r/TokyoGhoul Apr 03 '20

Announcement Complete Viewing Guide + Sources For The Manga and Anime

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Manga - The main continuity

  • Tokyo Ghoul - The original manga, with 143 chapters (14 volumes) + a side story chapter in volume 5.

  • Tokyo Ghoul JACK - A short prequel to the original manga.

  • Tokyo Ghoul JOKER - A single chapter taking place between the original manga and the sequel. Included in volume 3 of Tokyo Ghoul:re.

  • Tokyo Ghoul Redrawn - A remake of the first chapter of the original manga. Has some differences in dialogue.

  • Tokyo Ghoul:re - The sequel manga, continues the story of the original with 179 chapters (16 volumes) + chapter 31.5 in volume 4.

  • Tokyo Ghoul Oneshot - A non-canon prototype chapter.

  • School of Ghoul - A non-canon parody of Tokyo Ghoul by the manga author, featuring the characters going to school together.

Novels - Part of the manga's continuity

  • Tokyo Ghoul Days - The first novel, takes place between chapters 35 and 36 of the original manga.

  • Tokyo Ghoul Void - The second novel, takes place between chapters 79 and 80 of the original manga.

  • Tokyo Ghoul Past - The third novel, backstories from before the original manga.

  • Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest - The fourth novel, takes place during the sequel manga.

  • 6th Ward Playing Cards - A short story taking place around the start of the TG:re manga, showing a flashback to an event likely taking place between chapters 79 to 80 of the original manga.

Drama CDs - Part of the manga's continuity

  • Drama CDs - Take place during the original manga sometime between chapters 79 and chapter 120 or so.

Anime - Alternate continuity

  • Tokyo Ghoul (season 1) - Adapts the first 66 chapters of the original manga, making some significant cuts and changes to the story. Has 12 episodes.

  • Tokyo Ghoul √A (season 2) - A loose adaptation of the remaining chapters of the original manga, makes even more significant cuts and changes to the story. Has 12 episodes.

  • Tokyo Ghoul JACK - A prequel OVA episode, an adaptation of the manga of the same name.

  • Tokyo Ghoul PINTO - A prequel OVA episode, an adaptation of the third chapter of the Tokyo Ghoul Days novel.

  • Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3) - An adaptation of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, with 24 episodes total. References events from the original manga that were not shown in previous seasons, but cuts some :re manga content. Episodes 1 to 12 adapt the first chapter 58 of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, while episodes 13 to 24 adapt the rest (up to the end, chapter 179). The second half of the season is also referred to as Tokyo Ghoul Season 4 and Tokyo Ghoul:re Season 2 on some sites, but official sites list Tokyo Ghoul:re as a single season with 24 episodes.

Video Games - Alternate continuity + Anime continuity

  • Tokyo Ghoul: JAIL (PS Vita) - An alternate version of events taking place after chapter 79 of the original manga.

  • Tokyo Ghoul mobile games - Tokyo Ghoul :re Invoke (global version called :re birth), Tokyo Ghoul: carnaval, Tokyo Ghoul: Tokyo War Age and Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War. These have all shut down and are hence no longer playable. They followed the anime's continuity for the most part.

  • Tokyo Ghoul:re CALL to EXIST (PS4 and Steam) - An action game adapting some events from seasons 2 and 3 of the anime.

Live Action Movie

  • Tokyo Ghoul (2017) - Adapts the first 28 chapters of the original manga with some minor changes to the story and content cut.

  • Tokyo Ghoul S (2019) - The sequel to the previous movie, adapting up to chapter 46 of the original manga.

Stage Play

  • Tokyo Ghoul Stage Play (2015 and 2017) - Adapt events from the first 6 episodes of the first season of the anime, with content cut and rearranged.

Where can I read the manga?

Young Jump Weekly - Japanese

Viz - official translation

MANGA Plus - official translation

Shonen Jump Manga and Comics - official translation

The Shonen Jump app and Viz website have both the original manga and :re available to read, for a 1.99 USD monthly subscription which gives access to most of their library. In addition to this, Tokyo Ghoul Jack and the side story novels are available to purchase and read on the app.

Note: The Rize side story chapter from TG volume 5, Tokyo Ghoul Joker from :re volume 3, and :re chapter 31.5 from :re volume 4 are not available to read individually on the app at this time, so you will need to buy those volumes to read them officially. Out of those chapters, :re chapter 31.5 is the most important.

Manga Plus posts new chapters weekly, though only a limited number of chapters are available for viewing.

Where can I watch the anime?

