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* CursedWithAwesome: Kaneki's ghoul transformation gives him superior strength and reflexes, along with a powerful weapon organ he can use to fight.

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* CharacterTic: Kaneki cracks his index finger before he enters into his ass-kicking 'ghoul mode'. A troubling example of [[spoiler: {{HeWhoFightsMonsters}}as Kaneki adopted from Yamori, who himself emulated the gesture from an insane CCG officer.]]* CursedWithAwesome: Kaneki's ghoul transformation gives him superior strength and reflexes, along with a powerful weapon organ he can use to fight.



* CharacterTic: Kaneki cracks his index finger before he enters into his ass-kicking 'ghoul mode'. A troubling example of [[spoiler: {{HeWhoFightsMonsters}}as Kaneki adopted from Yamori, who himself emulated the gesture from an insane CCG officer.]]
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* CharacterTic: Kaneki cracks his index finger before he enters into his ass-kicking 'ghoul mode'. A troubling example of [[spoiler: {{HeWhoFightsMonsters}}as Kaneki adopted from Yamori, who himself emulated the gesture from an insane CCG officer.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Kaneki [[spoiler: Yamori foreshadows that Kaneki will become like him. Yamori recounts how he came to love inflicting torture as he was once brutally tortured by a sadistic CCG officer himself.]]
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* {{Bridal Carry}}: Kaneki does this to Touka after he swoops in to save her after she was defeated by her brother Ayato.

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* {{Bridal Carry}}: Kaneki does this to Touka after he swoops in to save her after she was defeated by [[spoiler: her brother Ayato.]]
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* Bridal Carry: Kaneki does this to Touka after he swoops in to save her after she was defeated by her brother Ayato.

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* Bridal Carry: {{Bridal Carry}}: Kaneki does this to Touka after he swoops in to save her after she was defeated by her brother Ayato.
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* Bridal Carry: Kaneki does this to Touka after he swoops in to save her after she was defeated by her brother Ayato.
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* BodyHorror: The ghoul's kagune. They don't match their mostly human appearance, instead being crimson insectoid limbs that tear out of the ghouls back.

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* BodyHorror: The ghoul's kagune. They don't match their mostly human appearance, instead being crimson insectoid limbs that tear out of the ghouls back.body.
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** Ukaku: Wings that form from the shoulder blades.
** Koukaku: Heavy weapons that form from the wrists.
** Rinkaku: Tentacles that form from the waist.
** Bikaku: Bladed tail that forms from the coccyx.
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* NaturalWeapon: The ghoul's kagune are predatory organs formed from Rc cells they gain from eating humans. While each kagune is unique to the user (although close family such as siblings can have similar kagune) they fall into one of four categories.
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* BadassNormal: The Doves. They're all human, yet fight head to head with ghouls regularly and manage to defeat them mainly with their experience and skill. [[spoiler:Not to mention the weapons they've made from fallen ghoul Kagune.]]

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* BadassNormal: The Doves. They're all human, yet fight head to head with ghouls regularly and manage to defeat them mainly with their experience and skill. [[spoiler:Not to mention the weapons they've made from fallen ghoul Kagune.kagune.]]



* BodyHorror: The ghoul's Kagune. They don't match their mostly human appearance, instead being crimson insectoid limbs that tear out of the ghouls back.

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* BodyHorror: The ghoul's Kagune.kagune. They don't match their mostly human appearance, instead being crimson insectoid limbs that tear out of the ghouls back.



* EvilGenius: Kureo, a dove that is obsessed with ghouls. [[spoiler:He even makes weapons from their Kagune.]]

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* EvilGenius: Kureo, a dove that is obsessed with ghouls. [[spoiler:He even makes weapons from their Kagune.kagune.]]



* ShapeshifterWeapon: All ghouls have access to special organs called Kagune, which all take different forms for each ghoul.

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* ShapeshifterWeapon: All ghouls have access to special organs called Kagune, kagune, which all take different forms for each ghoul.
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* BlackandGreyMorality: The majority of ghouls kill humans without hesitation. Humans generally kill ghouls indiscriminately due to how easily they can be killed by ghouls' kagune. The few ghouls that don't kill humans are either killed by ghouls due to being weaker and involved in territorial disputes or by humans so they can be stripped of their kagune and be manufactured into anti-Ghoul weapons.

