Book Review: Tokyo Ghoul:re vol.1 by Sui Ishida

東京喰種トーキョーグール:re 1 [Tokyo Guru:re 1] by Sui Ishida
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This manga fell flat for me. Honestly, it was so confusing that I didn’t enjoy it like I thought I would. The only thing I liked about this story was the artwork and the one instance that Kaneki showed up. Other than that, the agents having to investigate ghouls with weird names like the Torso and Orochi, though when I saw that name the first thing that came to my mind was Orochimaru, oddly, and was actually looking for him.

So this manga is about a group of investigators who got implanted by a kagune, which is a ghoul organ of predation, which is weird as hell. They work for a organization called The Commission of Counter Ghoul (or CCG-weird, once again) and they’re trying to look for this ghoul called the Torso, who steals the Torso of women near hospitals, and they didn’t find him, but then Orochi showed up, and one of the investigators, Haise Sasaki...has the powers of Kaneki Ken inside him??? Weirdly??? Like...that part confuses me so much. I thought, ‘oh Kaneki is alive, working in Anteiku serving coffee, and living his best half ghoul life’ but I’m confused as to what happened to him and how he ended up in a nice, soft boy like Haise Sasaki?? I feel like I need a backstory to understand how that happen...or is Haise Sasaki IS Kaneki??? This is so confusing and I need someone to explain this to me.

There was one trans character, but I didn’t like what the Torso did to him, which is fucked up and that automatically turned me the fuck off because I really liked her. The other two-Shiraku and Urie?? I...I honestly didn’t care about them. I know it sounds like I’m bashing this manga, but I’m not. I’m just confused with the whole thing, and I feel like I need to read the first Tokyo Ghoul to understand it (I did watch the anime, but the first season). This one...felt like a let down because everything was so confusing that once I was done, I felt...unsatisfied. The action was okay, it lacked a bit, but it was an okay manga.

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ken Kaneki was once a human college student until he went on his date with Riza, a ghoul. Now that he's a hybrid-part human, part ghoul, and is working at Anteiku now, and learning how to be a ghoul that's living in Tokyo by friendly ghouls. He's scared of Touka (get to that later), got his cool mask by Uta (which freaks him out) and is learning how to eat dead people and not humans.

But the one storyline that freaked me out and nearly made me cry was the mother/daughter one, and how the mother died. It was brutal, honestly, and I was close to crying. But it was cute that Kaneki taught the daughter how to read and new words that she wrote down.

Since my brain is about to go poop, this was a really good book and I wanna read more of the series before I read Tokyo Ghoul: re.

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Book Review: Tokyo Ghoul vol. 1 by Sui Ishida

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Now I've watched the anime of this, and I found the manga a couple days (now a week) ago. So what's this about? Well it's about a boy named Ken Kaneki who is very shy and always has a nose in a book. So when he and Rize went out on a date, it went perfectly well....until the end of the date. And at the end of the date, Rize bit him, freaking Kaneki out. And when she caught up with him, she smiled at him and said:



Which freaked out Kaneki more than ever. But then a bunch of steel railways came down and crushed Rize, killing her instantly but Kaneki was still alive, so they transferred her organs into him...and, well...



So when he woke up, he realized he couldn't eat all the human food that he wanted, the human food he loved. But when it came to human flesh, he hungered for it-so badly, in fact, that he was so close to eating one, but stopped until he saw Nishio close to eating it and demanded that he leave-and that it was his hunting ground. But then Touka showed up and stopped him.

Then Touka turned around and realized that Kaneki is hungry and really wanted the dead body, so she forced fed it to him. But at the end, between the fight between Nishio and Kaneki, and, well, Kaneki snapped when Nishio said something about eating his friend, but that didn't work and he woke up in Anteiku. In the end, he stayed (just like in the anime).

I really enjoyed this book and I really do recommend this book a whole lot!!

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