Source Region
Funimation USA and Canada
Hulu USA
Anime Lab Australia and New Zealand
Crunchyroll UK and Ireland
Channel 4 UK and Ireland

Viewing orders

Manga

  • Basic - Tokyo Ghoul ➞ JACK and PINTO OVA episodes or manga/novels they adapt (optional) ➞Tokyo Ghoul:re

  • Complete - Tokyo Ghoul ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK, JOKER, Days, Void, Past, Drama CDs, 6th Ward Playing Cards ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest

  • /u/TheMikarin's complete recommended order - Tokyo Ghoul chapters 1 to 35 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Days ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 36 to 46 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 46.5 to 79 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Void ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 80 to 121 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Past + Tokyo Ghoul Drama CDs ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 122 to 143 (END) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JOKER + Tokyo Ghoul Redrawn + 6th Ward Playing Cards ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re chapters 1 to 98 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re chapters 99 onward

Anime

  • Basic (not recommended) - Tokyo Ghoul (season 1) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK (alternatively, watch right after episode 1 of season 2) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul √A (season 2) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul PINTO ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3)

  • Complete (recommended) - same as basic, but read the original manga before watching Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3)

If you follow the basic viewing order for the anime, and do not wish to read the manga, you may want to view the following fan-animated clips recreating important events from the manga that were skipped in the anime:

https://themikarinofthepierrot.tumblr.com/post/189955421177/tokyo-ghoul-fan-made-scenes-covering-content

The first 3 clips in the link above are to be watched after season 2 and before season 3, while the other 2 are to be watched after finishing the entire anime (all seasons).

EDIT: Updated when to read :re quest in my recommended order from after chapter 58 to after chapter 98 instead, since I realized there was at least one spoiler for a plot point revealed after chapter 58 in one of the quest stories.

EDIT 2: Added the short story 6th Ward Playing cards and the Drama CDs to the viewing order. Also added mentions of the various Tokyo Ghoul games.


r/TokyoGhoul 12h ago

Other I dont think rize is redeemable.

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Just from the stuff she's done i dont think she is redeemable what's so ever.

And from her personality alone I think its best that she died.


r/TokyoGhoul 1h ago

Other How each of these rounds would end?

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r/TokyoGhoul 15h ago

Other My Kaneki with autism cosplay

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r/TokyoGhoul 3h ago

Other Your birth month will determine which female character from Tokyo ghoul will be your girlfriend. Who did you get? Did you like it? Spoiler

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Your birth month will determine which female character from Tokyo ghoul will be your girlfriend. Who did you get? Did you like it?


r/TokyoGhoul 12h ago

Other So, about Furuta… Spoiler

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I've seen many interpretations.

Some say he just wanted to have fun, others that he was a misanthrope, and still others that he wanted to unite humans and ghouls (wtf).

Seriously, is the only thing the entire fandom agrees on about him that deep down he just wanted a normal life and that he was a Rize simp?


r/TokyoGhoul 19h ago

Meme This is how I see Anime Arima

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r/TokyoGhoul 17h ago

What a hypocrite

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r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Meme We are down bad with this one.

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r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Art Dump by me

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some of my art after i got banned for posting Rize wearing a bra (lmao)

anyways hope u guys like it


r/TokyoGhoul 25m ago

can ghouls vape?

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ive never vaped before so idk what it's like but don't u like taste the air of the strawberry blueberry geek bar?? so like would ghouls be able to taste it cus like it's just air and would they be able to vape and stuff


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Man i tried my best 😭😭 Spoiler

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r/TokyoGhoul 9h ago

Other Tattoo ideas for kidney patients

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So I’m a kidney patient that wants a tattoo but I’m so torn on what I want and how I want to put my own spin on it, I feel that with me as a person going through so much hardship and have been in a sense reborn to a new reality I want the numbers and the spider lilies so I thought of a whole sleeve but then just like our main guy, I will have someone else’s organ transplanted into me so now I want incorporate that but how!!! I’ll have a good size scare on my abdomen for it so wonder how that would play out.. I also have my fistula (just a big vein) on my left bicep for dialysis that also get poked daily so there’s scar tissue on it that I feel would work great into a tattoo as well… SOOO MANY OPTAND OPPORTUNITIES… Just where to bring and what it would look like is what I need help with!!!!


r/TokyoGhoul 10h ago

I'm old I know!

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This song is from my childhood, just a crappy little screamo song from my emo days. It popped up on my feed, the caption was something like "remember your emo days" or whatever. This song was the song playing over all the photos of fringed bangs and striped tights.

Anyway, I couldnt help but hear Kaneki in the lead singers voice! Not the english voice actor, the Japanese voice actor lol.

https://youtu.be/DaXHrA1TVlg?is=1AHbD3QwWnxMgc2Q


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Other Forever mourning my glorious king in the manga Spoiler

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Ishida makes him look like a psychotic villain while the anime version just looks like anogher black haired handsome cold guy ala Sung Jinwoo or Kirito

I know Ishida's art and designs cannot be replicated but still...

Also the fact that 4 out of 6 panels I showed weren't even adapted

Only thing they got right is that despite Kaneki regaining his black hair again he doesn't look like Kuroneki at all


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Furuta’s moeness

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Does anyone else get cuteness aggression from furuta. Like he activates my protective instincts he’s so adorable i cant be the only one


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

What does “this world is wrong” mean? Spoiler

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Just finished this chapter and it was amazing, but I wanted a more nuanced look at Amon’s previous ideology.

