Reviews for Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul:Void was a very entertaining read. Each story had it’s own uniqueness which can stand out on their own. However, the real beauty of the stories, is that they are all connected to each other. For example, Morimine manages to make appearances in almost all of the stories and it is not just him. It’s this sense of the stories being connected by a certain case which show that the characters are not isolated from each other. Each person has their role to play in the grand scheme of things. I highly recommend this book if you are fan of Tokyo Ghoul and ifyou are not I suggest you read it anyway and try to get into the series. Though mostly I mean read the manga then watch the anime(dear god) but I won’t rant about that again. I suppose one drawback of the interconnections of the story is, if you pay close attention to details, it can become a lot easier to know the direction of where each story is going MOST of the time. However, you need to pay attention to fine details to get some of the subtleties of the story and the various connections it makes. All and all I recommend giving this book a chance if you are looking for a short read to help occupy some free time.

Most light novels that serve as a side story for a populare anime/manga franchise are just cashgrabs, with nothing of much value and with the set expectations of „You’ll get to read about your favourite characters more“, which is what the fans are mostly content with. The Tokyo Ghoul novels are nice in a way that they would work as a short story collection even if not connected to already successful title. Which is to say, even if you didn’t know any of the characters and only have the knowledge that this takes place in word where both humans and ghouls exist, the content still worksout on a literary level.

Many spin off LNs fall for the trap of overfocusing on canon events, so it’s nice that this one is more about ideas an human relationship stories that are applicable beyond the scope of the given copyrighted world