東京喰種トーキョーグール [JACK] [Tokyo Guru [JACK]] [Tokyo Ghoul: Jack]

by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ

A Tokyo Ghoul spin-off about Arima during his high school days. The story is centered around the character Kishou Arima, who is a High School student by day and a ghoul investigator by night. The story is also set in and revolves around the 13th ward.

Genres: Manga, Horror, Fantasy, Seinen, Paranormal, Young Adult, Comics

329 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 18, 2013

About the author

Also known as 石田スイ.

Sui Ishida (石田スイ, Ishida Sui), born December 28, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist
In 2010 he won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種, Tōkyō Kushu). In March 2011, the same oneshot was published in the 2nd Issue of Miracle Jump. And later in September 2011, Tokyo Ghoul started as a series in Weekly Young Jump 2011-41 Issue. In December 2011, he made another oneshot about Rize that was published in December 2011 in Miracle Jump 6th Issue, which was later collected in the 6th volume of Tokyo Ghoul.
In 2013, he also started Tokyo Ghoul: Jack in the digital magazine Jump LIVE.

Sui Ishida is his penname; nobody knows his real name or what he looks like.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Papa Arima, man. What a beast. Slaying ghouls left and right at 15 without batting an eyelash. One of the greatest characters of the series, undoubtedly. Also, I just noticed that we see the final scene with Fura through Amon’s eyes in chapter 29 of TG. Amazing.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

i'm surprised. it was so good. everyone should read this . i'm going to see anime now.

[Kimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm still not sure if I like Arima, but he sure is a badass. An unemotional, sociopath, but still a complete badass.

[m.・゜゜・・゜゜・． · Rating 5 out of 5]

arima’s so awesome i love him badddd

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe I'm just a sucker for side stories, but yeah, same as the light novels, I really enjoyed this!

It's nice to see the ghouls from yet another point of view (first series was mostly from the ghouls POV, while -as far as I can tell- the RE series is more from the CCG one, so this time: simple humans). And, although I never had any interest for Arima in the main series, it's still interesting to see his early (prodigy) days.

[Marsha Lau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice spin-off about Kishou... I now see him as a much cooler person. I like how Minami turned out to be a Ghoul. And I see the connection where she told Taishi to try living like a Ghoul. Because later, a poor guy named Kaneki was born.

[usagi ☆ミ · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars.

[cynthia ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have so many mixed feelings on poor Arima...

[Hoppipolla · Rating 4 out of 5]

La magia que hace Sui Ishida con cuatro trazos y la función de bolígrafo en el lápiz de la tableta gráfica 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

[Radwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this is a good setup for the Tokyo Ghoul: re sequel, because the appearance of Arima in the end of Tokyo Ghoul made me conflicted about him, and this added to that.

I'm not sure I like him, and I don't know his true intentions. The art wasn't as elaborate and beautiful as it was in the Tokyo Ghoul series, so that was a disappointment.

[Ana O. ⭐ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Niamh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why was this oddly wholesome? 💀 Arima making his first real friend, Arima and Taishi's friendship and Taishi getting married to Aki 😌

AND TAISHI BECOMING A GHOUL INVESTIGATOR!

[jasmine :) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Esto es sobre Fura internándose en el mundo de los ghouls y el CCG al conocer a Arima. No se centra en nuestro Ángel de la muerte el cual hasta en su propia historia es un personaje secundario.
No se nos aclara nada de él, lo vemos igual que en la serie principal solo que con un corte taza y azul demasiado raro todo.






Aunque no sea una historia de Arima como se promete, porque los protagonistas eran demasiado tontos y haya sido predecible en algunos puntos, le voy a poner 3 estrellas igual. A pesar de todo eso, no se hace aburrido.

[Rai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Esperaba algo mas personal sobre la vida de Arima pero en realidad parece una historia de Fura Taishi donde Arima sale a su lado todo el tiempo con esa inexpresividad que lo caracteriza pero con un mal peinado. Es un poco decepcionante, si se tomo la molestia en hacer un tomo a parte sobre Arima, se lleva a pensar que es algo mas profundo y no un ataque trivial de un ghoul frustrado. meehhh

[Kynthos-the-Archer (Kyn) · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's more to this Arima Kishou. He seems more that just a human.

