Tokyo Ghoul is back to remind us of why we loved it in the first place

Tokyo Ghoul has returned for a third season, titled Tokyo Ghoul: re and after only one episode we can tell it’s going to be good.

For those of you who are fully aware of the blood-drenched anime series Tokyo Ghoul, you know that it tends to be filled with death, action and brutality – so the third season aims to stay consistent. The second season found ways to deviate from the manga slightly in case it would not be returning, but the new season disregards aspects of it to carry on once more.

We had seen the death of Kaneki and hide in Tokyo Ghoul’s second season, but it begins with a missing persons poster for Hide (avid manga readers already know the purpose behind it) and no sign of series protagonist Kaneki. What we do discover is that time has clearly passed since then and we follow a new group known as Quinx’s, a sector of the CCG that integrates ghoul DNA into humans as a hybrid to combat the ghoul population.

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We meet a majority of the misfit team in episode 1 and each character has strikingly unique attributes that assembles an interesting group. The series avoids getting too repetitious with its plot by integrating new protagonists that we hadn’t met in either season leading up to the third instalment.

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Not to spoil anything major, but Tokyo Ghoul will certainly bring back old faces in addition to new ones – using the strong narrative that depicts humans vs ghouls with sympathy for both sides. What season 3 brings that makes this entirely different from both seasons before it is the fact that these Quinx hybrids have seriously offered common ground for both sides. Kaneki previously played that role, but this is now public knowledge and brings a bigger selection of men and women to the forefront with the idea that neither side is sure how to process.

Despite having a new group to focus on, there are clear connections to the past series and anyone who is aware of the manga plot knows that things will begin to make sense soon enough. The first episode is said to have covered a massive seven chapters of the maga, proving that Tokyo Ghoul has a lot of story to tell regardless of how much source material they depict in a short amount of time.

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Between the bloodied action, new characters and sense of imminent danger, Tokyo Ghoul is back with the traits we already loved and a few new twists to keep things fresh. Tokyo Ghoul is available to stream on Funimation and Hulu so make sure to keep up with the anime set to air it’s third episode later this weekend.

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