Tokyo Ghoul

Most light novels that serve as a side story for a populare anime/manga franchise are just cashgrabs, with nothing of much value and with the set expectations of „You’ll get to read about your favourite characters more“, which is what the fans are mostly content with. The Tokyo Ghoul novels are nice in a way that they would work as a short story collection even if not connected to already successful title. Which is to say, even if you didn’t know any of the characters and only have the knowledge that this takes place in word where both humans and ghouls exist, the content still worksout on a literary level. Many spin off LNs fall for the trap of overfocusing on canon events, so it’s nice that this one is more about ideas an human relationship stories that are applicable beyond the scope of the given copyrighted world