Sounds like I should just stick to the manga and forget the anime even exists.

I don't know if you mean TG or AoT but it applies to both :lol

If I didn't like the adaption, I can't see myself liking the source material any better. It's like when people tell me to read the book of The Hunger Games because I didn't like the first movie.

My biggest issue with Tokyo Ghoul is that I find the story and characters not interesting. I'm so sick of the "Main character starts off as a wimpy shy human and slowly becomes some type of badass later on". This trope has been done to death that I'm bored of it. Not to mention I also find the animation to be lack luster at times from looking "That was very nicely animated" to "Wow they must have run low on money fast".

The series wants to introduce some deep philosophy behind humans oppressing ghouls but the ghouls literally only survive by eating humans and are complete sociopaths with no regard for human life. Too bad none of it was done very well in my opinion. I may sound harsh on the show, but I really did not like it at all. I guess the hype of the show really hurt it for me.

I'd argue that if the adaptation heavily deviated from the source material that you might end up liking it. For example, a friend of mine liked the Tokyo Ghoul anime, then he bought some of the manga and nowadays, he has such hatred for the anime as it's completely different in tone and stuff

AoT. I have no interest in Tokyo Ghoul.

With the first season, they didn't want to go ahead of the anime si they deliberately kept it slow paced
3 years later, a new season, with only half as many episodes comes out and it's STILL slow as fuck with pacing

And considering the secrets of the Titans are all revealed now, that makes it all worse.

Yeah no they aren't. Not by a long shot.

Which does make the second season being short real disappointing.

But I don't think it's awful for that... It's still good for what it is adapting.

I have no issue with the pacing of AoT S2 at all. With how it's been going it's been faster than S1 in terms of pacing and action. Not every episode can or honestly should be a titan battle or slaughter fest. The world-building and slower-paced development and character moments are just as needed.

The anime blows through a lot of the development or just skips it outright in order to make it more of a shonen action series, and then season 2 (Root A) just completely abandons the manga. Trust me when I say this, the manga is FAR superior. There's much more focus on the ghouls as individuals and Kaneki struggling with how he has to live.


Anyways, I've been watching Gunbuster. The pacing is a bit odd, but it's actually kind of refreshing. I'm REALLY enjoying it so far, and about to start episode 5.