Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26439955-20150527171147/@comment-10733658-20150527171956

I have to agree with the above Anon. Unfortunately, the anime was a highly condensed version of the manga that skipped entire arcs. The second season also kind of went off in its own direction.

Your best bet is to pick it up from the very beginning, as there really isn't a good place to suggest picking it up. Like I said, they take out enormous amounts of material (world building, relationship building), switch the placement of some arcs, completely leave out characters or important relationships, and actually outright skipped more than one arc.

So you miss a lot by trying to find a random place to jump in. The series is very tightly-knit, as Ishida has foreshadowing or hints of things in early chapters that come to fruition much later.