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東京喰種 / Tokyo Ghoul #5
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 5
Kaneki, Nishio and Touka struggle to work together to rescue their human friend Kimi while Ghoul Investigator deaths skyrocket in wards 9 through 12. It all leads to an increase in CCG agents and an increased risk for Ghouls. As reinforcements are called in on both sides, the stakes are suddenly higher than ever.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 19, 2012
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Sui Ishida
242 books2,495 followersAlso known as 石田スイ.
Sui Ishida (石田スイ, Ishida Sui), born December 28, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist
In 2010 he won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種, Tōkyō Kushu). In March 2011, the same oneshot was published in the 2nd Issue of Miracle Jump. And later in September 2011, Tokyo Ghoul started as a series in Weekly Young Jump 2011-41 Issue. In December 2011, he made another oneshot about Rize that was published in December 2011 in Miracle Jump 6th Issue, which was later collected in the 6th volume of Tokyo Ghoul.
In 2013, he also started Tokyo Ghoul: Jack in the digital magazine Jump LIVE.
Sui Ishida is his penname; nobody knows his real name or what he looks like.
Sui Ishida (石田スイ, Ishida Sui), born December 28, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist
In 2010 he won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種, Tōkyō Kushu). In March 2011, the same oneshot was published in the 2nd Issue of Miracle Jump. And later in September 2011, Tokyo Ghoul started as a series in Weekly Young Jump 2011-41 Issue. In December 2011, he made another oneshot about Rize that was published in December 2011 in Miracle Jump 6th Issue, which was later collected in the 6th volume of Tokyo Ghoul.
In 2013, he also started Tokyo Ghoul: Jack in the digital magazine Jump LIVE.
Sui Ishida is his penname; nobody knows his real name or what he looks like.
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February 9, 2022
Un arco entretenido pero no a la altura del pasado.
Quizás este tomo sea el que menos me ha gustado. Está entretenido y todo pero se nota muchísimo que solo es de transición ya que presenta hacia el final nuevos personajes y por fin finaliza el arco del ghoul gourmet sádico y psicópata.
Aunque no todo es malo. Amo a Touka y aquí hubo material para shippearla con Kaneki. Necesito más de ella, me gusta tanto y eso que no ha mostrado todas sus capas. Hasta ahora es un personaje interesante y solo por ella doy las cuatro estrellas. Touka me obliga a ser misericordioso solo por disfrutar de su presencia. La amo. Punto final.
Quizás este tomo sea el que menos me ha gustado. Está entretenido y todo pero se nota muchísimo que solo es de transición ya que presenta hacia el final nuevos personajes y por fin finaliza el arco del ghoul gourmet sádico y psicópata.
Aunque no todo es malo. Amo a Touka y aquí hubo material para shippearla con Kaneki. Necesito más de ella, me gusta tanto y eso que no ha mostrado todas sus capas. Hasta ahora es un personaje interesante y solo por ella doy las cuatro estrellas. Touka me obliga a ser misericordioso solo por disfrutar de su presencia. La amo. Punto final.
April 14, 2017
I feel like I use this gif too often, but really ...
October 19, 2022
Vlog: https://youtu.be/F2YkloDrK4s
Again, I'm enjoying it but the detectives are getting too much air time. I just don't care about them. I'd rather us be focusing on the ghouls
Again, I'm enjoying it but the detectives are getting too much air time. I just don't care about them. I'd rather us be focusing on the ghouls
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December 19, 2022DAMN. THE BEST VOLUME YET.
May 23, 2016
This volume is so emotional and bloody!
• The action scenes are increasing gradually. And it's getting better and more exciting.
• The character development is really good especially Kaneki-kun's character. His feelings toward humans and "the value of life" are touching.
I am loving this manga so far. :))
• The action scenes are increasing gradually. And it's getting better and more exciting.
• The character development is really good especially Kaneki-kun's character. His feelings toward humans and "the value of life" are touching.
