Tokyo Ghoul

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Not to be confused with Tokyo Ghost.

Tokyo Ghoul

Cover of volume 1 featuring Ken Kaneki

トーキョーグール
東 京 喰 種
(Tōkyō Gūru)

 Dark fantasy[1]
Genre
 Supernatural thriller[2]

Manga

Written by Sui Ishida

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Imprint Young Jump Comics

Magazine Weekly Young Jump

Demographic Seinen

Original run September 8, 2011 – September 18, 2014

Volumes 14 (List of volumes)

Light novel

Written by Shin Towada

Illustrated by Sui Ishida

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Imprint JUMP j-BOOKS

Demographic Male

Original run July 19, 2013 – December 19, 2014

Volumes 3 (List of volumes)

Manga

Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]

Written by Sui Ishida

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Imprint Young Jump Comics Digital

Magazine Jump Live

Demographic Shōnen

Original run August 2013 – September 2013

Volumes 1 (List of volumes)

Anime television series

Directed by Shuhei Morita

Produced by  Ken Hagino

 Hajime Maruyama

 Yoshito Danno
  Hidetada Soga

Written by Chūji Mikasano

Music by Yutaka Yamada

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
SEA

Top-Insight
UK

Anime Limited

Original network Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVO, AT-X, Dlife

English network UK

Viceland
US

Adult Swim (Toonami)

Original run July 4, 2014 – September 19, 2014

Episodes 12 (List of episodes)

Manga

Tokyo Ghoul:re

Written by Sui Ishida

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Imprint Young Jump Comics

Magazine Weekly Young Jump

Demographic Seinen

Original run October 16, 2014 – July 5, 2018

Volumes 16 (List of volumes)

 Anime television series

Tokyo Ghoul √A

Directed by Shuhei Morita

Produced by  Ken Hagino

 Hajime Maruyama

 Yoshito Danno

 Hidetada Soga

Written by Chūji Mikasano

Music by Yutaka Yamada

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
SEA

Top-Insight
UK

Anime Limited

Original network Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVO, AT-X,

Dlife, MRO

English network UK

Viceland
US

Adult Swim (Toonami)[3]

Original run January 9, 2015 – March 27, 2015

Episodes 12 (List of episodes)

Original video animation

Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]

Directed by Sōichi Shimada

Produced by  Ken Hagino

 Hajime Maruyama
  Yoshito Danno

 Hidetada Soga

Written by Chūji Mikasano

Music by Yutaka Yamada

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
UK

Anime Limited

Released September 30, 2015

Runtime 30 minutes

Original video animation

Tokyo Ghoul: PINTO

Directed by Tadahito Matsubayashi

Produced by  Ken Hagino

 Hajime Maruyama

 Yoshito Danno

 Hidetada Soga

Written by Sōichi Shimada

Music by Yutaka Yamada

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
UK

Anime Limited

Released December 25, 2015

Runtime 24 minutes
 Light novel

Tokyo Ghoul:re

Written by Shin Towada

Illustrated by Sui Ishida

Published by Shueisha

Imprint JUMP j-BOOKS

Demographic Male

Published December 19, 2016

Anime television series

Tokyo Ghoul:re

Directed by Toshinori Watanabe

Produced by  Ken Hagino

 Yoshito Danno

 Hidetada Soga

Written by Chūji Mikasano

Music by Yutaka Yamada

Studio Pierrot

Licensed by AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
SEA

Medialink
UK

Anime Limited

Original network Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TVA, TVQ, BS11

English network UK

Viceland

Original run April 3, 2018 – December 25, 2018

Episodes 24 (List of episodes)

 Live-action film

 Tokyo Ghoul

 Tokyo Ghoul S

Video games

 Tokyo Ghoul: Carnaval ∫ Color (2015)

 Tokyo Ghoul: Jail (2015)

 Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War (2016)

 Tokyo Ghoul: re Invoke (2017)

 Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist (2019)

