What first caught my eye in Tokyo Ghoul was the dark setting it looked to have, but ultimately the setting was more there to sugar coat the story than to actual establish a dark atmosphere. While Tokyo was displayed to have ghouls living and hiding within the city, yet the residents leave their houses at night, the time most ghouls feed, and are not even skeptical of their own neighbors.
The ghouls seemed like the perfect monster to give fear to humanity and the best enemy I would want to see humans fight against, yet we only see them as human looking monsters that wanted to live with their food in harmony. The most normal acting characters were actual some of the most dangerous ghouls the show had known.
Ignoring the censorship, the fights were well done and nicely executed. I say nicely and not perfectly simply because no matter what anime, there is always more talking than fighting.
The characters were pretty easy to read for the most part. Each one fell into a different arc-type making it easy to tell what would happen when one character interacted with another. While this isn't exactly a bad thing, it did make predicting the future of the show too easy for me.
All together, this anime was a good watch. Whether or mot is was a good anime is debatable, but it's not my place to say. Instead, I'll just say that this was a good watch and worth the time I invested into it.