I am loving this manga so far. :))
January 25, 2024
توی صفحه آخر تازه جوزو وارد شد *.*
March 25, 2023
*More like 3.5 stars than 3.*
After the last intense encounter with him in Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4, the Gourmet was back for a second helping in this vol, leading to an unexpected team up between Ken, Touka, and the former antagonist, Nishiki Nishio. Nishiki was the surprising darling of this vol, benefitting from his reappearance by being graciously upgraded from low-level antagonist to main character ally, along with being given a backstory more interesting than the drivel in Rize's side story, and a redemption arc that deepened his character progression well.
The fight that ensued between the gruesome foursome was longsome and boresome, not to mention completely tiresome in its incomprehensibility. Just as every other fight scene in this manga has proven to be, the author seemed to want to ensure that you couldn't make heads nor tails nor any other body part out of what on earth happened in the fights by focusing on bizarrely up-close and random features and then adding a billion action lines, as if that ever helped to create more sense of movement rather than making it impossible to picture any movement at all.
The rest of the vol was filled with a smattering of focus on Amon, a well-placed character who has lacked everything from personality to backstory for a while now. Watching the CCG stooges focus on the wrong things in their attempt to play catch up to the ghouls was painful and frustrating. And the last minute introduction of a psychopath disguised as a female-looking male junior detective seemed ominous but too excessive. His creepy goriness seemed purposefully inflammatory, not too unlike many of the aspects of this manga, in that sense.
After the last intense encounter with him in Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4, the Gourmet was back for a second helping in this vol, leading to an unexpected team up between Ken, Touka, and the former antagonist, Nishiki Nishio. Nishiki was the surprising darling of this vol, benefitting from his reappearance by being graciously upgraded from low-level antagonist to main character ally, along with being given a backstory more interesting than the drivel in Rize's side story, and a redemption arc that deepened his character progression well.
The fight that ensued between the gruesome foursome was longsome and boresome, not to mention completely tiresome in its incomprehensibility. Just as every other fight scene in this manga has proven to be, the author seemed to want to ensure that you couldn't make heads nor tails nor any other body part out of what on earth happened in the fights by focusing on bizarrely up-close and random features and then adding a billion action lines, as if that ever helped to create more sense of movement rather than making it impossible to picture any movement at all.
The rest of the vol was filled with a smattering of focus on Amon, a well-placed character who has lacked everything from personality to backstory for a while now. Watching the CCG stooges focus on the wrong things in their attempt to play catch up to the ghouls was painful and frustrating. And the last minute introduction of a psychopath disguised as a female-looking male junior detective seemed ominous but too excessive. His creepy goriness seemed purposefully inflammatory, not too unlike many of the aspects of this manga, in that sense.
September 15, 2019
15.09.19 I am changing my rating to 4 stars. All the things I called ‘unnecessarily shady’ before make perfect sense to me now when I’m done with the whole series. Witnessing the formation of the OG gang makes me so emotional. 😩 Having read TG:re also provides me with the new perspective through which I now see the CCG investigators that wasn’t there on my first read. The art keeps improving. The plot keeps thickening.
25.03.18 where do I start? first of all, most of the dialogues are so unnecessarily shady it’s like the characters can’t form a sentence without putting some confusing reference in it. Second, ten bucks says that the gourmet ghoul was inspired by hannibal lecter (lol he even looks like mads mikkelsen)
I really like Nishiki and his story though. and amon is cool as well. Kaneki.... is STILL annoying.
anyways! I really wanna know who that creepy new guy is. hope he brings something entertaining to the story.
25.03.18 where do I start? first of all, most of the dialogues are so unnecessarily shady it’s like the characters can’t form a sentence without putting some confusing reference in it. Second, ten bucks says that the gourmet ghoul was inspired by hannibal lecter (lol he even looks like mads mikkelsen)
I really like Nishiki and his story though. and amon is cool as well. Kaneki.... is STILL annoying.
anyways! I really wanna know who that creepy new guy is. hope he brings something entertaining to the story.
