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Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種 Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump amongst September 2011 and September 2014, and it has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2014. A sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul:re was serialized in the exact same magazine in between October 2014 and July 2018, and was later collected into sixteen tankōbon volumes. A prequel titled Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] ran on-line on Jump Reside.

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A 12-episode anime tv series adaptation by studio Pierrot aired on Tokyo MX in between July 4, 2014 and September 19, 2014. A 12-episode second season, Tokyo Ghoul √A (pronounced Tokyo Ghoul Root A), which follows an original story, began airing on January 9, 2015, and concluded on March 27, 2015. In North America, Viz Media is publishing the manga while Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and residence video distribution.

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A live-action film based on the manga was released in Japan on July 29, 2017. An anime adaptation primarily based on the sequel manga Tokyo Ghoul:re started airing on April three, 2018, with the series getting split into two seasons.

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality exactly where ghouls, cannibalistic 'monsters' who look specifically like standard folks but can only survive by consuming human flesh, reside amongst the human population in secret, hiding their accurate nature in order to evade pursuit from the authorities. Like enhanced speed, senses, and regenerative capacity, a normal ghoul is numerous occasions stronger than a regular human, has a skin resistant to ordinary piercing weapons and has at least 1 special predatory organ known as a kagune (Japanese: 赫子), which it can manifest and use as a weapon in the course of combat. An additional distinctive trait of ghouls is that when they are excited or hungry, the color of their sclera in both eyes turns black and their irises red. This mutation is identified as kakugan (赫眼, "red eye").

A half-ghoul can either be born naturally as a ghoul and a human's offspring, or artificially developed by transplanting some ghoul organs into a human. In each circumstances, a half-ghoul is usually a lot stronger than a pure-blood ghoul. In the case of a half-ghoul, only 1 of the eyes undergoes the "red eye" transformation.

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There is also the case of half-humans, hybrids of ghouls and humans that can feed like regular humans and lack a Kagune whilst possessing enhanced skills, like elevated speed and reaction speed, but shortened lifespans.To hunt down the ghouls, numerous government-sponsored organizations such as the CCG have been created worldwide.