2014, 12 episodes:
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Modern Tokyo is infested by ghouls, who eat humans. Kaneki is about to
become their latest victim.
OK, they're called ghouls, but this is basically a vampire story:
these ghouls have organisation and agreed hunting grounds, and they're
indistinguishable from humans except when they feed. They each have
unique magical powers, the "gleam", which is only usable when they're
under stress. Oh, and there's a special police unit which has the job
of fighting them, which is about as nasty as the ghouls are.
This is a very dark fantasy, with pretty much everyone accepting the
grottiness of the world and wallowing in it. Kaneki is an annoying
wimp, and this series is basically his progress from that state to the
far more common might-makes-right, practically objectivist philosophy
that the other characters tend to share. Except that he stays whiny
right up to the final episode, as worse and worse things happen to
him, and if you thought Ikari Shinji was bad you really don't want to
bother with this.
There's lots of torture (not graphic, but none the less nasty for
that), and endless gory fighting with blood exploding all over the
place, and death. Lots and lots of death. Yay.
This cuts off right in the middle of the action with absolutely
nothing resolved. There's a sequel coming next year, but I shan't
bother with it.
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