Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ken Kaneki
東京喰種トーキョーグール
(Tōkyō Gūru)
Genre
Manga
Written bySui Ishida
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runSeptember 8, 2011September 18, 2014
Volumes14 (List of volumes)
Further information
Light novel
Written byShin Towada
Illustrated bySui Ishida
Published byShueisha
English publisher
  • NA: Viz Media
ImprintJump J-Books
DemographicMale
Original runJuly 19, 2013December 19, 2014
Volumes3 (List of volumes)
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]
Written bySui Ishida
Published byShueisha
English publisher
  • NA: Viz Media
ImprintYoung Jump Comics Digital
MagazineJump Live
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 2013September 2013
Volumes1 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed byShuhei Morita
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Hajime Maruyama
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Hidetada Soga
Written byChūji Mikasano
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVO, AT-X, Dlife
English network
Original run July 4, 2014 September 19, 2014
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Written bySui Ishida
Published byShueisha
English publisher
  • NA: Viz Media
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runOctober 16, 2014July 5, 2018
Volumes16 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Tokyo Ghoul √A
Directed byShuhei Morita
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Hajime Maruyama
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Hidetada Soga
Written byChūji Mikasano
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll[a]
    • UK: Anime Limited
Original networkTokyo MX, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVO, AT-X, Dlife, MRO
English network
  • UK: Viceland
  • US: Adult Swim (Toonami)
Original run January 9, 2015 March 27, 2015
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]
Directed bySōichi Shimada
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Hajime Maruyama
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Hidetada Soga
Written byChūji Mikasano
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll[a]
    • UK: Anime Limited
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2015
Runtime30 minutes
Original video animation
Tokyo Ghoul: Pinto
Directed byTadahito Matsubayashi
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Hajime Maruyama
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Hidetada Soga
Written bySōichi Shimada
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll[a]
    • UK: Anime Limited
ReleasedDecember 25, 2015
Runtime24 minutes
Light novel
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Written byShin Towada
Illustrated bySui Ishida
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump J-Books
DemographicMale
PublishedDecember 19, 2016
Anime television series
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Directed byToshinori Watanabe
Produced by
  • Ken Hagino
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Hidetada Soga
Written byChūji Mikasano
Music byYutaka Yamada
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, Sun TV, TVA, TVQ, BS11
English network
  • UK: Viceland
Original run April 3, 2018 December 25, 2018
Episodes24 (List of episodes)
Live-action film
Video games
  • Tokyo Ghoul: Carnaval ∫ Color (2015)
  • Tokyo Ghoul: Jail (2015)
  • Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War (2016)
  • Tokyo Ghoul: re Invoke (2017)
  • Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist (2019)
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Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種トーキョーグール, Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from September 2011 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 14 tankōbon volumes. The story is set in an alternate version of Tokyo where humans coexist with ghouls, beings who look like humans but can only survive by eating human flesh. Ken Kaneki is a college student who is transformed into a half-ghoul after an encounter with one of them. He must navigate the complex social and political dynamics between humans and ghouls while struggling to maintain his humanity.

A prequel, titled Tokyo Ghoul [Jack], ran online on Jump Live in 2013, with its chapters collected in a single tankōbon volume. A sequel, titled Tokyo Ghoul:re, was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from October 2014 to July 2018, its chapters were collected in 16 tankōbon volumes.

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot, aired on Tokyo MX from July to September 2014. A 12-episode second season, titled Tokyo Ghoul √A (pronounced Tokyo Ghoul Root A), which follows an original story, aired from January to March 2015. A live-action film based on the manga was released in Japan in July 2017, with a sequel being released in July 2019. An anime adaptation based on the sequel manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, aired for two seasons; the first from April to June 2018, and the second from October to December 2018. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for an English release, while Funimation licensed the anime series for streaming and home video distribution.

By January 2021, Tokyo Ghoul had over 47 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Morita was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Chapman, Paul (April 12, 2017). "Whet Your Appetite With the "Tokyo Ghoul" Teaser Trailer". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on February 18, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2020. Live-action adaptation based on the supernatural thriller manga by Sui Ishida hits theaters in Japan on July 29, 2017


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