97 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 creeps in gradually during the torture in 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, and he returned four years later with Katharsis, the opening theme of the anime's final season.

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

Dead by Daylight casts Kaneki as a Killer named The Ghoul, so the series' reluctant hero becomes the monster hunting the game's survivors.

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 is secretly run by a family of ghouls disguised as humans.

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

China blacklisted Tokyo Ghoul √A in June 2015 on a list aimed at violence, pornography and 'crimes against public morality', and in 2021 a Russian court barred one website from carrying the series.

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

Pierrot made all four seasons, though for the 2018 sequel it changed both the director and the character designer.

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

Weekly Young Jump barely paused: the original ended in September 2014 and the sequel Tokyo Ghoul:re began in the same magazine the following month.

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 such hybrids are called one-eyed ghouls.

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.

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 peppers his speech with English, French and Italian, and after the time skip his family's secret is exposed and the whole clan lands on the CCG's hit list.

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

Uta explains his permanently red-and-black eyes as tattoos, saying black ink was injected into his sclera.

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 defeats Kaneki and then, instead of finishing him, mentors his amnesiac new self.

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 turned Ken Kaneki into a half-ghoul and later joined Aogiri Tree?

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 is Touka's younger 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, once entrusted with raising Eto, can rejoin his body after being cut in half?

Noro had raised the infant Eto at her father's request, and he is finally killed in the raid on the Tsukiyama headquarters at the cost of a young investigator's life.

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 appears in the epilogue, set six years after the final battle, as a natural-born one-eyed ghoul who can eat ordinary human food.

What is Touka Kirishima doing when Tokyo Ghoul:re opens?

Running a coffee shop named :re two years after the original series ends, she knows who Kaneki has become but refuses to force his memories back.

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 a new director replaced him when the sequel :re was adapted.

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

Don Davis scored only this first film: the 2019 sequel Tokyo Ghoul S brought in new composers as well as new directors.

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 stayed on for the sequel announced in September 2018, which kept the film's Kaneki but recast Touka.

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

Maika Yamamoto's Touka spares a human who has learned the ghouls' secret after the woman calls her kagune beautiful.

Which actor joined the 2019 film Tokyo Ghoul S as the ghoul Shū Tsukiyama?

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 a teenage Kishō Arima and his schoolmate Taishi Fura?

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.

Which habit does Ken Kaneki pick up from Yamori, the ghoul who tortures him?

Cracking his fingers was Yamori's own tic, copied from the investigator who once tortured him in prison, so the habit passes down a chain of three.

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.

Which voice actor, later Tanjiro in Demon Slayer, plays Ken Kaneki in the Japanese version of the Tokyo Ghoul anime?

Natsuki Hanae won Best Rookie at the 9th Seiyu Awards, and his gaming videos on YouTube drew more than 500,000 subscribers within seven months.

Which actor, later Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's One Piece, appears in the 2019 film Tokyo Ghoul S as the ghoul Sōta?

Mackenyu rose to fame as Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru film trilogy, a part that brought him a Japan Academy newcomer award in 2017.

For which manga did Tokyo Ghoul's Sui Ishida draw a 69-page storyboard in 2016 about the character Hisoka's past?

Hunter × Hunter is the work of Yoshihiro Togashi, and Ishida's guest chapter was published digitally by Shueisha in June 2016.

Which American newspaper's best-seller list did the English edition of the Tokyo Ghoul manga top in 2015?

The New York Times success came in the year the English volumes began appearing, four years after the manga's debut in Japan.

Which country banned websites from distributing Tokyo Ghoul in 2021, together with Death Note and Inuyashiki?

Russia lost legal access to the series altogether in March 2022, when Sony shut its Crunchyroll and Wakanim services there after the invasion of Ukraine.

What bird nickname is given to every CCG investigator in Tokyo Ghoul, whatever the officer's class or grade?

Doves covers every rank, and the anime's third episode, in which Ken Kaneki is taken in at Anteiku, is simply titled Dove.

Which CCG prison for ghouls, sharing its name with part of the human ear, does Aogiri Tree raid to free inmates?

Cochlea keeps its most dangerous inmates on an SS level, and a later break-in to rescue a single prisoner ends with many others set loose too.

Which voice actor, also Light Yagami in Death Note, plays the ghoul Shū Tsukiyama in the Tokyo Ghoul anime?

Mamoru Miyano was nominated at the first Seiyu Awards for playing Light Yagami, then won Best Lead Actor a year later for Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

What did the ghoul Donato Porpora pose as while raising the orphaned Kōtarō Amon, a future CCG investigator?

A Catholic priest was the cover of a killer whose favourite victims were the orphans in his care, yet he spared Amon after the boy caught him in the act.

