this is a world he HAS to be a part of, he wasn't given a choice but that is how it is. I think we really get to see the ghouls through Ken's eyes. With Tokyo Ghoul vol 2 I feel like I was already totally captured by vol 1 and Ken Kaneki's oh so personal journey. normally at vol 2 the mangaka is still setting up the story and hasn't had enough time to totally suck us into the story yet. I was startled at how tense and caught up in the story I am. To that end I like that neither the ghoul or the human side is positioned as the villains of the Tokyo Ghoul series. It really builds sympathy in Ken but also the reader as we consider that the monsters on the other side might just be trying to survive as well and feel as strongly as a human does. That she feels impotent and must act despite the consequences. We see that she feels just as keenly to lose someone she knows. Her reactions to everything is from the POV of a ghoul, and they contrast Ken's POV as an ex-human. I really love how Touka teaches Ken through comparison. This attack pretty much decides him as he witnesses the rules of Anteiku in action and sees how torn up Touka is by the situation. Ken has to consider what part he is going to play now that he straddles both the human and the ghoul worlds. It's pretty brutal and you see that the doves, the investigators are the enemies of the ghouls. Ken sees them in action when a couple of peaceful ghouls are located in their ward. We are introduces to the ghoul investigators, the ones from this ward and ones from corporate.

they teach him how to eat human food, something he needs to practice now. The story settles Ken more into his life as a ghoul and he works for Anteiku. Overall the art suits the manga very well independently of the battle frames. You can tell from the art that some are monsters worse than ghouls and that others are doing a duty, a job. I also found the ghoul investigators more horrifying in their character designs. The masks make this feel a lot more horrorish than the previous volume too. I love when character design works so well to make us understand a character.

We meet Yomo, a new character who introduces to Ken what Anteiku does so that peaceful ghouls can eat without killing anyone. and the fact Touka is a ghoul is pretty ironic considering. I LOVE the cover of this volume of Tokyo Ghoul vol 2 - it is so freaking gorgeous! I wish all character covers were so pretty. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body-eating it, that is.

Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. Check out more manga and graphic novel reviews Perspective of a Writer.

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