50 Fun Facts About Tokyo Ghoul

Which ghoul, hit by falling girders on a date with Ken Kaneki, had her organs transplanted into him?

Rize Kamishiro, known to investigators as the Binge Eater, is later revealed to have survived the accident that was supposed to kill her.

What colour does Ken Kaneki's hair turn after his torture by Aogiri Tree, instantly in the anime?

White hair arrives slowly from chapter 61 of the manga, but the anime turns it in an instant as Kaneki accepts his ghoul side.

Which song by TK from Ling Tosite Sigure opens the first season of the Tokyo Ghoul anime?

Unravel was TK's debut solo single, released in July 2014 and taken from his second album Fantastic Magic.

Which multiplayer horror game added Ken Kaneki as a playable Killer in April 2025?

Dead by Daylight added Kaneki on April 2, 2025, in a collaboration that Behaviour Interactive had announced only a month earlier.

What does CCG, the agency employing investigators like Kōtarō Amon and Kishō Arima, stand for?

The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the federal agency for ghoul-related crime, and it arms its investigators with weapons harvested from the ghouls they kill.

Which country's Ministry of Culture listed Tokyo Ghoul √A among 38 banned anime and manga in 2015?

China blacklisted Tokyo Ghoul √A on June 12, 2015, and two Russian websites were later ordered to drop the series as well, in 2021.

Which animation studio, also behind Naruto and Bleach, produced the 2014 Tokyo Ghoul anime series?

Pierrot animated every Tokyo Ghoul season, and the first run aired on Tokyo MX between July 4 and September 19, 2014.

In which Shueisha seinen magazine did Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul run from 2011 to 2014?

Weekly Young Jump also carried the sequel Tokyo Ghoul:re from October 2014 to July 2018, collected in 16 volumes.

What name does an amnesiac Ken Kaneki live under in Tokyo Ghoul:re after his defeat by Kishō Arima?

Haise Sasaki keeps Kaneki's love of reading and rises fast through the CCG, which sedates him with Rc suppressors whenever his ghoul side surfaces.

Which actor plays Ken Kaneki in the 2017 live-action Tokyo Ghoul film directed by Kentarō Hagiwara?

Masataka Kubota played Kaneki for American fans first: the film premiered at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2017, before opening in Japan.

What does the CCG nickname Ken Kaneki, after his mask's design, once he defeats investigator Amon?

Eye Patch spread as a name among ghouls after one of them watched Kaneki beat the investigator, making the quiet student suddenly notorious.

In which of Tokyo's wards is Anteiku, the small café run by ghouls who intend to blend in?

The 20th ward café feeds ghouls who cannot hunt by collecting the bodies of people who have died by suicide, rather than by killing anyone.

Which Anteiku manager, nicknamed the Non-Killing Owl, takes in the newly half-ghoul Ken Kaneki?

Yoshimura earned the name by posing as the far deadlier One-Eyed Owl to cover for someone else, while refusing to kill investigators himself.

Which alias does Touka Kirishima earn after attacking investigators to avenge a ghoul girl's mother?

Rabbit killed one investigator in that attack, and Touka later admits a murderer like herself deserved to die, because killing for revenge is wrong.

What slasher-villain nickname does Yamori, the Aogiri Tree executive who tortures Ken Kaneki for ten days, go by?

Jason had himself been tortured to the point of insanity in CCG custody, and he kept Kaneki for ten days straight before Kaneki broke free and devoured his kagune.

What is the term for a ghoul's eyes turning red-irised with black sclera when hungry or excited?

Kakugan shows in both eyes of a full ghoul, but a half-ghoul like Kaneki gets it in only one, which is why he keeps that eye covered.

What does the CCG call the weapons it forges from the kagune of ghouls it has killed?

Quinque collecting becomes an obsession for some investigators, and the CCG even turns slain ghouls' remains into named weapons such as Narukami.

Under which pen name does Eto, founder of Aogiri Tree, write the horror novels Ken Kaneki loves?

Sen Takatsuki is a cover for the One-Eyed Owl, the original series' main antagonist, whose scent reads as neither human nor ghoul.

Which unit of surgically altered investigators does an amnesiac Ken Kaneki mentor in Tokyo Ghoul:re?

The Quinx Squad is a set of artificial ghouls: each member received a ghoul organ so they can grow a kagune yet still live as humans.

How is the title of the 2015 second anime season, written Tokyo Ghoul √A, read aloud?

Root A is the reading, and unlike the first season this one followed an original story rather than the manga's.

Which shy ghoul girl, barred from school, bonds with Ken Kaneki after he helps her read kanji?

Hinami Fueguchi has a sense of smell sharper than most ghouls', and in the manga she later leaves to follow Kaneki, while the anime keeps her with Touka.

Which ghoul at Ken Kaneki's university keeps a human girlfriend, Kimi, who knows his secret?

Nishiki Nishio lost his hunting ground to a stronger ghoul and, after the time skip, hunts as the S-rank ghoul the CCG calls Serpent.

Which human friend of Ken Kaneki sneaks into Aogiri Tree's hideout to plant a tracker on Yamori?

Hideyoshi Nagachika, 'Hide', later joins the CCG as a rookie investigator to find out where his vanished friend went.

What do investigators call Shū Tsukiyama, the ghoul from a rich family with connections in the government?

The Gourmet comes from a rich ghoul family with government connections, and he peppers his speech with English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Which ghoul, called 'No Face' by the CCG, makes masks at HySy ArtMask Studio in Tokyo's 4th ward?

Uta has tattooed his eyes and had ink injected into his sclera, so his irises stay red and the whites stay black permanently.

