Remember when you were little and you tried to bake that really awesome cake following the

instructions on
a cooking-book and ended up forgetting half the ingredients or using the wrong ones and the cake looked
like complete shit and shit was all over the kitchen and then your mother walked in and slapped you across
the face? Whether or not you remember, if you can picture that scenario then you can picture how Studio
Pierrot's attempt at adapting Tokyo Ghoul into an anime unfolded.

Lets actually start off with the "good" in Tokyo Ghoul. Why? Because it's one sentence long so lets get it out
of the way shall we.

The soundtrack is decent. The opening theme is good, and the ending theme is pretty catchy. Ok so that
was two sentences.

I'm going to fess up now and admit that I have not read the manga although I'm aware that it's a lot better
and that they crammed 60 chapters into 12 episodes. This review will be based on the anime alone, which I
believe is more correct then the people giving this adaption a break solely for their admiration of the manga.

The worst aspect of Tokyo Ghoul are the characters and their development. Frankly I'm not going to talk
about any of the characters aside from Kaneki because there is nothing to say about them after 12
episodes.
Kaneki is worth talking about because he is a boy born with a vagina..oh and he is a also a half-ghoul,
almost forgot about that. As the MC of Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki's main role is to disappoint us to death, cry a
lot, and bitch a lot about how much he sucks.

With the characters being so dreadful, the anime relied heavily on the plot and the violence. The plot is very
broad in the anime: Humans vs Ghouls and Ghouls vs Ghouls. At least that's what I got from 12 episodes
adapted from 60 chapters. The violence is censored so that sucks, but apparently the DVD versions will be
uncensored..cool, anyways moving on. The most pretentious thing about Tokyo Ghoul are the attempts at
emotionally moving the audience by having some characters we know nothing about die and seeing other
characters feel sad while the soundtrack playing assures us that this is indeed meant to be an emotional
scene...awkward.

So about right now you're probably thinking to yourself that I don't have much to say about this anime. I
just felt like reviewing this anime cause I wanted to write down that whole baking a cake comparison after
which my passion ran out. This is much like the folks at Studio Pierrot. They had no passion whatsoever in
the making of this anime, taking advantage of the fact that the manga is extremely popular and doing the
most minimalist job possible.

With all this I thought I would take joy in witnessing how badly this train-wreck could end, and to my
surprise they actually took that pleasure from me as well. The last 10 minutes of the last episode were
legitimately entertaining. Right at the end, the show introduced moral ideas worthy of involving the
audience and I found myself enjoying Tokyo Ghoul for the first time. What a bunch of trolls eh.