Tokyo Ghoul √A Episode 2 東京喰種√A Anime Review

The build-up begins 

So, this week's episode starts off by giving us a glimpse of Arima, one of the best (if not the best) investigator of CCG in the very first Owl extermination that took place 10 years ago. As for anyone who read the manga knows that Arima plays a vital role in future so this build up around his character will probably go on for few more episodes to come. Shinohara and Iwao are shown discussing the possibility that The Owl they encountered recently might be different from the one they encountered 10 years ago due to size difference. Besides that the cafe is shown reopening after being shut for while when everyone was in search for Kaneki. 

Moving on to the CCG meeting that took place, they've decided to wipe out Aogiri Tree as expected. We are also  introduced to Mado's daughter, Akira for the first time, who now is appointed as the partner of Amon. Besides the whole jealousy of Takizawa and his fight to prove Akira wrong (In which he failed miserably), there's also development shown between Amon and Akira (a little funny though). It'll be interesting to see if it'll be same as the manga or different. At the end of episode, Aogiri Tree's members along with Ayato and Kaneki are shown going after some police vehicles, possibly to rescue a ghoul who is in one of the vehicle while Kurona & Nashiro are lurking from above, watching Kaneki. Just before the Ending credits we are also shown Eto unwrapping those tapes and from what it looked like, showing some interest in Kaneki. I wonder whats going on there.

Overall a good episode, a lot of set up is in process and we'll probably get all the answers in next episode as to why Aogiri Tree were about to ambush those police vehicles and so on. One side note, the OST, it was amazing! The background music during the Cafe's reopening and when Amon visited Mado's grave were superb, not to mention the song during that whole Aogiri scene.

I was also surprised to see a different ending credit's video, the music was same but the sketches were different from last episode. From what I've heard is that these sketches are actually made by Ishida himself! I wonder if we'll get to see such new sketches in all episodes cause they're really beautiful. Thank you for reading this anime review, have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Thoughts? let me know in the comments below.