Audience reviews
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JBeo
Tokyo Ghoul (and RE) does not have an anime adaptation.
This is all you need to know basically. I watched this after having read RE (which doesn't have the easiest story to follow) and was still getting confused but the insane pacing or outright chapter skips this """adaptation""" has.
If you thought the first 2 tokyo ghoul adaptations were bad then boy you're gonna have a bad experience with this one...
Lets see:
The story's interweaved subplots, ruined because pacing, check.
Any form of character development expected from a seinen, reduced to shonen tier, check.
Animation as basic as it gets, check.
Just read the manga, please...
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Sorry - were the people in charge of whatever this is sleeping while making it?
You start Tokyo Ghoul, get through the introductory plot points, move on to season 2 which is intentionally made to deviate from the plot of the author, then get a complete 180 BACK to the original plot after they were being explicitly told not to do it. So they then try to reverse the original things they were trying to do in the second season.
I mean surely things like this have some form of review process?? There has to be a management team or some supervisors that can point out this will fail. I’m sure if I was banging my head against the wall by the second episode the geniuses at the upper echelons could have clearly done a better job.
The animation is awful, Haise as a new personality or form is also a…
Read at the sourceShirogari
Tokyo Ghoul:re is supposed to be a sequel to the second season of Tokyo ghoul. However that's not what it feels like.
The story doesn't continue where the second season left off; instead it makes a two year time skip to a situation in the future. The events that take place during this two year time period are almost completely ignored and not elaborated on at all during all 12 episodes of this season. There are subtle hints and implications but the fact that you receive so little information makes this seem like a different story altogether instead of a third season.
If you treat this anime as a separate story, it's actually not that bad. The story is interesting, there's multiple different factions with multiple different conflicting goals. There's big and decisive CCG operations where…
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Tokyo Ghoul:re part 1 positively surprised me. I never even planned to watch it since I didn’t really care about S1 and disliked S2, but I’m very glad I did.
The biggest reason for this is that the characters in this show are likable, unlike the (borderline) psychopaths from the previous seasons. This meant that I actually cared about them and their interactions were very pleasant to watch. Even Urie, who had very harsh opinions about the actions of others, was likeable because you could actually understand his reasoning and why he felt that way. Haise is Kaneki minus the trademark ghoul psychopathy. Shirazu has to learn how to be a team leader and struggles with PTSD throughout the season. Saiko is my spirit animal. She’s adorable and automatically gets +100 likeability points for gaming…
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I'm sorry but.. this is a joke, right?
After watching the first two seasons back to back, I was expecting the "protagonist" (using the word loosely) Kaneki to actually be "cool and awesome" by the third season. He has been pretty much a whiny and annoying beta cuck for the first two seasons.
Hell, in season two when he actually got the power and was supposed to be "AWESOME" he couldn't even defeat one CCG guy without getting severely wounded in the last battle. I was expecting him to learn from his battles and finally become a real badass in season three.
BUT NO. No he's not only worse in season 3, but now he's an ultra-mega-cuck level of pathetic character that's doing that whole "suppress his true self" nonsense until he.. sort of.. has to look cool.
Premise is already shit, with the…
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--There is no Tokyo Ghoul:re spoilers below--
What the hell was this season. Ok so first off how can an anime which was goated in the first two seasons go from being goated to being absolute trash? Like when i was watching it i was always waiting for the episodes to be over and hoping that whenever i finished an episode, the next one would be better. But no, this season was just not it. It sucked in so many ways that i cannot describe. Tokyo Ghoul:re season 1 and season 2 were definitely absolute trash. I don't even know anyone who acually likes TG:re. It has a very bad story, very bad character development, enjoyment was a 3/10. The only good thing in it was the animation. Let's not even talk about the final fight. Like in the first two seasons the final fights were FIRE. The final fight…
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Tokyo Ghoul: Re I did not much care for this one until the middle, it seems like the story had no thought at all put into it, and the characters personalities seemed liked they were just threw together in a hurry, with no thought put in mind. It is like this sequel was quite rushly put together to say the least. The whole thing just seem like a pile of confusion to me. It went from ass kicking to random missions without any real purpose for what those missions were really for besides random executions. I found the whole thing kinda boring.
