Tokyo is experiencing a rash of grisly murders. Police believe the killings are being committed by human-eating monsters called ghouls, but close friends Kaneki and Hide come up with a different theory: that the murderers are trying to imitate humans. They could not have anticipated how right they would turn out to be.
Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種(トーキョーグール) Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark fantasymanga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha’s seinenmanga magazine Weekly Young Jump between September 2011 and September 2014, and it has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2014. A sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul:re was serialized in the same magazine between October 2014 and July 2018, and was later collected into sixteen tankōbon volumes
Tokyo Ghoul follows the story of a college student named Kaneki Ken. He lives in a world full of creatures called “ghouls,” which are basically people who can only eat humans to survive. The ghouls have special organs called kagune, which they use to fight. In the beginning of the story, he is an innocent human
