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Yes, this is the last episode of Tokyo Ghoul (at least for season 1). In the beginning, I was hoping this episode would be filled with actions but in reality, the last episode actually develop Kaneki's character further. I guessed for a character development episode, I have to say that this episode was a very decent episode. What happened to Kaneki Past, his struggle, his despair, as well as the strengths that he achieved at the end of the episode make up for the battles that I was hoping from the last episode.

The episode started with Jason continued cutting of Kaneki's feet and hand fingers and while the gory images was removed from us the viewer, the tense atmosphere in where Kaneki kept counting for every missing fingers was enough to make me clench in anxiousness. Inside Kaneki's mind, Rize awakened and greeted him. We all knew that Rize was die a long ago due to the accident but somehow, her consciousness still lived inside Kaneki's mind. Maybe it was because of Kaneki's merciful tendency, which made Rize still retained part of her mind. Well the last part of the episode would make it clear for us; the audience.

Rize asked what kind of person Kaneki's mother was. In the next scene, the character development for Kaneki, who was kind of neglected got developed even further. Her mother was a very kind person who never rejected any request from the person that she knew. Since the death of her husband, she worked alone to feed Kaneki and herself. The very sad part was even though she had to work alone, her sister kept asking her for money and she did not even had enough courage to reject the request. She kept working and neglected taking rest which made her body gradually getting weaker. Her dead, which was due to over-working, created a big blow to Kaneki. For that time, Kaneki lived alone and the only person who saved Kaneki from acute loneliness was no other than Hyde; his best friend.

Reality hit hard as when Kaneki opened his eyes, Jason showed the two pair of Ghouls, who worked along with Banjo to keep their eye on him, in front of Kaneki. Jason intended to break Kaneki further by asking about who should he killed first. It was obvious that the man would be willing to be the sacrifice but since Kaneki opt for not choosing, Jason ended up killing them both.

Well, I might be stereotyping about an anime villain here but knowing Jason, no matter whose person that Kaneki choose, he might still kill the other person anyway.

Inside Kaneki's mind, once again Rize appeared. She taunted Kaneki about his indecisiveness and his tendency to blame himself. Then, she explained to him about why he should choose in order to let the other person live. Rize told him that he should throw away his ideal of letting himself hurt as long as the other did not hurt. She even showed an image of Jason killing his friends of Anteiku and lastly killed Hyde to cleared his mind that his kindness would only lead to more victims. Unable to stand from the terror, Kaneki finally accepted his ghoulish nature completely by devouring Rize of his mind. The next thing we see was Kaneki hair turned completely white and his personality turned sadistic.

The new Kaneki broke out from the chain and attacked Jason. Desperately, Jason tried to fend of Kaneki's attack. Kaneki newborn power made him capable of strangling Jason and threw him to the wall. Jason rage turn on his Kagune but at the end of the rope, Kaneki killed him with his developed Kagune.

Last but not least, this episode was the end of the Tokyo Ghoul (for the time being until the second season air). In my opinion, we could expect that Kaneki will not become the same person as he was before. Due to his ghoulish blood, he might become more bloodthirsty or stop acting like a goody fellow like before. In addition, there were still unfinished battles in the shopping mall between Gcc, Aogiri Tree, and the Anteiku members.

This episode was very intense and far from the word boring with the GCC members performed all out attack to the abandoned shopping mall where the Aogiri Tree members occupied.

From the moment we watched the episode, we were given many fights between the Human and the ghouls and also from the Anteiku members, who infiltrate the battle zone in order to retrieve Kaneki back during the chaotic battle.

Just following last week episode, Shu appearances in the Anteiku received hateful reception from Touka and Nishiki. And what really surprising me was he survived from his death because he ate his own flesh to recover his injuries. This information made us realize that even in the worse condition, a Ghoul could recover themselves as long as they ate a flesh; either it was from human or from Ghouls. Although they felt resentful toward Shu, Mr Yomo guarantee that he would take a close watch to Shu's actions. Along with Mr Uta, the mask artists, the Anteiku started the Kaneki's retrieval mission.