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You're probably wondering whether or not I'm being serious about such a low score. Long story short, yes this show is really that bad. Frankly, at times I couldn't believe my eyes while watching this. I hope that after reading this review you'll see just how bad this show is yourself.
STORY
Now, at that point most reviewers would recap the plot of the show, albeit in very broad terms to avoid spoilers and such. But here's the problem: this show has no plot. None. A thing happens, the characters respond to it, then they fight it out. Rinse and repeat. This has been a formula for the second season as well, and surely enough it's back this season with no changes to it being done.
It doesn't go anywhere, and even if character arcs are present, there's still no sign of an overarching narrati…
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Let me tell you that this 3rd Season is nothing like s1 nor s2
ken kaneki is haise sasaki now...different person..all his personality collapsed and nothing was left so he became haise sasaki with a group of members who are his teammates....running around killing ghouls
i read the manga....the story is going exactly like the manga so hopefully it gets better in the future
story-7/10:the story is a mental breakdown for those who haven't read the manga...the story is a basic simple one...SPOILER:haise sasaki going on a journey to become ken kaneki again at the end
art 9/10:art seems more pretty to me tbh...kaneki is all grown up now...also others like touka..master sho...they look so much better and prettier than before to me
sound 9/10:loved the songs
enjoyment 6/10:there are 2 episodes…
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I'm not sure if the show was written with the assumption that the viewers read a lot of material from the manga, but I'm just a show watcher so keep that in mind with this review.
So, after such a long hiatus I'm very shocked to see that the show failed to learn from the mistakes made in season 2, which turned a pretty great setup from season 1 into a confusing series of fights with pretty graphics. While it looks great and has some great fights, TG:re is confusing and frustrating. I don't know where my season 1 tokyo ghoul storyline went, but I miss it.
One of the main new themes introduced in TG:re are the "quinx" members of the CCG, who are introduced out of nowhere. While there are a few info dumps that try to explain this dramatically new direction where the CCG is actually using ha…
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I am going to be reviewing Tokyo Ghoul:Re as purely an anime and judge it based on its merits as simply that. Not some appendage meant to supplement its source material. This has been my approach when viewing seasons 1 and 2, which is why I enjoyed them for the most part (to the dismay of manga readers). Who knows? Coming in as a blank slate probably made it slightly easier for me to enjoy them. The world we were introduced to was lucid and well-established right from the first episode of season 1. The story was elaborate and well-paced, the character dynamics and relationships were complex. The voice acting was emotionally laden and three dimensional. The music was superb and probably the best part of both seasons. While the animation, though tolerable, was possibly the weakest aspect. Al…
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WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS IN THE REVIEW!
I will try my best to avoid any spoilers, but they are unavoidable at some parts. If you dont want to be spoiled with anything, please GO WATCH THE SHOW FIRST!
This review is solely based on the anime, i didnt read the manga, and im not planning to do anytime soon. So.. where do i start? Oh boy, it's hard indeed. Why? Because this show is just a big mess. First episode throws an audience into an ocean of confusion, not even trying to explain a single bit of what's actually happening, and why it's happening. I did deduce everything pretty quickly, but i didnt like how it was done at all, just completely unnecesary. And with this magnificent start, we're moving to the actual plot.
STORY: 3/10
A few words: ALL. OVER. THE. PLACE. I was really confu…
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Since it's initial premier in 2014, Tokyo Ghoul has taken the community by storm and added elements to the horror/ gore genre that will mark it as a show that won't be forgotten.
That being said, Tokyo Ghoul has faced a precarious balance of backlash and support as the series has continued on. The show, premiering in July of 2014 was initially directed by Shuhei Morita through the second season. The director's job was handed on to Odahiro Watanabe for Tokyo Ghoul: re which premiered April of this year and ended it's first half just before the summer season. Studio Perriot took this project on, initially and added Perriot+ to the equation for :re.
Initial thoughts on the show:
What the hell is this art and animation?
What happened to the rest of the story?
Oh, hey Kaneki, fancy meeting yo…
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I have been reading the Tokyo ghoul:re manga since the beginning and, so far, I really enjoyed it, mostly because of the Tsukiyama Arc. Subsequently, my excitement with the adaptation announcement was expected, but, when the time came, the anime gave me a single impression: pathetic.
The disappointment began when the PV's were released, and here is where I start.
