Tokyo Ghoul
Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 published by Shueisha.
東京喰種-トーキョーグール- (Tōkyō Gūru)
Genre	Dark fantasy[1] Action Tragedy
Manga
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	September 8, 2011 –September 18, 2014
Volumes	14
Anime television series
Tokyo Ghoul
Directed by	Shuhei Morita
Written by	Chūji Mikasano
Music by	Yutaka Yamada
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation UK Anime Limited
Network	Tokyo MX, TVA, TVQ, TVO,AT-X, Dlife
Original run	July 3, 2014 –September 18, 2014
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul: JACK
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Jump Live
Original run	August 2014 – ongoing
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	October 16, 2014 – ongoing
Anime television series
Tokyo Ghoul √A
Directed by	Shuhei Morita
Written by	Chūji Mikasano
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment
Network	Tokyo MX
Original run	January 8, 2015 – scheduled
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PLOT

Characters

Main Characters[edit]

Ken Kaneki (金木 研 Kaneki Ken^?) / Haise Sasaki (佐々木 琲世 Sasaki Haise^?)

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae^[3]

The protagonist of the story, he is an 18 year old university freshman that receives an organ transplant from Rize, who was trying to kill him before she was struck by a fallen i-beam and seemingly killed. After the operation he develops ghoul like tendencies and characteristics, and his rationality begins to wane. As one that is now both ghoul and human he struggles to keep his ghoul identity secret, always fighting against his ghoul side while trying to continue to live like a normal human. He later works as a waiter for Anteiku under Yoshimura's guidance. After his fight with Amon he gains the name "Eye Patch" because of his mask's design and becomes somewhat famous after a ghoul saw him defeating the investigator. He loves to read and is normally quiet and reserved but can be calculating when fighting. He has a bad trait of easily trusting strangers which sometimes puts him in life threatening situation. After being kidnapped by the ghoul run organization known as Aogiri Tree, he is mercilessly tortured by a sadistic ghoul and later develops similar traits like his torturer. While being tortured he has hallucinations of Rize has she mocks him about his mother which leads to him finally embracing his inner ghoul, leading him to become a ruthless anti-hero. His view on strength changes and he goes on a power hungry path by cannibalizing other ghouls in order to get stronger. The continued cannibalization led him to become a half kakuja, where he develops a centipede shaped kagune and gains the alias "Centipede".

Kaneki is ultimately defeated and captured by Arima, and with no memories of his past, is given the new identity of Haise Sasaki, member and ace of the Mado Squad, and mentor of the Quinx Squad, a special unit composed of half-ghouls like him. Despite having a new identity, Haise still retains some traits from his former self, like the love for reading and the determination to protect his companions with his life. When pressured to the limit, Haise has glimpses of his former self and unlocks his powers as a half kakuja, forcing the CCG to strike him with RC supressors to calm him down. Cherishing his job and friends, Sasaki refuses to remember his past, certain that this can put his current life in jeopardy.

Kishō Arima (有馬 貴将 Arima Kishō^?)

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa^[3]

A co-protagonist of Tokyo Ghoul:JACK, he is a famed Special Class Ghoul Investigator known as the CCG's Reaper (CCGの死神CCG no Shinigami^?). He is always seen wearing his glasses, with his face kept in an apathetic expression, rarely showing any emotion if not at all. Arima was hailed as a genius within the CCG, stemming from his affiliation with the organization since his teens and quickly rising to the top. Fighting with multiple quinques, he is strong enough to defeat Ghouls that are too strong to be defeated by anyone else in the force. After defeating Kaneki, he takes him under his guard under the new identity of Haise Sasaki and becomes his mentor, with orders to kill him should he goes out of control.

Taishi Fura (富良 太志 Fura Taishi^?)

A co-protagonist of Tokyo Ghoul:JACK, Taishi is a First-Class Ghoul Investigator. Fura, as a teenager, attended Seishin Senior Highschool along with Arima. Though he never liked school, he usually went shopping and did all the housework, since his mother never did. He had two childhood friends; Ryou, with whom he played baseball and Aki, a girl whom he had a crush on. When Ryou associated himself with a gang of bikers, this lead to his death, as he was stabbed by the Kagune of a killer ghoul, "Lantern," whom Arima was currently investigating. Witnessing his friend's tragic death, Fura grew heated for vengeance, and pleaded with Arima to help with his investigation, wanting to know about ghouls right away. Thus, he eventually undertook the career of Ghoul Investigation

Ghouls[edit]

Tōka Kirishima (霧嶋 董香 Kirishima Tōka^?)

