The first 3-ish episodes were great and I couldn't really understand why it received an MA rating (Hulu). The next 6 episodes were okay. The last 3 I'm not sure what to say. A lot happened, there seemed to be a lot of unnecessary violence. There were a lot of unexplained happenings and then it ended on a major cliff hanger.
I like the premise even if aspects of it are cliché at this point.
Ordinary guy leading boring life has an extraordinary life-altering experience that suddenly makes him interesting and important.
He must then learn how to live and survive in this new life.
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In this case Ken goes on a date with a red-head book worm and then agrees to walk her home. Turns out she's a ghoul and wants to slowly tear him apart and eat his flesh. Through a freak "accident" some steel beams fall on the both of them, killing her. Some unknown doctor harvests her organs and uses them to replace Ken's destroyed organs.
He wakes up in the hospital and is "fine" with the exception of all food making him ill. The medical staff doesn't seem at all concerned about this though and discharges him to return home. Once there he has mysterious urges, a mental battle with the girl that tried to kill him, realizes that all food now makes him sick, learns that one of his eyes now turns black and red, and comes to the conclusion that he's a ghoul.
He starves himself for awhile then wanders around town, almost kills some people, then comes across another ghoul eating a person in an alley. Another ghoul shows up claims the territory is his, then another ghoul shows up and says it's her territory. There's some fighting. She tries to force Ken to eat from the corpse which he refuses. She then brings him to the coffee shop where she lives which turns out to be a hide-out for "peace-loving" ghouls. Ken learns that the only things Ghouls can eat are flesh and coffee. He's then extended a job to work at the shop. He learns that the food these ghouls eat comes only from people who commit suicide. He's also taken to a seedy part of town to have a mask made to conceal his identity from ghoul hunters (CCG).
This whole section was really interesting and I wish they would have spent more time on it.
The human ghoul internal identity crisis that Ken goes through.
The ghouls destroy human families and the CCG destroy Ghoul families.
That there are humans and ghouls that want to coexist and there are humans and ghouls that want to kill each other.
All of this was really interesting.
The next section wasn't as interesting. Some more characters join their party. We learn more about ghouls. Multiple characters try to kill Ken.
Then in the last three episodes all hell breaks loose and the MA rating becomes completely justifiable.
I'm intrigued enough that I'll probably watch the second season but I feel like this series could have been so much better than it was.