In the other place, Kaneki woke up in a torture chamber and he sat on the chair and completely chained up. The man who stand in front of him was none other than Jason; one of the most sadistic Ghoul in district 20. Jason tortured Kaneki and gave him some RC inhibition fluid; a serum that suppress the power of Kagune from the ghoul's body. Using that serum, Jason cut and collect Kaneki's feet fingers and create endless pain for him. Not enough with the torment, Jason also asked him to count a number starting from a thousand and he needed to decrease the number by 7 for each taken fingers. Later on, it was explained that Jason used to undergone the same situation when a problematic inspector interrogated him in the Ghoul internment cneter. Due to the pain and trauma that he experienced, he started to create a monstrous personality and using Jason as his alias.

The GCC started their operation to take back district 11. They sent their special agents with the help from the police department, which consist of thousand men. At the first time they could not enter the barricaded shopping mall because the ghouls guard the main entrance using firearms. What interest me was the little white haired runt, whose name is Suzuya Juzo, who took Marudo's motorcycle and crashed it directly to the ghouls' nest as he jumped into the guards territory. The skinny special member was very good with firearms as he singlehandedly took out guards and opened the path for the other inspectors to attack the mall.

Mado existence was more or less to shape Amon's background story. I think

Amon met with Touka who also happen to infiltrate the mall and he instantly chased and hunted her. He was still angry with Mado's death and he was about to exact revenge until two mysterious ghouls known as the Bing Brother attacked him. We got a glance of Amon's background story revolved around Mado and his advice to him during their working time together. As the Twin brothers overwhelmed him, Mado's word told him that in order to win against stronger enemies, he must be willing to win even if he had to throw his pride aside. Just after that, his quinque evolved into a two pair of giant sword, which he used to obliterate the Bing brothers.

What really make me sad was with so many battles to finish, the next episode would be the last episode for Tokyo Ghouls season one. I don't know if the producer could cram all of the potential battle inside one episode. In addition, during the last part of the episode, there was a mysterious giant owl like Ghoul that I presume was Mr Yoshimura, who wanted to create diversion for the Anteiku members (no I don't read the manga as the revelation was purely come from my instinct so my assumption can be either right or wrong). I was very excited during this episode and now I'll watch the last episode and hope that the last one would not fail me

This episode actually feel very short in my opinion. Really, maybe because I really enjoyed the carnage or maybe because the sudden fight between the Ghouls amused me. It excited me enough to make twenty four minutes looks like a five minutes show but what really entice me was the fact that Jason completely broke Kaneki's body and his rampage in the Anteiku took the main portion of today's episode.

Aogiri Tree, a band of Ghouls, was the group that got the attention of GCC. This group killed all of the inspectors in the 11 branch and overtaken the districts. This serious event made the GCC held special meeting to discuss the situation. By the way, the mysterious boy with a white hair last week was actually a GCC members. I did not know about his special ability but it seems that he was the GCC special member

The mysterious group of ghouls that appeared from the last episodes came visited Anteiku directly. The leader, Banjo, a tall with muscular man, immediately threaten Kaneki to show the manager. Apparently he had a crush to Rize as he suddenly attacked Kaneki because he released the same odor as her. And after a few misunderstanding, including Kaneki made him passed out with his clumsiness, he plead Kaneki to tell Rize about running away from the 20 districts. In reality, he was actually one of the Ghouls who ran from 11 districts and he worried about Rize due to the fact that Aogiri Tree wanted her.

It surprised me when Ayato, Touka's brother, suddenly jumped inside the scene and immediately took down Banjo using only one thrusting kick. Not enough with Ayato sudden appearance, Jason and his feminine looking guy accomplice, entered the shop. It turned out that both Jason and Ayato were working together and with the atmosphere getting heated, Jason showed his intention of taking Kaneki away.

What comes next was the gruesome scene where Jason single handedly beat Kaneki to the pulp. Even Touka could not help him because of Ayato's interference. When Touka unleashed her Kagune, Ayato intercepted with stronger Kagune and stabbed her body using a fin like feathers. Thing got worse as Jason pummeled Kaneki, blasted his body around, then finally stabbed him until he went to comma. Only due to Jason's accomplice interference did he stop his rampage and then he took Kaneki's limp body with him

When Mr Yoshimura and Yomo entered the shop, they realized that Anteiku was completely messed up. They talked to the wounded Touka about the incident and she just informed them about the kidnapping. Mr Yoshimura had no other options but to start a staff meeting in order to solve the problem. Touka, Nishiki, and Hinami agreed to help Kaneki even if that means they have to break Anteiku policy's. Realizing their determination, Yoshimura said that Anteiku was founded to help their member in desperate need and he introduced a person to help them saving Kaneki. What surprised me was the person turned out to be Shu; the very person who wanted to devour Kaneki in the first place.

