Reviews

Instead of a review, I'm going to go over my thoughts on the 4 major complaints I've heard about this show; censorship, incomplete/unfaithful adaptation, pacing was too fast, and an annoying main character. The censorship when this show came out was outright awful, and at the time it definitely hampered my enjoyment. But it didn't take too long for the uncensored episodes to come out, which is how I watched and judged it. I feel like the first impressions of this show led people to be prematurely turned off and to generate their negative bias against it. As for it being an incomplete adaptation, I have no ground to argue as I have never read the manga, but as a stand alone piece its story wasn't bad, it wasn't great but it was good for what it was. The pacing is the hard part for me to talk about, because I generally like when the plot moves fast in a show, I like feeling like progress was made. I am too biased on this point to give a fair opinion on this as my bias led me to think that Black Bullet and Gokuko no Brynhildr were decent, to which my friends scoff and complain about how they were one of the worst shows they've watched due to how rushed they felt. To me the pace felt comfortable, but to each their own. Lastly we must touch upon Kaneki. Personally I like characters like him who struggle to accept the circumstances thrown upon them, characters like Simon from Gurren Lagaan or Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion are perfect examples of this. It makes them feel more like real people, and seeing how the deal/fail to deal with the problems in front of them is entertaining to me.