Tokyo Ghoul can easily be recognised in the anime community,it's theme of gore, drama and a slight touch of horror makes it stand out. When potrayed right and anime with such themes and potential can be outstanding, sadly Tokyo Ghoul did not leave me content. The predictable plot of a protaganist being forced into a world that they couldnt dream of is overdone and should think of retiring....
The adaptation of the Tokyo Ghoul manga i felt was not up to the hype it was receiving, i have not read the manga nor have claimed to, but i can only guess that it is towers above the level of the anime. Although the story is original i cant see anything else to applaude it on. I found the characters highly predictable and forced myself to sit through the scenes which involved the protaganist really doing anything. I find many animes in which the protaganist has the same traits and ideals as ours to be boring and predictable.Kaneki Ken is your average character with the "nothing bad can ever happen to me" attitude, which tries to fool the watcher into a state of shock whenever somthing happens to them, i did not find myself sympathising or feeling pitty for Kaneki at any point throughout the dragging 12 episodes. I feel angry when i think of this disgrace of a character and only found myself liking him in the final 5 minutes of the final episode.
As for story, at first i found it slowly dragging on, and when you spend over 5 minutes watching a young man stuffing food in his face only to 'bring it back up' you seem to get impatient and wanting to give up.
Overall, i decided a 6 was a reasonable score to give Tokyo Ghoul, even though its flaws, it still hooked me in and made me watch all episodes (whether willingly or not i dont know) but will i ever want to watch it again? Never in a million years.....
