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東京喰種トーキョーグール Oneshot [Tokyo Guru Oneshot]
The original oneshot of the Tokyo Ghoul manga series.
36 pages, Unknown Binding
First published March 15, 2011
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Sui Ishida
236 books2,444 followersAlso 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.
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.
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January 11, 2018
I needed something to throw me back into Tokyo ghoul before I read the last 3 volumes, so why not a one shot!
This was honestly so weird but seeing how far the story has come and evolved from the original idea though is so interesting
This was honestly so weird but seeing how far the story has come and evolved from the original idea though is so interesting
December 13, 2018
As someone who is reading this series right now, it was very interesting seeing the Tokyo Ghoul origin, and seeing what was ultimately revised once it became serialized. I find myself wondering exactly what prompted Sui Ishida to change the things he did. I feel like I can't really say much else about this without talking about spoilers, so come back once you've read this 30-ish page one-shot!
This review is a mess, I don't know what to say. I just read this because I've been reading one-shots lately, and I've been reading Tokyo Ghoul lately, and because I was curious. So I really didn't go into this with any expectations or wanting to critique it or anything. I just read it, and it was fine, and I moved on. I actually even forgot to add that I read it to Goodreads (I'm writing this review a bit late).
Read this if you already read/are reading/watching and enjoy the Tokyo Ghoul series and you're curious about its roots.
Click to read all of my Tokyo Ghoul Reviews :
Tokyo Ghoul
One-shot
School of Ghoul
This review is a mess, I don't know what to say. I just read this because I've been reading one-shots lately, and I've been reading Tokyo Ghoul lately, and because I was curious. So I really didn't go into this with any expectations or wanting to critique it or anything. I just read it, and it was fine, and I moved on. I actually even forgot to add that I read it to Goodreads (I'm writing this review a bit late).
Read this if you already read/are reading/watching and enjoy the Tokyo Ghoul series and you're curious about its roots.
Click to read all of my Tokyo Ghoul Reviews :
Tokyo Ghoul
One-shot
School of Ghoul
February 7, 2017
Wow, that was weird! I am glad that the series was very different from this.
June 20, 2019
The story is so weird... I'm glad the final story turned out differently!!
And I'm always impressed how much Ishida Suis art developed and improved!
Comparing this to the first Tokyo Ghoul series and than comparing those to Tokyo Ghoul:RE (I LOVE the RE artstyle)! very impressive and awesome!
And I'm always impressed how much Ishida Suis art developed and improved!
Comparing this to the first Tokyo Ghoul series and than comparing those to Tokyo Ghoul:RE (I LOVE the RE artstyle)! very impressive and awesome!
October 20, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.
Tokyo Ghoul begins with a streak of incredibly bad luck disguised as good luck. Reports of strange murders involving cannibalism and monster attacks have been haunting the city of Tokyo. What started as rumors quickly becomes reality as more and more victims show up dead. The creatures behind the attacks are believed to be ghouls. They don’t quite fit the normal definition of ghouls, they’re not hideous, rotting, undead monstrosities. They look like humans, they talk like humans, they act and even pretend to eat like normal humans, there’s no way of telling a ghoul from a human until you end up as their next meal. Ken Kaneki and his childhood friend Hide continue to laugh the incidents off as superstitious rumors and continue about their daily life as they normally would.
Things start to seem too good to be true when the shy and socially awkward bookworm Kaneki scores a date with the girl of his dreams, a beautiful, mature and intelligent young woman named Rize. Not only is Rize completely out of Kaneki’s league, but she also happens to share his infatuation with complex horror literature and philosophy. Things seem to be going unusually well for Kaneki, but it turns out that his lovely date is only interested in his body—eating his body, to be more specific. (And not in the hot kinky way either.)
Rize is not only an extremely dangerous ghoul, but she’s what’s known as a binge eater; ghouls that kill and consume without remorse or concern of the population or the safety of other ghouls. She’s the one responsible for most of the brutal killings and cannibalism incidents in the area and poor Kaneki just so happens to be her latest target. Just like that, a dream date quickly descends into a bloody nightmare as Kaneki is nearly tortured to death by Rize in an empty construction site where no one can hear his cries of pain.
