What’s your idea of the worst kind of date?
Maybe your date talks on their phone to the entire time, talks constantly and never lets you get a word in, or maybe they even try to eat you.
If you picked the last one then you are Ken Kaneki.
The main character of Sui Ishida’s manga, Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki thinks he has found the perfect girl in Rize; only for her to turn out to be a man eating ghoul that hungers for his flesh.
However, after a freak accident saves Kaneki’s life mere seconds before Rize can end it, he suddenly finds himself on the operating table with her organs being planted inside him.
What seems to be a life saving surgery at first quickly proves to be a curse, as Kaneki quickly begins to transform into the very monster that tried to kill him, a ghoul.
Rescued from his torment by a group of peaceful ghouls working at the coffee shop, Anteiku, Kaneki struggles in his placement between two different world and discovers that ghouls are not all that different from us humans.
But with Ghoul investigators, hostile ghouls, and even cannibalistic ones out on the hunt, Kaneki will have to endure many horrors to have a hope of protecting his friends.
And when I say horror, I mean exactly that.
Tokyo Ghoul is not a manga for the faint of heart, with its constant gruesome and gory imagery, amplified by the great art from Ishida.
Amplifying the horror is how great the characters are because we fear for their safety.
In other mangas characters just die but in Tokyo Ghoul they die gruesomely.
Watching these characters fight against their cruel and violent world is a highlight and I will remember them all for a while.
Kaneki, Touka, Amon, Juuzo, Nishki, Hinami, these are all characters that I will remember fondly.
My favourite character though is definitely Eto, but to say why would get into spoilers for both Tokyo Ghoul and the sequel manga Tokyo Ghoul: Re.
Not only are the characters great but their dynamic as well, with my favourite interactions of the cast definitely being between Kaneki and Amon.
Speaking of Kaneki, he goes through some fantastic character development, especially after encountering the psychopathic ghoul Jason, making him easily my second favourite character.
Watching him grow every arc is a horrific joy, and each arc just gets better and better.
This all builds up to the fantastic final arc of the manga, which sets up the beginning of the sequel nicely, even if I think the sequel is not as good as the first part of the story.
Tokyo Ghoul is a fantastic manga, with its 143 chapters delivering emotion, horror and thrills.
I have already read Tokyo Ghoul: Re and am in the middle of watching the anime, which I have… let’s just say mixed feelings about, so you can expect reviews on those soon.
THE REVIEW MONSTER 
Wow, I didn’t expect you to do a review about Tokyo Ghoul it is a very underrated series and the anime definitely made a lot of people stay away from it, also regarding Tokyo Ghoul :Re it definitely dropped in quality but this could be because Ishida Sui’s health has gotten worse. This is a link to an interview with him after he finished the manga where he talked about it http://kenkamishiro.tumblr.com/post/176025577667/ishidas-afterword-part-1. I am looking forward to your review of Tokyo Ghoul : Re, also what was your favorite fight in the manga
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Thanks for the reply! I’ve also read that Ishida’s health was suffering from having to release a new chapter every week, which is certainly understandable. As for my favourite fight, that’s a tough one since there are a lot of great ones. Off the top of my head, I’d probably have to go with Kaneki vs Jason because of what it did for Kaneki as a character. Also the anime adaptation of this fight was flawless with great animation, voice acting and music, with Unravel playing. I just finished watching Route A in the anime and am about to move onto the Re anime and I’m concerned with all the negative things I’ve heard about it.
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