Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Brilliant and touching

A Brilliant Conflict

This was a great show, it's still a great show, and I'M STILL WAITING FOR SEASON 3.Where to start with it? The plot is amazing, it's like if X-men was a lot more realistic and intense, the result may surprise you. I liked all the characters, they all had a lot of depth, personality, and development. The story was so intense you'd literally be at the edge of your seat, and full of things that shock you and fill you with sentiment. There's good people and bad people on both sides, which adds to the good morals it presents, being don't judge other people for who they might seem or act like, don't let bad things happen, but stay true to who you are, and love and friendship can bloom even when one of them isn't who or what they say.The animation was amazing, there was a lot of detail in things, like the color of each scene and the detail in each character all worked to make it more intense and emotional.The English voice acting is really good, all the voice actors clearly liked working on the project, and while they weren't perfect at first, they still did their best.By second season, all the voice actors mastered their roles, and the story took an even more dramatic and emotional turn.Speaking of the characters, the main character starts off as a seemingly cliché shy guy, but then he quickly becomes a like able, relatable guy with a lot of depth. By the second season, he had a lot more character development than he already had, but didn't deviate too far from the established character. He became more active, but still kept his moral compass and didn't become unlike-able.The only real problem I can point out is that the large amount of character development was kind of sudden and forced because of a scene where the main character was brutalized for so many episodes. There were some reasons to avoid it, because I kind of liked him better before his drastic change. But to be honest, it wasn't a bad idea, it was actually kind of a good idea, but the show would probably still be really good without it too. I liked the intensity, light humor, fear, and emotionality of the first season a lot, but the turn it took in the second season was still a good idea nonetheless.Speaking of, I don't know why the second season is getting so much hate, it was even better than the first. It made an already intense story even more emotionally intense and tugged at your heart-strings a lot more.All in all, love that show, and cannot wait for season 3!

Tokyo Ghoul is normally mentioned among the most interesting anime series of the past few years. However, it didn't live up to my expectations as I found it weak in many aspects.To start with I think the main problem is the characters, there are many series where the plot may not be good but the characters make it totally worthy but this wasn't the case. All the characters fit an anime stereotype which wouldn't be bad per se but there isn't enough background information nor character development. Most of them are passive characters who are just there doing nothing so I insist, it is very difficult to feel any sympathy towards them. The protagonist happens to be the worst of all in that sense so having him as the protagonist and no strong secondary characters makes it quite tedious to follow the series.The plot was definitely a good start, quite appealing to fans of the genre. We have world with cannibals that need to eat people to survive but that does not mean they are evil. If you are looking for blood, drama or philosophy, this is not your show. It could have been but there are barely fights, there is no place for drama when characters are that dull and there are a few times when you can actually reflect upon a deeper meaning. Moreover, it's not that the show in general doesn't fulfil any of the expected purposes but the episodes do not stand alone either way. What was good for sure was the music and the design and this is something that can be observed more clearly at the end of the series which is the best part. And yet again, the ending seemed rushed and the characters hadn't grown enough on me to watch the second season.

I had just watched and read Attack on Titan and was left with no anime to watch. I heard a lot of good stories about TG (Tokyo Ghoul, will refer to it like that from now on), many of my friends watched it. I watched it too, and I loved it at first. But then I told my very best friend, who is a super pro in anime/manga, about TG anime and he told me to read a manga and then come to him. So I read it, and from now I am one of the biggest haters of this anime. If you read manga, you understand some illogical actions of main character. For example, after being BRUTALLY TORTURED Kaneki decides to JOIN AOGIRI!! Seriously? If I was brutally tortured, I would seek revenge and destroy everyone in this organization (what he started doing in original manga). Or emotional goodbyes that he says to Touka, when he decides to become stronger. Or many more dramatic moments, that were cut out from anime. The main parts of the whole original work were left behind and in my opinion they make the whole story more interesting. So my advice: read manga first, then watch anime. Perhaps you will like anime. Perhaps you won't. But be sure to understand, that Ishida made not just a story about how one species eats another, but he also made one of the most dramatic and thoughtful piece of art that was made (at least in Japan).

I gave this cartoon its score mainly for its animation, which is quite nice. The series is about some mysterious race of ghouls who enjoy eating humans and cannot stand normal food. The main theme here is nothing original. It is the struggle of some of the ghouls to coexist peacefully with humans. In other cartoons it is robots who wish for a peaceful coexistence with people. So this is quite boring. But the bad part is not that.The worst part is the main character, Kaneki, built by the "nice, shy and polite" Japanese template for main cartoon characters which must appeal to Japanese highschoolers, the target audience of the show. Whenever this character appears, he starts whining, reaching his limit during the last episode. At the end of that last episode I felt cheated of a few good hours of my life. The series was supposed build up and lead to Kaneki's awakening as a hybrid ghoul, but it failed badly at building anything so the awakening was quite anticlimactic.Other than that, fights are OK, supporting characters are OK even though most of them useless and the story leads to nothing - I assume because they were expecting to get funding for more episodes, which luckily didn't happen after the ridiculous ending. Still I would mention the policemen which were interesting simply because they didn't get special attention.