Tokyo Ghoul
"If, for argument's sake, you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be a tragedy."
—Ken Kaneki
Tokyo Ghoul is a 2011 seinen manga series about things who feed on humans.
Your average bookworm, Ken Kaneki, has fallen for a beautiful woman. On their first date, said woman reveals herself to be a monster known as a "ghoul", a creature in human form that feeds on human flesh. Having taken the time to trap him, she prepares to eat him when a falling girder smashes her to bits and leaves Kaneki horribly injured.
Saved through a transplant of organs from the dead woman, Kaneki is left with the inability to eat normal food and a hunger that just won't go away. It doesn't take long before Kaneki realizes what's happened to him, and the far-reaching implications of being a person who belongs to both the human and the ghoul world...
Written by Sui Ishida. Serialized on Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The ghouls are said to be "monsters in human shape" and can breed with humans, what can mean they retain enough of their human nature to still be considered human. And they eat humans, so they're still cannibals.