With the series getting more and more intense, I could say that next week will be a very interesting episodes. What will happen to Kaneki next? What was Shu real intention and how he survived his demise? What will be the outcome of the battle between the Inspectors and the Aogiri tree. Let's wait to see the next episode to find out. 

The episode gave the character background for Kureo Mado and Amon regarding to their first assignment dealing with Ghoul. I knew Mado was gone for good in the last episode and the past event was told to reaffirm the connection between the two inspectors. The first part dealt with Amon's idealism against Mado's experiences. Being a green horn member of GCC, Amon questioned Mado about his instinct for accusing a kind old woman as a disguising Ghoul. Due to his lack of experience regarding to the ghoul predatory nature, he taught that his superior only accused someone without solid proof. His goody-two shoes nature bite him when he decided to help the lady carrying his bag. In the secluded area, she attacked and showed him her real color until Mado came and finished of the Ghoul. This event purposefully gave the real connection from the episode when Amon decided to keep fighting Tohka when he did not bring his quinques.

As for the episode itself, it definitely a breather episode to give characters information as well as building the foundation for the possibility of the next episodes encounter. After losing her parents from the inspector, Hinami lived together with Tohka and they formed a sister like bond. Due to her identity already exposed to the dove, she also had to disguise herself if she had to go outside. Because of the trauma of losing both of her parents, sometimes Hinami kept feeling sad every time he came across the gang where her mother died and she desperately cried when her pet parrot sick.

I have nothing much to say about this episode as some parts of the scene were more or less only fill the empty slot for the air time such like when the Amon caught the glimpse of Mado's wife or confrontation between Tohka and Nishiki. I found these scene less important to show for us; the audience. So what's the point of showing Mado's wife if we never knew she even existed before. It did not give the impact of losing a person like what this show normally capable of showing before. If the wife appeared in the previous episodes, at least we would feel bitter when Hinami stabbed and killed Mado in the last episode.

Nevertheless, there were interesting development regarding a mysterious character that pick-pocketed Kaneki's wallet. It was not known whether he was a foe or an ally and apart from his white hair and stitched arms, we were left with guessing whether he had a good or bad motives. The only thing that we knew was he had a sudden interest to Kaneki and from my opinion, his curiosity more or less related to the Ghoul that lived inside Kaneki's body; Rize.

The best part of the episode was when Tohka past was revealed to us. She had a younger brother who seems more timid compared to her boyish personality. Then, the last screen confirmed that his brother was the one responsible to create disturbance in the 11 district , which make me keep guessing what kind of event that changed his behavior and compassion.

Another interesting points from this episode also came from Hyde curiosity regarding ghoul. While he said that he only interested in ghouls due to the book that he read. I smell his curiosity came from his realization that his best friend was also a ghoul. Hyde might not mention it directly but if you watch the second episode of the Tokyo Ghoul, you will realize that he only pretended to sleep when Kaneki was talking to Mr Yoshimura about his half ghoul condition. Then when he overheard Jason talked about Rize, his reaction definitely told us that he knew about Anteiku's secret.

The last part of the episode introduced three mysterious ghouls who went to 20 district with Anteiku as their destination and it seems that they also have relation to the binge eater A.K.A Rize. What is their story? What is the intention of Tohka's brother? Who was the white haired person that pick-pocketed Kaneki? So many questions lingering in my head and we will see what kind of story Tokyo Ghouls intended to told us later.

Episode 8 of Tokyo Ghouls will finish the battle between Tohka and Mado and this episode filled with gruesome battle between the characters though the censor ruined our enjoyment especially at the most crucial part. In term of character setting, Mado was the kind of character that you will not like even from the moment of his first appearance. He was a psychopathic old man with and maniacal laughter plus a warmonger and bloodthirsty behavior. Unlike Amon he depicted another stereotyped anime villain; sadist, unforgiving, and have a hideous appearance. Unfortunately, we never see him having a humane characteristic such as compassion, or showing mercy and the thing that made me sad was he did not have any background story or other motivational reason that made him hate Ghouls and hunted them crazily. It was sad to to see a completely 2 dimensional character made just for being a villain and no other role expect for taking karma for his previous misdeeds.

