![]() And the last minute introduction of a psychopath disguised as a female-looking male junior detective seemed ominous but too excessive. ![]() ![]() Watching the CCG stooges focus on the wrong things in their attempt to play catch up to the ghouls was painful and frustrating. 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. 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 fight that ensued between the gruesome foursome was longsome and boresome, not to mention completely tiresome in its incomprehensibility. 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. ![]() 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. After the last intense encounter with him in Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. ![]()
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