Tokyo Ghoul

[Kraco]

On the other he's not very smart though, so doing the above would actually be pretty out of character. I can only hope that things progress and don't just stagnate. Kaneki having a "realisation" every single fight would be boring.

Smartness isn't fortunately a vital attribute for a leader (why, the most powerful nation of our world was led by George W. Bush for a while). What he would mostly need are a vision (a plausible enough sounding solution to the current problem), charisma (including self-confidence because nobody would follow a person who wouldn't follow himself), strength because ghouls are, essentially, killing machines and to be able to convince them, one probably needs to crack some skulls as an example, and some good people backing him up. He would have some work to do, but on the other hand he does already have a legend going for him, so he could become that legend, and he would have plenty of strength inherited from Rize if he trained himself to avoid going berserk.

[Kraco]

Episode 10 - HS






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The saga of the loser main character continues. I'm slowly starting to think he's not ever going to get stronger but will continue as everybody's punching bag till the end of this series. I guess that would be pretty novel as far as stories go, but novel isn't always good. Especially this kind of novel. He's so pitiful that I can't even enjoy the scenes where he gets beaten, like I usually do with lousy main characters I hate so much I wish they would just drop dead. Kaneki, however, is so super miserable I hope this whole show will end soon.

[shinta|hikari]

Prepare yourselves. It has finally begun.

EDIT:
WTF? Only 12 episodes? This is gonna be a tight fit. They could have extended the budget to 13 and made this adaptation attempt easier.

[Buffalobiian]

HS - Episode 11

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Old fellow being the One-Eyed badass is pretty cool. Huge death flag for him though. I'm expected Kaneki to take his place soon.

Why do submachine gun bullets hurt Ghouls? I thought only stolen organs worked?

[shinta|hikari]

They are damaged by enough force. Kagune are simply that powerful so they use them.

I really hope this is 13 episodes. If they are keeping pace, it should be.

[Kraco]

Why do submachine gun bullets hurt Ghouls? I thought only stolen organs worked?

They are damaged by enough force. Kagune are simply that powerful so they use them.

I don't get why they didn't take some APCs with them. And attack helicopters since Japan has plenty of those. Maybe they have some law forbidding the use of gunships against their own cities, who knows, but APCs should have been okay. With nice 12.7mm heavy machine guns, at least, if not autocannons. Even over here the cops regularly borrow an APC (although without the machine gun) from the defense forces when some seemingly crazy (or drunk since this is Finland) gunman has dug himself in and the cops need to put the building under siege and probably try to storm it.

Finally this show starts to look somewhat promising. Like I said in my previous post, I usually enjoy it when a loser main character gets the shit beaten out of him, but Kaneki has been so miserable even that wouldn't help. Although this episode was heavily censored and we didn't see anything at all, such torture wouldn't have been nice to watch in any case, no matter what sort of a deserving fool was subjected to it. But it seems like the dude really needed inquisition level treatment to grow some balls, assuming losing his hair colour means he turned into a proper fighting machine worthy of being the main character of an action show.

[Buffalobiian]

They are damaged by enough force. Kagune are simply that powerful so they use them.

I really hope this is 13 episodes. If they are keeping pace, it should be.

I don't think so.

HS - Episode 12


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I thought the show started off good, but then became mediocre. After the introduction of the premise and Anteiku (everything after Kaneki originally struggled with his identity), the show was really riding on shock factor. Overall it was a pretty alright watch, but it feels like it had potential to be better.

[shinta|hikari]

Okay, they did not animate the best part. Heck, they did not even resolve the last situation. They also skipped a crap ton of content and made the entire story shallow. Read the manga, at least until the resolution of the fucking arc. Here is the chapter that ends that fight.

[MFauli]

that wasnt the last episode, was it?

anyway, what a crap shit anime. This episode ... why can´t anime producers stop trying to emulate this Evangelion-esque artsy, pretentious shit? Spending a WHOLE episode on an inner dialogue, only switching to and from gore porn. This sucked, big time.

And instead of the main character developing into a hero on his own strengths, he undergoes a magical 180°-shift in terms of personality and ability. Lame.