Mado used the scent of Hinami's mother to attract her in order to capture rabbit (Tohka) out. The episode also explained to us that the inspector could create a weapon from the remaining organ of the ghoul especially the lamune (ghoul extensional arms like organ). Mado used Mrs Ryoko's lamune as his shield and her husband lamune as a chain like weapon. Meanwhile, Kaneki spotted Amon who wanted to join Mado and he bravely stood in front of him. In their fight, Amon angrily lamenting the death of his friend. He was engulfed with anger and sadness because ghouls have taken the life of the innocences.

In other place, Tohka fought Mado furiously but he managed to strangle Tohka because of his new weapons. Tohka in her anger shouted that they only wanted to live and having a ghoul body was something that she never wanted. She added that it was her body and her instincts that made her wanted to eat people fleshes. She felt bitter because kind ghouls like Hinami's parents were killed although they never attack human. Meanwhile, Kaneki have no other option than succumbing to his ghoulish nature due to the fact that the inspector proved stronger than him. Still, when he won over the inspector, he asked him to run because he did not want to murder a fellow human being

I think the battle for this episode focus mainly on the emotion between Ghouls and Humans as both want to survive and continue living. Each side only want to live but due to ironic circumstances, the weaker person have to lost their life. In this case, it was Hinami's parents and Amon's friend who become the victim of the tragedy. Through the battle, we learn that the only person who could sympathized with both race was Kaneki because he was a human forced to have a half ghoul body. He knew that each race deserve to live and his encounter that he had with Anteiku gangs and Hinami's family made him realize that not all Ghoul threat human as prey. In the other hand, there are normal and kind people like Hyde and Amon's friend who unfortunately got caught in the battle between Ghouls and Human.

When Tohka almost got killed, Hinami anger unleashed her potent power and it was revealing that she inherited both of her parents abilities. The crazy thing was how easily Hinami defeat Mado even though an S class ghoul such as Jason could not tear him apart. In the beginning, I thought Kaneki would help Tohka and they could finally put him to rest. However, when he tried to attack Hinami for the second time, her ghoulish wing like Lamune fatally stroke the old man putting him at the death door. The strong emotional impact that I felt from this episode was when Hinami cried after hitting the old man. She did not want revenge at all and the only thing that she wants was to be with her parents. I admitted that when Hinami crying, I felt so sorry for her. I could feel the real emotion from the voice and the picture, which made the episode once again manage to captivate me.

The latest episode of Tokyo Ghoul was literally a bit let down from my previous expectation. To put it simply, today episode did not give a strong impression for me. In reality, the episode only focus the background story for Amon, one of the two inspectors who apparently have more humane side than his partner Mado. In addition, the episode started Tohka first rampage to the Dove which unfortunately only make her seems like the bad guy as the person who she killed, Kusaba, apparently have no relation to Mrs Ryoko's murder although he did work for the GCC. Unfortunately, he was working for the internal part of the organization and unlike the more sadistic Mado, he was a normal and likable guy.

Following last week event, the two inspectors surrounded Mrs Ryoko, Hinami's mother, and the first thing that shocked her was Mado's weapon as it was made from the remain of her husband.  In the beginning, I thought she would go berserk and attack both of the inspectors for killing her husband. Alas, she was a kind of ghoul who despised attacking human and the only thing she could do was crying. Kaneki and Hinami, who watched in the corner, could not do anything when Mado executed her and Kaneki could only close Hinami eyes so she did not witness the image of her mother's head being separated from her body. As gruesome as I depict the event, I ensure you that Tokyo Ghoul tried it best not to show frightening images for it audiences so you could relax and watch the episode. I thought that Tokyo Ghoul would make the dead of Mrs Ryoko more dramatic but my prediction did not really happen in this episode, which made me a bit disappointed.

When Touka heard about the incident she went totally mad to the Doves and she asked the help from Anteiku members to revenge Hinami's mother. However, Mr Yoshimura prohibited her to exact the revenge since Anteiku had a rule that they will not attack the inspectors as they were trying to co-exist with human and attacking the doves meant that they broke the rule and might endanger the existence of other passive ghouls. Yet, Touka could not accept the condition and she planned to exact her revenge even if that mean she had to give up her position in Anteiku.