ART: 1
My eyes are still hurting from this stupid animation, it is exacly like those fan animations and I'm not even joking (I don't mean to offend anyone who does fan animations, it is only that I expected more than a beginner's work from a big studio). STORY: 4
Once again, the problem with a Tokyo Ghoul adaptation is the small amount of episodes for a large number of chapters, but this time the solution was quite different and…
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Tokyo Ghoul:re is a highly misunderstood anime. Manga readers condemn it for its rushing of the plot; anime-onlys enjoy it for its fresh storyline and decent action. To enjoy TG:re to the max, you have to find a balance between these two common opinions by acknowledging that the anime and manga are two different entities that should be viewed - and enjoyed - separately.
Ishida is a phenomenal storyteller. There are a plethora of brilliant scenes that you can tell have been crafted perfectly and could not be any better. For instance, while the overall drive of the plot felt rushed and unnecessarily accelerated in some aspects, the focus on Haise regaining his memories was designed and paralleled perfectly with the original Tokyo Ghoul series; it made me feel nostalgic over Ken Kaneki's tr…
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I had no idea who green lit this anime but they should have atleast tried to fixed root a before jumping into re. I haven't read the manga but I get the gist why "season 2" was a hot garbage. And to be honest even without reading the manga there are a lot of things I can see that the studio who animated this have skipped.
The story 2: So kaneki just jumps from one group to the other? At first he denied being a half ghoul but quickly jumps into anteiku... ok fair enough because they treat him well and taught him how ghouls fit in society. Then he joined the group that tortured him to protect the people in anteiku... what?! Wouldn't it be better if he just stayed in anteiku so if things turns south he'd be there to protect them? And now he is in the ccg because....reasons, I guess? The stor…
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Tokyo Ghoul except everything that was good is bad.
As a fan of the first two seasons I can't see this season as anything other than a massive failure and disappointment.
Story-5
Very tiny spoiler: Haise is Kaneki. Wow this show is boring. I'm not sure that a single interesting thing has happened in 12 episodes. Basically it's just 12 episodes of Haise and his new buddies fighting ghouls. Not a single fight is cool, interesting, or well animated, and not a single character is as good as a character from season one.
One thing I found so great about the original is that the man-eating ghouls who couldn't possibly seen as good people were constantly and effectively humanized through the folks at Anteiku. It presented an incredibly difficult and interesting conflict where ghouls and humans…
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!!POSSIBLE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW!!
I'll start off by saying that Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul :Re are two of my favourite manga that I've read and they both hold a significant place in my life. The anime adaptions before :Re had been iffy to say the best, Season 1 of TG whilst not terrible left out a lot of content due to how few episodes they had and Root A was flat out awful.
So moving onto the anime adaption of :Re I was very apprehensive about how it was going to play out. Would they try and mish mash anime original and manga canon material again like they did with Root A or would they ignore Root A and stick to the manga? At the time of these thoughts it wasn't clear on the direction the show would take, thankfully they decided to forget Root A completely and pushed forward with ad…
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So here's the thing: I thought this season would be a total flop. I wasn't really that into Tokyo Ghoul before this season came out, anyway... Or so I thought.
If you're hoping to see characters from the first two seasons in Tokyo Ghoul:re, then you won't be disappointed. If you're hoping to see those characters a lot... Well, at least they're in there somewhat. The thing about this third season in the Tokyo Ghoul franchise is that it sets up a hell of a fourth season, and that alone makes it worth a watch.
Naturally, the art and sound are stunning, as well as the battles. However, the fact that Kaneki can't remember who he is makes for a very frustrating watchthrough. Don't get me wrong, the conflict inside of him is very interesting, especially when he begins learning about his past,…
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Note: This is a review coming from an anime only viewer.
Tokyo Ghoul:re is one heck of a series. From the start, you are taken on the world of Sasaki Haise, and the Quinx squad. The story, at the beginning, was quite confusing, having no context about the actual series at all. However, the pieces start to fall in much later, and the story gets more in depth than before.
The story in here is really good, with a complex and unique story which surprisingly shocks me at some points, and makes me laugh at other points. I definitely didn't expect to cry in this, but I would be lying if I didn't cry at all.
The art was alright. I mean, the animation and the styling done in :re doesn't match up to images of the manga that I've seen, which looks a lot better than this, but then again, the first…
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