- Hi, I'm Benny Fine. - I'm Ted Evans!
- And consider yourselves warned!
- Grab a cup of coffee and activate your Kagune!
- We're going to be spoiling everything from the first two seasons
of Tokyo Ghoul.
- You'll be all caught up for season three after watching
this recap in one take and under six minutes.
- Starting now!
- Meet Ken Kaneki, who lives in Tokyo.
- Well, more like an alternate reality Tokyo,
where ghouls live among people. - They're exactly like humans--
- Except they have enhanced senses, predatory organs called Kagune
that they can use as weapons, and disgust of normal food besides coffee.
Oh, and they eat human flesh.
- Everybody got that? Good!
- Kaneki goes on a successful date with Rize, which ends unsuccessfully
when it turns out she's a ghoul!
- Before she can eat him, she gets squashed by metal beams.
- RIP, Rize.
- Kaneki is sent to a hospital where he is saved by a doctor
who transplants Rize's organs into him to save his life.
- Side effects of the surgery include one black and red eye,
visions of Rize, and a hunger for human flesh!
- Ghoul 101: most of the time, ghouls' eyes are normal,
but when they become excited, both their eyes transform into kagugans,
black and red eyes. - He's a half-ghoul, half-human hybrid!
- Kaneki hides himself from his friends and loses the taste for his favorite foods.
- Kaneki runs into the ghoul Nishiki, who attacks him for entering his territory.
- But another ghoul, Touka, saves him from being killed.
- Touka offers him human meat, but he refuses and runs away!
- He tries not to give into his hunger for humans, but it proves grueling.
- The struggle is real, people!
- Trying to remain human, he hangs out with his best friend Hide--
- Who introduces him to Nishiki. - Hide has no idea that Nishiki is a ghoul.
- Yeah, this can't be good.
- Nishiki attacks them, knocking out Hide in the process.
- This causes Kaneki to get so angry that he unleashes his Kagune
for the first time! - RIP, Nishiki.
- The only bad thing about him beasting out
is that his flesh hunger is boiling and Hide looks extra tasty!
- At the last second, Kaneki is stopped from eating Hide by Touka,
who decides to help him.
- Kaneki is brought back to a cafe where she works,
which doubles as a ghoul haven.
- Hide's there too and he survived!
- He doesn't know they're all ghouls though.
- Cafe owner Yoshimura offers to have Kaneki stay and work ​
at the cafe alongside Touka and other ghouls
who are trying to coexist peacefully in society.
- Continuing his life and training at the cafe,
Kaneki is befriended by the purple-­haired gourmet ghoul Tsukiyama.
- Tsukiyama invites him to dinner, but the gourmet ghoul has other plans.
- Turns out the invitation is actually Kaneki being thrown into a trap
for other ghouls to eat him!
- However, Tsukiyama witnesses his one-eyed ghoul form
and decides that Kaneki should be a meal all to himself, letting him go.
- Kaneki comes across a wounded ghoul, who--
- WAIT, that's Nishiki? - Yeah, turns out he's still alive.
- Kaneki decides to help him and learns that he's in a relationship
with a human girl named Kimi.
- He returns to the cafe, but has to leave once more,
learning that Tsukiyama has taken Kimi hostage.
- Turns out Tsukiyama wants to eat Kaneki while Kaneki is eating Kimi! Nasty!
- However, with the combined efforts of Kaneki and Nishiki, and Touka,
they are able to defeat Tsukiyama - RIP, Tsukiyama.
- Meanwhile, on the other side of town, crazy-eyed Mado and newbie Amon...
- Two officers, AKA doves from the CCG.
- ...search for some of the most notorious ghouls in town!
- Hold up, what's the CCG?
- Ghoul 101: The Commission of Counter Ghoul,
investigates criminal ghoul activity, utilizing mysterious weapons
called quinques, which are housed in the most advanced briefcases
since Tony Stark’s in Iron Man 2.
- The doves encounter the ghouls Asaki and Jason,
killing the former while Jason gets away. - RIP, Asaki.
- From there, they hunt down Asaki's wife and daughter...
- Ryouko and Hinami.
- ...who happen to be staying at the cafe.
- Mado and Amon trap Ryouko, who saves her daughter
but is killed in the process. - RIP, Ryouko.
- As protection, Kaneki is fashioned a rather toothy mask
to protect his identity.
- Later, Touka and Hinami lure Mado to the sewers
while Kaneki confronts Amon above them.
- Kaneki manages to get ghouly and breaks Amon's quinque.
- However, he spares him so as to not to fully give in
to his murderous ghoul side.
- Down in the sewers, Mado reveals that the quinques
are made out of ghouls' Kagune,
and that he had turned Hinami’s mom into a quinque weapon!
Mind blown!
- This causes Hinami to unleash her Kagune,
and her and Touka finish off Mado. - RIP, Mado.
- After the battle, things change for everyone.
- Amon is given a new quinque and task force,
Hinami stays at the cafe, and Kaneki investigates Rize’s past.
- A ghoul organization, Aogiri Tree, begins killing doves
and ghouls around the city.
- Not only that, but rumor has it that they're being led
by a powerful ghoul called The One-Eyed King!
- Another one-eyed ghoul?
- Back at the cafe, the inhabitants are visited
by several Aogiri Tree Members, who are looking for Rize.