Kaneki seems to get lucky when Rize slams him around the construction site and ends up knocking a large hunk of metal down on herself from all the destruction she caused, and ends up killing herself by accident just before she can deliver the final blow to Kaneki. The commotion causes a disturbance in the neighborhood and police are called to investigate the scene. The nearly dead Kaneki is rushed to the hospital along with the corpse of the bloodthirsty ghoul Rize so her organs can be transplanted into Kaneki.
All’s well that ends well, right? Wrong. The streak of bad luck continues. The morally questionable rescue of Kaneki ends up transforming him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid because of the ghoul organs implanted in his body. Losing his taste for his favorite foods, developing violent urges and twisted desires to consume the flesh of his fellow humans, Kaneki is forcefully pulled into the demented underworld of ghoul society which has existed alongside human society for many years in secret.
Kaneki has no choice but to adapt to the ways of the ghouls if he wants to survive, all while keeping his identity a secret and trying to live a normal human life. Thus begins a tragic horror story where a psychologically tortured boy is constantly exposed to the worst aspects of human nature and the savagery of ghoul society. Is Kaneki the first ever outcast that doesn’t belong to human or ghoul society, or is he the first and only person that has the potential to bring the two clashing societies together? Kaneki begins to realize that there’s more to the incident with Rize and the surgery that changed him forever, and he slowly unravels the secrets of the nastiest ghouls and the most corrupt humans working in mysterious ways behind the scenes. After a while, you’ll begin to question who the real monsters are.
Caught between two dangerous worlds, Kaneki grows through immeasurable suffering, bridging the gap between humans and ghouls by learning to love and fear them in equal measure. Tokyo Ghoul builds an emotional story about morality, discrimination and self-discovery. It utilizes the literary themes of Kafka such as metamorphosis and the exploration of absolute gray morality.
Kaneki’s development is literally an emotional roller coaster. He goes through so many changes in beliefs, morals, personality and identity that he struggles to keep track of who he really is as all of the different sides of himself constantly try to conquer and slaughter each other in his severely fractured brain. He can’t decide if he wants to fight against humans for the sake of the ghouls, to fight against ghouls for the sake of humans, or try to come up with some crazy master plan to fight against both of them or neither of them in order to find a way to stop the conflict between all sides once and for all. All these confusing thoughts and morals create a storm inside him and the greatest conflict of all is perhaps the conflict of Kaneki’s own conflicted sense of identity.
Overall, the story has a strong start that immediately throws you into a dark and twisted drama, a tedious middle section that's held back by pacing issues, poorly explained terminology and too many unimportant side characters that don’t get nearly enough development or screen time, but it gets back on its feet with a really strong final few arcs that leave you with many questions and potential answers regarding human morality. It has an impressively large cast connected by limitless plot twists and clever intricacies, deep protagonists with many layers, flashy fight scenes with unique weapons and bodily horror mechanics called Kagune, and it pulls on the heartstrings as you slowly begin to realize that humans and ghouls have a lot more in common than either one would care to admit.
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Tokyo Ghoul begins with a streak of incredibly bad luck disguised as good luck. Reports of strange murders involving cannibalism and monster attacks have been haunting the city of Tokyo. What started as rumors quickly becomes reality as more and more victims show up dead. The creatures behind the attacks are believed to be ghouls. They don’t quite fit the normal definition of ghouls, they’re not hideous, rotting, undead monstrosities. They look like humans, they talk like humans, they act and even pretend to eat like normal humans, there’s no way of telling a ghoul from a human until you end up as their next meal. Ken Kaneki and his childhood friend Hide continue to laugh the incidents off as superstitious rumors and continue about their daily life as they normally would.
Things start to seem too good to be true when the shy and socially awkward bookworm Kaneki scores a date with the girl of his dreams, a beautiful, mature and intelligent young woman named Rize. Not only is Rize completely out of Kaneki’s league, but she also happens to share his infatuation with complex horror literature and philosophy. Things seem to be going unusually well for Kaneki, but it turns out that his lovely date is only interested in his body—eating his body, to be more specific. (And not in the hot kinky way either.)
