Toukyou Ghoul

Description

From Viz:
Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body - eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.

Note: The prototype chapter won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award in 2010.

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Type

Manga

Related Series

Tokyo Ghoul:re (Sequel)

Tokyo Ghoul: "Jack" (Side Story)

Toukyou Kushu - Zakki (Spin-Off)

Toukyou Kushu (Novel) (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Gûl

Tokyo Kushu

Toukyou Kushu

Токийский Гуль

دێوى تۆكيۆ

غول طوكيو

टोक्यो घुल

โตเกียว กูล

东京食尸鬼

東京喰種

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.143 by MANGA Plus 4 years ago

c.142 by MANGA Plus 4 years ago

c.141 by MANGA Plus 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

14 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 7, Chap 67 (Root A)

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 66 (S1) Abridged / Vol 14, Chap 144 (Root A) Most of Root A is original and not canon to :Re

User Reviews

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Forum

8 topics, 40 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.3 / 10.0 (1695 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.27 / 10.0

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Last Updated

September 10th, 2024 11:30pm PDT - 8 months ago

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Genre

Action Drama Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Seinen Supernatural Tragedy
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Category Recommendations

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Artist(s)

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Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Young Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

MANGA Plus

Viz (14 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #553

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Monthly Pos #1265

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3 Month Pos #1637

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6 Month Pos #1960

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Year Pos #2135

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List Stats

On 2729 reading lists

On 1181 wish lists

On 4295 completed lists

On 145 unfinished lists

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Tokyo Ghoul getting 2nd season in manga and anime!

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User Comments [ Order by time added ]

THE HORRIBLE ENDING!!! >.<

by perpetual
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

Gleaming potential, exciting action, interesting ideas and creative concepts-- ruined, by the absolutely dissappointing, confusing, anti-climatic end.

What's wrong with the end, you say?

Pretty much everything:

pacing was shot to bits-- with confusing, almost random timeskips.
untied plots; there was SO MUCH to be explored that was glossed over or ignored
literally almost-random characters were just thrown in, no development, they just happened to appear

Devastating, really, because this series really had it going.

It feels like the author just GAVE UP, and tried to finish everything really quickly--you could see he had it all initially planned (foreshadowing, clues etc!!!!), but 5-10 chapters towards the end the manga just collapsed into a rushed, pathetic 'climax'.

What happened? So many questions and answers and feelings, lost to black scribbles and wtf random time skips.

There has to be more.

Don't read, unless you can tolerate bad endings, and i'm talking REALLY bad endings for something that was so, so good...

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errr

by Azure_1802
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

good story, awesome character designs (oh, i love Kaneki's mask) and horrible ending...
i don't know how to rate this manga -.- i wanna give 10 for the designs, i also wanna give 8 for the story but the ending does not even deserve to be 1 -.-
i wonder what happened to the mangaka, did he run out of idea or he was not in good mood to make a better ending or he got bored with the manga...

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Overall, a good read

by butako chan
11 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The art is different from the typical shounen manga and is pretty unique but needs some polishing. There are times when I can't differentiate one character from another because the drawing was so inconsistent. Thought the characters are given some development, they aren't too deeply explored. Throughout the manga, some interesting conflicts occur which can create some though provoking questions, but as it doesn't explore too deeply into the issues, the conflicts feel surface level. The ending to this was disappointing, but there is a sequel fortunately. If you're someone who reads manga depending no the ending, this is not recommended. Endings can make or break a story, and this one was unfortunately inconclusively rapped up in ONE chapter. There was great potential in this manga though, and it is generally recommended.

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AMAZING

by Connect
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Please do ignore the comments saying how the ending sucks and what not . Be aware that THERE IS A SEQUEL. Just as dreamer00013 has stated, Ishida has most likely planned the whole thing out and everything he does has a reason to it.

To those contemplating whether they should read it or not, I would definitely recommend this one. The characters (& development ) are great and you will absolutely fall in love with them . As well as the hidden messages, symbols and metaphors are really interesting.

Tokyo ghoul has been rising in popularity as it has already 2 anime seasons, art conventions, cafes, soon to have a musical and manga sales have been doing extremely well . etctecetc since it is obviously successful, i hope you all give it a shot !

