He pretty soons tumbles into trouble when he wanders into another ghoul’s territory as he is feeding which is apparently a big no no in the ghoul community and has to have his ass saved by Touka. Touka is eventually forced to help by the older ghoul who looks after her and he provides Kaneki with some prepackaged meat but he can’t bring himself to eat it knowing what it is. He isn’t aware of this at first but soon comes to realise what he is and turns to Touka for help but she rejects his offer because she doesn’t feel that he is truly a ghoul and doesn’t want to help someone who doesn’t understand their struggles. In the hospital, Kaneki needs a kidney transplant and the doctor end up giving him Rize’s kidney unaware that she is a ghoul making Kaneki a half ghoul. Kaneki fights Rize but he is no match for the ghoul’s superior strength, however, someone appears and deals with Rize and draws attention to Kaneki allowing him to get medical attention. One of these ghouls we have already met is Touka who works at the café that Hide and Kaneki go to frequently. In this world ghouls are born just like humans but they can only gain nutrition from eating people rather than regular food. On the date, Kaneki has fun with Rize and wants to see her again when she reveals herself to be a ghoul and attacks him. Eventually they end up discussing the book they are both currently reading and he asks her out on a date and she agrees much to Hide’s surprise. We are following Kaneki Ken who is a first year college student, he is just chilling with his best friend, Hide, when he notices a pretty girl. Tokyo Ghoul began serialization in Weekly Young Jump in 2011 and was adapted into an anime series in 2014.I decided to start this series because it is one of my best friend’s favourite and I’ve never read it and I haven’t seen much of the anime either. He is the author of Tokyo Ghoul and several Tokyo Ghoul one-shots, including one that won him second place in the Weekly Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award in 2010.

About the Author: Sui Ishida was born in Fukuoka, Japan. 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. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way-except their craving for human flesh.

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