Tokyo Ghoul:re
a review by PotatoDwarf
a review by PotatoDwarf
Even tough the general plot isn't that hard to understand in itself, it's so chaotically written with every subplot overlapping eachoter that it becomes completely unreadable. You might need to read RE: with a fan wiki page opened to remind you who's who and what's being at stakes. It's not how it should be especially when as already said, the story's not that deep. Let's not forget how kagunes becomes a liability later on: what started out as simple and deadly tools with 4 different forms became a biological clusterfuck of transformers-like monsters making fights sometime hard to understand because of the scale it had taken.
On another note at one point, every story arc followed this path: Strong bad guy and his group are ready to fight > side characters wait for the main character to come by > they hold on and we have 5-10 subplots overlapping > Ken fights and gets completely blasted > He has some internal monologue shenanigans > He's back and fight until it's over or the bad guy just suicides/retreat > Deal with the aftermath > Real vilain isn't the one we thought > repeat until final vilain is dead
Apart from a few lucky ones, characters seems to be more like tools than real people. Some have complete 360 in their personality for the sake of it or just act completely irrationally to accomodate to the plot. Tokyo ghoul also suffer from the "haha he's not dead" syndrome with a couple assumed dead characters coming back out of nowhere to save the day. Just expect 75% of the cast to make it out alive despite the city being completely destroyed and them losing entire body parts and being left to die on the battlefield.
This is what every reader should focus on: it's well drawn and a real treat. That being said, it sometimes gets rough as said before because of characters power overscalling to infinity.
Read this for the art and great manga panels that are edgy enough to tickle the "it's not a phase mom" 15 year old that's still within you.
An absolute and complete clusterfuck ... Some ideas were decent but so poorly executed it became increasingly baffling how any potential would be wasted after a few chapters. If it's wasn't already enough, every shitty friend gets his own little side quest which would be fine if it wasn't so roughly written: every plotline overlaps another one to the point of getting so chaotic i had to read the manga with the wiki page opened... And all that journey for what? an edgy half assed déjà-vu moral about errors making the person you are and what not. A total waste of time despite having great art and decent potential. It all falls apart and does never get back to the "good parts" that made it's predecessor somewhat enjoyable.
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