Board Thread:New on Tokyo Ghoul Wiki/@comment-49.148.219.208-20150119000116/@comment-25047329-20180102005830

95.147.155.103 wrote: I didn't know that the anime had twisted up the storyline of Tokyo Ghoul; I just happened to stumble upon it after I finished Death Note (which everyone has to see btw because it's just woah). Tokyo Ghoul :Re isn't out yet as an anime but it's coming out this year and I was just wondering if it would be worth it to wait for the anime and then start the manga or if I should just start the manga and watch the anime later? Would it get too confusing? I mean in the anime √A ends with Hide dying and a confusing af scene of Kaneki carrying his dead body through a crowd of CCG but apparently in the manga Kaneki is brainwashed and like wtf is even going on

Idk what they're going to do with the :re anime exactly, but one way or another it's probably going to be really confusing. Root A was an alternate version of the second half of the manga, and :re continues from there. However, it's clearly borrowing some heavy points from the manga which...might not work? Like Kaneki working for the CCG. It makes sense in the manga, but I can hear anime :re's plot bending already.

You should probably read the manga eventually, but I don't think it'll make much of a difference if you do it before or after :re comes out. If you read it before you'd probably understand some stuff better, but feel disappointed. If you wait after, you'll be confused while watching, but will eventually fill in the blanks anyway. It's really up to you.