Rapid manga review: Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida

A short review of Sui Ishida’s series, Tokyo Ghoul.

Tokyo Ghoul, Vols. 3 & 4—Thoughts

The third and fourth volumes of Sui Ishida’s series, Tokyo Ghoul, includes Touka fulfilling her revenge against the investigator Mado, and Kaneki embracing his ghoul-side in his fight against Amon. With Mado out of the way, Ishida suggests that Amon will seek out the ghouls responsible. Later, Kaneki encounters Nishiki, the ghoul that tried to…

First impressions: Me Before You, Tokyo Ghoul, and others

In this post, I share my first impressions of 3 manga series and 1 novel that I’m currently reading: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes; Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida; Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto; and Fire Punch by Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2—Thoughts

The second volume of Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida continues with Kaneki’s struggle to self-actualize as a ghoul. He still refuses to eat human meat despite his hunger pangs and disgust for “human food.” And while Kaneki continues to struggle with this new side of him, he also gains the opportunity to look into the…

I picked up ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ again… Vol. 1—Thoughts

Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida is a dark fantasy manga that’s set in an alternate reality where man-eating beings called “ghouls” live in secrecy. The story follows Kaneki Ken, a survivor of a ghoul attack who then undergoes a harrowing transformation that changes his life. Ishida’s manga series wasn’t something that I considered reading this…