Tokyo Ghoul Review

Overall Rating 6.4 out of 10 - Well Written Story with some irritating aspects

I would still recommend watching.

This is actually a very well written show with good battles, engaging plot twists and good pacing. If not for pacificist protagonist too obsessed with being human and overall Anteiku way of looking at things, I would have given it 8. At this stage I cannot say how much I can agree with Aogiri, may be a lot, may be not. If I was a ghoul I would support a world of ghoul supremacy, but not sure what else Aogiri stands for. I am still watching A Square sequel. 

Fortunately Tokyo Ghoul preaches and pushes its ways not as single-mindedly as say One Piece or Demon Slayer, it has more room for pluralism of judgement.

The show is interesting from psychological point of view. Ghouls live among the humans and look completely the same. However they can only eat human flesh to survive. Humans are afraid of these 'cannibal' ghouls and created an investigative agency to hunt down and exterminate them. 

This puts ghouls at a dilemma of how to go about it. Some like Anteiku eat only/mostly humans who committed suicide and overall try to blend with human society as much as possible. Others like Aogiri strive upend the human order instead and make ghouls rule. However there are many individual ghouls not affiliated with any, who just do their own things. Sometimes they clash with each other or these two organizations. 

Overall it is curious to watch, even if not a very pleasant experience at certain moments. It is as painful as Infinite Ryvius at times. Kind of hectic at others. Though unlike dry, sober and unapologetic Infinite Ryvius, Tokyo Ghoul brings in more diverse emotions into reasoning of characters. Arks not focused on Kaneki are better than the ones about him, I do not like it when people make him suffer.

It is one of these shows where I just want to know how it will ends. I want to know what will happen, kind of, no matter what. 

Generally Tokyo Ghoul kind of blends and blurs a line between entertainment and seriousness. Unlike Code Geass that handles both well, in Tokyo Ghoul it is possible to get lost in worldview and morality of this show. A little world of caution, but I will recommended it overall. You can take on Infinite Ryvius as well and compare both.