* 27th November 2014

[Gene Keith]

awesome

[Joti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice to see young Arima! And how he teams up with Fura after Fura's friends are killed by the Lantern Ghoul. They start hunting down ghouls together, the young CCG investigator & the crappy student :P They save one of their classmates, Minami, but she turns out to be ghoul that leads them into a trap & brings JASON ALONG YOUNG FUCKING JASON WHP ESCAPES! BUT SHE, the LANTERN, ENDS UP WOUNDED BY ARIMA'S HAND AND KILLED BY FURA'S. Fura's shocked, and she was killing the 'bad unwanted' people of society & he said that's what made her inhumane...12 years later, Fura & Arima are both in the CCG & Fura married his old friend Aki, who escaped the day his friends were killed.

[ken · Rating 2 out of 5]

i like arima but this oneshot seriously had no personality at all lol..... it was like. a watered down version of tg with worse art. i was hoping this would give me more insight into arima as a character like maybe his interesting takes on morality + how he arrived at those beliefs, but he didnt change at all through the years so that development is impossible to track. the art style also isn't ishida's usual, it's a bit messier and i found it hard to follow. there is such a thing as too much movement. also as soon as yamori showed up i knew i was going to hate it. worst character in the world. he sours literally everything.

[Max · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perfectly fine. I think this was originally meant to scroll like a Webtoon, b/c there's some blank white pages and sometimes the layout looks wrong. Recommend reading one page at a time It flows better.

My biggest gripe is its predictable. The class rep being the Lantern was obvious. The only thing that surprised me was how Arima got the 2nd ghoul, which while cool, didn't make much sense.

Ishida experiments with subtle color tones in this one. The art is also loose. Like little more than a draft. Again, a lot better one page at a time. It's got a more personal feeling.

[James Lenstein · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tokyo Ghoul is quickly becoming one of my favourite manga series of all time, as well as one of my favourite stories as a whole. Therefore, I’m obviously going to read all of the content available set in this world, seeing I’m a completionist.

Tokyo Ghoul Jack is one of the main spinoffs from the series, and it focuses on Arima’s past, being established as a prequel to the main events of the series. I’ve heard that this one can be better appreciated by the end of Re, since you’re more attached to the characters that you meet here, but I already liked them quite a lot. I really appreciate that Sui Ishida is giving us many different points of view for both the ghouls and the CCG, and how even characters that are downright evil you end up feeling a tiny bit sad for.

On the other hand, something that clearly sets this standalone volume apart from the others is the art style, which is more simplistic and has a more unfinished look. I don’t know how to feel about it, because even if it made some of the action scenes easier to follow (one of my biggest complaints for the series), it also was left in need of more details and strokes, especially in the facial expressions and characters in general.

Overall, this broadened the scope of the Tokyo Ghoul story, something that I will always love, but the art style took me out of the story at certain points, and some of the plot points felt a smidge unrealistic.

3.7

[Jinko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estuvo bkn, me hubiera gustado que se hubiera quedado como un bromance 😔, pero le metieron lo de que el amigo se terminó casando con la amiga, pero buee. Antes me caía tan mal Arima y ahora que leí esto me doy cuenta que lo extraño un poco 😔, me hubiera gustado que nos mostrarán más el pasado de él, me refiero a su crianza y todo eso, que probablemente debió ser muy traumático, lit el loco nació para ser una máquina mata ghouls, él tiene una personalidad tan fría que te llega a caer mal el maldito, pero siento que en gran parte se debió a esto.

[Khadija Faisal · Rating 5 out of 5]

That artstyle was intriguing...
Imma see the anime adaptation aswell...hope it didn't butcher it up alot
Man I'd also like to own a physical copy of this

- sheesh i mean this was fast paced cuz it was only 7 chapters but oooh did the "12 years later" part hit the feels.
- also taishi kinda looked like shirazu to me in some panels TT

[fyyrr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decided to read this online before I start to read the original series tomorrow but I think that this was a very good side story, Arima seems like a great character and I liked this bit of a side story for him - and the rest of the subplot / cast was quite good too. Can't wait to continue with the OG series and the other sub story afterwards later on.

[Larissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually liked the water color style, however...
When I heard of this I though I would be able to read a bit about Daddy's backstory. But it was just normal case from his early years. It was fine I guess.

[Alex Young · Rating 3 out of 5]

Never got around to reading this while I was originally reading the series, but now I have. It’s a solid side story, but you don’t really get any additional insight into Arima’s character. Also, the art is a significant step down from the main series.

[Dip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chilling!!

My first manga! And have become a fan of TG..Nice artwork and color..the red sclera with black iris will haunt me for days!!👺

[therese · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arima was badass from birth

[DeeDee 3kk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love arima (jack)😍😍

[jay · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I really like Arima even though I know I shouldn't. Because of this, it was cute.