Rize is not only an extremely dangerous ghoul, but she’s what’s known as a binge eater; ghouls that kill and consume without remorse or concern of the population or the safety of other ghouls. She’s the one responsible for most of the brutal killings and cannibalism incidents in the area and poor Kaneki just so happens to be her latest target. Just like that, a dream date quickly descends into a bloody nightmare as Kaneki is nearly tortured to death by Rize in an empty construction site where no one can hear his cries of pain.
Kaneki seems to get lucky when Rize slams him around the construction site and ends up knocking a large hunk of metal down on herself from all the destruction she caused, and ends up killing herself by accident just before she can deliver the final blow to Kaneki. The commotion causes a disturbance in the neighborhood and police are called to investigate the scene. The nearly dead Kaneki is rushed to the hospital along with the corpse of the bloodthirsty ghoul Rize so her organs can be transplanted into Kaneki.
All’s well that ends well, right? Wrong. The streak of bad luck continues. The morally questionable rescue of Kaneki ends up transforming him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid because of the ghoul organs implanted in his body. Losing his taste for his favorite foods, developing violent urges and twisted desires to consume the flesh of his fellow humans, Kaneki is forcefully pulled into the demented underworld of ghoul society which has existed alongside human society for many years in secret.
Kaneki has no choice but to adapt to the ways of the ghouls if he wants to survive, all while keeping his identity a secret and trying to live a normal human life. Thus begins a tragic horror story where a psychologically tortured boy is constantly exposed to the worst aspects of human nature and the savagery of ghoul society. Is Kaneki the first ever outcast that doesn’t belong to human or ghoul society, or is he the first and only person that has the potential to bring the two clashing societies together? Kaneki begins to realize that there’s more to the incident with Rize and the surgery that changed him forever, and he slowly unravels the secrets of the nastiest ghouls and the most corrupt humans working in mysterious ways behind the scenes. After a while, you’ll begin to question who the real monsters are.
Caught between two dangerous worlds, Kaneki grows through immeasurable suffering, bridging the gap between humans and ghouls by learning to love and fear them in equal measure. Tokyo Ghoul builds an emotional story about morality, discrimination and self-discovery. It utilizes the literary themes of Kafka such as metamorphosis and the exploration of absolute gray morality.
Kaneki’s development is literally an emotional roller coaster. He goes through so many changes in beliefs, morals, personality and identity that he struggles to keep track of who he really is as all of the different sides of himself constantly try to conquer and slaughter each other in his severely fractured brain. He can’t decide if he wants to fight against humans for the sake of the ghouls, to fight against ghouls for the sake of humans, or try to come up with some crazy master plan to fight against both of them or neither of them in order to find a way to stop the conflict between all sides once and for all. All these confusing thoughts and morals create a storm inside him and the greatest conflict of all is perhaps the conflict of Kaneki’s own conflicted sense of identity.
Overall, the story has a strong start that immediately throws you into a dark and twisted drama, a tedious middle section that's held back by pacing issues, poorly explained terminology and too many unimportant side characters that don’t get nearly enough development or screen time, but it gets back on its feet with a really strong final few arcs that leave you with many questions and potential answers regarding human morality. It has an impressively large cast connected by limitless plot twists and clever intricacies, deep protagonists with many layers, flashy fight scenes with unique weapons and bodily horror mechanics called Kagune, and it pulls on the heartstrings as you slowly begin to realize that humans and ghouls have a lot more in common than either one would care to admit.
***
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July 3, 2025
It's interesting to see how much the characters changed from the original idea to the final form. Rize didn't exist at all and it was Touka instead who was the binge eater, and Kaneki was a normal ghoul feeding on humans regularly.
