Summary
The official X (formerly known as Twitter) account of the anime adaptation of Sui Ishida’sTokyo Ghoulposted a cryptic teaser regarding the 10th anniversary of the TV series. A title that has become the community’sposter child for unfortunate adaptations,Tokyo Ghoulfans will be pining to learn what exactly might be in store for them when the announcement is made. The teaser, which was posted on June 23, has slated the mysterious announcement for the series' 10th for July 3rd, 10 days after the teaser was released.
In this era of reboots, sometimes not even half a decade since the original release, could it be thatTokyo Ghoulis gearing up for the anime reboot that everyone has been begging for?
AboutTokyo Ghoul
A Major Cultural Moment
Ishida Sui’sTokyo Ghoulis a dark fantasy manga that was serialized in Shueisha’s seinen magazine, Weekly Young Jump, running for 14 volumes from September 2011 to September 2014, followed by its continuation,Tokyo Ghoul:re,which ran in the same magazine for 16 volumes from October 2014 to July 2018. The series was adapted intoan anime by Studio Pierrot(BLEACH,Naruto), with the first season running for 12 episodes from July to September 2014.
The first season’s opening theme, “Unravel” by TK From Ling Tosite Sigure has since gone down as a staple in the anime community, and quickly became one of the most popular songs in anime history. The second season, titledTokyo Ghoul √A(“Root A”) ran for another 12 episodes from January to March 2015, with “Munou (Incompetence)” by Österreich serving as the opening theme song.
TheTokyo Ghoulanime concluded withTokyo Ghoul:re,the first part of which ran from April to June 2018, with the second coming from October to December that year. As a franchise,Tokyo Ghoulis massively successful, with over 47 million copies in circulation as of January 2021, making it one of the best-selling manga of all time. The cultural moment ofTokyo Ghoulis one that made many people anime fans, and is definitely one of the most influential anime titles of the 2010s. The overall impact and legacy of the anime series was tarnished by the decision to make an anime-only sequence of events in the second season, which greatly affected the quality of the story witha major change in trajectorythat Pierrot attempted to amend in the third season,Tokyo Ghoul:re.
The Brotherhood Treatment
Tokyo Ghoul:re(boot)?
At this point, countless titles are celebrating milestone events, with theTokyo Ghoulanime project celebrating its 10th anniversary. A lot of these milestones are capped with reimagined versions of the original. For instance,Trigunreturned with a reboot25 years after the original anime;Fist of the North Staris celebrating 40 years with a new anime; we’ve already gotten the return ofShaman King, theOsomatsu-kunanime all grown up;Spice and Wolfand even Takahashi Rumiko’s 80s classic,Urusei Yatsurafinds itself in a similar position.
This is an interesting time in anime, as the old inspires the new, but also returns to take up space alongside the next generation. If the July 3rd announcement is a newTokyo Ghoulanime project, it’ll be the answer to a prayer fans have been sending out for the best part of a decade.