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トーキョーグール
Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese:  東 京 喰 種 , Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark
fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized
in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump between September 2011
and September 2014, and was collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes. A prequel,
titled Tokyo Ghoul [Jack], ran online on Jump Live in 2013 and was collected in a
single tankōbon volume. A sequel, titled Tokyo Ghoul:re, was serialized in Weekly
Young Jump between October 2014 and July 2018, and was collected in
sixteen tankōbon volumes.
A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by studio Pierrot aired on Tokyo
MX between July and September 2014. A 12-episode second season, Tokyo Ghoul
√A (pronounced Tokyo Ghoul Root A), which follows an original story, aired from
January to March 2015. A live-action film based on the manga was released in Japan in
July 2017. An anime adaptation based on the sequel manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, aired for
two seasons; the first from April to June 2018, and the second from October to
December 2018.
In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for English language release,
while Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video
distribution.

Contents

 1Synopsis
o 1.1Setting
o 1.2Plot
 2Media
o 2.1Manga
o 2.2Light novels
o 2.3Anime
 o 2.4Video games
o 2.5Live action films
 3Reception
 4References
 5External links

Synopsis[edit]
Setting[edit]
Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where ghouls, creatures that look like normal
people but can only survive by eating human flesh, live among the human population in
secrecy, hiding their true nature in order to evade pursuit from the authorities. Ghouls
have powers including enhanced strength and regenerative abilities - a regular ghoul
produces 4–7 times more kinetic energy in their muscles than a normal human; they
also have several times the RC cells, a cell that flows like blood and can become solid
instantly. A ghoul's skin is resistant to ordinary piercing weapons, and it has at least one
special predatory organ called a kagune (Japanese: 赫子), which it can manifest and
use as a weapon during combat. Another distinctive trait of ghouls is that when they are
excited or hungry, the color of their sclera in both eyes turns black and their irises red.
This mutation is known as kakugan (赫眼, "red eye").
A half-ghoul can either be born naturally as a ghoul and a human's offspring, or
artificially created by transplanting some ghoul organs into a human. In both cases, a
half-ghoul is usually much stronger than a pure-blood ghoul. In the case of a half-ghoul,
only one of the eyes undergoes the "red eye" transformation. Natural born half-ghouls
are very rare, and creating half-ghouls artificially initially has a low success rate.
There is also the case of half-humans, hybrids of ghouls and humans that can feed like
normal humans and lack a Kagune while possessing enhanced abilities, like increased
speed and reaction speed, but shortened lifespans. Naturally born half-ghouls can also
eat like normal humans or full ghouls.
Plot[edit]
See also: List of Tokyo Ghoul characters
The story follows Ken Kaneki, a student who barely survives a deadly encounter with
Rize Kamishiro, his date who reveals herself as a ghoul and tries to eat him. He is taken
to the hospital in critical condition. After recovering, Kaneki discovers that he underwent
a surgery that transformed him into a half-ghoul. This was accomplished because some
of Rize's organs were transferred into his body, and now, like normal ghouls, he must
consume human flesh to survive. Ghouls who run a coffee shop called "Anteiku" (あん
ていく) take him in and teach him to deal with his new life as a half-ghoul. Some of his
daily struggles include fitting into the ghoul society, as well as keeping his identity
hidden from his human companions, especially from his best friend, Hideyoshi
Nagachika.
The prequel series Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] follows the youths of Kishō Arima and Taishi
Fura, two characters from the main series who become acquainted when they join
forces to investigate the death of Taishi's friend at the hands of a ghoul, leading to
Taishi eventually following Arima's path and joining the CCG (Commission of Counter
Ghoul), the federal agency tasked into dealing with crimes related to ghouls as well.
The sequel series Tokyo Ghoul:re follows an amnesiac Kaneki under the new identity of
Haise Sasaki (the result of horrific brain damage sustained from Kishō Arima). He is the
mentor of a special team of CCG investigators called "Quinx Squad" that underwent a
similar procedure as his, allowing them to obtain the special abilities of Ghouls in order
to fight them but still being able to live as normal humans.