Binge watching anime is always fun! Especially when you find a new anime that you have been putting off watching for no reason. That was the case with Tokyo Ghoul. I always enjoy finding new anime to watch but usually have trouble finding ones that hold my attention. The ones that do are almost always about the inner working of the mind.
This is the biggest reason why I love anime so much. Unlike western cartoons, anime plays off more than just teenage angst and fighting injustice. It dives deeper in to the psyche of the struggles that everyone goes through but sometimes have issues discussing in a social setting. Such subjects like depression, duality, sacrifice of a few to save the masses, choosing to be yourself even if it’s socially unacceptable. The Japanese don’t seem to shy away from these subjects in their cartoons. America tends to save these subject matters for live action films.
Tokyo Ghoul is about a world where humans live alongside being that appear to be human but need human flesh to survive. Like vampires but can walk in daylight. Ghouls can eat human food but become sick if it can start digesting. There is a separate police force that focuses on crimes committed by ghouls known as the CCG (Commission of Counter Ghoul). Their goal is to eradicate the ghouls from Tokyo for good.
The protagonist, Ken Kaneki, a bookworm that doesn’t have much moxie or ambition to speak of approaches a girl he finds attractive after some coaxing from his best friend. They chat and end up going on a date to a bookstore. After their date, while walking her home, he quickly finds out that she is a ghoul who preys on men for sheer satisfaction and not just for sustenance. Right as she is about to kill him they both are smashed by construction beams that fell from a high rise. She dies and he is only able to be saved because of the doctor making a judgment call and transplants her organs into his body.
This transplant inadvertently makes Kaneki a half-ghoul, which changes his life forever. Now he fights to remain human as he learns to deal with the hunger and mental jousting wanting to kill every human in sight. He eventually finds out that the coffee shop that he loves so much is a home for other ghouls that want to live as close to a human life as possible since coffee is the only thing that ghouls and humans can enjoy on the same level. Now is the matter of making his way through this new life of his while protecting his friends, new and old.
I have only watched the first and second season but hope to watch the third as soon as possible. Thinking about doing a monthly ly review of anime that I find or ones that I have already watched. Being the awesome community that you are, I would like to know if you would enjoy more of this type of thing or have any suggestions of other anime that I might not have seen yet.
As always thank you for your attention and look forward to your responses.