September 19, 2024
i never thought i'd love something like this but i'm so happy i gave it a try because i feel like i found a new calling or something lmaoooo. i'm so used to reading romance but reading all this manga lately (that has no romance in it at all, or it's very minimal) has been the most fun i had in reading i think ever to be honest.
i knew this was the type of series that was just going to get better as each volume passes. everything about this was amazing, i have zero complaints. the plot is PLOTTING, the characters are intriguing and i love kaneki and touka SO much. i didn't know how i felt about nishio at first but he won me over 100% in this with how protective he was over kimi. that was precious af. 🩷
i feel like i'm just waiting for this manga to break my heart. i had such a bad feeling 😭
i knew this was the type of series that was just going to get better as each volume passes. everything about this was amazing, i have zero complaints. the plot is PLOTTING, the characters are intriguing and i love kaneki and touka SO much. i didn't know how i felt about nishio at first but he won me over 100% in this with how protective he was over kimi. that was precious af. 🩷
i feel like i'm just waiting for this manga to break my heart. i had such a bad feeling 😭
September 3, 2022
Nishiki’s backstory was so well done! I really didn’t expect to like him after he messed with Kaneki earlier on, but I couldn’t help warming up to him in this volume. The action keeps getting better, and the plot is super tense with the doves getting more serious about their ghoul crackdowns (I’m nervous). Another fantastic volume!
August 19, 2020
3.75 stars
December 11, 2019
If anyone touches Ken or Nishio I will personally hunt them down
August 19, 2022
Review for vol. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Review for vol. 8: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
"Eat your own flesh...you crazy Gourmet."
What's what in the story:
This time the main conflict is between Young Master Shu, Nishiki and Kaneki after Shu stole Nishiki's human girlfriend and threatened to eat her...alongside Kaneki. Touka stepped in despite her distaste with Nishiki, but would the two Ghouls and one half-Ghoul be enough to stop Shu the Gourmet?
It's another nice volume with exciting fight scenes, vivid human dramas and some emotional backstory from one of the MC. I completely like how Kaneki let Touka is enough to amuse the hell out of me!!!
PS: I like Rize's sidestory.
I think in the end, Rize is the person that makes Kaneki become a grown-up.
PSS: Mr. Yoshimura the cafe owner can be scary!!!
Review for vol. 8: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
"Eat your own flesh...you crazy Gourmet."
What's what in the story:
This time the main conflict is between Young Master Shu, Nishiki and Kaneki after Shu stole Nishiki's human girlfriend and threatened to eat her...alongside Kaneki. Touka stepped in despite her distaste with Nishiki, but would the two Ghouls and one half-Ghoul be enough to stop Shu the Gourmet?
It's another nice volume with exciting fight scenes, vivid human dramas and some emotional backstory from one of the MC. I completely like how Kaneki let Touka is enough to amuse the hell out of me!!!
PS: I like Rize's sidestory.
I think in the end, Rize is the person that makes Kaneki become a grown-up.
PSS: Mr. Yoshimura the cafe owner can be scary!!!
December 27, 2016
Well, that was cool
Juuzo appeared
Juuzo appeared
January 5, 2017
1) Tsukiyama seriously needs to CALM DOWN OKAY
2) Rize is my beautiful Murder Queen
3) Nishiki Nishio needs to be protected at all costs
4) Juzo is finally here, and what an entrance he made!!!
2) Rize is my beautiful Murder Queen
3) Nishiki Nishio needs to be protected at all costs
4) Juzo is finally here, and what an entrance he made!!!
February 26, 2025
obsessed. the story moves fast but it’s full of action and these heavy moral dilemmas that i just feel is so well done. and more investigators are getting introduced, things are going to continue to escalate…
April 6, 2020
TOKYO GHOUL n. 5
2^ lettura con gdl E&L: 4 aprile 2020
Rispetto alla scorsa volta darei a questo volume 5 stelle. Ho colto più cose leggendolo con più calma.