The scene changed to Amon and his subordinates who had lunch together. Along with their conversation, some of Amon's past was explained like how he attend the academy and how he told Kusaba about the death of his friend. Afterward, they split way and it was the time when the battle really start. Tohka eliminated Kusaba instantly and she almost killed the other person, Nakajima, until Amon came and saved him. Tohka almost killed Amon, who was weaponless, when Mado came to the scene and battle Tohka. Afterward, they duke it out in a one and one battle with Mado reigning superior due to his more experience in battling ghoul. With no other option, Tohka fled the scene. 

Mr Yoshimuro had no other option but threw Tohka out from Anteiku due to her disobedience. She had her own reason to revenge Mrs Ryoko death though; because unlike her, Mrs Ryoko never hurt anyone and it made her angry that the society stripped the ghouls right to live and coexist with normal human. In the last part of the episode, Tohka dragged Kaneki with her to help her battling the inspectors while Amon and Nakajima talked about Kusaba. Tohka tried to bait Mado using the phone call and in another place, Kaneki received and wore the mask that Uta made for him. Ok, this episode might not blow my emotional heart like usual. However, the premise for the next episode was higher (I hope next episode will not disappoint me though)

Finally the episode explain the question that I had from the previous episodes. What is Anteiku? The answer was clearly explained in this episode. Anteiku was the name of the coffee shop that Kaneki and company working. It was the place for Ghouls who live along with human to hang out and blend with the society. The coffee shop that founded by Mr Yoshimura also provided raw human meat for the ghouls who did not hunt for human just like an ordinary fast food restaurant serves hamburger or fried chicken to us. 

Regarding last week deadly battle between Kaneki, Tohka, and Nishiki against Shu, the episode also concluded the battle although I considered it was a bit anticlimactic. With Tohka absorbing Kaneki's blood, she overpowered Shu in strenghts department. Knowing that Shu would lose the battle, he targeted Kimi as his back up source of power. His plan completely ruined though as Nishiki grabbed his feet while Tohka finished him off . Like usual, the censor for Tokyo Ghoul ruined our viewing pleasure with most of the decapitated part getting blurred with a white line. Back to the main topic; regardless of Tohka determination's to finish Kimi as she witnessed their identity, Kaneki word reached her and she changed her mind afterward. This episode also started the beginning of Nishiki joined Anteiku gang with him working as waitress in order to pay the raw meat that Anteiku provided.

The person who intimidated Minami's father turned out to be Jason or the S-Rank Ghoul who fought Rize at the beginning of the series. The two inspectors who searched for Jason used Hinami's father to lure him out and afterward a battle ensued between the inspectors and Jason. Jason have stronger physical body than the his opponents but their cooperation and special weapons made them capable of fending off his attack. Just when Jason left the scene; Hinami's father used his last strengths to survive while revealing his ghoulish body. Once again, another sad scene happened as Hinami and her mother reconciled, the inspectors finished her father off even though I considered last week episode had stronger emotion than this one.

I have to correct the assumption that I made from my previous post. Hinami was not a half ghoul like Kaneki. She was a full blooded ghoul since both of her parents were ghouls. The revelation happened when the inspector used the odor of Hinami's deceased father to lure her out. Ultimately, Hinami's mother had to show her real ghoulish body in order to protect Hinami. This time another sad scene happened again. Hinami's mother asked her to run away while she kept the inspectors at bay. It was sad and very traumatizing experience for Hinami and I could not help feeling sad for the little girl. For the past two episodes, Tokyo ghoul played with the viewer feeling and I can guess that Hinami's mother sacrifice will add more sad scenes for the next episode.

In my opinion, last week episode had stronger emotion than this episode. However, I thought that the episode had a decent story and it told us how a mother would sacrifice her life for her children safety no matter if she was a human or a ghoul. Last but not least, the episode left decent impression for me and here I am waiting for another episode while keeping the bucket of tissue nearby.

This episode have a very strong emotional impact on me. The character development today focused in Nishiki; a character that I thought have met his end in the second episode of Tokyo Ghoul. I love an anime that develop their character because it made me feel their emotion and this episode truly made me feel Nishiki's struggle and how he perceived the world that turned him down.

Just like usual, the episode started with a slow pacing event involving Kaneki visiting Touka's room complete with Touka's friend misunderstanding toward her relationship to Kaneki. The scene changed to Shu whose obsession toward Kaneki turned to the climax. The scary purpled haired ghoul formed another plan to lure Kaneki out. The scene continued to Kaneki who saved Nishiki from Ghouls who planned to cannibalize him. After sending Nishiki to his apartment, Kaneki met Nishiki girlfriend, Kimi who later explained to him the reason why she still loved Nishiki even knowing that he was a ghoul.

