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Ghouls who run a coffee shop called 'Anteiku' (あんていく) take him in and teach him to deal with his new life as a half-ghoul. This was accomplished because some of Rize's organs were transferred into his body, and now, like normal ghouls, he must consume human flesh to survive. After recovering, Kaneki discovers that he underwent a surgery that transformed him into a half-ghoul. He is taken to the hospital in critical condition. The story follows Ken Kaneki, a student who barely survives a deadly encounter with Rize Kamishiro, his date who reveals herself as a ghoul and tries to eat him.

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Naturally born half-ghouls can also eat like normal humans or full ghouls. There is also the case of half-humans, hybrids of ghouls and humans that can feed like normal humans and lack a Kagune while possessing enhanced abilities, like increased speed and reaction speed, but shortened lifespans. Natural born half-ghouls are very rare, and creating half-ghouls artificially initially has a low success rate. In the case of a half-ghoul, only one of the eyes undergoes the 'red eye' transformation. In both cases, a half-ghoul is usually much stronger than a pure-blood ghoul. This mutation is known as kakugan ( 赫眼, 'red eye').Ī half-ghoul can either be born naturally as a ghoul and a human's offspring, or artificially created by transplanting some ghoul organs into a human.

Another distinctive trait of ghouls is that when they are excited or hungry, the color of their sclera in both eyes turns black and their irises red.

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A ghoul's skin is resistant to ordinary piercing weapons, and it has at least one special predatory organ called a kagune ( Japanese: 赫子), which it can manifest and use as a weapon during combat. Ghouls have powers including enhanced strength and regenerative abilities - a regular ghoul produces 4–7 times more kinetic energy in their muscles than a normal human they also have several times the RC cells, a cell that flows like blood and can become solid instantly. Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where ghouls, creatures that look like normal people but can only survive by eating human flesh, live among the human population in secrecy, hiding their true nature in order to evade pursuit from the authorities.

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In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for an English release, while Funimation licensed the anime series for streaming and home video distribution.Īs of January 2021, Tokyo Ghoul had over 47 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. An anime adaptation based on the sequel manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, aired for two seasons the first from April to June 2018, and the second from October to December 2018. A live-action film based on the manga was released in Japan in July 2017, with a sequel being released in July 2019. A 12-episode second season, titled Tokyo Ghoul √A (pronounced Tokyo Ghoul Root A), which follows an original story, aired from January to March 2015. The story is set in a world where vicious species, known as ghouls, creatures that look like normal people but can only survive by eating human flesh, live among the human population in secrecy.Ī 12-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot, aired on Tokyo MX from July to September 2014. A sequel, titled Tokyo Ghoul:re, was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from October 2014 to July 2018, and was collected in sixteen tankōbon volumes. A prequel, titled Tokyo Ghoul, ran online on Jump Live in 2013 and was collected in a single tankōbon volume. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from September 2011 to September 2014, and was collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes. Tokyo Ghoul ( Japanese: 東京喰種（トーキョーグール）, Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida.

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