Which investigator, Kōtarō Amon's mentor and a weapon collector, dies fighting Touka Kirishima?

Kureo Mado let his guard down out of fascination with a young ghoul's kagune, and his daughter Akira later took his place beside Amon.

Which childlike CCG investigator, raised by the ghoul Big Madam, becomes a Special Class at just 22?

Jūzō Suzuya was the first to reach Special Class that young since Kishō Arima, and he talks to his other self, Rei, the name he once had.

Which nickname does the CCG give its ace Kishō Arima, who fights with several weapons at once?

The Reaper joined the CCG in his teens, was hailed as a genius, and is strong enough to kill ghouls no one else in the force can touch.

Which alias does Ken Kaneki gain once eating other ghouls makes him a half-kakuja?

Centipede describes the shape his new kagune takes, and Kaneki only starts to regret that power-hungry path after the incident at a doctor's lab.

Which surgeon, the only human among Aogiri Tree's leaders, turned Ken Kaneki into a half-ghoul?

Akihiro Kanō went on to run illegal ghoul experiments using the body of Kaneki's donor as raw material, which is what drew Aogiri Tree's attention.

Which Aogiri Tree executive, its youngest, is Touka's brother and resents her life among humans?

Ayato joined the organisation, Kaneki suggests, to protect his sister from afar, and he later stages a prison raid to save a young ghoul from execution.

Which silent Aogiri Tree ghoul turns out to be a corpse puppeteered by Eto's detached kagune?

Noro could reattach his upper body after being sliced in half, a regeneration that makes sense once the CCG learns nothing living was inside.

Which group caused Ken Kaneki's accident and later runs an auction selling captured humans?

The Clowns thrive on chaos, and the CCG breaks up the auction they host in the sequel, where wealthy ghouls bid on people.

Which surgically altered CCG investigator in Tokyo Ghoul:re joined to fund his sister's treatment?

Ginshi Shirazu is promoted to leader of the unit for that determination, then dies of his wounds in the ambush at the Tsukiyama headquarters.

Which gamer among Tokyo Ghoul:re's investigators rarely uses her kagune because it exhausts her?

Saiko Yonebayashi becomes vice-captain after a teammate's death, dropping her NEET lifestyle, and her kagune control lands the unit's decisive blows.

Which harmless-seeming investigator under an amnesiac Ken Kaneki is Tokyo Ghoul:re's main villain?

Nimura Furuta is born Sōta Washū-Furuta, a son of the CCG's own chairman, and he drops the act once his first partner is killed.

Which secret title did Kishō Arima hold while conspiring with Eto, as his death reveals?

The One-Eyed King was waiting for a ghoul strong enough to break the Washū clan's status quo, and Arima died believing Kaneki had become that ghoul.

Who is the one-eyed ghoul daughter of Ken Kaneki and Touka Kirishima in the Tokyo Ghoul:re epilogue?

Ichika arrives six years after the final battle, living proof of the coexistence the series spent 30 volumes fighting over.

Which Anteiku ghoul brews expert coffee but was kept off serving for seeming too intense?

Renji Yomo now gathers food for ghouls too weak or unwilling to hunt, and was once as violent and hot-tempered as the gang leaders the manager reformed.

How many years after the first series ends is Tokyo Ghoul:re set, introducing a new cast?

Two years on, the sequel opens inside the CCG, following an amnesiac Kaneki as mentor to a team of investigators rather than among the ghouls of Anteiku.

Which director, Oscar-nominated for the short Possessions, helmed the 2014 Tokyo Ghoul anime and √A?

Shuhei Morita earned his Academy Award nomination for the 2013 short Possessions, and Toshinori Watanabe replaced him as director for the :re adaptation.

Which composer, best known for The Matrix trilogy, scored the 2017 live-action Tokyo Ghoul film?

Don Davis gave the film a Hollywood score while the anime's music came from Yutaka Yamada, and the live-action film still grossed only about $10 million.

Which studio distributed the 2017 live-action Tokyo Ghoul film, which grossed ¥1.1 billion in Japan?

Shochiku released it on July 29, 2017, and the film's worldwide total reached only about $10 million, almost all of it earned at home.

Which actress took over Touka Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul S after Fumika Shimizu retired from acting?

Maika Yamamoto stepped in for the 2019 film, which opened seventh at the Japanese box office and earned about ¥220 million.

Which actor joined the 2019 film Tokyo Ghoul S as Shū Tsukiyama, the ghoul with epicurean tastes?

Shota Matsuda plays a villain who opens the film by killing a model named Margaret, then befriends Kaneki with the aim of eating him.

On which US cable programming block did the Tokyo Ghoul anime begin airing in March 2017?

Toonami is the Saturday late-night action block that picked up the series on March 25, 2017, nearly three years after Japan first saw it.

Which digital prequel follows Kishō Arima and Taishi Fura twelve years before Ken Kaneki's story?

Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] ran for seven chapters on a digital manga service in 2013, and the two teenagers investigate a friend's death at a ghoul's hands.

In which Japanese prefecture was Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida born, in December 1986?

Fukuoka Prefecture is where Ishida was born, and Tokyo Ghoul, the series that made his name, topped The New York Times best-seller list in English in 2015.

Which dark fantasy manga did Sui Ishida launch on a Shueisha website in May 2021?

Choujin X launched on May 10, 2021, and Viz Media and Manga Plus carried it in English from that same day.

Roughly how many copies of the Tokyo Ghoul manga were in circulation worldwide by January 2021?

47 million copies makes it one of the best-selling manga of all time, though the original 14-volume run alone accounts for just over 12 million.