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Review: The synopsis on Goodreads is in French, so we're just going to skip the formal summary and jump into the review. Tokyo Ghoul is about a kid named Ken Kaneki who lives in Japan and just started his first year at a university. In his world, there are creatures called ghouls who feed on human flesh and there are special detectives called ghoul investigators who hunt and kill ghouls. Due to an accident, Ken has ghoul body parts transplanted into his body and he becomes part ghoul. That's the general set up for this series. I liked seeing Ken navigate the ghoul world which is completely foreign to him. He has always heard of ghouls as horrible creatures, so watching him grow and learn in the ghoul world was really enjoyable. The beginning of the series is built up fairly well with Ken being introduced to major players in the ghoul world with each volume. Still, only a couple of the ghouls Ken interacts with feels fleshed out and the rest fade into the background.
I liked seeing Ken in the ghoul world, but we also get to see the world of the ghoul inspectors. I'll be honest, I didn't care about the ghoul investigators. They tried to have interesting and dynamic characters, but I just didn't like them. Juzo is the character who stands out the most as the tortured child who never learned how to deal with his trauma properly. He is easily the most unsettling character, but I can imagine people being upset with how a person with trauma is being depicted in this story. Ken's relationship with many of the characters didn't make much since either. Ghouls work at a cafe together, but Ken ends up leaving the cafe to achieve his own goals. This is fine, but characters at the cafe still seem to be close to Ken despite him not being there or barely interacting with them for a length of time. The ending also felt super rushed and, again, I didn't care much about what happened to the characters. Everyone just seemed too detached from each other for me to feel any real bond between any of the ghouls or the ghoul hunters.
Creepy in concept, but not the most engaging story, and many of the characters fell flat for me.
3 howls
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