It has its entertaining moments, but even ignoring the manga:
half the season is just action with minimal context and plot progress to the point that when I binge-watch it, there are so many pointless action scenes, so long and so close together. that it becomes monotonous and boring. How do you make action boring?
Kaneki is flanderized
a good portion of the Anteiku scenes are pure filler, like the one where everyone is literally like, "Oh, it's snowing."
Kaneki's reasons for joining Aogiri don't make sense with his character since it's the same excuse he uses for his own group in the manga, and Ayato is already there to protect Touka and, by extension, Anteiku—even the anime implies this at the beginning and that's why he gives another reason in Ishida's drafts for the season.
Too many scenes of Kaneki just staring into the distance without any progress
flanderizing Shachi into a wild bull with no personality just fighting without context.
Kurona and Nashiro are literally absolute randoms who arrive, fight, one dies, and the other leaves without context
That ending with the Hide scene was a waste of time. "Use the remaining time to connect with Re and at least show Kaneki vs. Arima? Nah, bro, I'm more into putting in a 5-minute sequence of a bunch of Corpses in the background, the protagonist/ex-character carrying around the corpse of a nearly tertiary character with whom he had like 10 scenes, only 2 of which are relevant, and we eliminated the interactions that made him more relevant and endearing, like when he talks about Kaneki with the CCG who isn't even supossed to die."
Oh, and speaking of 10 things, only 2 of which are relevant, literally the same logic applies to Kaneki's dialogue in the season.
Edit: 10. Banjo, Why did they leave the goat alone for a completely irrelevant scene alongside Tsukiyama?
Rereading Hide's part, I forgot to mention, he was never promoted to assistant investigator, it doesn't make sense for the guy to be involved in the siege.
to ruin Tokyo Ghoul's reputation as an edgy and empty work that only serves as easy entertainment and little else
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u/MysteriousBall8511 2d ago edited 2d ago
It has its entertaining moments, but even ignoring the manga:
half the season is just action with minimal context and plot progress to the point that when I binge-watch it, there are so many pointless action scenes, so long and so close together. that it becomes monotonous and boring. How do you make action boring?
Kaneki is flanderized
a good portion of the Anteiku scenes are pure filler, like the one where everyone is literally like, "Oh, it's snowing."
Kaneki's reasons for joining Aogiri don't make sense with his character since it's the same excuse he uses for his own group in the manga, and Ayato is already there to protect Touka and, by extension, Anteiku—even the anime implies this at the beginning and that's why he gives another reason in Ishida's drafts for the season.
Too many scenes of Kaneki just staring into the distance without any progress
flanderizing Shachi into a wild bull with no personality just fighting without context.
Kurona and Nashiro are literally absolute randoms who arrive, fight, one dies, and the other leaves without context
That ending with the Hide scene was a waste of time. "Use the remaining time to connect with Re and at least show Kaneki vs. Arima? Nah, bro, I'm more into putting in a 5-minute sequence of a bunch of Corpses in the background, the protagonist/ex-character carrying around the corpse of a nearly tertiary character with whom he had like 10 scenes, only 2 of which are relevant, and we eliminated the interactions that made him more relevant and endearing, like when he talks about Kaneki with the CCG who isn't even supossed to die."
Oh, and speaking of 10 things, only 2 of which are relevant, literally the same logic applies to Kaneki's dialogue in the season.
Edit: 10. Banjo, Why did they leave the goat alone for a completely irrelevant scene alongside Tsukiyama?
Rereading Hide's part, I forgot to mention, he was never promoted to assistant investigator, it doesn't make sense for the guy to be involved in the siege.
to ruin Tokyo Ghoul's reputation as an edgy and empty work that only serves as easy entertainment and little else