Tokyo ghoul. Volume 1

Title:

Author:

Ishida, Sui author, illustrator.

ISBN:

9781421580364

Personal Author:

Ishida, Sui author, illustrator.

Uniform Title:

Tōkyō gūru. English

Edition:

VIZ Signature edition.

Publication Information:

San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, [2015]

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

Reads manga-style, right to left and back to front.

Abstract:

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way -- except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers.

Audience:

Rated T+ for older teen.

Parental advisory: recommended for ages 16 and up ; "This volume contains violence and gore" -- Colophon.

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Subject Term:

Zombies -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Ghouls and ogres -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Translations into English.

Genre:

Horror comic books, strips, etc.

Comics (Graphic works)

Added Author:

Document ID:

SD_ILS:2210141

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Summary

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way--except their craving for human flesh.

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way--except their craving for human flesh.

Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers.

Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she's only interested in his body--eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.

Author Notes

Sui Ishida was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is a Japanese manga artist. In the year 2010 he won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

When Kaneki ends up getting an organ transplant from a ghoul-basically a vampire with bug attributes-things in his world slowly but surely change for the worse. As he starts to crave human flesh to feast on, he becomes ever more deeply involved in the savage ghoul world that exists behind the scenes in his neighborhood. Kaneki struggles with being someone who's both human and demon, trying to retain his humanity while not going crazy with hunger. By the book's end, he's reached a delicate emotional truce between the two, though not without heavy sacrifice (and body horror). The book is a complex one; camera angles and allusions to Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" blend Western literature and Japanese horror cinema in a light novel-esque treatment. Ishida's debut manga series has sold millions of copies in Japan, and he's crafted a first volume that solidly delivers with much potential. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.