Voiced by: Sora Amamiya^[3]

A sixteen year-old ghoul of the 20th ward, that works part-time as a waitress in Anteiku and attends high school. She blends in well with human society and believes that keeping one's ghoul identity is of top most priority. She is sometimes vindictive and is usually a very rash and reckless individual with violent tendencies. She also isn't afraid to let anyone know when she is not fond of them. She later becomes Kaneki's training partner, and their movements become in synch when fighting as a team. She is a good fighter and is more than a match for either Tsukiyama Shū or Nishio Nishiki on even grounds, though not nearly as strong as Yomo. She later comes to be known as "Rabbit" after her attack on some investigators, killing one of them in the process. She takes up the role as Hinami's guardian after her parents are killed by investigators. She appears to have Ornithophobia. After the timeskip, she reappears running a new coffee shop called ":re" with Renji.

Rize Kamishiro (神代 利世 Kamishiro Rize^?)

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa^[3]

Rize is a girl with glasses that Kaneki encounters, who tries to eat him after luring him out on a date with her. Parts of her body are transplanted into Kaneki after she is struck by a fallen i-beam. Before the i-beam incident Rize was a very powerful, fearless and merciless ghoul, often preventing other ghouls from hunting in areas she stole from them. Before she came to the 20th ward, she wreaked havoc in the 11th ward attracting the Anti-Ghoul Investigators to it. Before leaving she killed the ghouls that were in charge and caused a shift in power. She is known as the "Binge Eater" by investigators and like Kaneki she was very fond of reading. Originally believed to be killed during her encounter with Kaneki, later it is revealed that she is still alive and her body was used to produce materials for Ghoul/Human experiments by Dr. Kanou, and Kaneki's transformation into a ghoul was the result of one of them.

Shū Tsukiyama (月山 習 Tsukiyama Shū^?)

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano^[3]

He's one of the most troublesome ghouls of the 20th ward to the point where even some ghouls wouldn't get involved with him. He is known as the "Gourmet" by investigators and is one of the most difficult ghouls to capture. He is a part of the "Ghoul Restaurant" under the alias MM. He is a very powerful, cunning, smug, and fashionable ghoul and was also an acquaintance of Rize. Like both Kaneki and Rize he is an avid reader. He sometimes says words or phrases in either English, Spanish, French or Italian and develops an obsession for Kaneki. He is very athletic and proficient in martial arts.

Yoshimura (芳村^?)

Voiced by: Takayuki Sugo^[3]

The manager of Anteiku, he is a very kind and reasonable ghoul that provides aid and food to ghouls that are incapable of hunting on their own like Kaneki and Hinami. He takes Kaneki in after he becomes a half-ghoul and teaches him the ways in which ghouls can blend in with humans. He also has a mysterious past related to Aogiri. After Anteiku's secret is exposed and the place is raid by the CCG, he is rescued by his daughter, who is also a half-ghoul and part of the Aogiri Tree.

Hinami Fueguchi (笛口 雛実 Fueguchi Hinami^?)

Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi^[3]

Hinami is a 13-14 year old ghoul that came to the 20th ward with her mother after her father was killed by ghoul investigators. She is very shy and yearns for knowledge as she isn't allowed to go to school. She meets Kaneki in Anteiku and becomes attached to him, seeing him as an older brother after he helps her with learning Kanji. She begins living with Touka after her mother is killed by Mado. She enjoys books from one of Kaneki's favorite authors and loves learning new things. She is shown to have a heightened sense of smell, even more powerful than regular ghouls. In the sequel she is shown to be part of Aogiri Tree.

Nishiki Nishio (西尾 錦 Nishio Nishiki^?)

Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma^[3]

A ghoul that is a second year student that attends the same university as Kaneki. He is arrogant and hates it whenever his juniors talk back to him. He is very territorial and is hostile to other ghouls that invade his space. His hunting grounds were stolen from him by Rize after a fight which he lost and he tries to reclaim it after her death, but is stopped by Touka. He is a loner and fairly good fighter that even small groups of ghouls tend to avoid. Like Touka he blends in well with human society, he even has a human girlfriend and is well known at the university. After the time skip, he becomes a powerful S~rank ghoul known as "Serpent", and goes around hunting down and killing CCG investigators as well as other ghouls. He seems to have a great dislike towards both CCG and Aogiri Tree commenting that they are the same and disgusting for creating "fake" ghouls.

Renji Yomo (四方 蓮示 Yomo Renji^?)

