Tokyo Ghoul

[Kraco]

While I root for Touka x Kaneki, I'm enjoying their lack of interaction more. Back when they did talk, it was always Touka verbally abusing him. That not only highlights Kaneki's weakness, but also brings out our frustration towards it. Now she's brooding silently and he's working without a word to them. This quiet mysteriousness is more romantic than anything they've done thus far.

Now that you mention it, that's absolutely true. I suppose Touka now knows Kaneki can do something finally and isn't weak anymore, but on the other hand he's gone and she can only imagine what he might be able to do. Of course the cafe isn't a proponent of heavy action, but I reckon the ghouls have in their genes a desire to be strong. That might have been everything that was needed to push their relationship forward, as it hardly seemed to be going anywhere back when Kaneki was weak and Touka was verbally abusing him any chance she got. Poor Hinami, though. Kaneki might have been the most important of the people she had left.

[Kraco]

Episode 4 - HS




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If I was designing a maximum security prison for man-eater monsters, I would design it so that when a general alarm is on and a control panel is smashed, all the cell doors will not open at once, releasing the extremely dangerous inmates. Instead the doors would be double locked in such a fashion that it would take a couple of totally offsite persons with their special keys to even begin to unlock them. Furthermore, if during that double locked period one of the cells was still breached, the rest would be automatically filled with toxic gas, strong acid, or whatever it takes to kill even the strongest of ghouls. But I guess the author of this story considered the opposite to be wiser...

Quite a lousy episode also otherwise. Most if not all of the fights were stupid and clearly suffered from animation budget constraints. This was like watching the first season all over again.

[Buffalobiian]

The fights were just largely meaningless in that I don't understand why they need to happen at all. In the end I'm just watching this for the sake of watching it though so that's alright.

It was a pretty fanservicey episode actually, with eating out Mado's daughter and all.

[MFauli]

If I was designing a prison for monsters, Id fucking build my headquarters DIRECTLY on top of it.
Seriously, that was so stupid. Gather s-ranked monsters in one location, do not prepare for strong monsters attacking from outside, ... profit. :|

And I will never understand how these investigators can keep up with ghouls, nor why using sword-shaped quinques that are nothing but ... swords are such special weaponry. Ghouls should be faster, stronger and more durable that investigators, no matter how hard they trained. The only thing that makes sense is that special quinque suit that was introduced in a flashback and is now used again.

Also, Mado´s daughter has super hot legs and I hope there will be h-doujins featuring her in a helpless state!

[Buffalobiian]

They build it elsewhere because it's supposed to be a secret location. They manufacture Quinques etc so will need logistical support. It's a bit hard to do that when there's a bunch of regular shift-working mobs right above you.

As for Quinque, do not forget that ghouls are supposed to be immune to things like regular attacks such as punches. That said, it's also been shown that they can die from gunfire and also giant falling pillars, so it's not set in stone what can and can't hurt them. I was under the impression that regular blades break on contact or something, but I might be wrong there.

Quinque suits weren't in flashbacks. They were used in the fight against the owl which happened recently.

Also, Mado´s daughter has super hot legs and I hope there will be h-doujins featuring her in a helpless state!

You saying that with Mado as your avatar just makes that all more the more creepy.

[shinta|hikari]

You saying that with Mado as your avatar just makes that all more the more creepy.

LOL. That line was the only good thing in this episode.

Oh wait, there was Akira. Her voice really matches her look really well. Clean and sharp. Sexy. The masculine name and lower voice pitch are also a perfect match.

Everything else was a mess. The action direction for this show is horrid. It's like I'm watching American cartoons. The duo fight with Akira and whatshisname was the worst one.

[MFauli]

episode 5 is out
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this is so dumb. Everybody knows each knows each other, like some cheap sitcom. And those agents are showing a ridiculous amount of pity and empathy. Their organization exists to dispose of ghouls, yet they dont kill the strongest of them when they have the chance to.

Also, what happened when Juozo delivered the, supposedly, final blow to Shiro-girl? After the cut, nothing could be seen, she looked perfectly fine. As much as i dislike Juozo, seeing those arrogant pseudo-twins put down was great. Now someone please kill that mummy girl in red.

[Kraco]

Good thing Touka and Kaneki were separated. Kaneki seems to be clinically insane now, even though he looked quite stable right after the torture. But perhaps, in retrospect, that was actually alarming. Apparently he's like a time bomb. Touka doesn't need such a crazy bastard anywhere nearby, Hinami even less so.

[shinta|hikari]

Okay, so I haven't read the manga up to this point, but when I watched this episode, I simply thought, "there is no way the manga can be this bad," judging from what I have read of it.

So I went ahead and skipped to the chapter that had this battle, and I have been reeducated about the stupidity of the human race. It was like they took everything that was bad about these scenes, made it 10x worst, then gouged out all the good parts.

This entire anime series is a concentrated pile of crap made from the manga's fecal matter. I will now drop this and resume the manga.

All your complaints either don't exist in the manga, or actually make sense.

[Kraco]

Episode 7 - HS





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I suppose Kaneki could have told Touka that getting horribly tortured for who knows how long sometimes changes the victim a little. But I guess he was too busy getting beaten by Touka to tell her how senseless violence changed him...

