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REVIEW: Tokyo Ghoul - Complete Series - 10th Anniversary Box Set Anime Series Review




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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:51 pm Reply with quote
My lasting impression of what I saw of Tokyo Ghoul is that, had it come out a bit earlier, it would have bombarded YouTube with AMVs set to Linkin Park. I felt like even the "good" parts of it fell squarely into the "2edgy4me" camp, the sort of material that hits really hard if you're in a certain phase of teenagehood, but is difficult to take seriously afterwards. And even though I sat through all of Root A, I could not tell you a single thing that happened during it. Not exactly the sort of franchise I feel compelled to revisit.
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b-dragon



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:21 pm Reply with quote
I liked Season 1 quite a bit, despite its issues: I suspect that comes down to episode 12, and the OP. A decade later and Unravel is still an earworm for me.

Root A seems like a failed experiment, and despite watching it...I have absolutely no feelings about it. Not good, bad, or even just memorable. And I never actually watched Re.

I don't generally like saying this, but with a quality difference this stark, it's hard not to jump to "just read the manga".
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Gem-Bug



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:54 pm Reply with quote
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..pretty invested in the relationships of some of the CCG investigators, like Mado (a straight-laced investigator who serves as Kaneki's biggest foil) and his new partner Akira, whose romantic entanglements are made more complicated by her being the daughter of his old partner who died during the first season.


I think you mean "Amon"; "Mado" is Akira's family name.

b-dragon wrote:
I liked Season 1 quite a bit, despite its issues: I suspect that comes down to episode 12, and the OP. A decade later and Unravel is still an earworm for me.

Root A seems like a failed experiment, and despite watching it...I have absolutely no feelings about it. Not good, bad, or even just memorable. And I never actually watched Re.

I don't generally like saying this, but with a quality difference this stark, it's hard not to jump to "just read the manga".


Season 1 was quite good, but Root A did it's own thing and yeah, I can't really say if I like it or not. Good OP/ED. Re took 179 chapters and tried to slam them into the confines of 24 episodes. It went about as well as you'd think.

The quality of the manga, however, is great for the whole run. The art fluctuates during the earlier volumes, but by Re, the style Ishida is going for really solidifies.[quote]
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Greed1914



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:22 pm Reply with quote
Cynical would be a decent word to use, especially with the production committee somehow deciding to push through to the end in 12 episodes for that last part. Season 1 might be the only part where it seemed like they intended to adapt the manga, and then after that it was varying degrees of a production committee that wanted to do something with Tokyo Ghoul, but not committing to it.

I suppose an anniversary collection like this is a testament that Tokyo Ghoul was definitely a thing at one point, even if all the messiness means that the anime probably isn't remembered too fondly.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:46 pm Reply with quote
The series deserved better.
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Takkun4343



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:51 pm Reply with quote
I liked Root A more than most (because of course I would), but it was still pretty meh overall, with the jailbreak mini-arc being the biggest point of "meh" within. Haven't seen :re, and judging from public opinion, that was probably for the best. Jack is my personal favorite entry of the bunch, and I'll leave that up to you why that is.
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