Tokyo Ghoul Review By Rias Meh

"Sometimes its better to be hurt than hurt others."

Anime - Tokyo Ghoul (R- 17+)

Producers: Studio Pierrot, FUNimation EntertainmentL, Marvelous AQL

Genres: Action, Mystery, Drama, Dark , etc.

MAL: http://goo.gl/dQAPHb

STORY AND PLOT :

This fantasy takes place in tokyo , where along with humans there are 'Ghouls '. Ghouls, are human species who devours other humans for their apetite (cannibals :p) . Our main character is Kaneki Ken , who is a college student and an avid book reader . He finally meets his crush Rize-san who is apparantly a ghoul and who wants to eat him. However , Rize and Kaneki gets involved into an accident , and the only way to recover Kaneki was by transplanting Rize's (dead)organs into Kaneki . Hence he becomes the Half-human - Half - Ghoul (demighoul  ).

Now, now , if you look at the plot , one might find it interesting . But who knew that the studio were going to marathon the story. I've read TG's manga which is a good read , but , when you look at tge anime , they were as complained by many , 'rushing things-up'. The studio had a good plot , and a good story in front of them but no , they want to make an anime of atleast 24 eps into 12 eps. and they expect to score.

That is just bullshit . The studio as I believe had skipped parts which were important for the audience to patch-up properly with the characters. But, beside all the bullshit they did till ep 11 , the , 12th ep was the one which truly showed the beauty , which the whole series could have acheived. I lament over the progession of the story , not the story itself , because the progression of the story itself spoilt the story . The studio failed to exploit the parts from manga they could've properly .

Animation and artwork :

When it comes to artwork, it was decent for an anime of 2014. Chracters were well drawn with the mask and stuff. But as for the animation, it was a dissapointment . The frame per second (fps) also sucked , only during the fights one can see a good fps . And , when it comes to battles in TG it means gore , colours and censorship. The biggest setback of the anime . Those purple-pink-red shade- were just ruining the amazement of the fight.

Soundtrack/OST/EST :

This was the biggest assest of the anime . The OST 'UNRAVEL, TK from Ling' was simply the best OST I had ever heard . Also the in-anime soundtracks were good whose essence of epicness could've been seen in ep 3-4 but then looks like the anime lacked a good director. The potential of the in-anime ST was not exploited uniformly nor in the important scenes. Whereas the EST sounded shit at its inception but one'd slowly get used to it .

Final review : A bit of hype , poor story progression , poor direction with good sountracks and artwork , peirrot shows us a dissapointing meh anime . If you've seen the anime or ever plan to , go for the manga . Anime isn't worth your time I'd say.

My rating : 6.8 /10 (meh....k)

~ A Review by Rias Meh