I wish it was Hinami who met him. I bet she wouldn't have started beating an already beaten man. But then again, Touka, and most of them, are genuine ghouls, so violence must be in their genes and they think nothing of it. Touka ought to understand Kaneki used to be an ordinary human, but she's too busy beating him to bother understanding.

[MFauli]

It was completely unrealistic how Hinami rushed to Touka instead of meeting Kaneki herself, when we had just gone through half an episode of her contemplating her love for Kaneki.

Btw. who was that green haired girl, i have no idea at all who she was. I assume shes not a ghoul, thus recommending Anteiku to the ghoul investigators.

My biggest complaint, though: I still hate the change of character in Kaneki. I wanted to follow his gradual evolution from a whiny newcomer to a valuable member of Anteiku. Instead his entiry persona changed within an episode (or two), killing off the guy we had to watch for half a season. Its just lazy writing in my opinion.

[NeoCybercoin]

I think she IS a ghoul. Like that bandage masked one. I think the voice is similar. She also responded to Kaneki's name during the signing of the book. At least I think she did.

And is the manager the Owl or his brother or somethnig?

[Kraco]

Instead his entiry persona changed within an episode (or two), killing off the guy we had to watch for half a season. Its just lazy writing in my opinion.

Just like Touka you are underestimating the impact of such a prolonged experience, which was expressly meant to break him. It would have been unrealistic if he hadn't changed. Furthermore, I'm satisfied by the fact he's somewhat unstable and even insane now. It's a suitable accumulated effect from first losing his humanity and being introduced to the crazy ghoul world, then getting tortured in ways that would have made the best medieval professionals green with envy, and lastly he's losing control of himself and finding himself cannibalising against his will. You think that's not enough to change a man?

The green haired one is surely a ghoul. I don't know what kind of a game she's playing, though, but the ghouls are hardly a unified group. Anything but. I don't remember if the first season showed it, but I believe the manager is the Owl. My memory is poor, though.

[MFauli]

Just like Touka you are underestimating the impact of such a prolonged experience, which was expressly meant to break him. It would have been unrealistic if he hadn't changed. Furthermore, I'm satisfied by the fact he's somewhat unstable and even insane now. It's a suitable accumulated effect from first losing his humanity and being introduced to the crazy ghoul world, then getting tortured in ways that would have made the best medieval professionals green with envy, and lastly he's losing control of himself and finding himself cannibalising against his will. You think that's not enough to change a man?

Oh, you misunderstood me. Im not saying his change was entirely unrealistic. I simply personally hate it. I prefer character-driven anime, but by virtually killing off the main character, Tokyo Ghoul is no a story-driven anime. The can be fun, too, but I don´t like the switch.

[Kraco]

Oh, you misunderstood me. Im not saying his change was entirely unrealistic. I simply personally hate it. I prefer character-driven anime, but by virtually killing off the main character, Tokyo Ghoul is no a story-driven anime. The can be fun, too, but I don´t like the switch.

Right. But this works for me. He was so unbelievably annoying during the bulk of the first season that I was hoping for his death. The rather sudden change was absolutely the next best thing to happen.

[Buffalobiian]

The manager is the owl, and the green haired girl is the bandaged ghoul. None of this is confirmed, but the that's what we're led to believe.

The worst thing about this anime isn't the character change, it's that I have no idea what is going on anymore. Why was Tarzan important? What was the assault at the Cochraine thing about? Did Owl just save Kaneki and dump him outside?

Argh.

[Xelbair]

This series has been like that since s1 sadly.

Needles violence to attract people, some mystery and drama.. but 0 explanation of anything.
They've just mashed edgy and cool elements with some typical plot devices.

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i've got no idea why i am even watching this series. it doesn't even make sense.

why have prison for the DANGEROUS AS FUCK ghouls? you need them to experiment on? why keep so many of them then? there were nearly as much of them in that prison as there are in whole anti-ghoul party of wonders, not to mention only like 1% can even fight them, and only part of that 1% can fight against stronger ones.

why did anteiku oldfags suicide? they could've easily escape - especially when they were WARNED that attack is incoming(by their enemy to boot - why?)? they wanted to be punished? dumb as fuck - looking at the owner's character so far - he would rather ATONE for his sins than suicide.

what they did was acutally helping aogiri - diminishing CCG manpower, removing anteiku(who were probably only organized group opposed to aogiri).

and obviously everyone can find Kaneki whenever they can.. oh wait they couldn't find him for ages despite knowing or having hunches about his wereabouts before!

thankfully it is not as bad as Guilty Crown.. but it is up there. so much wasted potential.


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yes i know my sig is not working, i need to find it on my hdd and reupload it - no idea where i've put it.

[Kraco]

Episode 9 - HS





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The anti-ghoul office sure is a shitty workplace. They know they are against powerful opponents, yet they send in first the regular grunts armed with nothing but ordinary SMGs. Only after those poor men have died by the dozen, the commanders deign to send in the specialists. Hard to see what sort of logic this strategy is supposed to follow. I hope Kaneki's role in this messy slaughter is mainly to save Touka.

[MFauli]

I think it´s clear that Japan simply sucks at strategy. First Parasyte, now Tokyo Ghoul. What´s up with all those suicide agents lol.

[shinta|hikari]

What´s up with all those suicide agents lol.

They're Japanese. Need I say more?