Tokyo Ghoul: Days: Days

These only take a short time to read. Kid said it was not bad.

Smooth story line great characters

Book focuses on side stories in Tokyo ghoul universe and the stores are very good and fun to read for Tokyo ghoul fans.

Good addition to the series

This is my very first ever light novel! It is divided into 6 individual short stories which take place either in Ken's first months of being a ghoul or in the past, pre-Ken. There are a variety of stories, comedy, horror, character studies and friendship stories. There are two "themes" which give the stories a small but interconnecting string between them all. The main one being that each story has a scene taking place in the Ghoul Cafe "Anteiku", sometimes it's just one scene, or a few and one story does feature it. Secondly is the rumour of the presence of "suspicious characters" lurking about the Ward. This means many things to each person thinking about it. They all wonder to some degree whether the "person" they encountered was the "suspicious characters". A nice set of stories which really made me feel pulled into the Tokyo Ghoul world much better than from just reading the manga. Altogether the stories average out to making this volume a firm 4.5/5. Good stuff!1. The Bible: Starts the same as the manga series. The time now is shortly after Ken came out of the hospital and had recovered. Ken is the star of the manga series but in this first short story, he appears only in the opening and closing scenes. The main character of this story is "Hide", Ken's best friend. Hide gets involved with the school's Occult Research Club when they question him about Ken. Does he ever really eat? Hide doesn't know Ken is a ghoul but to prove his friend's innocence he joins the team following Ken to find out if he eats human food. Hide and the other two classmates get caught up in a trap set for them by a real ghoul. Very enjoyable. (5/5)2. Lunch Boxes: - This is a sweet story. It starts off by subtly letting us know this story takes place during the first story. The main characters are Touka, a girl ghoul posing as human in a school and her best friend, a human. Ken plays a minor part by being in the cafe with Touka and being someone she can talk to. The two girls have a misunderstanding and their friendship is at stake until Ken teaches Touka a bit more about human characteristics. (3/5)3. Photos - Ah, my favourite so far. This one is a horror story featuring the ghoul called "The Gourmet" The Gourmet is the narrator of this story and he begins by telling us the story he is relating happened two years before the start of the manga series. The Gourmet one night finds himself being photographed mid-feat, just as he's starting to chew on the legs of a jogger he has just killed. The rest of the story tells of the beginning relationship between Gourmet and the photography student from his high school, Chiehori. (5/5)4. The Big City - The main character in this story is a ghoul who moves to Tokyo from the country hoping to enjoy life just playing his guitar, singing and writing music. But this ghoul is different having been raised by humans he only eats meat from the dead. This is the story of his rocky start in the city and eventually meeting other ghouls, and especially Ken whom he feels an affinity to through their shared humanness. Really enjoyed it. (4/5)5. The Bookmark - This takes place "a few weeks" after the first story. Hinami is a little orphaned ghoul living with Touka. Ken is worried about her because she never leaves the house and thinks she must have more mental stimulation. So they take up going to the library where Hinami makes a friend and falls in love wth reading, then her life is threatened. Really enjoyed this one. (5/5)6. Yoshida - A nice to story to end with. Yoshida had an encounter in either V1 or V2 of the manga but this is his life story focussing mostly on one event. Yoshida is extremely unlucky. He works out at the gym and has a hottie body but as they say "too bad about the face". We see his life's bad luck in action as he befriends a little shy girl and ends up being taken to the cleaners. A good character piece. (5/5)