Audience reviews
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Jxbinha
Just like the second season, my biggest problem with Tokyo Ghoul:re is the adaptation itself. I love Tokyo Ghoul as a story and ended up reading the manga, so I know how good the source material can be.
Unfortunately, the anime feels rushed and skips through important parts of the story way too quickly. Characters and events don't always get enough time to develop, which makes some moments feel less impactful than they should.
I think this is especially frustrating because the story itself is not the problem. Tokyo Ghoul has characters and themes that I genuinely love, but the anime doesn't always manage to present them properly.
If I hadn't read the manga, I honestly think I would have been even more confused. The adaptation tries to cover too much without giving the story enough room to…
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The long-awaited return of Tokyo Ghoul
We finally return to a series I love so much. Here we have the continuation of Tokyo Ghoul, adapting the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga. The season picks up after the events of the previous one and attempts to continue Kaneki's story as he assumes a new identity and lives in a reality completely different from the one we knew.
One major issue, however, is that the transition between seasons is quite problematic. Kaneki's final battle against Arima and the aftermath of previous events are left completely unresolved, lacking a proper conclusion. While this is arguably more of a flaw with the previous season than this one, I still feel Tokyo Ghoul:re could have made a greater effort to provide context for these events, given how fundamental they are to understan…
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Tokyo Ghoul:re, parts one and two, has an ending that doesn't provide a proper conclusion to the Tokyo Ghoul story. Overall, and having not read the manga, it's criticized for being too rushed, and I don't like comparing the anime to the manga. However, I can understand this frustration because, in terms of pacing, I really feel like the story is moving far too quickly. The same goes for the new characters; they appear without any explanation. As a result, I get lost and have trouble understanding everything.
The animation and character design are inferior to the first two seasons. The character design is too clean and bland compared to previous seasons. There's a lack of detail in the close-ups. It's a real shame. As for the soundtrack, I love both opening themes, which are both memorabl…
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It was a really interesting experience for me, especially because I somehow managed to guess almost everything that wasn’t supposed to be revealed until the very end. It was kind of funny cuz every time the story tried to build up some mystery, my brain just went “oh, I know what this is,” and I ended up being right way too often. But honestly, that didn’t ruin it for me at all. Even with all my predictions, I still enjoyed it so much. The atmosphere, the tension, the emotional moments. It all pulled me in just like the earlier seasons. I loved seeing how the story continued to evolve, and even though I already had a feeling about where things were heading, it was still exciting to watch it unfold. Overall, it was something I genuinely liked, even without the element of surprise. It kept m…
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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…
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TLDR at bottom:
It took me 4 years to watch this after completing the first and second season of Tokyo Ghoul. I had no interest in continuing the story as I wasn't the biggest fan of the first two seasons, but after hearing mixed reviews about this season, I decided to go ahead and give it a shot.
Story: Story follows Haise (Kaneki) working for the CCG to take down ghouls. we are introduced to some new characters that work alongside Haise as well. The first 12 episodes follow Haise as he is confused about who he really is (Kaneki, a ghoul). He wants to discover his true self but is constantly scared that he won't like his true self. The first 12 episodes really harp on the fact that Haise is having an internal battle while having to fight his old comrades (ghouls). It's actually a good p…
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All wrong. Very wrong. Basically the plot is just a big great hole in the script and you cannot follow along without further knowledge of the source material.
The two previous seasons, even when skipping a lot of things, and not developing the plot and characters correctly, could be enjoyed. Even without having read the manga (not great, but still).
But that isn't the case with RE, here's nothing makes sense: characters that were good are now bad, others are friends of those they hated, other characters you don't even know who they are until they say their name and you realize... The story is very poorly told and obviates many details, important ones.
You cannot show a group of characters in their house and in the next episode they're all in prison, and just continue from there. If you'…
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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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the manga? absolute masterpiece. Work of art. Made by a God.
the anime? disgusting. they skipped so many details from the manga and even made up stuff, the animation looks weird and overall they did the manga so dirty. please read the manga, it's way better than the anime.
the story itself is great, the characters too obviously, but the way they executed this could have been better imo, they skipped the whole kagune explanation, they did whatever they felt like, they skipped a lot of parts of the story and in some angles the animation looks weird, they did NOT respect the original manga artstyle. if I was Sui Ishida I would be devastated if this was the anime adaptation of my manga, I would enter a severe state of depression to the point I would try to take my life. This is just disgustin…
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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 was on edge when they announced that they would be changing studios. I am beyond happy that they did. The visuals were gorgeous, the writing was one to one with the manga. NOTHING was left out. I cannot stress enough how much I love Eto in these last two seasons. So immensely proud of Sui Ishida's work of ART going so far. Ken Kaneki's English Dub casting was perfect as were Touka and Eto. Highly Recommend this Masterpiece. Of course, I recommend all four seasons. But, the last two are where the anime truly shines. Saiko Yoneybayashi was an adorable addition to the series and her Dubbed actress did so well too ^-^
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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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-Spoiler free- Opinion piece:
From the first episode... you immediately say "Wait who are these new characters? Where are the ones we know and love"?!
