Tokyo Ghoul:re

Two years have passed since the CCG's raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organization Aogiri Tree, who acknowledge the CCG's growing threat to their existence.

The creation of a special team, known as the Quinx Squad, may provide the CCG with the push they need to exterminate Tokyo's unwanted residents. As humans who have undergone surgery in order to make use of the special abilities of ghouls, they participate in operations to eradicate the dangerous creatures. The leader of this group, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human who has been trained by famed special class investigator, Kishou Arima. However, there's more to this young man than meets the eye, as unknown memories claw at his mind, slowly reminding him of the person he used to be.

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Kaneki, Ken Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Sasaki, Haise Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Yonebayashi, Saiko Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Urie, Kuki Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Mutsuki, Tooru Main

Fujiwara, Natsumi Japanese

Shirazu, Ginshi Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Suzuya, Juuzou Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Kirishima, Touka Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Uta Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Tsukiyama, Shuu Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Danno, Yoshito Producer

Hagino, Ken Producer

Soga, Hidetada Producer

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Aug 20, 2023

L01MK

Recommended

Tokyo Ghoul:re part 1 positively surprised me. I never even planned to watch it since I didn’t really care about S1 and disliked S2, but I’m very glad I did.

The biggest reason for this is that the characters in this show are likable, unlike the (borderline) psychopaths from the previous seasons. This meant that I actually cared about them and their interactions were very pleasant to watch. Even Urie, who had very harsh opinions about the actions of others, was likeable because you could actually understand his reasoning and why he felt that way. Haise is Kaneki minus the trademark ghoul psychopathy. Shirazu has to ... learn how to be a team leader and struggles with PTSD throughout the season. Saiko is my spirit animal. She’s adorable and automatically gets +100 likeability points for gaming on a PSP. We get a lot of wholesome SoL moments with the crew, which endears them to the viewer.

Some returning characters like Juuzou and especially Tsukiyama get more characterization this season, which enhances their characters and makes interactions involving them more interesting.

The story has big changes; In this season we follow the perspective of the CCG, which were until now the antagonists. This is a welcome change for me, since I rooted against the ghouls from early on in S1. S2 felt like one long constant fight scene, but thankfully that is toned down in this season and we get a better mix of fighting and story driven episodes. There are also some funny jokes, which are appropriately placed (i. e. not in the middle of a dramatic moment)

I enjoyed the change in animation style for this season. It looks very crisp. This seasons OP and ED were also the best in the series. The music/SFX in the next episode preview also made me want to watch the next episode.

Overall this was an unexpectedly great sequel to a series which had trudged in mediocrity up to this point.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 14, 2024

Shirogari

Mixed Feelings

Tokyo Ghoul:re is supposed to be a sequel to the second season of Tokyo ghoul. However that's not what it feels like.

The story doesn't continue where the second season left off; instead it makes a two year time skip to a situation in the future. The events that take place during this two year time period are almost completely ignored and not elaborated on at all during all 12 episodes of this season. There are subtle hints and implications but the fact that you receive so little information makes this seem like a different story altogether instead of a third season.
If you treat ... this anime as a separate story, it's actually not that bad. The story is interesting, there's multiple different factions with multiple different conflicting goals. There's big and decisive CCG operations where clear progress is made. There's subtle hints placed there to allow you to figure out what's going on before it actually happens and can be a fun story to watch.
The problem is that this isn't a separate story and instead a third season. The anime lacks narrative consistency (why can ghouls suddenly be injected through their skin when the first season made a big deal of that not being possible?), (Germany is mentioned twice but the outside world is still completely ignored) and doesn't do a great job at handling its time skip, revealing way too little information and leaving you confused as to what Aogiri Tree and the CCG have actually been up to during these 2 years.

The characters are almost all different from the previous two seasons. The character from the previous seasons that's on-screen the most is the gourmet of all people. Most of the characters from the previous seasons only make cameo appearances or play minor roles. Instead there's lots of new characters with a main cast that's actually quite reasonable and that I can respect as far as characters go. Because of the large amount of new characters is can be somewhat hard to keep track of everyone and their implied goals. While the main character's internal struggle makes sense in the beginning, in the later episodes I completely lost track of what's going on and failed to understand the logic behind any of his actions. The gourmet also doesn't always make sense which is expected and after this third season I still don't understand what the goal of Aogiri Tree is.

The animation was okay. There was less and better CGI than in the previous two seasons but there's still some CGI for cars and such. Overall the characters looked good and the fights (insofar they were shown, which they frequently weren't with only the conclusion of the fight being shown) were nice. The voice acting was good if you ignore the character that is clearly struggling to include German/French/English words into his sentences to sound elegant. The sound was great.

Overall I don't think this is a great third season and don't recommend watching it as such. You can watch it as a separate story in the Tokyo Ghoul universe with some of the characters from the original series involved. If you do decide to watch this anime I'd recommend first also watching the two single-episode OVAs named Tokyo Ghoul Jack and Tokyo Ghoul Pinto since they give a lot of background information on relevant characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 19, 2024

CarbonRuiner

Not Recommended

All wrong. Very wrong. Basically the plot is just a big great hole in the script and you cannot follow along without further knowledge of the source material.

The two previous seasons, even when skipping a lot of things, and not developing the plot and characters correctly, could be enjoyed. Even without having read the manga (not great, but still).
But that isn't the case with RE, here's nothing makes sense: characters that were good are now bad, others are friends of those they hated, other characters you don't even know who they are until they say their name and you realize... The story is very ... poorly told and obviates many details, important ones.
You cannot show a group of characters in their house and in the next episode they're all in prison, and just continue from there. If you've read the manga you know what happened, but this is another product, a whole anime, it needs to has a plot, an exposition, development, you know all of that. This isn't a "visual accompaniment to the manga". You cannot go like "well you just know what happened in between this and that".
Doesn't help to the overall story that they tried to condense a 16 volumes Manga in just 24 rushed episodes.

The story itself isn't that great either, it misses that dichotomy of ghouls trying to be human, enforcers being worse than other ghouls and so. Tokyo Ghoul always moved between gray areas and was sublime for that. Here you simply have bad ghouls (the sadistic and very bad kind) and humans. So it is very much like just good vs bad.

And well, Haise, the main character, is probably the least main character in the story: boring, flat and absurd. Just a parody of his former self.
The other characters are secondary and no ones without exceptions stands out. In fact the the protagonist's subordinates are just as dull and bland as the former.

The animation and drawing quality is below the previous seasons as well. And personally I don't like the redesign of the characters at all, although that's a subjective thing, but I really dislike it.

I can't recommend this product to anyone who hasn't read the manga, but I can't really recommend it to anyone who has. It's bad, plain and simple.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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