Tokyo Ghoul:re review

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Mar 26, 2021
-THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS-

Tokyo Ghoul:re is a fitting continuation of Tokyo Ghoul in all ways. The plot is suspensful and driven, if a bit slow, the characters are vibrant and unique and the art continues to improve. If I had to name one problem with it, it would be that the sheer number of characters introduced is overwhelming and slows down the plot at first.

Continuing on that note, the plot at first is slow, but picks up quickly and builds up plenty of suspense. Actually, it builds up so much suspense that the current plot events started to feel boring in comparison to the possible future events. The switch to the perspective of the Doves is refreshing and keeps things interesting.

The art is good. Nothing more nothing less. It improves steadily throughout the series, but the action scenes can be hard to follow.

Now the characters, which are both the best and worst parts of this series. Haise Sasaki, a first class ghoul investigator, is the protagonist. He's a sweet guy, probably too sweet, actually, who enjoys reading. Akira Mado from Tokyo Ghoul is his mentor of sorts along with his superior.

Haise is in charge of an experimental squad known as the Quinx. Haise's subordinates are: Urie Kuki-an antisocial self-serving guy, who cares very little for others-, Ginshi Shirazu (An easily manipulated nice guy who gets angry a bit too quickly), Saiko Yonebayashi (A lazy otaku finally given the chance to do what she wants, which is be lazy) and Tooru Mutsuki (A nice, if easily intimidated guy who dislikes violence).

The characters are well-developed--except for Mutsuki, which I'll explain later--Urie in particular changes a lot. And they're easy to love. But as time goes on, Haise plays an increasingly large role.

All in all, it's a good series with plenty of gore and symbolism.

A few warnings: There is gore, blood, necrophilia... everything you'd expect of TG. And some events can be considered transphobic.

Now. Mutsuki. There are minor spoilers below regarding the transphobia. If you don't want to read the spoilers, then you can stop reading here. There's nothing else besides that.

Mutsuki is trans, which I was excited about, but the treatment of Mutsuki's character once you hit chapter 114 gets to be questionable. Hopefully, it gets better somehow, but it doesn't look like it will.
To generalize, Mutsuki misgenders himself in a context that heavily implies he thinks of himself as female.
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Tokyo Ghoul:re
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Autor Ishida, Sui
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