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* BlackandGreyMorality: The majority of ghouls kill humans without hesitation. Humans generally kill ghouls indiscriminately due to how easily they can be killed by ghouls' kagune. The few ghouls that don't kill humans are either killed by ghouls due to being weaker and involved in territorial disputes or by humans so they can be stripped of their kagune and so they can be manufactured into anti-Ghoul weapons.
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* BlackandGreyMorality: The majority of ghouls kill humans without hesitation. Humans generally kill ghouls indiscriminately due to how easily they can be killed by ghouls' kagune. The few ghouls that don't kill humans are either killed by ghouls due to being weaker and involved in territorial disputes or by humans so they can be stripped of their kagune and be manufactured into anti-Ghoul weapons.
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* BodyHorror: The ghoul's Kagune. They don't match their mostly human appearance, instead being crimson insectoid limbs that tear out of the ghouls back.
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* VegetarianVampires: The Anteiku is a cafe that covertly sells human flesh to ghouls that can't bring themselves to kill humans. The shop scavenges flesh from suicide hotspots and other remote locations where corpses can be found.

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* VegetarianVampires: VegetarianVampire: The Anteiku is a cafe that covertly sells human flesh to ghouls that can't bring themselves to kill humans. The shop scavenges flesh from suicide hotspots and other remote locations where corpses can be found.
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* VeganVampires: The Anteiku is a cafe that covertly sells human flesh to ghouls that can't bring themselves to kill humans. The shop scavenges flesh from suicide hotspots and other remote locations where corpses can be found.

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* VeganVampires: VegetarianVampires: The Anteiku is a cafe that covertly sells human flesh to ghouls that can't bring themselves to kill humans. The shop scavenges flesh from suicide hotspots and other remote locations where corpses can be found.
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* VeganVampires: The Anteiku is a cafe that covertly sells human flesh to ghouls that can't bring themselves to kill humans. The shop scavenges flesh from suicide hotspots and other remote locations where corpses can be found.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Played with. Several ghouls that have fully accepted their nature see humans as nothing more than prey of some sort and don't really believe in good or evil. Ghouls closer to humans, however, mostly follow these beliefs as a way to coup with killing humans to survive.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Played with. Several ghouls that have fully accepted their nature see humans as nothing more than prey of some sort and don't really believe in good or evil. Ghouls closer to humans, however, mostly follow these beliefs as a way to coup cope with killing humans to survive.

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** Rize



* PosthumousCharacter: Rize

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* PosthumousCharacter: RizeWe get reminded all of the time that [[spoiler:Rize]] was one of the most powerful ghouls and possessed a unique kagune.
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* BigEater: "Binge-eater" Rize


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Rize tends to act without consideration for others in the ghoul community. [[spoiler: After Rize's binge-eating tendencies get the investigators to close in on 11th ward, she skips town to let the other local ghouls fend for themselves.]]


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* PosthumousCharacter: Rize
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Suzuya. Even Amon has trouble reliving he's a guy at first.

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Suzuya. Even Amon has trouble reliving believing he's a guy at first.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Suzuya is quick to violence for minor offensive. For example, when a cop arrests him for carrying a bloody weapon and doesn't believe he's a dove, [[spoiler:he sucks out his ear drum and then stomps on it.]]

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Suzuya is quick to violence for minor offensive.offense. For example, when a cop arrests him for carrying a bloody weapon and doesn't believe he's a dove, [[spoiler:he sucks out his ear drum and then stomps on it.]]

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Suzuya's first two chapters has him [[spoiler:slaughtering a gang of ghouls for fun, sucking out a police officer's eardrum and squashing it for wasting his time]], and stealing Kaneki's wallet.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Suzuya is quick to violence for minor offensive. For example, when a cop arrests him for carrying a bloody weapon and doesn't believe he's a dove, [[spoiler:he sucks out his ear drum and then stomps on it.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Suzuya. Even Amon has trouble reliving he's a guy at first.
* EarAche: Suzuya is introduced proper [[spoiler:licking and sucking out a rude police officer's eardrum.]]



* EatTheRich: Possibly the gourmet club;s favorite food.

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* EatTheRich: Possibly the gourmet club;s club's favorite food.
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* CrazyConsumption: Tsukiyama to the other ghouls. He's absolutely obsessed with eating.


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* EatTheRich: Possibly the gourmet club;s favorite food.


