Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul
Original title	東京 喰 種 - ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル -
transcription	Tōkyō Gūru
Anime monochrome logo
genre	Horror , Action , Dark Fantasy, Drama , His , Splatter
Manga
country	Japan
author	Sui Ishida
publishing company	Shūeisha
magazine	Weekly Young Jump
First publication	September 8, 2011 - September 18, 2014
expenditure	14th
Anime television series
title	Tokyo Ghoul Tokyo Ghoul √A Tokyo Ghoul: right Tokyo Ghoul: right 2nd Season
Original title	東京 喰 種 - ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル - 東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル √A 東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー ー グ ー ル: re 東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル: re 2nd Season
transcription	Tōkyō Gūru Tōkyō Gūru √A Tōkyō Gūru: re Tōkyō Gūru: re 2nd Season
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Studio	Studio Pierrot
length	approx. 24 minutes
Episodes	48 in 4 seasons
Theme music	Unravel Munou Asphyxia Katharsis
Director	Shuhei Morita
idea	Sui Ishida
production	Gene Fukunaga
music	Yutaka Yamada
First broadcast	July 4th, 2014 on Tokyo MX
German-language first broadcast	August 19, 2015 on ProSieben Maxx
synchronization
Manga
title	Tokyo Ghoul: JACK
Original title	喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル ー [JACK]
transcription	Tōkyō Gūru [JACK]
country	Japan
author	Sui Ishida
publishing company	Shūeisha
magazine	Jump Live
First publication	August 2013 - October 2013
Manga
title	Tokyo Ghoul: right
Original title	東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル: right
transcription	Tōkyō Gūru: right
country	Japan
author	Sui Ishida
publishing company	Shūeisha
magazine	Weekly Young Jump
First publication	October 16, 2014 - July 4, 2018
expenditure	16

Tokyo Ghoul ( Japanese 東京 喰 種 - ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル - , Tōkyō Gūru , German "Tokyo Ghoul ") is a manga series by Sui Ishida. It appeared between September 2011 and September 2014 in Shūeisha's Seinen - Manga magazine Weekly Young Jump and was summarized in fourteen anthologies.

A successor titled Tokyo Ghoul: re started in October 2014 in the same magazine and a previous story titled Tokyo Ghoul: JACK ran online on Jump Live; an OVA adaptation of this story was released in 2015. A 12-episode anime series by Studio Pierrot was broadcast on Tokyo MX between July and September 2014. A second season, Tokyo Ghoul √A (pronounced: Tokyo Ghoul Root A ), also with 12 episodes ran from January 9, 2015 to March 3, 2015. The first part of the third season, Tokyo Ghoul: re , consists of 12 episodes ran from April 3, 2018 to June 19, 2018. The second part of the third season under the name Tokyo Ghoul: re 2nd Season with 12 episodes was broadcast between October 9, 2018 and December 25, 2018 in Japan.

action

The story of Tokyo Ghoul is about the student Ken Kaneki, who falls in love with a young woman named Liz. After meeting her, she bites his shoulder in a secluded alley and reveals that she is a " ghoul " (ghouls are creatures that look like humans, but can only feed on human flesh). As Liz is about to eat Ken, several large metal poles fall on her from the construction site of a high-rise building. Liz dies in the process. Ken is rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries. After he recovers, he is released from the hospital. On the day of his release, he finds out that he is no longer human. He looks in the mirror and a shiver runs down his spine because he now has one ghoul eye (ghouls actually have two ghoul eyes, but Ken only has one). He realizes that Liz's organs were transplanted to him in the hospital. Since he now owns Liz's organs, he is a so-called and very rarely occurring "half-ghoul". Since he cannot turn to anyone else, he is taken in by a group of ghouls who run the "Café Antik" (original: Anteiku ). They teach him how to cope with his new life as a half-ghoul and explain a lot about the society of ghouls, their factions and that he has to keep his identity a secret from other people.

Although he is reluctant to consume human flesh, in some situations he is forced to do so. At the end of the first season he is kidnapped and tortured by a group of extremist ghouls until he recognizes his ghoul nature, gets white hair and black nails and almost kills and then devours his tormentor. He is now more brutal to protect those who mean something to him.

The pre-story Tokyo Ghoul: JACK is about the youth of Kishou Arima and Taishi Fura, two characters from the main series who team up to investigate the death of a friend of Taishi. He died at the hand of a notorious ghoul named "Lantern" and Taishi follows Arima and ultimately joins the CCG (Commission of Counter Ghoul); the federal agency handling crimes related to ghouls.

The sequel Tokyo Ghoul: re is about Kaneki, who suffers from memory loss. With his new identity as Haise Sasaki he is the leader of a special team of the CCG called "Quinks", all of which were operated on by the CCG and are now half ghouls, so-called Quinks. Most have claws, but they do not need to eat human flesh and can lead a human life.

