(L) Tokyo Ghoul Root A (Season 2)

[Stark700]

Season 2 of Tokyo Ghoul confirmed:

This year's 46th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine is confirming on Thursday that the second season of the Tokyo Ghoul television anime will premiere in January. The official Chinese website for the television anime of Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul horror manga listed a second season last month.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...january/.79780

Definitely saw this coming eventually but I'm glad to know it's real now as being legit. The manga is also confirmed to continue.

[Natsuki Hyuga]

All right, I actually lied when I said there was no new s2 news in the event streamed today (more like I was busy screaming for White Kaneki appearance).

Apparently there will be a newly created original story for s2 by Sui himself. I'll recheck the stream later to make sure I heard it right, but 2ch's discussion seems to point out I'm on the right track of hearing correctly. EDIT: They're using original drafts from Ishida.

EDIT: The short PV announcing s2, courtesy of Tumblr.

EDIT 2: Higher quality:

EDIT 3: From Moca-News:

　2014年7月～9月にはTVアニメも放送された『東京喰種トーキョーグール』。「週刊ヤングジャンプ」 での原作連載が2014年9月に最終回を迎えたが、2014年10月16日（木）発売の同誌46号より、主 人公を一新した新章『東京喰種トーキョーグール：re』の連載が開始されることが発表された。

　さらに、TVアニメの第2期が2015年1月より放送開始となることも決定。スタッフ・キャスト陣はその ままに、原作・石田スイ氏オリジナル原案によるもう“ひとつの『東京喰種』”が描かれる。

■森田修平監督コメント
「東京喰種2期！みなさまに発表できる日が来たことをうれしく思います。僕たちの使命は、1期以上にみなさ んが楽しめるアニメ東京喰種にする事です。是非、アニメ東京喰種2期をお楽しみにしていただければと思いま す！」

[konart]

Something new, I guess?

[Flower]

Funi has picked this one up again: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-for-50/.82411

[Stark700]

12 episodes this season.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dail...pisodes/.82485

[Natsuki Hyuga]

Took a long time until I can find a non-artifact, good version of this pic (aka I can't navigate Chinese sites so lol)



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Second OP by österreich, titled "無能".

I have no idea about österreich other than it's a solo project of ex-the cabs' guitarist (and google having fun with giving me only a country's location lol, I can't even find much with more keywords... ), but as for the vocal it will be sung by Kamano Ai from Haisunonasa.

(Just search via Tumblr lol, I'm too lazy to kick my net to work anymore w)

The full page pic is in the source, and you can see some screenshots of the PV shown in the 11/30 event.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

pv

[Stark700]

New cast listed:

Hiro Shimono as Naki
Aoi Yūki as Kurona Yasuhisa
Haruka Tomatsu as Nashiro Yasuhisa

Returning cast:

Koji Yusa as Tatara
Maaya Sakamoto as Eto
Kazuhiko Inoue as Donato Porpora
Asami Seto as Akira Mado
Takayuki Kondou as Take Hirano

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...updated/.82613

[LG-MAX 2.o]

well, episode has been broadcast.

some considerations.

Spoiler for spoiler:

actually cut one of the coolest scenes of torture that a protagonist ever made, Kaneki not broken 103 bones from Ayato.

Kaneki actually joins the Aogiri.

And Kaneki is already wearing the black clothes of the manga

in a normal situation as manga fan, I would find all shit, but the ending was so unexpected that can be really good to follow.

[Stark700]

Episode 1:

Spoiler:

Wow, so what I read before was true especially at the end.

Speaking of which, that song (not the ED song) played near the end just before the credits was great. CD release when? Action was also good on most parts but I'm not sure I like the new OP song much. Artwork and action was solid on most parts, definitely an exciting opening episode.

OP song for season 2

[R.LocK]

Kaneki's mask and bodysuit bother me. And vs Ayato for a few reasons, one of them being that the CQC part looked funny.

Aside from that, a might fine episode.

[thundrakkon]

That was an entertaining first episode, if not confusing a bit. I guess the confusion was that it has been awhile since the last season, and that season was so compressed. I'm not sure exactly what is going on and who are all the characters, but it was entertaining.

I do hope manga talk will be at a minimum, since people have mentioned that this story is different from the manga. It does allow for better discussions.

[Jerseykid]

How can the good guy join the bad guys!?

[larethian]

Huh, story seems to take a different direction from what I remembered, though it was ages ago. Am I missing something?

[R.LocK]

Originally Posted by larethian

Huh, story seems to take a different direction from what I remembered, though it was ages ago. Am I missing something?

Original route.

[Randrak42]

I was actually looking forward for the new season...after watching the first episode I'm not even going to give it a chance. There's nothing I hate more in an anime than when they deviate from the manga and this is just completely overhauling the plot, it always feels like a bad fanfic rather than a proper adaptation.

Anime viewers enjoy, I'll go back to reading the actual plot in the manga. So much bullshit...

[R.LocK]

It's penned by Ishida Sui, so go ahead and "laugh" at uneducated anime-only watchers.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by R.LocK

Original route.

Quite literally. This was the first storyline the mangaka planned to use.

[Natsuki Hyuga]

Honestly, I personally think this is a better last episode for s1 than an opening episode for s2. Should have used this for last season just for maximum effect

In any case, it definitely piques the interest when Kaneki joins Aogiri. Some of the cut scenes/dialogues are regrettable (Ayato's certain fate from the original being the most obvious), but considering Kaneki is joining Aogiri, I think the scenes being cut are quite a logical decision. Wouldn't think of Kaneki being able to join Aogiri if he do the half-kill to be honest. Tsukiyama saving Banjou tho is unexpected. O-o;

As for the OP, imo animation is boring and the song can't surpass last season's TK unravel, unfortunately. Though I don't dislike the song itself, might give achance for the full version. And really, the OP's more suited to be an ED both animation-wise and song-wise wwww

Love the ED song though! Speaking of that, higher version of the cover drawn by Ishida from Natalie:

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Originally Posted by larethian

Huh, story seems to take a different direction from what I remembered, though it was ages ago. Am I missing something?

As mentioned by the aboves, different story for anime.

[IceHism]

Originally Posted by Randrak42

I was actually looking forward for the new season...after watching the first episode I'm not even going to give it a chance. There's nothing I hate more in an anime than when they deviate from the manga and this is just completely overhauling the plot, it always feels like a bad fanfic rather than a proper adaptation.

Anime viewers enjoy, I'll go back to reading the actual plot in the manga. So much bullshit...

This route was made by the original author himself. I don't see how it is fanfic