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This anime is AMAZING!

I was originally sceptical because I thought Tokyo Ghoul was only popular because it was violent and graphic, but after watching it I was astonished by how complex and well constructed it was.

First of all the music is fantastic, especially what is probably regarded as the flagship of the OST, the track "Licht und Schatten" which always seems to cature the spirit of the moment when it plays during the show. The opening theme has an outstanding vocal performance and the ending theme is so groovy that I could listen to it on repeat for hours on end.

Visually it looks beautiful, the ... color palette tends to be very plain for the most part and then they bring in the sharper colors for the intense and important scenes.

Storywise this show takes a very basic setting: "Us vs. Them!", The Humans vs. The Ghouls, and manages to make it so nuanced that you can't say that one side is the good guys and the other the bad guys, there is both good and evil characters on either side of the spectrum and it will have you second guessing your own judgement on characters as you learn about their individual circumstances and motivations. The finale was absolutely mindblowing, now ofcourse I won't write any spoilers, all I can say is that Kaneki has an epiphany based on something very fucked up.

The characters deal with themes like guilt, acceptance in society, helplessness, grief, good vs. evil, and losing control to your urges. Both sides of society, human and ghoul respectively, believe themselves to be fully in the right and believe the opposition to be fully in the wrong, but as the story progresses various characters starts to doubt this motion.

All in all I can't help but give this show a 10/10 because I truly enjoyed it and was totally mindblown after the finale. I never got bored, there's no characters I found annoying (which happens alot in anime), and it kept me on the edge of my seat. At the end of an episode I would on one hand be like "Iwant to watch what happens next NOW!", and on the other "But I can't skip this song it's so GOOD!"