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* EyepatchOfPower: Kaneki starts wearing one when he has trouble controlling the color of his left eye. {{Subverted}} with his mask, which covers the other, non-ghoul eye. The designer made it that way so he could see Kaneki's hidden eye properly.


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* FoodPorn: {{Inverted}}. There's a lot of detailed food items in the series, but many of them are made with human meat, even some sugar cubes Kaneki uses with his coffee. Some are outright human parts, like [[spoiler:an eye Tsukiyama eats from a famous woman.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Kaneki [[spoiler:and the mysterious "one-eye," the only known hybrid by birth, if he really exists.]]


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* HumanResources: Humans to ghouls, as not eating humans will eventually cause their hunger to go out of control. In particular, Anteiku collects bodies from suicides for meat and to avoid killing humans, while also bringing less suspicion from authorities.


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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Tsukiyama sees Kaneki as this.
* InvitedAsDinner: [[spoiler:The gourmet club's main strategy to get meals.]]


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* LetsMeetTheMeat: [[spoiler:How the gourmet club prepares their meals.]]
* MadEye: Kaneki has one in extreme hunger. [[spoiler:"One-Eye" is also rumored to have one.]]


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* MoralityChain: Hide for Kaneki, Yoriko to Toka, and [[spoiler:Kimi to Nishiki.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: A darker example with Kaneki while he's first discovering his new eating habits. Coffee is one of the few things he can digest properly besides human meat. As time goes on, he's constantly drinking the stuff with a sugar cube packed with bits of human meat and blood to stay healthy.
* ObsessedWithFood: Tsukiyama, who is a self-named gourmet [[spoiler:along with the people at his club.]] A more normal example would be Toka's friend Yoriko, who constantly makes meals for her, unaware that Toka is a ghoul and can't eat human food properly.


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* PowerUpFood: Humans to ghouls, but not to a particularly impressive level. [[spoiler:Half-ghouls, like Kaneki, on the other hand...]]

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* CycleOfRevenge: The fighting between humans and ghouls, started by ghouls giving into their hunger for human flesh.



* FantasticRacism: Humans against ghouls, understandingly. When Kaneki and Toka ask someone at the police HQ about the mother and child ghoul case while under cover, she replies that it's perfectly okay to kill the child because she's a ghoul with an unflinching smile.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Ghouls live among humans in modern society, with a few characters even going to public schools with human friends.



* ManipulativeBastard: Tsukiyama, who [spoiler:tricks Kaneki into coming to his gourmet club to devour him.]]

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* ManipulativeBastard: Tsukiyama, who [spoiler:tricks [[spoiler:tricks Kaneki into coming to his gourmet club to devour him.]]


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* MisplacedRetribution: Amon's entire reason for hunting ghouls is to avenge fallen human children.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The focus of the mother and child arc. [[spoiler:Ultimately, everyone is proven to be part of the problem, both the doves for their cruel hunting, and Toka for killing doves that had nothing to do with the death of the mother ghoul. On top of that, it's hinted at the end that nobody involved was actually evil. Kureo was a loving father, Amon's motivation is based entirely around helping human children, and Toka was simply trying to take down people she saw as evil. Only Kaneki came out as the only true good, attempting to talk to Amon about the situation.]]


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* ScrewDestiny: Toka gives one of these when she stops Kaneki from giving into his hunger, deciding that she doesn't want to see someone fall to the ghoul hunger again.


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* {{Tsundere}}: Toka, who's normally violent, but has a vulnerable side around those she trust or those who surprise her, in the case of Hide in the first chapter.
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* BadassNormal: The Doves. They're all human, yet fight head to head with ghouls regularly and manage to defeat them mainly with their experience and skill. [[spoiler:Not to mention the weapons they've made from fallen ghoul Kagune.]]


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* DisposingOfABody: The Anteiku acts as a "soup" kitchen for ghouls, so left over bodies are brought over, butchered and stored away in their fridge.
* EatTheEvidence: Ghouls manage to stay hidden by eating the entire body of their victims. Sometimes, they just find people that have killed themselves and eat that over a living person, because there's less chance someone will miss that person and less chance of law enforcement becoming involved.


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* ImAHumanitarian: A few ghouls eat their own kind, mainly in violent sections of Japan.


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* ManipulativeBastard: Tsukiyama, who [spoiler:tricks Kaneki into coming to his gourmet club to devour him.]]
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Kaneki goes through a gradual one at series start.
* PickyPeopleEater: Tsukiyama, who's a gourmet. We see this first hand when [[spoiler:he only takes the eyes of a beautiful young woman after complimenting them.]]