Lo scontro con il Gourmet mi è piaciuto molto. Nishio meraviglioso e la sua storia 😍
Touka chissà perché spunta sempre ad aiutare Kaneki. Vorrà dire qualcosa?
Abbiamo ulteriori indizi sulla morte di Rize e consociamo un po’ la sua storia.
Nel finale arriva un nuovo investigatore.
Devo dire che la trama inizia davvero a farsi più intrigante.
1^ Lettura 27-28 marzo 2018
Questo volume mi è piaciuto. Conosciamo finalmente Nishio per quello che è. L’ho semplicemente adorato ❤️ . Leggiamo la storia di Rize prima di Kaneki. E soprattutto il CCG si organizza ed entrano in scena nuovi personaggi molto interessanti.
Voglio proprio vedere che cosa succederà adesso 😊.
2^ lettura con gdl E&L: 4 aprile 2020
Rispetto alla scorsa volta darei a questo volume 5 stelle. Ho colto più cose leggendolo con più calma.
Lo scontro con il Gourmet mi è piaciuto molto. Nishio meraviglioso e la sua storia 😍
Touka chissà perché spunta sempre ad aiutare Kaneki. Vorrà dire qualcosa?
Abbiamo ulteriori indizi sulla morte di Rize e consociamo un po’ la sua storia.
Nel finale arriva un nuovo investigatore.
Devo dire che la trama inizia davvero a farsi più intrigante.
1^ Lettura 27-28 marzo 2018
Questo volume mi è piaciuto. Conosciamo finalmente Nishio per quello che è. L’ho semplicemente adorato ❤️ . Leggiamo la storia di Rize prima di Kaneki. E soprattutto il CCG si organizza ed entrano in scena nuovi personaggi molto interessanti.
Voglio proprio vedere che cosa succederà adesso 😊.
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May 25, 2018
Rivalutazione di Nishiki Nishio. Prima mi stava troppo su ... in questo numero l'ho rivalutato.
June 26, 2018
Actual rating: 3.5 stars!
These are progressively getting better as I move through the series. Still not super blown away though. I'm still waiting for the issue that makes me go "yassss!"
November 14, 2025
Tsukiyama seriously needs to calm down!!
March 12, 2022
Interesante volumen en el que vemos una batalla entre el gourmet y nuestro protagonista pero sobre todo contra Touka, la cual despliega su potencial, Kanei es vapuleado (si es que no comes!!! así ni un pijo de fuerza, jajaja).
Por último vemos algo de la vida anterior de Rize, antes de desplazarse al distrito 20 y conocer a Kaneki.
Por último vemos algo de la vida anterior de Rize, antes de desplazarse al distrito 20 y conocer a Kaneki.
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February 7, 2017
جميع عيوب العالم كافة , يمكن تفسيرها بأن المضطهدون لا أمن لهم بسبب قدراتهم
الضعفاء يداسون , تنتهك حقوقهم , حزينون و يسيطر عليهم
الضعفاء يداسون , تنتهك حقوقهم , حزينون و يسيطر عليهم
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June 3, 2017the world is to cruel for weak like co-named keneki. Rez help him realized how pathetic a weak can be, specially a ghoul side. to do better is to last longer. eating rez made him strong. keneki personality development is soo cool. no more mourned keneki. bad badass looking keneki
May 23, 2020
3/5stars
April 12, 2018
Tokyo Ghoul now enters probably my favorite stuff from the anime.
So what's happening? Oh yeah that psycho Tsukiyama still wants to eat Kankei but before he does that he goes after Nishiki's girlfriend and all hell breaks loose. But who comes to enter the fight? Touka, my main girl, and man is she not playing. The big brawl occurs and shit goes down. The second half of the volume goes into Rize backstory. I don't recall this from the anime so that was nice. We also have the "new" special investigator coming into the scene, and he's a bit of a fucking psycho himself. Oh great.
