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MANGAKA: Sui Ishida
TRANSLATION: Joe Yamazaki
LETTERING: Vanessa Satone
EDITOR: Pancha Diaz
ISBN: 978-1-4215-9496-5; paperback (October 2017); Rated “T+” for “Older Teen”
224pp, B&W, $12.99 U.S., $17.99 CAN, £8.99 UK
Tokyo Ghoul: re is the sequel to the manga, Tokyo Ghoul; both are the creation of writer-artist, Sui Ishida, and both were originally published in the Japanese manga magazine, Weekly Young Jump. Both series take place in a world where there are Ghouls. They look like humans and live among us, but Ghouls crave human flesh. The Commission of Counter Ghouls (CCG) is the only organization in the world fighting and exterminating Ghouls and investigating Ghoul-related crimes.
Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 1 (Chapters 1 to 9) introduces the CCG's “Quinx Squad.” This is 22-year-old Haise Sasaki's squad; he is a Rank 1 investigator. Kuki Urie, 19, is the squad leader, and, jealous of Sasaki, he wants to do better than him. Toru Mutsuki, a 19 young woman, is close to Sasaki. Ginshi Shirazu, 19, is the oddball. When they join the hunt for the wily Ghoul, known as “the Torso,” Quinx Squad does not realize that the case will reveal something shocking about one of its members.
I described reading the Tokyo Ghoul manga as like entering an actual world of mystery. Tokyo Ghoul: re shifts into a more familiar world; you might say that it is something like a police procedural.
Tokyo Ghoul: re Volume 1 focuses on the CCG. The Ghoul investigators do not interest me as much as the Ghouls themselves do. I find the early chapters of this opening graphic novel to be dry, even a bit dull. By the second half of this volume, the narrative gets a big bump when Sui Ishida puts his characters on the Ghoul hunt. Honestly, Tokyo Ghoul: re will be at its best the more Ghouls are on the pages being Ghoul-ish. I do not think the investigators will be as interesting... unless there are some shocking developments...
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7.5 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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