Characters

Ken Kaneki

Ken Kaneki is a shy youth who cannot get by as a half-ghoul. Still, he's a powerful ghoul who can heal himself quickly and defeat investigators even faster. After being tortured by Jason, he becomes more brutal and stronger so as not to let anyone die. As a ghoul, he has two pseudonyms from the CCG: "Eye patch", because of his mask, and "Millipede", because of his claw, which looks like a millipede. He loves books and would like to meet his favorite author Sen Takatsuki. In normal life he wears an eye patch because he cannot control his ghoul eye. He has black hair, but from the trauma of the torture of Jason gets white hair and black toenails and fingernails, and he becomes more muscular. Later Kaneki leaves the "Antik" to do his own research. With the change of hair color, its character also changes.

He is a little different from Haise Sasaki . He is now a ghoul investigator, but he believes that ghouls should not be killed for no reason. He is no longer shy, but more open. His standard clothing consists of a black shirt with a white tie and a long coat. In contrast to Ken, he detests his ghoul side and only fights with his claw in absolute emergencies. Usually he uses his quink. He is a very caring mentor, but his protégés keep running away from him because he is not very assertive.

When he becomes Ken Kaneki again, he kills ghoul investigators again to protect his friends and especially Toka, who is now his wife and is expecting a child.

Tōka Kirishima

Tōka is a very impulsive ghoul. She is quick-tempered and unfriendly and abuses Ken a lot. Nevertheless, she builds a bond with him and is horrified at his transformation. She has bangs that cover her right eye. She has a younger brother named Ayato, who she hates, her parents were exposed as ghouls and killed by the people. The CCG calls her the "rabbit" because of her mask after she kills investigator Mado as an act of revenge. She lives with Hinami in her apartment and tries to take care of her as best she can.

Hideyoshi Nagachika

Hideyoshi, called Hide, is a human being and Kaneki's best friend. Hide is a funny and very noticeable person, quite the opposite of Kaneki Ken. Hide has orange blonde hair that is short at the beginning of the story and relatively long at the end. Kaneki broke up the friendship after his "transformation" through distance, as he was afraid of drawing Hide into the ghoul world. He didn't tell Hideyoshi anything about this transformation. Hide, however, knew from the start that his best friend Kaneki had turned into a half-ghoul. In the course of the story, Hide becomes the CCG's informant and assistant to Kotaro Amon and Akira Mado. There he met Seido Takizawa with whom he became friends. At the end of Tokyo Ghoul, Hide is reported missing.

Yoshimura (Kuzen)

Yoshimura is a ghoul and the owner of the cafe called "Antik". The CCG calls it "The Owl". He's the one who introduces Kaneki to the world of ghouls. They develop a good relationship quickly, however, at the end of the second season of the anime, Yoshimura is almost killed by the CCG. He is devoured by another ghoul and thus saved.

Jason

Jason is a ghoul who was previously tortured by cutting off his toes and fingers by a mad ghoul investigator. He escaped and now uses the methods he was tortured with on others. He is known for his characteristic finger-cracking, which Ken inherited from him after he ate him. It is also called "gecko". After he was defeated by Ken, a quink was made from him, which is now owned by Juzo.

Hinami Fueguchi

Hinami is a young innocent girl. Her parents were killed by CCG investigators. Since then she has lived with Tōka. Tōka is like a sister to Hinami and Ken like a brother to her. It has a scale and feather claw.

Uta

Uta is the operator of the "HySy ArtMask Studio", in which he made the masks of almost all of the main characters. Uta is an old friend of Renji Yomo and Itori. Ken was a bit scared of him at first. When Ken was kidnapped and tortured by Jason, Uta also came to rescue him. Uta's mask represents a voodoo face and his ghoul name is "No Face". Its claw is unknown.

Jūzō Suzuya

Is a young man who was abused as a child by a ghoul called "Big Madam". Again and again he had to kill people in front of an audience in the "restaurant of the ghouls" as a "butcher". Big Madam kept him as a houseman and sent him to his cell after every fight and gave him a certain score. In order to deaden him to pain, she mutilated his genitals so that he could not be assigned to a gender later, because she wanted Juzo to be a girl. Through this abuse, he becomes a sociopath who does not understand the feelings of others. Despite everything, his skills as a "butcher" remained, so that he was allowed to work as an investigator with Shinohara, a CCG veteran.

Kureo Mado

Kureo is a middle-aged man who works as an investigator for the CCG. He is the father of Akira Mado and a partner and mentor of the CCG investigator Kōtarō Amon. About ten years before the main storyline began, his wife Kasuka was killed by the "one-eyed owl". Because of this event, his hatred of the ghouls was increased and he became increasingly sadistic towards them. His main goal was to find the "one-eyed owl" and avenge his wife. During the first season he is killed by Hinami Fueguchi and Tōka Kirishima.