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura^[4]

Yomo is quiet and reserved and usually helps Yoshimura out by collecting food for Anteiku. Before working behind the scenes for Anteiku, he used to have very violent tendencies much like how Toka is now and would often fight with Uta making the 4th ward uninhabitable. Regardless of his cold demeanor he does genuinely care about those around him. He is good friends with Uta and Itori.

Uta (ウタ^?)

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai^[4]

A ghoul that owns Hysy ArtMask Studio, in the 4th ward, he makes masks for both ghouls and human customers alike. Despite his appearance he is a very calm ghoul, and speaks very kindly, he is also close friends with Renji Yomo and Itori. In the past he would often get into fights with Yomo and this caused the 4th ward to become uninhabitable.

Commision of Counter Ghoul (CCG)[edit]

Humans[edit]

Kōtarō Amon (亜門 鋼太朗 Amon Kōtarō^?)

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi^[3]

He's a Rank 1 Anti-Ghoul Investigator and a partner of Mado. When he was a little boy he used to live in an orphanage managed by the priest, Donato Porpora, until he found out that he was a ghoul killing his friends. He has a very strong sense of justice and believes that he must make this 'Wrong World' right by killing the ghouls whose murders create orphans, He is very dedicated to his job and begins to work even harder after Mado is killed. He fought Kaneki but he lost; however, Kaneki let him go. After the events of the first manga, his status is unknown.

Hideyoshi Nagachika (永近 英良 Nagachika Hideyoshi^?)

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga^[3]

Nagachika is Kaneki's best friend, nicknamed "Hide". He has a sharp intuition, so much so that while Kaneki tries to keep his ghoul identity hidden from him, Nagachika seems to know something is weird about his best friend. After Kaneki disappears, Hideyoshi joins the Anti-Ghoul forces in order to learn about his whereabouts, eventually being promoted to Rookie Investigator and partnered with Amon and Akira.

Kureo Mado (真戸 呉緒 Mado Kureo^?)

Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa^[3]

He's an Anti-Ghoul Investigator with the rank of Senior Investigator and he works with Amon to achieve his goal. A very experienced and ruthless fighter, he is more than a challenge even for the physically superior ghoul and always trusts his intuition, which is never wrong. His ultimate downfall came from the fact that he was obsessed with quinques (weapons made from the ghouls' kagune) and while fighting Tōka and Hinami he let his guard down by his fascination with the latter, being killed by them. His daughter, Akira worked with his partner after his death. His goal was to get revenge on the "One-eyed Owl" ghoul for killing his wife.

Akira Mado (真戸 暁 Mado Akira^?)

Kureo's daughter and a Ghoul Investigator like him, she becomes Amon's partner after her father's death. She is an intelligent woman and seems to be always serious about work and her daily routine in general. Like her father, she has deep insight and intuition that helps her in investigation and determining what is going on around her while on the field. After Amon is declared KIA, she becomes Haise's team leader and the overseer of the Quinx Squad.

Quinxes[edit]

Kuki Urie (瓜江 久生 Urie Kuki^?)

A Rank 2 Ghoul Investigator who was the Squad Leader of the Quinx Squad until he was replaced with Ginshi. Urie often displays himself as a cool-headed individual, but is reckless and vicious when confronting Ghouls, as he hates them with a passion, as his father was a special class investigator in charge of the S3 squad, who ordered his team members to retreat while he stayed to fight the One-Eyed Owl to the death. This hate also extended to Haise after he discovered that he is a half-ghoul instead of just a Quinx.

Ginshi Shirazu (不知 吟士 Shirazu Ginshi^?)

A Rank 3 Ghoul Investigator and the Squad Leader of the Quinx Squad. Like most of his teammates, Ginshi is shown to have great respect for Haise. However, this doesn’t stop him from going out of his way to execute missions without Sasaki’s permission, and so he is constantly seen accompanying Urie, on dangerous assignments without support. His primary motive for joining the Quinx Squad is to get fast money for a yet unrevealed purpose, but his determination to help others earns him Haise's respect, to the point of nominating him the new leader.

Tooru Mutsuki (六月 透 Mutsuki Tōru^?)

A Rank 3 Ghoul Investigator, Tooru was born female, but after losing her family to the Ghouls, decides to start acting and behaving as a man. Tooru struggles to keep his one eyed kakugan under control and has a recurring case of Anemia. Ironically, he feels repulsed when he comes in contact with blood. Despite that, he is the most diligent and reliable member of the team.

Saiko Yonebayashi (米林 才子 Yonebayashi Saiko^?)

A Rank 3 Ghoul Investigator, Saiko dislikes having to work, as she prefers having a peaceful and carefree life, playing video games and eating junk food excessively. She often oversleeps, which earns her the absence from most missions.