I just watched this anime like a month ago or so and I really enjoyed it i was on the edge of my seat almost the whole time! the twist towards the end of the first season was very cool, I was hoping it could be longer it was a pretty short anime but judging by the end they seamed to leave it open for that. The version I watched was the DUB I wasn't expecting it to be great because i have watched DUBs before and they tend to be out of time, or completely different to what the characters are actually saying but i was actually surprised in how well the DUB flowed i was really impressed. For my full review of this anime check out my G+ page, you may have to scroll through a lot of stuff but i upload reviews of anime's often and in much more depth [email protected]

Kaneki, a common teenager is about to meet his destiny which is waitingfor him right around the corner.Tokyo Ghoul is indeed epic andemotional at times.It balances well drama and action as well as the development of the characters, especially it's main protagonist.It can be a bit violent and bloody at times but hey, that's what makes it original ! You will be literally hooked on the characters as the plot goes on and of course, on the plot itself.Some episodes are better than others, just because of the combinations of music and drama.For Example, at the end of the 5th episode of season 1, there is a great combination of melody and atmosphere.Especially when Kaneki shouts ''Tsukiyama'' and Touka takes a bite of his shoulder,for me it is one of the best episodes of the series, for this simple reason.It's my 2nd favourite anime, you should Definitely give it a try.

This is a story about a boy who is changed into something he fears. He then has to learn how to live on the border between what he is used to and what he fears. The show is tremendously violent and gory, but not extraordinarily so in it's genre. It kind of falls into the Supersayan-problem of ever more powerful enemies that can only be defeated by the main character after becoming stronger, but it varies enough (more so in the second season than the first). Despite the characters feeling all over the place in the first few episodes, there is a point to that and after two seasons I actually quite like how the character arcs turned out.What makes this story for me is it's underlying themes. It's about the big subjects of life and death and love and hate, but it does so in a different way than I am used to. The show seems to ask by showing murder after murder, battle after battle, slaughter after slaughter: isn't this pointless? Every time it sets a character up to be violently taken apart it makes a point to say that that character had value and now he or she is no more. It makes the point of the show, despite it's extreme violence one of pacifism.It is a tremendously depressing watch, but definitely something I haven't seen before and something I don't know if I should recommend. Watch this if: a. you like violent anime and just want to see the pictures, because it is well made and not focus on the plot or b. you like feeling like crap after binging on short episode after short episode.PS I don't like the title songs, but I am sure many people disagree.

I gave this cartoon its score mainly for its animation, which is quite nice. The series is about some mysterious race of ghouls who enjoy eating humans and cannot stand normal food. The main theme here is nothing original. It is the struggle of some of the ghouls to coexist peacefully with humans. In other cartoons it is robots who wish for a peaceful coexistence with people. So this is quite boring. But the bad part is not that.The worst part is the main character, Kaneki, built by the "nice, shy and polite" Japanese template for main cartoon characters which must appeal to Japanese highschoolers, the target audience of the show. Whenever this character appears, he starts whining, reaching his limit during the last episode. At the end of that last episode I felt cheated of a few good hours of my life. The series was supposed build up and lead to Kaneki's awakening as a hybrid ghoul, but it failed badly at building anything so the awakening was quite anticlimactic.Other than that, fights are OK, supporting characters are OK even though most of them useless and the story leads to nothing - I assume because they were expecting to get funding for more episodes, which luckily didn't happen after the ridiculous ending. Still I would mention the policemen which were interesting simply because they didn't get special attention.