Tokyo Ghoul Read/Rewatch | Manga Mondays

 Hey hi hello friends, and welcome back to my blog!

I have been trying to do this Manga Monday for like, three weeks, and I just kept missing Monday because time is a construct. 

Anyway.

I've been going through Tokyo Ghoul! I first watched the anime last year when I was just getting back into anime, and of course everyone and their mother told me that the anime just takes the canon and chucks it out the window, but at the time I didn't have access to the manga, so I appreciated the anime for the art style and the music (the season one OP? Chef's kiss, truly). 

However last month I read the manga for the first time, and absolutely the manga is better than the anime. I actually was rewatching the anime alongside my reading, but I stopped after season one ended but I just...couldn't. Now that I know how Sui Ishida intended the story to go, it's hard to watch season two of the anime because it just destroys Kaneki as a character, I think. 

Now I'm reading the sequel series, Tokyo Ghoul re: and I'm on volume 3. I believe there are 16 volumes in this series. I know that the anime of re: is closer to the canon of the manga so I know how the series ends, but I'm finding myself a little bored with the manga at the moment, even though I'm only three volumes in. I think it's just because I don't really like the Quinx Squad as characters. I much prefer the Anteiku squad so in the earlier volumes of this series I'm just wanting to follow them instead of the CCG plotlines. 

My favorite characters are Hinami and Hide. Obviously I love Kaneki, he's such precious bean turned total badass bean, but I'm just a sucker for the characters that are soft and invoke that protect instinct, like Hinami, as well as the characters that are snarky and sarcastic but also want to be the protectors, like Hide. I appreciate how both of their characters grow throughout the series. 

The anime (Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Ghoul Root A, and Tokyo Ghoul re:) is available to watch both sub and dub on Hulu. Personally I like the dub better, but to each their own, the sub is just as amazing. Also I know I said that the anime doesn't follow the manga canon, but I still think it's worth a watch, again for the art style and the music. 

Okay, I think that's all for today! Let me know if you watch the anime or read the manga, I am always looking for more people to gush about it with!

Until next time!