Publications

Manga

Tokyo Ghoul began as a manga series written and drawn by Sui Ishida. The first chapter appeared on September 8, 2011 in the 41st annual issue of Weekly Young Jump , published by Shūeisha . The last chapter appeared on September 18, 2014 in the 42nd annual edition. The series was summarized in fourteen Tankōbon issues and published in Shūeisha's Young Jump Comics Imprint between February 17, 2012 and October 17, 2014.

A German translation by Yuko Keller was published between May 2014 and July 2016 by Kazé Manga by VIZ Media Switzerland publishing house. The series is published in English by Viz Media .

A prequel spinoff called Tōkyō Ghoul: Jack appeared in Jump Live magazine from August to October 2013, with the chapters being combined into one volume on October 18, 2013.

The first chapter of the sequel, entitled Tōkyō Ghoul: re , appeared on October 16, 2014 in the 46th annual issue of Weekly Young Jump . The series takes place two years after the first manga ended and introduces new characters. On July 4, 2018, the series was completed, which also appeared in a total of 16 anthologies. From September 2016 to March 2019, all volumes in German were published by Kazé Manga.

Light novels

Shin Towada produced three volumes of light novels , to which Sui Ishida contributed the illustrations: Tōkyō Ghoul: Hibi ( 東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ ー ル [日 々] ) on July 19, 2013, Tōkyō Ghoul: Kōhaku ( 東京 喰 キ ョ ル ー [東京 グ キ ョ ト ル [東京 グ キ ョ ト ー [東京 グ キ ョ ト ー [空白] ) of June 19, 2014, and Tōkyō Ghoul: Sekijitsu ( 東京 喰 種 ト ー キ ョ ー グ グ ー ル [昔日] ) on December 19, 2014.

Anime

A 12-episode anime series by Studio Pierrot aired on Tokyo MX between July 4 and September 19, 2014, at midnight sharp (the previous day of television ) . It was also broadcast on TV Aichi , TVQ, TV Osaka , AT-X and Dlife with an offset of up to a week . The title song is titled Unravel and is sung by Tōru "TK" Kitajima, the leader of the band Ling Tosite Sigure ; the closing credits song Saints is from the band People In The Box. The series was streamed by Funimation in parallel with English subtitles .

The series has so far been released in four editions on DVD and Blu-Ray . A release in German-speaking countries on DVD and Blu-ray followed from April 24, 2015 to July 31, 2015 on Kazé Anime. In addition, all episodes are also available online on Anime on Demand and on Netflix.

A second season with a further 12 episodes and the title Tokyo Ghoul √A (pronounced root A ) ran from January 9th to March 27th 2015 on Tokyo MX. The theme song of the second season is entitled Munō ( 無能 ) and comes from Kunimitsu Takahashi's (guitarist and singer of the band The cabs) solo project Austria with Ai Kamano (haisuinonasa) as the singer, while the final title Kisetsu wa Tsugitsugi Shindeiku ( 季節 は 次 々 死 ん でい く ) comes from amazarashi . The series is subtitled and streamed as a simulcast via Kazé's video platform Anime on Demand.

On September 30, 2015, the OVA Tōkyō Ghoul: Jack , which represents a prequel, and on December 25, 2015 another OVA called Tōkyō Ghoul: Pinto , which adapted the third chapter of the novel Tokyo Ghoul: Hibi .

The first part of the third season, Tokyo Ghoul: re , consisting of 12 episodes ran from April 3, 2018 to June 19, 2018. The second part of the third season under the name Tokyo Ghoul: re 2nd Season with 12 episodes was between the It aired October 9, 2018 and December 25, 2018 in Japan.

synchronization

The German version was produced by the VSI Berlin GmbH studio. The German dialogues were written by Frank Preissler , who also directed the dubbing.

