

I've watched _Tokyo Ghoul_ and _Tokyo Ghoul Root A_ , but I didn't read the
manga.

Is watching the them enough to understand _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ manga without
reading prior manga?


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Is watching the first 2 seasons of the anime enough to understand "Tokyo Ghoul:re" manga without reading prior manga?


You can read _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ without being lost, but you need to have seen
the anime first.

I started reading _:re_ first by accident, and it makes so much more sense if
you know what happened first.


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One big thing to note is that _Tokyo Ghoul Root A_ (the second season of the
anime) greatly diverged from the manga. In the manga, Kaneki left Anteku and
went off on his own, forming his own group. In the anime, he joined Aogiri.

_Tokyo Ghoul:re_ is a sequel manga, meaning it builds off of _Tokyo Ghoul_.
The first season of the anime does only a decent job at covering the story of
_Tokyo Ghoul_ , and the second season, as noted, diverged, covering only a
handful of the biggest plot points. Having only watched the anime, you will
not know numerous plot points that are addressed or expanded upon in _:re_.

However, in my personal opinion, you will only be moderately confused reading
_:re_ if you only watched the anime. Thankfully, _Root A_ converged with the
canon story line near the end, and had many of the major events occur
identically to the manga (albeit several of them in the wrong order, and as
such events that drove them to the order they were in are skipped in the
anime). So as an anime only viewer, you would have knowledge of almost all of
the major plot points.

With another however here, I can not find one person who would recommend doing
so. Almost everyone who claims to be a fan of _Tokyo Ghoul_ the manga greatly
dislikes the anime. Even the top reddit post asking where season 2 starts in
the manga is met with universal replies of chapter 1 (as in, pretend you never
watched the anime and start the series from the beginning). As noted in [Why
did Tokyo Ghoul √A completely deviate from the
manga?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18391/why-did-tokyo-
ghoul-%E2%88%9Aa-completely-deviate-from-the-manga), the differences in season
one are fairly significant, and you are going to be hard pressed to find
people who prefer the anime's story over the manga's.

If you are desperate though, and refuse to read from chapter 1, then season 2
starts at around chapter 46.


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