Would they try and mish mash anime original and manga canon materialĪgain like they did with Root A or would they ignore Root A and stick to the manga? At the time of these thoughts it wasn't clear on the direction the show would take, thankfully they decided to forget Root A completely and pushed forward with adapting the :Re manga. So moving onto the anime adaption of :Re I was very apprehensive about how it was going to play out. The anime adaptions before :Re had been iffy to say the best, Season 1 of TG whilst not terrible left out a lot of content due to how few episodes they had and Root A was flat out awful. I'll start off by saying that Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul :Re are two of my favourite manga that I've read and they both hold a significant place in my life. I haven't read the manga and I don't plan to. It's clearly a massively overambitious failure of a project. I don't understand how anyone can watch the all three seasons of Tokyo Ghoul and say that this one stands up to the first two. This show has almost no redeeming qualities, and I never once looked forward to the next episode. Obviously I did not enjoy this show and my expectations were shattered. The biggest internal conflict seen in a side character is "Damn killing ghouls is kind of sad." Really groundbreaking stuff. No side character is worth me mentioning with the exception of Urie (half ghoul investigator who works under Haise) who has untapped potential as of now. I was constantly wanting him to return to being Kaneki against his will because I was so damn tired of Haise's babbling. Every time he speaks it's something about how much he loves his life or how he doesn't want to be Kaneki again because he loves his life so much right now. It's essentially impossible to get anything more than that out of his character. His only character trait is that he cares about his friends and his current lifestyle. Haise has to be the most boring main character I've seen all season, maybe all year. This is actually the worst part of the show. The sound does almost nothing to improve this adaptation.
All the background music is mediocre and totally forgettable. The ending is also fine but kind of weird and not worth adding to any kind of playlist. The opening is good but not nearly as good as the original. Not one fight sequence is cool or impressive and the art can also be incredibly inconsistent at times.Īlso a big step down. It's production budget is likely close to half of the original and it shows. A show that could be praised for it's stellar animation and dark edgy art has fallen so so low. The drop in animation quality is actually both astounding and depressing. They're all gone and replaced with Haise's boring crew of half ghoul investigators and a bunch of ghouls who's most interesting and human trait is that they don't want to die. And no more ghouls that are worth caring about. Kaneki and friends constantly tried to balance peace and protecting their friends and that's part of what made the show great. It presented an incredibly difficult and interesting conflict where ghouls and humans desperately want peace but simply cannot coexist. One thing I found so great about the original is that the man-eating ghouls whoĬouldn't possibly seen as good people were constantly and effectively humanized through the folks at Anteiku.
Not a single fight is cool, interesting, or well animated, and not a single character is as good as a character from season one. Basically it's just 12 episodes of Haise and his new buddies fighting ghouls. I'm not sure that a single interesting thing has happened in 12 episodes.
Tokyo Ghoul except everything that was good is bad.Īs a fan of the first two seasons I can't see this season as anything other than a massive failure and disappointment.
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