Nelkin, Sarah (April 3, 2014). "38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Nominees Announced". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 28, 2021 . Retrieved March 27, 2022. Four light novels have been released thus far and all are written by Shin Towada, with illustrations done by series creator Sui Ishida. On June 19, 2013, Tokyo Ghoul: Days ( 東京喰種トーキョーグール［日々］, Tōkyō Gūru［Hibi］) was released, Illustrations were done by the series creator Sui Ishida and written by Shin Towada and serves as sidestory/spin off that focuses on the daily lives of characters from the Tokyo Ghoul series. Tokyo Ghoul: Void ( 東京喰種トーキョーグール［空白］, Tōkyō Gūru［Kūhaku］) was released on June 19, 2014, and fills in the 6 month time gap between volumes 8 and 9 of the first series.

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A live-action film based on the manga was released in Japan on July 29, 2017. Kentarō Hagiwara directed the film. The cast included Masataka Kubota for the role of protagonist Ken Kaneki and Fumika Shimizu for the role of Touka Kirishima. [36] Yū Aoi was cast as Rize Kamishiro, Nobuyuki Suzuki played Kotaro Amon and Yo Oizumi played Kureo Mado. [37] A sequel film titled Tokyo Ghoul S was released in Japan on July 19, 2019, with Maika Yamamoto replacing Fumika Shimizu as Touka Kirishima, and Shota Matsuda joining the cast as Shuu Tsukiyama. [38] Reception [ edit ] In 2011, manga writer and artist Sui Ishida launched Tokyo Ghoul, a manga that was in a lot of ways his passion project. Tokyo Ghoul became a massive hit for Ishida and it soon received both anime and live-action adaptations. Today, Tokyo Ghoul is among the best modern-day seinennarratives out there. But what is it about? The Tokyo Ghoul anime franchise is quite famous for its music, more than some other anime franchises, which is why we have decided to dedicate one section of today’s article to the music of Tokyo Ghoul. The four-season had a total of four openings and four ending songs and here they are: # Tokyo Ghoul story focuses on Ken Kaneki, a young boy from Tokyo who goes out on a date with a beautiful girl, not knowing that she is a ghoul; ghouls are creatures that look like humans but can survive only by eating human flesh. As he is about to be eaten by his date, they both almost die in an accident, but he is saved thanks to her organs, after which he himself becomes a ghoul. The series follows his subsequent adventures. in Japanese). Natalie.mu. October 11, 2014. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014 . Retrieved October 13, 2014.

Tokyo Ghoul is written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It began serialization in 2011's 41st issue of the seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha on September 8, 2011, [3] and the final chapter appeared in 2014's 42nd issue, released on September 18, 2014. [4] [5] The series has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes, released under Shueisha's Young Jump Comics imprint between February 17, 2012, [6] and October 17, 2014. [7] The series has been licensed for an English release by Viz Media and the first volume was released on June 16, 2015. [8]

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The first season of :re aired from April 3 to June 19, 2018, while the second season of the same anime aired from October 9 to December 25, 2018. :re was a direct adaptation of Ishida’s manga, with the two seasons adapting two parts of the manga. This is a summary of the anime adaptations: Title a b Loo, Egan (February 22, 2014). "Oscar Nominee Morita Helms Tokyo Ghoul Anime at Pierrot". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014 . Retrieved February 22, 2014. Tokyo Ghoul video game to come on PS Vita; April Fool's Prank by manga creator affects launching confirmation?". Venture Capital Post. January 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015 . Retrieved February 7, 2015. A. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016 . Retrieved July 17, 2016. The original Tokyo Ghoul manga ran from 2011 to 2014. This series was then followed by Tokyo Ghoul:re, which was released from 2014 until 2018.in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on January 29, 2015 . Retrieved October 12, 2019. TK（凛として時雨）書き下ろし楽曲が豪華コラボ！. PR Times (in Japanese). January 21, 2021. Archived from the original on March 20, 2022 . Retrieved March 27, 2022. The Tokyo Ghoul manga covers the first two seasons of the anime. Many fans say that the manga is better than the anime, particularly compared to Root A, which didn’t have the success of the first season. Other individual elements have also been inspired by other works of fiction. For example, Jason, the sadistic ghoul who tortures Ken, is based on Jason Vorhees, the fictional serial killer from the Friday the 13th franchise; Jason’s real name is Yakumo Omori, but his alter ego and his masks are more than an obvious nod to a horror icon. Who are the main characters of Tokyo Ghoul? a b "Products: Music". Tōkyō Gūru (in Japanese). Marvelous. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018 . Retrieved October 30, 2018.