If you think Nishiki (the glasses ghoul who wanted to ate Kaneki's friend) as a side character without emotional development, this episode would prove it wrong. It truly made him a star in character's background story. As we watch the episode, we were given his past along with his older sister as orphan. The younger Nishiki was a kind and idealist soul who never enjoyed eating human and his older sister was the one who provided human meat to him. I knew if a kind person pushed beyond his or her limit, s/he might went ashtray and this condition happened to him. The sister that he loved so much was betrayed by her own lover. The human manager who find out about his sister Identity as a ghoul reported the authority and made her sister killed, leaving Nishiki alone. The anger for losing his sister made him threw his hope for humanity and he ended up become a blood thirsty ghoul.

The episode turned more heated as Shu kidnapped Nishiki's girlfriend; Kimi as a bait to lure Kaneki to his place. Just as Shu beat Kaneki and Nishiki to pulp, Touka entered the scene and assisted them in order to defeat Shu. Again, Nishiki background story about his relationship to Kimi was revealed to us. After the dead of his sister, he accidentally met Kimi while buying a can of coffee. Their meeting developed into a mutual attraction and after a brief moment, Kimi revealed that she had no parents and the only person that she had now was Nishiki. The strongest moment of their relationship was when Nishiki intended to devour Kimi, just after he was mortally wounded by Kaneki, He lost his strengths while attacking Kimi and with the revelation as his ghoulish nature, he feared that she would contact the authority after knowing his secret. Surprisingly, she let him eat a part of her shoulder while explaining that he was the person who saved her from killing herself. I could not stop myself from feeling very emotional after this part and wanted to cried my eyes out.

Even with the combined power from two and a half ghouls, Shu still proved too strong for Kaneki and his companion. Just as the episode turned to the climax, Touka and Kaneki combined their power by letting Touka bit him and let his half ghoul power to merge with Touka's full ghoul blood. Too bad the episode was ended in such cliffhanger but I have to admit that the episode was very strong emotionally and I really, really wanted to see the continuation of this episode. Now where is my tissue I needed to swipe the tears of my sullen eyes T_T

Tokyo Ghoul started to feel more like a horror anime than an action anime for me. The anime tried to build tension through new characters who acted as friend then suddenly trap the main character. And this episode was the exact example for a betrayal of a friendly person. So following the episode last week it started when a mysterious guest entered the cafe, the man wore a stylish suits with a purple colored hair. Just when he arrived, Toka immediately start scowling and asked him to leave. With a sinister smile he tried to talk to Kaneki and later on left the caffe. Toka later warned Kaneki that the man was a parasite of ward 20 and he should be wary with him.

The episode then pictured Toka having lunch with her human friend and how she ended up vomiting her friends food. Of course we already knew that every ghoul; including Toka faked their likes for human food. The scene switched to Kaneki who was sitting in the park while reading book. The purple haired guy came and introduced himself as Tsukiyama Shu. He later on try to convince Kaneki that people kept misunderstood about him and he had no bad intention to Kaneki. He told Kaneki that he also read the same book from Kaneki's favorite author thus inviting him to come to his mansion.

Later on Tomo, the person who Kaneki helped to collect the suicide victims' bodies came to the bar. He basically taught Kaneki some self defense and then later on took Kaneki to Helter Skelter Bar. In the bar, the owner of the bar, Itori, told Kaneki about the chance of a half born ghoul lived in the world. She explained that half blood ghoul possess higher power than the full blood one. It means Kaneki and the little girl from the previous episode had higher potential to become stronger ghouls. Back to the bar, Itori told Kaneki about Rize incident. It looks like someone tried to trap Rize and killed her as an eyewitness saw someone standing above the building which construction fell to Rize during the first episode.

The thing that I dislike about a character like Kaneki was his gullibility toward a person who tried to befriend him. I mean Toka already warned him to stay away from Shu. Yet, just with a little convincing, he still went to his place although he had another reason to see Shu since he want to know Shu relation with the Ghoul inside his mind; Rize. It was a bad decision to come to though and he was never knew that the parasite already planned a scary agenda for him.

