My favourite and least favourite piece of evidence for how bad the writing can get is a certain character inexplicably screaming "I want to eat cheese" as he dies, but it's far from the only stinker. Nor are the multitudinous flashback segments that the show appears to use as a cheap last-minute emotion-booster before killing off certain underdeveloped characters, in a way that even the guys over at Attack on Titan Season 2 would probably consider embarrassing. The showrunners, rather cynically, insert fan-favourite song 'Unravel' into the proceedings a little way through and again it seems to be designed as a way to reward brand loyalty, but honestly, it's not even TK from Ling Tosite Sigure's best solo song and it certainly isn't rousing enough to bring a tear to THIS reviewer's eye. Characters from the first two seasons appear but don't have anything to do and just vanish into thin air again, so it's difficult to get a handle on what they've been doing or where their allegiances are with now (though you could say that for a whole lot of new folks too). Honestly, after a promising start, the whole thing becomes tiresome very quickly, and the flashy, high-production fight sequences and fan-servicey touches aren't really enough to alleviate the pain of basically having another Root A on our hands. Like if every couch gag on the Simpsons featured Bleeding Gums Murphy. It's very hard to keep a handle on what's going on or who you're supposed to be focusing on as an important (as opposed to side or satellite) character when everyone gets rotated and, often, dropped unceremoniously to the extent that the opening segment of each episode gradually becomes a Who's Who of redundant faces. Now some people have tried to fight back against this accusation, and I'd like to offer a qualifying statement the sheer number of characters, while destined to be a problem, is a secondary issue to how they're handled. One of the criticisms of the show that you've probably already heard is that there are too many characters. Even having watched previous Tokyo Ghoul content, I still found it incredibly hard to recall details and characters that the season seemed to think that I should have, and that's without getting into ANY of the new arcs, sub-plots or character relationships that are heaped on top like the anime equivalent of fly-tipping. Here's what's unfortunate the season quickly decides that, despite having the perfect opportunity to reinvent itself and make amends for the over-stuffed, terribly-paced, batshit melodrama that was Root A, it wants to basically do that all over again starting from a few episodes in. The squad is led by Sasaki Haise, an individual who, as it turns out, is a one-eyed-ghoul just like previous series MC Ken Kaneki was. :re begins with a fairly simple idea the CCG, the organisation responsible for hunting ghouls in the world that TG posits, has developed a 'Quinx' squad made up of individuals with similar (artificially planted) abilities to the ghouls that they fight. That's not to say that there's nothing to like I mean, the first season was okay, right? Pretty decent character visuals, cool action segments, interesting colour schemes? The problem lies in that we're now on our third instalment in the TG saga and it's just plain getting worse. I've never really understood Tokyo Ghoul's treasured place in the anime canon.
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