Which nickname do investigators give the bookish ghoul who lures Ken Kaneki on the date that nearly kills him?

Binge Eater suited a ghoul who seized other ghouls' hunting grounds, and whose earlier havoc in another part of the city had drawn investigators there.

Which American publisher, co-owned by Shueisha and Shogakukan, released the Tokyo Ghoul manga in English from 2015?

Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in American bookstores in 2017, the year it released the last of the original fourteen volumes.

Which company produced the English dub of the Tokyo Ghoul anime and released the 2017 live-action film in America?

Funimation simulcast the first season on its own website in 2014 and put the dubbed episodes out on home video in September 2015.

At which convention did the live-action Tokyo Ghoul film have its US premiere, weeks before opening in Japan?

Anime Expo in Los Angeles screened it on July 3, 2017, and the sequel Tokyo Ghoul S had its American premiere at the same event in 2019.

Which publisher made both the 2015 mobile game Tokyo Ghoul: Carnaval and the adventure RPG Tokyo Ghoul: Jail?

Bandai Namco's Jail gave players a fresh hero named Rio and let them roam every district of the city.

Which mythical beast names the giant creature, made from Ken Kaneki's body, that ravages the city in Tokyo Ghoul:re?

Dragon does such damage that the CCG is disbanded afterwards and replaced by a committee in which former investigators work alongside ghouls.

Which animal names the alliance Ken Kaneki founds in Tokyo Ghoul:re to bring peace between humans and ghouls?

Goat unites Aogiri Tree's survivors, freed prisoners, rogue investigators and Kaneki's old friends from Anteiku.

Which school subject does Touka Kirishima take an interest in, hoping one day to work as a teacher?

Biology appeals to her chiefly where humans and ghouls are concerned, though after the time skip she is running a coffee shop instead.

Which human best friend of Touka Kirishima at Kiyomi High School loves to cook and hopes to become a chef?

Yoriko Kosaka later works in a bakery and marries the CCG investigator Takeomi Kuroiwa, who has no idea of her link to Touka.

Which small reptile does Yamori, the alias of the Aogiri Tree executive Yakumo Ōmori, literally mean in Japanese?

Gecko is the alias of a ghoul who was himself tortured to the point of insanity while a prisoner of the CCG, and came out with a love of torturing others.

Which country was home to the Rosewalds, the branch of Shū Tsukiyama's family that produced his servant Kanae?

Germany is where a rising CCG commander made his name by wiping the Rosewalds out, which left Kanae as their last survivor.

Which family, supplying the CCG's chairman and director, is exposed in Tokyo Ghoul:re as ghouls disguised as humans?

Washū secrets come out when the investigator Itsuki Marude exposes them in the middle of a battle against Aogiri Tree.

Under which alias does Ken Kaneki's human best friend resurface in Tokyo Ghoul:re, mistaken by the CCG for a ghoul?

Scarecrow turns up long after his friend has come to believe he was killed, and is linked to a group working to wrest the CCG back from its new director.

Which nickname did Anteiku's joking waiter Enji Koma carry as a violent gang leader before the manager reformed him?

Devil Ape comes out of retirement with his old gang of monkey-masked ghouls to defend the café when the CCG raids it.

Which ghoul informant runs a bar in the 14th district and is played by Kara singer Jiyoung in Tokyo Ghoul S?

Itori has an extensive information network and a taste for drinking blood, which hints that she is a connoisseur of sorts.

Which emotionless second-in-command of Aogiri Tree hates the investigator Kōsuke Hōji for killing his brother?

Tatara rarely fights, though his kagune can make fire, and he is finally killed by an ally who turns on him.

Which childlike Aogiri Tree ghoul stays devoted to his late boss Yamori and later becomes an executive himself?

Naki challenges Ken Kaneki to avenge his boss, loses, and swears allegiance to him instead.

Which CCG investigator, listed as killed, returns in Tokyo Ghoul:re as an insane half-ghoul made by Aogiri Tree?

Seidō Takizawa is written as a dark mirror of Ken Kaneki, the image of what the hero fears he could himself become.

Which promotion-hungry Tokyo Ghoul:re investigator hates ghouls because his father died covering his team's retreat?

Kuki Urie starts out treating his teammates as tools for his own advancement, and grows to care for them, most of all after one of them dies.

At what kind of event in Tokyo Ghoul:re does the horror novelist Eto reveal to the world that she is a ghoul?

A press conference is where she goes public, around the time she gives herself up to the CCG and Ken Kaneki is assigned to watch over her.

Which of Tokyo Ghoul's four kagune types, seen in Kaya Irimi's beetle-like wings, fights by firing projectiles?