- They discover that Kaneki is a one-eyed ghoul
and take him captive as Rize's replacement.
- The members of the cafe devise a plan to save Kaneki
and are offered help from… TSUKIYAMA?!
- Yep, turns out he's still alive too.
- Do these ghouls ever actually die?!
- Meanwhile, Kaneki is getting the torture of a lifetime from Jason.
- He gets tortured so bad that his hair turns white.
- His regenerative abilities astound Jason.
- It turns out that his whole organ transplant
was done on purpose as an experiment by the doctor!
Mind blown!
- Kaneki finally fully accepts his ghoul side
after a pretty disturbing heart-to-heart with a vision of Rize.
- He goes full beast mode and overtakes Jason,
and in the most don’t-­eat-­while-­ you-­watch-this moment of the series,
EATS HIS KAGUNE LIKE A BADASS!!
- What boss battle has ever had the good guy eat the bad guy?!
- Time for season two, AKA Root A, where the show decided
to deviate from the manga.
- So while Kaneki was inside eating some Kagune,
outside it's a cluster war between the doves, Aogiri,
and the members of the cafe.
- On top of that, Yoshimura transforms into the One-Eyed Owl,
who's the dove's most wanted criminal.
- It's Amon and the doves versus The Owl, AKA Yoshimura.
- It's also Touka versus her brother Ayato, who is is also part of the Aogiri!
- And more humans versus more ghouls!
- Jesus, there's a lot of fighting to keep up with.
- Touka gets her butt whooped, but before Ayato can end her,
the new and improved Kaneki steps in.
- He wins the duel and drops a bomb on Touka
and all the Tokyo Ghoul manga readers. - He's joining The Aogiri?!
He doesn't do that in the manga!
- He gets happily welcomed into Aogiri by its founder, Eto.
- From there, things change for everyone.
- Long story short, the doves blame Kaneki for Mado’s murder,
Kaneki helps out the Aogiri and starts eating ghouls,
becoming even more powerful,
Touka starts mirroring her life to Kaneki’s
to the point of trying to go to his school,
and Amon starts dating Mado’s daughter Akira, but no, not THAT Akira!
- Everybody got that? Good!
- The volatile Kaneki encounters a vengeful Amon
and the two duke it out again. - It's Kaneki versus Amon, Part II!
- This time around, Amon beats the crap out of Kaneki's Kagune,
leaving him wounded, but also now a bit more human.
- Later, the doves track Yoshimura, aka the One-Eyed Owl,
and plan to take him out.
- Yoshimura holds his own against the doves,
but gets overpowered and killed. - RIP, Yoshimura.
- However, it isn't over as ANOTHER One-Eyed Owl
swoops in and takes the body.
- Yep, turns out this One-Eyed Owl is actually the one
causing destruction around the city.
- On top of that, it turns out to be Eto,
who also turns out to be Yoshimura's half-human, half-ghoul daugther!
- Mind [bleep] blown!
- Kaneki runs into Amon again, and while he doesn't want to fight him--
- It's Kaneki versus Amon, Part III!
- The two still seriously injure one another and both pass out.
- Waking up in the cafe, he hears someone who turns out
to be an injured Hide, who had dragged him back.
- By that time, Kaneki realizes that his ghoul eye activated,
but Hide tells him, "I knew."
- Yep, since that battle all the way back with Nishiki,
Hide knew his bestie was on a human diet.
- More alarming though, the cafe's on fire due to Yoshimura's wish
that if shit went down, so would the cafe's protection.
- Hide collapses from his wounds as Kaneki carries him
out of the fire to the doves' camp. - RIP, ghoul cafe.
- With the original cafe now burned down,
Touka later opens up a new cafe.
- And now you're all caught up on Tokyo Ghoul!
- Is Hide dead?
- Who is The One-Eyed King, if there really is one?
- Don't ghouls ever get sick of coffee?
I mean, I can really only handle two or three a day
and they drink it, like, all the time.
- Will you keep watching Tokyo Ghoul?
- (both) We know we'll be!
♪ (singing Tokyo Ghoul theme song) ♪
(trilling tongue)
- Iron price!
And now here's all the times we messed up!
(beep)
- I'm Benny Fine. - I'm Ted Evans.
- And consider yourselves warned.
- Grab a cup of coffee and activate your "kah-goo-nay".
- "Kah-guh-nay." - "Kah-guh-nay."
(beep)
- Grab a cup of coffee and activate your "kah-goo-nay".
- "Kah-guh-nay." - "Kah-goh-nay."
- "Kah-guh-nay!"
(beep)
- They're exactly like humans-- - Except they have enhanced senses,
predatory organs called Kagune that can--
gee-ku-ga-geh-geh-koo-geh-geh-koo...
- (joining in)
- Kakogaequinque, kakogaequinque, kakogon.
(beep)
- ...sewers, Mado reveals that the quinques are made out of ghoul's Kagune,
and that he had turned Hiname's mom into a minque--
"Minque?!" Nooooo! - Noooooooooo!
(laughter) "Minque."
(beep)
♪ (singing Tokyo Ghoul theme song) ♪
- ♪ A total eclipse of the heart ♪
(both crack up)
It sounds just like that. - Oh yeah. Yeah. (laughs)