That said, there are some legitimately good scenes of character development of the side characters. With everything feeling rushed and coming from left field, it's nearly impossible to get invested or enjoy the story.
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There is no coherent progression from one event to the next the end result is that the series as a whole feels like a haphazard, condensed jumbling of the manga. Major story arcs are melded together so that the overall picture is completely nonsensical. Root A attempts to condense something closer to 75-80 chapters and royally screws it up. The first season, while not perfect, was able to a manage a somewhat coherent story condensing around 60 chapters of manga. The story somewhat resembles season 1 Aldnoah Zero - intriguing major plot points outlined but no content to flesh out the story and add impact to the plot's important events.Ī large part of the problem is no doubt due to the shortness of the adaptation. Instead, Root A follows a rather slow-paced development of the supporting cast with intermittent unexplained violence. Simply nothing comes of this original direction despite the many glaringly obvious routes it could add to the series. For all intents and purposes, there are zero differences in plot progression between the anime and manga, besides the fact that the anime development of the characters is far inferior. I was excited for the prospect of a different take on perhaps the manga's weakest arc, but found myself disappointed by the lack of attention to the main character. Kaneki, who should've been the focal point of the so-called "original plot", is left thoroughly underdeveloped and recieves approximately half a minute of air-time per episode. I never got the feeling that there even was an original element to the story. From one episode to the next, content was centered around adaptations of the sidestory in the manga. Studio Pierrot proved itself completely inadequate to handling the franchise and we can only hope that the Tokyo Ghoul series gets the Brotherhood-esque 50-episode reboot with a much better studio.ĭespite a promising opening episode that immediately introduced a difference in story to the manga, Root A never seemed to be interested in actually developing an original story. For all the hype generated by Sui Ishida creating an original plot lineįor the anime to follow, Root A fell inconceivably short in almost all areas it could. It is a mess of unexplained plot points that insult the complexity of the source material it was adapted from. Root A, however, is trash from an anime-viewer-only perspective and worse than trash if you've read the manga. As a stand alone show, ignoring the quality of the manga, it was pretty good.
The first season of Tokyo Ghoul, while certainly not reaching the heights as the manga, was an enjoyable exposition to the series that was able lead newcomers like me to binge read the entire 143 chapter manga in two days.
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