When I watched the first I thought this will be just another dark fantasy horrod anime about vampires. So, in the end I was wrong with Tokyo Ghoul, it is more than that. It's not that great either. Story is unfinished, missing a lot of it, characters are poorly developed (like main antagonist/protogonist Amon) and some of them we meet et the end (Banjou, Suzuya Juuzou, Kirishima Ayato). I have the immpresion how the basic idea of the story was to show arise of the leading character Kaneki - he overpassed his philosophy (conditioned by the mother) about victims and villians - choosen to be hurt rather than to hurt others. The last episode was really intense, action with bloody, gore scenes was superb, but than it seems there is a big hole, we have not seen what is happend with other characters, story looks uncomplete! Animation of ambient and figts was beautifu, but I don't like how characters were designed. Tokyo Ghoul despite all the flaws remains my favourite anime serise about vampires although it is not about these supernatural creatures! :) (show less)

After watching the first four episodes I decided to share my opinion on this anime at where it is at its current point. First off the animation is extremely good and I only say this if you watch the high quality HD episode as the artwork is only given its justice in that light. To give you a better picture, yes the character drawing are much like any other modern well drawn anime but the detail in some of the scenery and backdrops in a lot of areas are very nice and remind me of some quality work of some video games (not your BF, Crysis, Killzones). Oh and blood is abundant.

Second the entertainment value is there if you have taken the time to watch attack on titan series or read the manga then the first episodes grabs a page from that series and it is a much welcomed one to say the least, but the story itself is much different. I can't stress enough it is MUCH different from attack on titan when it comes to the story as I do not want you to look the other way on this anime if you was not a fan of attack on titan I was merely speaking on one (singular) show concept that they share.

With that being said the dialogue and story are above average as the show is still it its early stages I can't say if this will pan out to just be average or a master piece. The thought behind it to say is not as deep as say in death note but the pace and blending of things seems to be more on the level of Guilty Crown. (show less)

Second Episode.

The first episode hooked me, but It started to get dull after the second episode. I would be okay with a male character trying to protect a female character or even the other way a round. But not a male character trying to protect another male character. What made that scene particularly bad "for me" was it seems like he has sort of yaoi feelings for the guy. Its kind of like you can spot a anime that kind of yuri-ish. I think Akame ga Kill was yuri-shi and that why I fell of of that. Its like this anime is going in that direction. This anime "COULD" end up being to yaoi-ish. I'll give it another episode and see how that goes before I drop it. (show less)