I'm glad to see the scene where Shinohara calls out the "ghoul expert" for not being so accurate was still used in Tokyo Ghoul, just tweaked to fit the end product
I'm glad to see the scene where Shinohara calls out the "ghoul expert" for not being so accurate was still used in Tokyo Ghoul, just tweaked to fit the end product
May 9, 2019
I can completely understand why this short little one shot spawned an entire series. The changes made are pretty fascinating and definitely enable a much longer story. The role reversal is pretty neat as well.
July 17, 2017
It was interesting indeed and somehow I liked Kaneki's character in here more,but I still love original one more.
August 17, 2017
This was alright but the pacing is too fast & Kaneki's character isn't the most likeable. I'm really glad the story was edited and changed to what it is now.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 2, 2020
Really cool to see where the series got its beginning! As always, writing and art on Sui Ishida's part is excellent.
July 27, 2021
I'm glad that the original series is much much better than this.
February 12, 2017
Afortunadamente Ishida-sensei decidió no seguir esta línea argumental y el resultado final, Tokyo Ghoul, resultó ser extremadamente diferente.
La diferencia que existe entre el primer volumen y este one-shot es, a falta de mejor palabra, abismal. Literalmente. Todas las razones por las que Tokyo Ghoul se volvió exitoso (el personaje principal víctima de las circunstancias, la tragedia interminable, las relaciones entre los personajes, la presencia de la literatura/intertextualidad, etc.) no existen en este esbozo.
Sin embargo, recomiendo leerlo simplemente porque da un punto de vista diferente de los personajes: un gran "what if".
La diferencia que existe entre el primer volumen y este one-shot es, a falta de mejor palabra, abismal. Literalmente. Todas las razones por las que Tokyo Ghoul se volvió exitoso (el personaje principal víctima de las circunstancias, la tragedia interminable, las relaciones entre los personajes, la presencia de la literatura/intertextualidad, etc.) no existen en este esbozo.
Sin embargo, recomiendo leerlo simplemente porque da un punto de vista diferente de los personajes: un gran "what if".
October 8, 2015
Pretty bad compared to the 'final' revision of Tokyo Ghoul.
The main character is shallow and doesn't really come out as a suffering protagonist which later becomes the case with Kaneki in the series.
Although the involvement with the Clowns would've made it a bit more interesting for the first few chapters, later it would lead to a dead end and surely fall.
Still this is just a good example of how much Ishida Sui improved the draft before the start of the series.
The main character is shallow and doesn't really come out as a suffering protagonist which later becomes the case with Kaneki in the series.
Although the involvement with the Clowns would've made it a bit more interesting for the first few chapters, later it would lead to a dead end and surely fall.
Still this is just a good example of how much Ishida Sui improved the draft before the start of the series.
December 19, 2015
Reading this after the whole TG series, I was amazed at the difference between this initial one-shot and the resultant chapter 1 of the series. There is a vast difference in storyline and characters - even the artwork seems so rough compared to the beauty of the final series. Alas, it would have been as good a story as the series, since Kaneki being a human-turned-ghoul was what was the draw of the series to me in general.
June 5, 2015
Jadi ini kayak cerita alternate universe dari Tokyo Ghoul
Kaneki Ken-nya full ghoul kagak pake setengah mateng wkwk. Dibandingkan sama cerita manganya, oneshot ini cenderung kocak, walau nggak lucu2 banget sih :'D.
Kaneki Ken-nya full ghoul kagak pake setengah mateng wkwk. Dibandingkan sama cerita manganya, oneshot ini cenderung kocak, walau nggak lucu2 banget sih :'D.
December 22, 2015
Its really weird.
May 11, 2015
Well...I don't know what to think, really. I don't know if I liked it. It was certainly weird, though.
July 19, 2016
Una manera perfecta para comenzar *----*
January 25, 2016
Tokyo Ghoul as a whole has come a long, long way from this. I'm glad.
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September 1, 2016sssooo weird !!!
June 21, 2016
I just don't get it...
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September 4, 2016This was a very.. uh... weird experience for me, I don't know how I should feel about it.
July 9, 2016
Didn't really enjoy reading this and the drawing wasn't appealing to look at....
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