Good: The fight in this one is intense and really gets to show off how badass Touka is. Also the gripping storylines all come to a close for Tsukiyama and really step into some awesome moments. I loved the RIze backstory as it gave bigger views onto why she was and who she was in the end.
Bad: The new special investigator is kind of just okay. I never loved him in the anime and so far he proves to be just kind of "insane" to be insane.
Overall this volume was great. Besides a bump at the end I really loved 90% of this book. This is the best volume of the series yet. A 4 out of 5.
So what's happening? Oh yeah that psycho Tsukiyama still wants to eat Kankei but before he does that he goes after Nishiki's girlfriend and all hell breaks loose. But who comes to enter the fight? Touka, my main girl, and man is she not playing. The big brawl occurs and shit goes down. The second half of the volume goes into Rize backstory. I don't recall this from the anime so that was nice. We also have the "new" special investigator coming into the scene, and he's a bit of a fucking psycho himself. Oh great.
Good: The fight in this one is intense and really gets to show off how badass Touka is. Also the gripping storylines all come to a close for Tsukiyama and really step into some awesome moments. I loved the RIze backstory as it gave bigger views onto why she was and who she was in the end.
Bad: The new special investigator is kind of just okay. I never loved him in the anime and so far he proves to be just kind of "insane" to be insane.
Overall this volume was great. Besides a bump at the end I really loved 90% of this book. This is the best volume of the series yet. A 4 out of 5.
June 9, 2019
Another solid instalment in the Tokyo Ghoul series!
This volume focuses heavily on a battle between Tsukiyama (aka The Gourmet) and Kaneki/Touka/Nishio. There are some seriously intense and chaotic scenes which took me a few attempts to fully understand what was happening in them but despite that I am loving the storyline and characters. (No Uta sadly in this volume).
We also get a Rize side story which I particularly appreciated and we find out something very intriguing about her! :0
Elsewhere, Nishio joins Anteiku after his bloody showdown with Tsukiyama (where he nearly lost his girlfriend, Kimi) and we are introduced to a new CCG investigator called Juzo Suzuya who I think is a little unhinged...much like the late Kureo Mado!
So there is plenty happening in this volume and I cannot wait to start number 6! If you want a horror manga which has an intriguing plot plus a great cast of characters then TG is for you!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 7, 2017
omg this one was just SO good! Definitely my favourite so far, hands down!
The story really starts to be more complex, and we begin to see the depth of each character.
4.25
The story really starts to be more complex, and we begin to see the depth of each character.
4.25
March 31, 2020
Tsukiyama proprio non riesco a capirlo.
Ho adorato il preludio su Rize...e non vedo l'ora che vengano dati più dettagli sul suo passato..
Touka come sempre è fantastica!!❤
Ho adorato il preludio su Rize...e non vedo l'ora che vengano dati più dettagli sul suo passato..
Touka come sempre è fantastica!!❤
July 4, 2019
Questo volume mi ha fatto rivalutare il personaggio di Nisho, l'ho trovato molto "umano". Al contrario continuo a non sopportare Tsukiyama.
Lo stile di disegno non mi piace per niente, lo trovo troppo confusionario.
Sono molto curiosa di leggere la parte in cui la storia sarà sempre più "dark".
*L'entrata in scena di Juuzo mi ha sconvolto, nell'anime era molto meno splatter 😅.
Lo stile di disegno non mi piace per niente, lo trovo troppo confusionario.
Sono molto curiosa di leggere la parte in cui la storia sarà sempre più "dark".
*L'entrata in scena di Juuzo mi ha sconvolto, nell'anime era molto meno splatter 😅.
December 13, 2023
the ending with the ear licking freaked me out lmao but otherwise this one was pretty forgettable for me
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