“Tokyo Ghoul” is a psychological anime that follows the main character Ken Kaneki and the ghouls in his city. A couple of episodes into the show Kaneki goes on a date with Rize, a girl he’s liked for a while, towards the end of the date Kaneki is faced with Rize being a ghoul. Rize is later killed in the episode by metal bars that had fallen off a building. Kaneki survives, by getting an organ transplant from Rize’s organs, and later becomes a half-ghoul himself.

Kaneki is struggling to live now having to eat human flesh to survive, and he ends up making some friends at a coffee safehouse secretly owned by ghouls. Now Kaneki has to hide from the CCG, (the CCG is assigned to kill ghouls) and try and live his life as normally as possible.

When Kaneki finally accepts that he is a half-ghoul he becomes one of the most known ghouls in Tokyo. In the season 2 finale of “Tokyo Ghoul,” Kaneki’s best friend Hide dies, and Kaneki has to carry his body to the police and CCG, turning himself in at the same time.

Due to the trauma of Kaneki losing his best friend, he lost his memory and becomes a new person named Haise, who is used by the CCG. In season 3 Kaneki finally regains his memories and Haise is no longer. Although Kaneki chooses to live his life as Haise.

In Tokyo there was a ghoul that was known as the one-eyed king that Kaneki wanted to face. Kaneki faces the one-eyed king in a battle, so the king killed himself by slitting their own throat, and Kaneki took the name of the one-eyed king.  The show comes to an end with Kaneki’s life turned around when he started dating his girlfriend, Touka Kirishima, and having children with her.

In the first two seasons of “Tokyo Ghoul,” many people liked it, but that wasn’t the case for seasons three and four. A lot of people were displeased by those seasons, with comments made such as, “It’s missing the original plot of the show,” “It’s mostly just fighting, no dialogue,” and “They changed the characters and their story too much.”

Corona high junior Samantha Sotelo shared her thoughts on the show.

“I like all of the seasons from ‘Tokyo Ghoul,’ even though they’re all over the place,” Sotelo said. “I don’t think I could sit through the seasons again though, I wouldn’t pick ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ as a show to re-watch.”

“Tokyo Ghoul” is a good psychological anime to watch, that’s if you can pay attention, and have a good understanding of it. The show is rated a 4.7, would you change the rating?