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finished tokyo ghoul re

there were about 50 characters too many. maybe more. this could have been really good if the story was tighter instead of the convoluted mess it turned out to be. i could barely remember who half the characters when they were being listed during the ending

the biggest problem is that it tries to make you sympathize with the ghouls but instead of making it so that they are reluctant to kill people but do it cause they have to, most of them fuckin love doing it and are sadistic monsters. and those same characters like gourmet and naki end up working with the humans at the end, just had to lol at that.

then to further try to balance it out the investigators are also written in such a way that you are meant to hate them and further empathize with the ghouls but logically you can't because they're killing human-eating sadistic monsters at the end of the day.

it's a real shame, there are a lot of cool elements and worldbuilding that get bogged down at the end by incompetent writing. and despite all this i couldnt stop reading it and i cant figure out why. i guess i just love body horror and monsters that much.