyo Ghoul is a character-driven anime so you expect some amazing character development. And here is the surprise. Almost none of the characters are developed to the degree you are expecting. With the only exception of Amon and Akira all the others are staying exactly the same from the start till the end. Kaneki who is the supposedly main character disappears suddenly without any meaning from the story with sudden appearances in every single episodes and then near the end he remembers that he is the main character and he returns more undeveloped and from Kirito's sword from SAO. And when you finally reach a point when you say that something good is going to be with his character the anime just ends.
So overall Tokyo Ghoul Root A was surely a disappointment as an anime series especially with the awesomeness that the previews season delivered to us. It starts off really promising but then throws the plot out off the window and just do whatever it wants trying to built all this dramatic atmosphere and forgetting to make a good story. I couldn't say that I enjoyed it as much as the first season and I can't say that is a true continuation of it's successor. It wasn't bad but it wasn't really good either. Watch it only if you are not feeling like reading the manga like I do and you want an ending of this anime.
