[Anime] Tokyo Ghoul

Amon dual wields now. And Nishiki being the meat shield as we all know. The action scenes are alright. Censorhsips here and there. Curious about that 3 ghouls vs 1 bad guy ghoul fight. That scene where the police squad looked like they shat in their pants when they saw the One-eyed Owl was hilarious. Welp, last episode coming tomorrow. And here comes white hair Kaneki. Though I've always wondered how he ended up having that hair colour.

Partially it's just for the bamf and to symbolize his change(so it can be considered a convenient device), although many theorize it's because he's related to special investigator Arima or that high-class cannibal ghouls will get white hair after cannibalization. Furthermore the classic description of a Ghoul is a cannibal with a pallid features or a form of semi-sentient undead.

Then again, it solved none of the subplots of the story, so if Ishida Sui is going to announce a sequel, then it's all well and good.

Pacing is awful near the mid way point of the series where everything started to randomly speed up and slow down for no apparent reason then things got incredibly interesting in the astoundingly animated finale. Although the finale was fairly cheesy because it was out of context with the ramp of the previous episode and left off with a TERRIBLE cliffhanger. There were quite a few scene skips which will likely leave most blind viewers momentarily disoriented. Some characters feel inconsequential, as if they were added in for convenience like Banjou(although the manga sorta fixes that). Pretty bad stuff.

What Tokyo Ghoul did right was not absolutely piss on the manga adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul and make bold choices in distinguishing itself from the manga that paid off big time. I won't bore people with the details, but basically scenes like Kaneki's monologue in the finale and more so felt better than the already strong scenes in the manga. Those scenes are what will probably make the most positive impact on people, because they were EXCEPTIONALLY animated probably the best I've seen in a long, long time in the anime industry. The characters are pretty compelling, it's easy to relate to their motivations, passions and get sucked into the troubles; another first in a long time I've cared for a character. Pretty amazing stuff.

Hmm, interesting. So was he fed ghoul meat during his torture time with Jason? Or was it that he ate Rize in his subconscious which caused him to magically grow white hair?

The last episode was actually alright. I was expecting some bad stuff since "hurrdurr rushing" and "fucking censorships ruining everything" were the majority of what I've read from other places during the week before finally getting to watch it. I mean seriously, this episode felt definitely slower when compared with the previous episodes. If they had used that pace from the start then...oh well, what's done is done. Though what bugged me in this episode was Jason yelling Kaneki throughout the entire fight scene. Well that's one of the things I could think of for now.

Anywho, if there's a second season coming soon then hopefully they do continue where they left off instead of the scenes about the one-eyed owl, the 3v1 ghoul match and siblings slapping each others' wings be just a fleeting memory described in a few minutes just to start off with the next arc quickly.