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Ken Kaneki / Haise Sasaki	Natsuki Hanae	Ricardo Richter
Tōka Kirishima	Sora Amamiya	Sarah Everything
Liz Kamishiro	Kana Hanazawa	Giuliana Jakobeit
Hideyoshi "Hide" Nagachika	Toshiyuki Toyonaga	Jeffrey Wipprecht
Nishiki Nishio	Shintaro Asanuma	Dirk Petrick
Yoshimura	Takayuki Sugo	Thomas Kästner
Renji Yomo	Yūichi Nakamura	Johannes Berenz
Hinami Fueguchi	Sumire Morohoshi	Sarah Tkotsch
Ryōko Fueguchi	Fumiko Orikasa	Nicole Hannak
Shu Tsukiyama	Mamoru Miyano	Dirk Stollberg
Kōtaro Amon	Katsuyuki Konishi	Florian Hoffmann
Kureo Mado	Tōru Ōkawa	Axel Lutter
Yakumo Ōmori	Rintaro Nishi	Joachim Kaps
Ayato Kirishima	Yūki Kaji	René Dawn-Claude
Jūzō Suzuya	Rie Kugimiya	Katrin Zimmermann
Yukinori Shinohara	Yutaka Nakano	Uwe Jellinek
Itsuki Marude	Yūji Ueda	Thomas Schmuckert
Itori	Ayahi Takagaki	Kaya Marie Möller
Yoriko Kosaka	Chinatsu Akasaki	Maria Hönig
Ippei Kusaba	Taishi Murata	Steven Merting
Kazuichi Banjō	Kentarō Itō	Jesco Wirthgen
Haru	Yurie Kobori	Melanie Isakowitz
Akira Mado	Asami Seto	Antje Thiele

Episodes

Stage performance

A stage version of the manga was performed in Tokyo and Kyoto in July 2015. Yuuki Ogoe takes on the leading role of Ken Kaneki . The direction is by Isamu Kayano and the script of Chuji Mikasano .

Video games

An action video game entitled Tokyo Ghoul carnaval ( Japanese 東京 喰 種 carnaval , Tōkyō Gūru carnaval , Eng . " Tokyo Ghoul carnaval ") from Bandai Namco Games will be released on February 6, 2015 in Japan for Android devices and on September 9 , 2015 February released for iOS . The player can assemble his team from a number of ghouls and investigators and explore a 3D map.

Another video game titled Tokyo Ghoul: Jail for the PlayStation Vita is also in production. The game is also being developed by Bandai Namco Games and is described as an adventure RPG and visual novel. It is scheduled to be released in Japan on October 1, 2015. In the 18th issue of the Japanese magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump it was announced that the game will play Ghoul Rio, a character designed by Sui Ishida who does not appear in the manga or anime. However, well-known characters from the series appear and it has been suggested that Rio is somehow related to Kaneki. The player is free to explore the 23 districts of Tokyo and make friends with other characters, which can affect the end of the game.

Feature films

In June 2016 it was announced that a feature film based on the manga would be released in summer 2017. Kentaro Hagiwara directed the film. Masataka Kubota took on the role of the protagonist Ken Kaneki and Fumika Shimizu the role of Touka Kirishima. Yū Aoi as Liz Kamishiro, Nobuyuki Suzuki as Kotaro Amon and Yo Oizumi as Kureo Mado starred in other roles . The film opened in Germany on February 27, 2018.

A sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul S is slated for release in Japan on July 19, 2019, with Maika Yamamoto replacing Fumika Shimizu as Touka Kirishima and Shota Matsuda joining the cast as Shuu Tsukiyama.

reception

Tokyo Ghoul was the 26th best-selling manga series in 2013 with an estimated sales figure of 1,666,348 copies. By January 2014, the manga had sold around 2.6 million times.

In 2014, Tokyo Ghoul was the fourth best-selling manga series in Japan with 6,946,203 copies sold.

Web links

Commons : Tokyo Ghoul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manga website (Japanese)
• Anime website (Japanese)
• Tokyo Ghoul on Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Madman acquires Tokyo Ghoul - set for simulcast on AnimeLab in July. In: Anime News Network. June 14, 2014, accessed February 7, 2015 . 
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11. ^ FUNimation to Simulcast "Tokyo Ghoul". In: Crunchyroll. June 8, 2014, accessed February 7, 2015 . 
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16. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: VIDEO: "Tokyo Ghoul" Gets Stage Play Adaptation in July. In: Crunchyroll . March 25, 2015, accessed March 27, 2015 . 
17. ↑ 東京 喰 種 carnaval. In: Google Play . February 6, 2015, accessed February 9, 2015 (Japanese). 
18. ↑ iOS version of the Tokyo Ghoul carnaval released today in Japan. (No longer available online.) In: senpaigamer.com. February 9, 2015, archived from the original on February 11, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ Tokyo Ghoul carnaval Smartphone Game Teased in Video. In: Anime News Network . December 24, 2014, accessed February 7, 2015 . 
20. ^ "Tokyo Ghoul" video game to come on PS Vita; April Fool's Prank by manga creator affects launching confirmation? In: Venture Capital Post. January 21, 2015, accessed February 7, 2015 . 
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22. ↑ Live-Action Tokyo Ghoul Film Casts Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu. In: Anime News Network . June 23, 2016, accessed June 24, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Rafael Antonio: 2nd Live-Action Tokyo Ghoul Film's Trailer Highlights Obsessive Ghoul Tsukiyama. In: Anime News Network . April 10, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 . 
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