why does the tokyo ghoul theme song sound so familiar

So we’ve got the common kind of troubled Fantasy Oppression Metaphor. (I’m not going to be able to discuss any of this with the grace and humour of Kay, but I’ll try, I guess…) This is reminiscent in some ways of stories about sexy decadent vampires and the temptations they offer. OK, wow that sounds even more cliché when I write it all out! I guess the difference here is that the superpowered beings - the Ghouls - get their powers by cannibalism, and in fact cannot even eat or drink anything but humans/other ghouls and (for some reason) coffee. At first he’s a liability, but one of the superpowered factions goes out on a limb and after generally getting the shit beat out of him and suffering all kinds of misery and torture, he ends up one of the most powerful of them all…

Tokyo Ghoul is about - stop me if you’ve heard this one before - an unassuming Japanese university student who by a bizarre accident falls into a semi-secret underworld full of people with superpowers.

Tokyo Ghoul is about a ghoul who lives in Tokyo, duh (tl dr I think NieR does it better, to nobody’s surprise.) What’s this ghoul thing all about then? Still I think there’s some interesting things there, and I feel like… even if Yoko Taro didn’t have anything to do with it after all, I found myself comparing what it’s doing with what NieR does because at certain points they shoot for similar themes. It feels like a shonen anime but drenched in gratuitous blood and cannibalism. TG is pretty silly and hard to take seriously most of the time. I watched the first season of the anime Tokyo Ghoul, in part because I know one or two friends who like it, and in part because I heard it came up in connection with Yoko Taro in some way as an inspiration for some part of the NieR series - although now I go to confirm it, it seems like the only connection is that 9S and the protagonist of TG (snrk) are voiced by the same actor, and Yoko Taro had never watched TG until he got around to casting 9S and Yosuke Saito suggested it… so I guess I just completely made that up? (related: Violence and ‘evil races’, the NieR story) this world!” home criticismĬontains spoilers for: Tokyo Ghoul (the first season of the anime only), NieR, NieR: Automata, Mononoke-hime this world!” “What’s wrong is… this world!” | bryn::writing “What’s wrong is.

Why does the tokyo ghoul theme song sound so familiar