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.
Ken Kaneki is just a college student with a crush on a girl. He manages to have a date with her, only to discover she's an horrible human-eating monster that seduced him only to kill him. When she's about to kill him however, a piece of falling beam falls and kills her.
Wounded, Kaneki is saved through an organ transplant from his would-be killer. Soon, he begins to acquire the traits of the human-like monsters known as "ghouls".....
Written and Illustrated by Sui Ishida. Serialized on Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump.
Tropes used in Tokyo Ghoul include:
- Green-Eyed Monster: Despite knowing little to nothing about Kaneki's character or personality, Touka in anger refuses to help him because he used to be human and envies the fact he used to be able to eat normal food.
- Horror Hunger: Kaneki begins to feel that after receiving a transplant from a ghoul. Not only normal food tastes horrible, but the thighs of a waitress look incredibly delicious to him...
- 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.
- Super Toughness: Desperately trying to get rid of his condition, Kaneki tries to stab himself to get his ghoul organ replaced. The knife bends.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Played for (dark) laughs. Kaneki begins to show his cannibal ghoul's hunger by staring at the thighs of a waitress using thigh highs.