Now the main event start, when Kaneki woke up, he found himself in the middle of a Colosseum like arena. He was the main attraction and the one who set him up was none other than Shu himself. A giant and fat Ghoul entered the arena with a giant cleaver like saw in hand. Of course his main interest was to slaughter Kaneki and there were many spectators in the arena who wanted to taste Kaneki's blood. It kind of scary development when Kaneki's realize that he could not use his feet after getting knocked down due to the coffee paralyzes effect that he drank earlier. When Kaneki was in a grave danger his one eyed ghoul unleashed his hidden power and he ended up knocking up the giant executioner. The crazy part was how Shu killed the big executioner after knowing that Kaneki was a half blood Ghoul. He became completely obsessed with Kaneki and wanted to devour him alone.

The episode had a concrete storyline. It started slow with new characters, Shu and Itori, introduced to the audience as they interacted with the main character. Then after sudden event, the episode exploded with a frightening experience of the Kaneki who was about to get slaughtered. It ended just abruptly with the host of the tournament killed the scrapper with the most scariest intention ever. A decent episode yet I want to know what kind of experiences we will see in the next episode.

The third episode of Tokyo Ghoul was like a breather episode after two intense episodes. If you expected plenty of action, you might get disappointed with the episode. However, the episode will get the viewer to understand about the ghouls, who assimilate in the human society as well as their method to hide their presence in the real world. Too bad though the word “anteiku” was still not properly explained in this episode. I don't know whether it was the Ghouls' world or Ghouls' organization. The word was still a bit vague to decipher right now

The first thing we watch was a conversation between the doctor and his patient. When the patient went out, out of the sudden someone threw him back to the doctor office. A man dressed in white suite entered the room then threatened the doctor while his wife and daughter cowering in fear in the hidden spot behind the doctor. Later on, the episode revealed that the daughter, Hinami, was a half born ghouls just like Kaneki, which means that one of her parent was a ghoul. 

The following scene took place in the coffee shop where Toka worked. Hyde was recovered from his injury and after thanking Toka and explained about what happened, he left the place. Toka gave a warning to Kaneki that should hide discovered their secret as Ghoul, she would not hesitate to kill him on spot. In the last episode, we could see him overhearing Kaneki conversation with the old manager and it seems that he already realized about Kaneki's condition. Well, the good thing was he knew about Kaneki's dilemma and he was not afraid to him though he had to act as if nothing truly happened after last episode incident

Another important event that I want to tell you is that there was an organization called GCC in Tokyo. The people worked there were specialized in exterminating Ghouls and they more or less capable of dealing with them even if the later had better physical power. There were two important GCC agents introduced in this episode. One was a stout and fine looking detective Amon Kotaro, whose jobs merely focused in investigating the clue regarding the Binge eater (Rize); the other was Mado, a scary old man who acted as the ghoul exterminator. Their combined power were real nightmare for ghouls that even the old manager, Mr Yoshimura asked Toka to accompany Kaneki getting his mask done as quickly as possible.

The real fact was although some ghouls, for example Hinami (the daughter), did not hunt and attack human, they still need to eat human flesh. The only solution for them to get raw human meat without attacking humans was through collecting a suicide victims' body. It was truly surprised when knowing that little Hinami ate human fleshes like eating a cake. It was explained that she was a half blood ghoul so her existence was at least similar to Kaneki; yet it was obvious that a ghoul could only ate human flesh to live on so, both Toka and Mr Yoshimura more or less also ate suicide victims' bodies to stay alive.

I know the episode gave us so many jargons and unfamiliar words that could confuse us. However, I still consider the episode as a decent episode as it gave further detail of the ghoul society. Kaneki was more or less started to accept his newfound condition and with the way the episode started to explain some of the term used in this episode, sooner or later we might know about the origin of the ghouls. I hope the next episode bring more entertainment and excitement than this one.

Here are some jargons appeared in this episode that I could explain to you from watching

Anteiku : the words is still too vague but from the explanation. From mr Yoshimura's explanation, Anteiku provided food for Ghoul who did not hunt for people. In the other hand, Mr Uta, the mask artist said a place called anteiku

Box carrier: Toka refer the box to Mado's case of weapon. So it is likely she refer to Mado

Doves: Doves was the term used by ghoul to call the GCC inspectors such as Amon and Mado

Ward 20: the district where the event of the anime took place or the area of Kaneki and his friend lives.

Mask : The ghoul who lived in the human society need the mask to stay hidden from GCC inspectors. The mask appearance was like a normal mask although how the ghoul wore them was still unexplained as most ghouls in this series did not seems to wear one