ViciousDelights
August 30, 2026 at 12:09:20 AM
Your website(so I can visit you):
https://viciousdelights.neocities.org
Someone once told me the Tokyo Ghoul anime sucked and she ended up loving the manga, but I don't think she ever said it was a GOOD manga, she just really liked Kaneki and wanted him to be happy. I've seen something like this happening more than twice, actually. Maybe it's common for Tokyo Ghoul fans to latch onto something very specific to say they like it (esp. Kaneki) without defending its narrative structure or story because they know it's not properly fleshed out? The worldbuilding looks cool on the surface but it seems there's no much depth to it. It has a strong aura, as the kids say (?) and it smells like coffee for arbitrary reasons!
The pacing in the anime (S1) was so horrible. It felt like I was watching an extremely abridged version. So it didn't really give me the chance to become invested in the characters. Some scenes kinda had an invisible "HE IS SUFFERING, THIS IS SAD, FEEL SAD" sign but I didn't feel anything.
I actually enjoy watching and reading bad anime and manga, but Tokyo Ghoul doesn't have the soul of a truly bad story imo, so it was just disappointing.
Did you like Kaneki and his (sad) story in the manga, at least?
Replied on: August 30, 2026 at 7:21:35 PM
I didn't, actually! Theoretically all the ingredients of a character I'd like are there, but there being an "invisible 'HE IS SUFFERING, THIS IS SAD, FEEL SAD' sign" is exactly how I felt about a lot of scenes--at most, I could think like "hm, that sucks for him" but I never managed to care about Kaneki enough as a character to actually feel anything when something bad happened to him lol. It's not that I can't understand why people like him, but for my part it felt like the story was constantly gesturing at some sort of emotional weight that it wasn't able to properly deliver because the execution was always falling flat on its face ┐( ̄ヘ ̄)┌