Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul
Cover of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 published by Shueisha featuring Ken Kaneki
東京喰種（トーキョーグール） (Tōkyō Gūru)
Genre	Dark fantasy
Manga
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	September 8, 2011 – September 18, 2014
Volumes	14 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written by	Shin Towada
Illustrated by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Original run	July 19, 2013 – present
Volumes	3 (List of volumes)
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Jump Live
Original run	August 2013 – October 2013
Volumes	1 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Shuhei Morita
Written by	Chūji Mikasano
Music by	Yutaka Yamada
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation UK Anime Limited
Original network	Tokyo MX, TVA, TVQ, TVO, AT-X, Dlife
Original run	July 4, 2014 – September 19, 2014
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Tokyo Ghoul:re
Written by	Sui Ishida
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	October 16, 2014 – present
Volumes	9 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Tokyo Ghoul √A
Directed by	Shuhei Morita
Written by	Chūji Mikasano
Music by	Yutaka Yamada
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation UK Anime Limited
Original network	Tokyo MX, TVA, TVQ, TVO, AT-X, Dlife, MRO
Original run	January 9, 2015 – March 27, 2015
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Tokyo Ghoul [Jack]
Directed by	Sōichi Shimada
Written by	Chūji Mikasano
Music by	Yutaka Yamada
Studio	Pierrot
Released	September 30, 2015
Original video animation
Tokyo Ghoul: PINTO
Directed by	Tadahito Matsubayashi
Written by	Sōichi Shimada
Music by	Yutaka Yamada
Studio	Pierrot
Released	December 25, 2015
Video games
Tokyo Ghoul: Carnaval Tokyo Ghoul: Jail
Live-action film
Tokyo Ghoul (film)

Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種（トーキョーグール）, Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru^?) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump between September 2011 and September 2014 and has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2014. A sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul:re began serialization in the same magazine in October 2014 and a prequel titled Tokyo Ghoul Jack ran online on Jump Live.

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by studio Pierrot aired on Tokyo MX between July and September 2014. A 12-episode second season, Tokyo Ghoul √A, which follows an original story, began airing on January 8, 2015, and concluded on March 26, 2015. In North America, Viz Media is publishing the manga while Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video distribution. The anime was obtained by Madman Entertainment for digital distribution in Australia. As of June 2016, there were over 18 million copies of Tokyo Ghoul in circulation.

A live-action film based on the manga was announced in June 2016 to open the summer of 2017.

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where ghouls, individuals who can only survive by eating human flesh, live among the normal humans in secret, hiding their true nature to evade pursuit from the authorities. Including enhanced speed, senses, and regenerative ability, a regular ghoul is several times stronger than a normal human, has a skin resistant to ordinary piercing weapons and has at least one special predatory organ called a "Kagune", which it can manifest and use as a weapon during combat. Another distinctive trait of ghouls is that when they are excited the color of their sclera in both eyes turns black and their irises red. In the case of a half-ghoul, only one of the eyes undergoes the transformation. A half-ghoul can either be born naturally as a ghoul and a human's offspring, or artificially created by transplanting some ghoul organs into a human. In both cases, a half-ghoul is usually much stronger than a pure-blood ghoul. There is also the case of half-humans, hybrids of ghouls and humans that can feed like normal humans and lack a Kagune while possessing enhanced abilities, but shortened lifespans. To hunt down the ghouls, several government-sponsored organizations around the world were created.