Board Thread:New on Tokyo Ghoul Wiki/@comment-49.148.219.208-20150119000116/@comment-45.26.154.132-20160707025011

Hmm. I actually gave up on the anime fairly early (and now that I hear Kaneki joined AT in it I'm glad for that), but I do have my two cents about the manga itself. And, uh, you guys aren't going to be happy about it.

The beginning was great. I loved the beginning. I loved the premise. The beginning was only made better, more bittersweet, by what happened later. All good there.

I'm pissed off about Hide, who was such an awesome person, but cast away for the entire manga except for the beginning and when he died and now suddenly again when Kaneki needs motivation to fight against Arima. I get it, I do – but then why suddenly add in all these other characters who we don't care about yet, and cast away a perfectly good one? Too many sudden characters added in who are somehow pivotal to the plot, not clear enough on what happens to them. It's gotten to the point that when a shocking reveal happens, I can't really react because I just... honestly have no idea who the character is that has caused all these devious things.

It's not just Hide either. Touka was also thrown out of there too quickly. Amon, in a way more similar to Hide. All great characters with beautiful potential.

But, you know, all that could still just be me. And I was fairly focused on only the "important stuff" – you know, what happens to Kaneki and the other characters I care about. So maybe I missed something about all those other characters that were inserted in.

Still. I feel like as it's gone along, the manga's lost sight of where it's been going. The plot's been getting so big that the mangaka can't keep track of all the little, important things. In the beginning, it was a huge deal to Kaneki that he had to eat other humans. To Haise, I'm not even sure if he ate human meat or regular food – it was never mentioned. In the beginning, Kaneki was panicked about how he was both a ghoul and a human and belonged to neither side, before he realized he could belong to both. There was an arc showing how he's the only one who can truly understand both sides, and how he could strive to change the understanding that both have of each other. Later, however, that's also been tossed out the window, because he's instead only valued for his power as a ghoul and lives entirely in the ghoul world.

So. Uh. This turned a little bit into a rant. There are good elements; I loved the beginning and all the ideas within it, but... Pacing, character development, and cleaner plot threads could all use some work. Maybe if the mangaka can drag it all back to the beginning and make it make sense again without too many loose threads hanging from this gigantic beast that Tokyo Ghoul has become, then I'll be more satisfied with everything else. The thing with Eto and her writing was very cool, though, I'll admit.

One thing I really want to know though – why is coffee of all things edible to a ghoul? And especially: why does it taste the same to /Kaneki/, who actually had the frame of reference to compare coffee before his tastebuds were changed to coffee as a ghoul? Eh, just idle curiosity.

For the sake of being on topic (even if I'm not sure I'll be welcomed in this discussion after this post), did anybody else find it really weird that the kagune looked like weird translucent flesh organs in the anime? And that Rize's hair was purple?