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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Tsukiyama]] has one of these when [[spoiler:Toka takes a bite out of Kaneki.]]

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''Tokyu Ghoul'' is an ongoing manga series that mixes together elements of horror and action, starting off with references to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', but quickly switching into a tragic story about the circle of violence between humans and ghouls. An anime was announced to premier in the Summer 2014 season, animated by Studio Pierrot, mostly known for their work on ''Manga/Bleach'' and ''Manga/Naruto''.

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''Tokyu Ghoul'' is an ongoing seinen manga series that mixes together elements of horror and action, starting off with references to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', but quickly switching into a tragic story about the circle of violence between humans and ghouls. An anime was announced to premier in the Summer 2014 season, animated by Studio Pierrot, mostly known for their work on ''Manga/Bleach'' and ''Manga/Naruto''.
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* BadassBookworm: Kaneki, after his transformation. After some training, he's able to hold his own against investigators and ghouls.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The biggest tell if someone is a ghoul. Their eyes go black when especially hungry or using their powers.


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* EvilGenius: Kureo, a dove that is obsessed with ghouls. [[spoiler:He even makes weapons from their Kagune.]]
* HorrorHunger: The very nature of the ghouls.
* IdiotSavant: Kaneki's friend Hide seems very dim at first, but he absorbs knowledge easily, as shown when he reads a book on how ghouls function and starts casting theories on a recent case involving a mother and child ghoul. Various other ghouls see him as a possible threat because of this.
* KnightTemplar: The "doves," human investigators that have absolutely no sympathy for ghouls.


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* ShapeshifterWeapon: All ghouls have access to special organs called Kagune, which all take different forms for each ghoul.
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-> ''"If, for argument's sake, you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be a tragedy."''
-->- '''Ken Kaneki'''


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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Played with. Several ghouls that have fully accepted their nature see humans as nothing more than prey of some sort and don't really believe in good or evil. Ghouls closer to humans, however, mostly follow these beliefs as a way to coup with killing humans to survive.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Ghouls become more powerful by eating more and more. It's not exactly cannibalism since their not originally human, except in the case of Kaneki. There are a few ghouls that do feed on their own kind, however, but it's not known if they gain strength from this.


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*{{Sadist}}: Possibly Rize. The gourmet club would count as well.

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* CursedWithAwesome/BlessedWithSuck: Kaneki's ghoul transformation gives him superior strength and reflexes, along with a powerful weapon organ he can use to fight. On the other hand, using his powers makes him hunger for human flesh, and the only things he can digest anymore are human meat, coffee and water.

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* CursedWithAwesome/BlessedWithSuck: CursedWithAwesome: Kaneki's ghoul transformation gives him superior strength and reflexes, along with a powerful weapon organ he can use to fight. fight.
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On the other hand, using his powers makes him hunger for human flesh, and the only things he can digest anymore are human meat, coffee and water.
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Ken Kaneki is your normal everyday bookworm, until he falls for girl named Rize and finally makes his move at a local coffee shop. After some dates, Rize reveals herself to be a monster known as a "ghoul," creatures in human form that feast off of other humans. She was just trying to trap him the entire time and prepares to finally eat her meal, only for a girder from a nearby construction site to fall and smash her to bits, with Kaneki left terribly injuried and barely alive. To save his life, the surgeons use parts from Rize, who's identity is unknown to them, to replace the organs in Kaneki that don't work. It's not long before he discovers that all foods he used to love make him physically sick and taste like sandpaper to him, and he starts to piece together what he's becoming. Kaneki no longer belongs to the world of humans or ghouls anymore, but that may be both a curse and a blessing...

''Tokyu Ghoul'' is an ongoing manga series that mixes together elements of horror and action, starting off with references to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', but quickly switching into a tragic story about the circle of violence between humans and ghouls. An anime was announced to premier in the Summer 2014 season, animated by Studio Pierrot, mostly known for their work on ''Manga/Bleach'' and ''Manga/Naruto''.

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* CursedWithAwesome/BlessedWithSuck: Kaneki's ghoul transformation gives him superior strength and reflexes, along with a powerful weapon organ he can use to fight. On the other hand, using his powers makes him hunger for human flesh, and the only things he can digest anymore are human meat, coffee and water.
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