Tokyo Ghoul Review

The first series is a genuinely good horror manga about identity. Kaneki's transformation from a shy bookish student into something that must feed on people is drawn with real anguish, Ishida's art is expressive and increasingly confident, and the central idea, that the monsters and the hunters are mirror images who each believe they are defending the innocent, is carried through with more subtlety than the premise suggests.

The ghoul society is well built, the investigators are as sympathetic as the ghouls, and the torture arc that turns Kaneki's hair white is the series' most famous sequence for good reason. Then comes the sequel. Tokyo Ghoul:re starts with a promising amnesia device and collapses into an ever expanding cast, a plot that Ishida himself admitted got away from him, and an ending that resolves almost nothing it had built. Read the first fourteen volumes and treat the rest as optional.