1) The art is really unclear, making it sometimes hard to understand what's going on. It's not ugly, just really average without any style of it's own.
2) The set-up to the story is really cliche, and does nothing but stick to the formula.The characters are your standard stereotypes from every high-school drama ever. Besides, no one gets any real development or backstory untill it becomes relevant to the story.
3) The writing is baaaad. The mystery genre is supposed to have some nice twists and turns along the way and Doubt... Let's just say that the reveal is comparable to "Luke,I'm your father". It reeks of
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Oct 7, 2017
Tokyo Ghoul
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Sorry fangirls, Tokyo Ghoul is bad. Really bad.
The characters are boring, motivations are often unexplained, after the first few arcs there is no tension at all, it has problems with pacing, the drawings are muddy and unclear, there is a Deus Ex Machna lurking behind every corner, plot twists aren't surprising or satisfying, nothing gets done or finished... God I can list for hours! Really, if you have to, watch the anime and decide if you want to read after that. But in my opinion the source material is weak. But it's egdy enough to attrack moody teenagers, so it's popular now, somehow... |