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Disaster

by Seiji2016
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

I hope there is a sequel planned because the ending was a disaster. It is far too open ended to be conformable with. There are so many questions. I also agree with some of the other comments the art need to be addressed it lack in so many ways, when Hide was shown to be the informant, I could not recognize him even after his identity was reveled I was so confused because he looked so different.

Also, why is it that almost no ghouls died but the investigators get killed left and right.

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Surprisingly good

by ko-miko
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

All around great manga, the only thing that's disappointing is its slip into shounen tropes. The tired and sexist tool of having a strong woman only for the protagonist to SUPER POWER UP and brush her aside / save her is pretty lame. The method that the protagonist powered up is fairly original and more realistic than most, but in a general with such established tropes its best to avoid them. Especially if its going to turn sexist
Otherwise good character building

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I'm hooked

by Akatsubaki
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Easily becomes one of my top favorites manga. I havent find something this great that can satisfy me recently until i read tokyo ghoul. I picked this up because the cover looked interesting to me and it has been completely scanlated. Turned out I really love the story and the characters. And the art was very good too. There are struggle, hate, love, sadness, happiness for each person. No right or wrong side in the battle between human and ghouls, just every one of them trying to protect what's important for them. I was disatissfied with the ending.. Before i realized there is a sequel! Tokyo Ghoul is really amazing, the name of Ishida Sui has been engraved on my mind. One of few talented mangaka that able to deliver a captivating story.

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Good story flow but too cruel and bloody

by AndelMartina
4 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

story flows well and (with the exception of a few places) keeps you reading from start to finish
interesting story concept

too cruel and bloody for my taste (explicit torture scenes, deaths, manipulation with bodies). There's quite a lot and I hated it
poor character development (except for the MC, kinda) I was hoping to see more of Amon and MC interacting and seeing the world from each other's perspective, but the author kind of shoved that idea aside, pity
nonexistent ending - I finished the manga and started reading the one-shot without even realizing that the main story (the one-shot is like AU) is over, that's how nonexistent the ending was

All in all, a pretty captivating story with a lot of potential, but stomach turning cruelty and poor ending. Would I recommend it? I don't know, give it a try (read 2 volumes) and if you think it's interesting, read on. Just keep on mind that the ending is quite disappointing.

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don't know who are good or bad people

by ajaykumaryadav
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

1.story about humans and gouls.(they eat humans).
2.humans portrayed like bad people hard to sympathize with them; even though they are saving humans
3.goals are portrayed like good people even though they eat humans
Now upto you whether to read or not....by the way it got anime version also....

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Kinda dissapointed...

by drunken.dx
9 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

At first, it looks awesome, with interesting premise (secret ghoul society among humans).
But as story goes on, we get more and more shonen elements... And less and less seinen mystery
And plotholes... Oh, man, those plotholes... (still not as bad as Death Note, ugh...)

If story went as it has in first few volumes it would get much higher score, but adding multiple types of kagune was first step towards bad parts, then we get to know ghouls are almost wholly immune to normal weapons (unless you stab them in mucous membrane), and they are only vulnerable to quinques, weapons made from ghouls (plothole: how did they made first quinque? some nice ghoul sacrificed himself?).
Then we get inconsistency in treatment of ghouls...
Since start of manga it has been made clear that ghouls are killed on sight, as soon as someone is confirmed to be a ghoul, they move in for a kill, as seen with "mother ghoul", no attempt was made to even offer capture. But late in manga we find out there is a "ghoul prison" where they kept multiple highly dangerous ghouls...
Errr... I quite don't get logic behind killing peaceful ghouls and keeping violent ones alive... At least that priest ghoul was informant, but that "fanboy" ghoul... Why keep psycho like him alive?
No logic...

And fights...
It's like watching some mecha manga, but instead of mechs and weapons we get kagune and quinques...
At least kagune designs are plausible, but quinques...
I've seen bad weapon designs, but Tokyo Ghoul tries really hard to get into top 10 worst weapon designs...

If this manga tried less to appeal to shonen genre, with flashy skills, err... kagunes and weapons, err quinques, and kept it's starting premise of hidden ghoul society shunned by humans (and not that CCG Anteiku war...) it would actually be good.

Art style is actually good, especially covers.
Although, for a "bloody" manga, it's quite tame...

Shame...
And prototype chapter was excellent...

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