[Kraco]

If this was the final episode, I'm going to rate this show very low on AniDB. If there were still twice as many eps left as we have seen so far, things could be different. Because, basically, the intro is now over, the main character is now born. But if that's the whole show, then it was nothing but an extremely elongated intro, and nobody sane would appreciate such a thing. Maybe things would have been still acceptable if the pre-main character, who was claiming the stage until the last parts of this episode, was actually likable and thus the show had been good, but as it is now, I spent every second of every episode waiting for the dude to stop sucking and being so miserable. So, if this was the last episode, it means I hated every episode of the show and there aren't going to be any eps left to redeem this story in my eyes.

Maybe I'll give this 4 since I'm such a generous and nice guy (and I haven't been tortured to change my personality).

[shinta|hikari]

I actually liked the final episode if judged by itself. The symbolism and art were excellent, but I guess those are lost on others. As a finale, it was horrible, making the entire series pretty bad overall. It resolved nothing. It is the end. There is no thirteenth episode.

Read the manga, preferably from the start.

[Kraco]

I actually liked the final episode if judged by itself. The symbolism and art were excellent, but I guess those are lost on others. As a finale, it was horrible, making the entire series pretty bad overall. It resolved nothing. It is the end. There is no thirteenth episode.

Yeah, I didn't mind this episode, either. And if the real show started now, with a couple of dozen episodes with the white haired Kaneki, I would even forgive the first 11 episodes. It's true that the dude was a miserable fool, but such people exist and it was at least partially explained in the flashbacks of his equally miserable mother and no father. In that sense this torture and his subsequent transformation was far more meaningful than it would have been otherwise, as it went according to his own wishes in a really twisted and perverted way, and he had to change that himself, with a little help from Rize. I have to admit I was expecting far less importance from this torture, and thus was positively surprised.

Nevertheless the producer and director should be tortured for a while for designing this anime so stupidly.

[shinta|hikari]

If this were 39 episodes, they might have been able to animate the entire story. The manga is over. The fight right after the one in this episode is absolutely awesome. Though it would be censored as hell.

[shinta|hikari]

This apparently has a second season.

[KrayZ33]

that wasnt the last episode, was it?

anyway, what a crap shit anime. This episode ... why can´t anime producers stop trying to emulate this Evangelion-esque artsy, pretentious shit? Spending a WHOLE episode on an inner dialogue, only switching to and from gore porn. This sucked, big time.

too deep for you? I thought the last episode was actually pretty well done. The inner dialogue was neither pretentious nor wasted.

And instead of the main character developing into a hero on his own strengths, he undergoes a magical 180°-shift in terms of personality and ability. Lame.

Did you even watch the show or at least the last episode? In what universe was this change "magical"... and why would a generic "hero" character be less "lame". It would have been the most boring and generic outcome someone could think of.


I'm glad this gets a second season, as Kraco mentioned, we waited for him 11 epsiodes and right when shit went wild, the first season ended. I hope the BDs are not censored as well... I can't stand it when half of my screen turns black

[shinta|hikari]

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I started salivating when the fight between Touko and Ayato heated up and concluded.

Then they cut out the best fight/part in the entire story.

I seriously cannot fathom what kind of idiots are writing the anime version of this story. It isn't even information content. It was pure, awesome, brutal action that would make fans out of anyone watching the show. And they removed it.

FACEFLOOR.

[Kraco]

I seriously cannot fathom what kind of idiots are writing the anime version of this story.

The first season demonstrated quite sufficiently it's blistering kind of idiots who designed this thing. Still, I'd expect this second season to be better than the first. Although that would require very, very little effort considering what a pile of crap the first season was.

[NeoCybercoin]

Well it's only the first episode so let's see where they are going with this.

[Buffalobiian]

This episode should be a demonstration clip for my VA montinitor. The 5000:1 contrast ratio in particular shines through here.

As for the story itself.. I'm still waiting on plot. I'm more interested in that than anything else, really.

[Buffalobiian]

HS - S02E02
HS - S02E03

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This is all still very build-up-y but I still find it enjoyable enough. At least Kaneki is doing stuff now, we just have to wait for them to explain himself. It'll be something like dropping the pacifist act and actually needing to take action in order to protect the people he loves or something anyway.

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.

By far the most mysterious is Kaneki's friend though. After a season and more, I still don't know what his deal is. He's not afraid of ghouls. He just appears completely altruistic in helping his friend. People like that either have an ulterior agenda, or they die a horrible death.