Touka is the ******** character in the series
Some ****** characters, whine all the time, others make no sense
She ******* does nothing.... NOTHING
They set her up like she's gonna be an important part of the story, but if she suddenly stopped appearing nobody would notice. I don't like ranting about anything but she just ticks my nerves a certain way
Let me guess. You've seen the anime but not read the manga? The anime is absolute ******* garbage comparatively. Kaneki's choices in root a makes no ******* sense Seriously, spoiler: Kaneki never joins Aogiri but instead makes his own little group in an effort at least hinder Aogiri. . Also loads of arcs missing in both seasons. Plus one of the biggest plot twists in the entire series was just removed.
manga is so ******* good, anime got the main characters behavior and personality wrong, in the manga he was meek and gentle if a bit of an introspective worrywart, anime is ****
He's lame in both anime and manga, and just when he started looking like he would stop being a bitch he got his ass handed to him by some wierd martial artist and then got murdered by supermegaultrasuperhuman man arima and then brainraped into becomming a slightly less lame character but much more boring and way worse at fighting
Dunno, maybe i got pissed since it refused to stop sucked Mados dick, theyre going "sure he was a massmurdering piece of **** who used the murdered parents bodyparts to attack the child trying to kill her as well but he was married once so we are horrible murderers!"
yeah, but just recently he finally remembered his past. Not just that he was Ken Kaneki and not some faggot named Haise, but also that his mother wasn't as nice as he "remembered" she was, but an abusive bitch. Dude's ready to kick some ass again.
The biggest plot twist is split into several parts that were all revealed at once: 1. The accident with the steel beams at the start of the story wasn't an accident at all, but instead caused by the group known as "The Clowns". 2. Kaneki and Rize were chosen to be part of an experiment where a human were to become a ghoul, hence the transplantation. The surgeon who did the operation did it knowing Rize was a ghoul. 3. Rize is still alive and being kept in that "surgeon's" lab so he can use her to make more one-eyed ghouls. 4. Kaneki isn't the only one-eyed ghoul aka humans who have been experimented on.
To be fair, people only watching the anime would have caught on that there's more one-eyed ghouls since Kuro and Shiro still show up and fight Juuzou, but that's not explained at all, in any capacity, nor is Dr. Kanou even mentioned in the slightest despite being the central plot point the manga revolves around in the second half.
They're not the only ones introduced for absolutely no reason in the anime though, like Shachi, who mentions Rize for a second and then decides to beat the **** out of Kaneki for no reason before ******* off for the rest of the season.
Root A also never even touched on the mystery surrounding Eto, which also leads to one the other big twists never happening; Eto=Takatsuki Sen=One-Eyed Owl.
They took the rest of the plot for the manga, cut it up into pieces, and then reconstructed about 30% of the plot points into a Frankenstein-ian abomination that they actually tried to pass off as a functioning plot.
They even advertised it and promoted it as a new unique, anime-original plot, but aside from Kaneki joining Aogiri Tree in the first episode (a development that makes absolutely no sense and is never even attempted to be explained, ever), there is absolutely no new material. Everything is just rearranged so as to not make any sense, and missing most of the plot points that would explain what few stuff they threw in there.
Read the manga instead, it's amazing.
If you didn't know already: For season 2, rather than continuing on with adapting the manga, they decided to create an alternate route in the story where rather than (manga/root a spoiler) Kaneki fighting against Aogiri (a big plot point) he instead joins aogiri which didn't really make sense.
Root A skips out alot of good manga arcs and moments which was really disappointing. Finally, the characters in Root A all have a duller personality in comparison to their manga counterparts. However, I will praise Root A for it's good music and animation.
If anything then just read the manga, it's not worth sitting through 12 episodes of **** original story and bland characters. The manga has a much better story and personally, I found it alot more enjoyable.
If you're quite a big fan of the first series then you could always try it, some people still liked it. I may be biased because I read the manga before Root A came out so my opinion is probably extra salty!
I had high expectation for this anime but was very let down. It all just felt so dam rushed and a lot of parts felt like they were missing. The character development is probably the worst I have ever seen in an anime and there are so many god dam plot holes. The only good thing about this anime are some of the fight scenes.
Eh I'm not sure, thinking back I can barely remember any non-fight scenes that I thought were done well. I enjoyed some of the fight scenes and I think the anime slightly redeemed itself towards the last 3(?) episodes. Although I didn't like the ending, I thought they executed it really well. I preferred the final scene in the manga as Hide's "death" was left to the reader where as in the anime it was pretty blatant. Even so, the god damn music was glorious, I really enjoyed the accoustic version of Unravel and the Glassy Skies OST.
I probably would've enjoyed TG: RA if I hadn't actually read the manga, more or less anyway. Like you said, so much potential wasted! I'd rather have them adapt the manga and then had Root: A as an OVA or something. There were so many scenes I wanted desperately to be animated.