Tokyo Ghoul:re

So it has finally ended, what a ride it has been. This review will contain minor spoilers but will not refer to any specifics. In the later half of the original Tokyo Ghoul, Ishida had begun to explore the maddening, fracturing psyche of Ken Kaneki. Tokyo Ghoul:Re is the natural continuation of this exploration and delivers an extremely satisfying resolution about halfway in. However, things deteriorate after this. The second half of the Manga is sadly lacking in my opinion, delving into a long, uninteresting and poorly plotted arc (with a few standout sequences) which ultimately only leads to a sort of doubling down on theconclusion reached midway through the manga. This is a shame, and even the ending feels somewhat bland. It is almost as if Ishida reached the conclusion he had been building towards midway through and was then forced to keep on writing. However, it must not be understated how truly fantastic the first half of this manga is. If the second half of the original TG and the first half of :Re where one piece, it would be a clean 10 for me, a masterpiece. The exploration of Kaneki's psyche is alluring and intimate, punctuated by Ishida's fantastic art which can be both haunting and insane as well as loving and beautiful. It always manages to retain a poetic and calligraphic quality, dipping into the hellish and soaring into the serene, but never losing its cohesion in style. Tokyo Ghoul:Re was a spectacular conclusion to probably my favorite Manga, offering a truly mature story of living with the horrors of the world, the cruelty one must embrace and an intangible, fractured self. I wish that conclusion had also been its ending, but it does not bother me anyway near enough for it to sway my recommendation. Read Tokyo Ghoul, read Tokyo Ghoul:Re.

To start this off I would like to say that tokyo ghoul was a manga that took me through my freshman year of highschool, I went to the library and saw all 14 volumes, and proceeded to check out all of them at once and proceed to read and extend my library checkout throughout the year. It was a very good manga. However, the sequal, tokyo ghoul Re is a complete mockery of what made the original so good. one of the main gripes i have with the series is that there are so many plot lines/character arcs going on at the same time itbecomes a headache to keep up. A second gripe is that the fight scenes are poorly choreographed, sometimes it feels like ishida just sribbled on the page and called it a day, that doesnt discount the talent he has, I do think he is a very great artist, however i felt it was lacking in the fight scenes here. To end this off, if you are massive fan of the tokyo ghoul series, and very much enjoyed the first title, by all means read this one to continue on.

Tokyo Ghoul started and ended as an average "seinen", but we had Tokyo Ghoul Re some months later and the average seinen transformed into the typical below average shonen. I can't understand how as the time of this review both manga have a 8.52 and 8.24 score, when it is so bad, boring and using the same clichés as the typical shonen. --Spoiler ahead--- First of all we had the most useless and important character at the same time, and no, is not Kaneki. Rize, she gets "killed" at the beginning of the show, just to get kidnapped for getting killed again to get kidnapped over and overagain... The main character, Kaneki, I'm not going to talk about his Tokyo Ghoul version but the Re version, he starts the story as another person because he has amnesia FIRST CLICHÉ and we only have started the story. He gets his memory back (of course) and starts doing the same of the previous manga, fighting CCP, helping their ghoul friends... Now we have Quinx, because it is a shonen so we have to balance the scale power, and after defeating the Aogiri we need a villain so we now have the main antagonist that cames out of nowhere trying to make it a plot twist. And to finish the manga we have a "shitty" version of the "God tree" arc in the Naruto manga (because it wasn't bad enough in Naruto...) that here is a "dragon" that appears because of convenient plot making it a nonsense. The only thing good about the manga it's the happy ending, and not even that save the story, so I can't give it more than a 6 score.

Tokyo Ghoul Re was pretty phenomenal. The story starts off pretty slow but once it picks up it doesn't stop with the enjoyable plot progression. Characters are all pretty interesting and none feel like throwaway characters and are given ample amounts of character growth and screen time. The only character I had a real problem with was the final antagonist, Furuta. He seemed far too perfect of a villain during the final arc, constantly having the upper hand and getting his way at every step. I didn't have an issue with the plot progression but it seemed crazy to me how good of an antagonisthe was and how effective he was being at opposing the main character. Otherwise, I think he was pretty good of a villain despite the series making him seem untouchable until the end. The story arcs in the series were all amazing, especially the arcs at the middle point of the story. The only gripe I have with the story was the final arc of the series, the final arc seemed like they were trying to rush the end of the series and push the main character to face off with the final villain. To me it didn't seem as fluid as the other story arcs, however I generally liked the ending. The ending of the series in my opinion felt deserved, despite all the main character's efforts, the problems of Tokyo never magically went away. Sure his efforts created change that made his situation better, but never did the problems of Tokyo become 100% fixed, which I liked. My main complaint with the series was the art during fight scenes. Some fight scenes were really all over the place and it was quite hard to tell what exactly I was looking at during some scenes. This is the only low point of the art. Overall the series is pretty amazing and well worth a read.