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Format
TV
Episodes
12
Episode Duration
24 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Summer 2014
Aired
2014-07-04 to 2014-09-19
Source
Manga
Rating
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Genres
Action
Fantasy
Horror
Psychological
Suspense
Seinen
Gore
Studios
Pierrot
Producers
Marvelous AQL
TC Entertainment
Shueisha
Licensors
Funimation
Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種-トーキョーグール-)
A sinister threat is invading Tokyo: flesh-eating "ghouls" who appear identical to humans and blend into their population. Reserved college student Ken Kaneki buries his nose in books and avoids the news of the growing crisis. However, the appearance of an attractive woman named Rize Kamishiro shatters his solitude when she forwardly asks him on a date. While walking Rize home, Kaneki discovers she isn't as kind as she first appeared, and she has led him on with sinister intent. After a tragic struggle, he later awakens in a hospital to learn his life was saved by transplanting the now deceased Rize's organs into his own body. Kaneki's body begins to change in horrifying ways, and he transforms into a human-ghoul hybrid. As he embarks on his new dreadful journey, Kaneki clings to his humanity in the evolving bloody conflict between society's new monsters and the government agents who hunt them. [Written by MAL Rewrite]