Ukaku is the type in question, and the prisoner Shikorae is a rarity who can wield all four kinds of kagune.

What do Tokyo Ghoul's ghouls carry far more of than humans, flowing like blood yet able to harden instantly?

RC cells are also the CCG's way of calming a half-ghoul who loses control: investigators strike him with suppressors that act on them.

Which disease had left the CCG's ace Kishō Arima almost blind on one side before his last duel with Ken Kaneki?

Glaucoma was one sign that his life was nearing its end anyway, he explains, before asking Kaneki to let the world think he fell in their duel.

Which secret institution's alumni, among them the CCG's ace Kishō Arima, all turn out to be short-lived half-humans?

The Sunlit Garden also produced the investigator Hairu Ihei; half-humans like them eat ordinary food and have no kagune, yet react faster than other people.

Which actress, an award winner for Hula Girls, plays Ken Kaneki's deadly date in the 2017 Tokyo Ghoul film?

Yū Aoi made her screen debut in Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, and took the Japan Academy Prize for best supporting actress for the hula film in 2007.

Which Japanese rock band performed an ending theme for the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime and the theme song of Tokyo Ghoul S?

Queen Bee, formed in Kobe in 2009 and known at home as Ziyoou-vachi, supplied Half for the series and Introduction for the film.

Which Japanese rock band's song about seasons dying one after another is the ending theme of Tokyo Ghoul √A?

Amazarashi went on to write an opening theme for My Hero Academia and an ending theme for the 2019 anime Dororo.

Which composer of the Tokyo Ghoul anime's score went on to write the music for the Viking epic Vinland Saga?

Yutaka Yamada scored the 2014 series and its follow-up, moved to Los Angeles in 2017, and came back for Tokyo Ghoul:re in 2018.

For which rival publisher's annual manga award was Shueisha's Tokyo Ghoul nominated in 2014?

Kodansha has sponsored its manga award since 1977, and it counts among the major prizes for serialized manga in Japan.

Which voice actor, also Karma Akabane in Assassination Classroom, plays Ken Kaneki in the English dub of Tokyo Ghoul?

Austin Tindle returned to the part for the English dub of the 2017 live-action film, opposite Brina Palencia as Touka.

Which voice actor, famous as Eren in Attack on Titan, plays Touka Kirishima's younger brother in Tokyo Ghoul?

Yuki Kaji topped the voice actor vote in Animage's 36th Anime Grand Prix for playing Eren, having also won it the year before.

Which voice actress, also Aqua in KonoSuba and Akame in Akame ga Kill!, plays Touka Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul?

Sora Amamiya took Best Rookie Actress at the 9th Seiyu Awards, the same ceremony that honoured her co-star in the title role.

Which pacifist ghoul, an ally of Ken Kaneki, has a kagune that seems to do nothing but heal his own injuries?

Kazuichi Banjō turns up at Anteiku just before Ken Kaneki is kidnapped, and in time gathers a large following of his own.

In Tokyo Ghoul, which single letter names the organisation that Anteiku's manager once worked for as a killer?

V has ties to both humans and ghouls, and it had the manager's human partner killed once it discovered their relationship.

For which craft did the 2017 live-action Tokyo Ghoul film win an Excellence Award from a Japanese industry body?

Visual effects won it the prize at the VFX-Japan Awards, even though one Anime News Network review had faulted the way its kagune looked.

Which sense is the greatest strength of Anteiku waitress Kaya Irimi, letting her predict attacks before they land?

Hearing lets her locate movement through sound alone, a kind of sixth sense that works even when she cannot see.

What kind of food did Tokyo Ghoul investigator Kōtarō Amon hate as a human, despite a great love of sweet things?

Anything spicy was off the menu for Amon, a sweet-toothed investigator who is himself later turned into a half-ghoul.

Which author wrote the Tokyo Ghoul light novels Days, Void and Past, which Sui Ishida illustrated?

Shin Towada added a fourth book in 2016, a Tokyo Ghoul:re novel set among the investigators Ken Kaneki mentors.

Which human photographer, a long-time friend of Shū Tsukiyama, looks like a schoolchild and trades in information?

Chie Hori knows her friend is a ghoul but has no interest in exposing him, and almost never shows fear.

On which island does the CCG fight Aogiri Tree in Tokyo Ghoul:re, a battle in which its own leaders' secret comes out?

Rushima is also where a waitress from Anteiku, long presumed killed in the raid on the café, reappears to fight beside the ghouls.

For which handheld console was Tokyo Ghoul: Jail, a 2015 adventure RPG with a new protagonist named Rio, released?

PlayStation Vita owners met a ghoul hero created for the game, who also turns up in the manga as an inmate driven insane in prison.