The Characters we all love from Tokyo Ghoul are thrown into the garbage bin and we have to begrudgingly settle for this debatably waste of time and money, ***with boring and literally irrelevant characters***. I hate that the focus was turned to the boring new characters so much. We could have seen the real characters do something awesome but sadly no thats not the case. This was a tragedy of an anime and I partly wish it didn't exist because of how awful it is. However there was a few things this season informs true fans about the lore of Tokyo Ghoul. The story wasn't a 100% bad idea, still it was largely a disappointing one. If you liked…
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Tokyo Ghoul:re feels entirely like a soft re:boot of the original show. It basically introduces a cast of new characters in the form of the Quinx squad and very forcibly hammers home some generic message about how maybe humans were the real bad guys all along or something about not judging a book by it's cover or a thinly veiled metaphor for racism or something. I don't know, the themes in this show feel like they're coming from a year one college liberal with a huge chip on their shoulder about oppression and minorities. It's not really as deep or thought provoking as it pretends to be and frankly the action scenes are getting old. So what does that leave us with? A show I don't really care about.
I'll give them credit that by doing this time-skip amnesia double whammy they were able to…
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Deeply confusing and unpredictable in a bad way. Fails to address the key issue driving the conflict in the story.
I detailed some other issues in my review of the first season, but the key issue is that the entire series is written like a prequel to this season, but at the same time does not always appropriately foreshadow what happens in the final season. The overall tone of the show does not reflect its ending.
Without going into details, the nature of the ending is (spoiler) perfect, super-mega happy ending. This ending is inherently problematic, as it feels deeply underserved, highly unpredicted, and against all foreshadowing the show offered. Further, this ending is inherently problematic because it does nothing to provide a reasonable solution to the core issue driving the conflict:…
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As a fan of the first 2 seasons of tokyo ghoul, I had hight hopes for this season, especially because the second one left me in suspense, but it completly let me down, people always tell me to read the manga, and I really want to see if it is better and what changes between the anime series and the manga series, but for the anime, this season is the wosrt thing to watch if you are a big fan of the first 2 seasons, unfortunatelly I watched it all, but...I HIGHLY recomande you to remain in suspanse than to even watch the first episode of this, it is better to continue with your imagination than to be like me and watch it all.
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The anime as such is pretty mediocre. It departs a lot from the original manga and the characters are underdeveloped and bear little resemblance to their "versions" in previous seasons. It lacks plot as they changed something that was initially about relatively "normal" kagunes to literally making them launch missiles. A waste of time, really mediocre. They flatly changed what at the beginning was a promising story with a very good future to turn it into a reverend misery. It became slow, repetitive and, IMHO, boring and absurd. Seeing how they changed Kaneki by making him Haise without any context, and changing the animation, the style and, in short, everything about the characters definitely takes points away.
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This is a very different review since other reviews already point out the problems in this anime and it is very short afterall.
Haise Sasaki
I really wish his a seperated character that have no relation to kaneki at all. He brings a new taste to the world of tokyo ghoul since we are always in the Ghoul side (which i found less interesting than the CGG). Personality wise, he's no different to other anime protags except his psychological battle in his internal self, if they really explore more of this character maybe he will be more liked but unfortunately his time is very short lived. Re: should have been the Haise Sasaki part.
The only problem is just he isn't fleshed out much.
That's all
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this season in tokyo ghoul is simply juts cannon
the first and second seasons of tokyo ghoul were pretty good but the anime went downhill due to the transition from the second season to the third season first ken kaneki is replaced by another character i haven't heard all the anime and secondly the anime doesn't explain what happened to kaneki the story is tangled it's just a mess to find out the correct story and find out what happened to ken kaneki in season two and the transition to season three you have to read the manga like i did this tokyo ghoul season is just bad the new characters this season are bad and for no reason it's just to take out the gold and put the garbage in place
4 out of 10
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