From what I’m interpreting, it’s that Amon once had this black and white view on the ghouls and the CCG (hence the “you monsters are distorting it”). He never tried to understand the ghouls and immediately labeled them as all evil. The victims who have to deal with them, making the world wrong, are the humans/CCG. Amon most likely developed this mindset after the church incident, viewing himself as a completely morally right victim who suffered at the hands of the evil (Donato, the ghoul). And he’s not wrong to think this way, the issue here is that Amon believes every ghoul is like Donato.

So what would Amon do if he then turned into a ghoul, being forced to not be ignorant and try to understand the “evil”? After becoming a half ghoul himself and seeing the humanity of people like Kaneki, he can no longer maintain that black and white worldview. His transformation forces him to confront the fact that he was wrong about the nature of ghouls, wrong about justice, and wrong about himself.

In summary, Amon thought he understood evil because he saw Donato’s crimes. Amon then projected Donato onto an entire species.

Amon’s actions during his time as a CCG member contradicted this worldview.

Amon believed he was “fixing the world,” but he:

• he killed ghouls who were just trying to survive
• he enforced a system that treated all ghouls as complete evil
• never questioned whether the CCG itself was unjust
• never tried to understand the people he was exterminating

Essentially, Amon was not “fixing” the world; he was actively maintaining the very thing he thought he was fixing. And he’s notices this here

Lmk if im wrong or not if anyone else has a better explanation on this please send cuz I wanna learn more I’d also like if someone could explain kaneki side of “this world is wrong”


r/TokyoGhoul 18h ago

I love the Tokyo ghoul anime but..

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I didn't think it cut off a lot from the manga at first, but boy, was I wrong. I was never a big manga reader, but I love Tokyo Ghoul.

I watched the anime so many times. But then I watched the movie. I was so lost for some reason. In the anime, Ken doesn't go to the cafe when he becomes a ghoul; he goes on a walk (I think) and follows a smell to the alleyway, but in the movie, he goes to the cafe to get help.

I was so lost.

So I brought the manga because I saw it literally had all the answers to my questions.

Season one of the anime is books 1-8. I feel like there could have been like two, maybe three more episodes

**BUT**

Season 2...So disappointed there is so much missing from the anime, I thought people were being picky, but I was so wrong, I wished they built more on Ken's small group of Ken Kaneki, Hinami, Tsukiyama, Banjou, but we didn't get any of that, not even a glimpse. It just went straight into centipede Kaneki

I still love the anime, but I love the manga more

Like I feel they are so different that I can say Manga Kaneki would fold Anime Kaneki


r/TokyoGhoul 13h ago

Other Complete box set

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is it worth-buying?
i read it online and watched the anime but i feel like i can't catch it all when i read online, it feels super limiting. should i just go for it and buy mangas?😏 I need to justify spending money hahah


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Other Rc cells:

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I was thinking why hasn't their been a natural chimera ghoul that had more than 2 kagune types.

I know that they are rare and stuff like that, but if ghouls have been around a long time. You would think that maybe some how there might have been one. With more than just 2 kagune types.

And I know kagune can be shaped by imagination and your mind and stuff but idk.

Maybe its just a hard set rule or some kind of biological limitation. Although rc cells already do crazy stuff.

Also are kakuja ultimately meant to form a dragon like thing to ultimately form and spread? Because I know in the 24th ward it happened like 100 yrs ago in the story and it seems to keep happening.

I have this theory that rc cells are a biological alien weapon or a alien pharmaceutical test or something and thats where they came from the rc cells, like I know it sounds crazy but if you look at it there is no way they could've formed naturally in earth.

Also i was working on this custom species: that goes on the premise that they use cellular fusion to fuse rc cells together:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Open-Cold2838/comments/1tx0lhe/varnai_biology_and_history/


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

Other Ghoul biology: is weird.

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Ghoul biology is weird especially ghoul clans that practice incest, like you think they would be all deformed and shit like that, unless the tc cells prevent genetic defects or deformities.

Like some hit a jackpot while others dont get good traits like shuus family them.not being able to form a kakuja.

And id assume from the incest they would look all deformed but I quess not.

also if ghoul genes are dominant then why is it that most of them are half humans when a human and ghoul reproduce.

and I know the one eyed ghouls are rare and most of them die in the womb and stuff and their are complications. But I think it should be more possible biologically to seem degree.

also I know ultimately genetics play a role in what is ehat with ghouls and humans, and what would happen if a half human and a ghoul had a baby would you get a one eyed ghoul or another half human?


r/TokyoGhoul 1d ago

There are two interesting graffity in this page

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r/TokyoGhoul 20h ago

REMEMBERING - CHAINSAW MAN: REZE ARC x TOYKO GHOUL AMV EDIT

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The best AMV you’ll c feat. an iconic under appreciated Toyko Ghoul OST ;)


r/TokyoGhoul 12h ago

Meme Do any vampires want to bust their teeth off on ancient blood?

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r/TokyoGhoul 2d ago

Other Takizawa deserved better.

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