Tokyo Ghoul √A Episode 4 東京喰種√A Anime Review

CENTIPEDE-CHAN

After watching this episode, the previous episode in comparison definitely had that "calm before the storm" vibe to it. But I'm not surprised to see all the action we got in this episode, rather it is the excellent execution the stood out. If its really true that Ishida-Sensei is actually directing this season unlike the previous one, then hats off to him so far, brilliant job.

The whole focus of this episode was based on the Aogiri tree attacking the Cochlea as mentioned in my previous review. At the start this episode Yoshitoki, the Bureau Director of CCG's main office is revealed to have decided to return to front-line under chairman's order. Besides that we are given Amon's sad back-story. He was an orphan at an orphanage ran by Donata Porpora, a ghoul and Donata basically ate most of the orphans but for some strange reason left out Amon, shocked, when he found out the truth. I really wonder why he let Amon live which is something that even Amon is shown wondering about till date. During Donata's brief stare down with Akira, he says that she looks tastier unlike her father possibly pointing out that Mado and he encountered in the past. 

So moving back to the main topic, Aogiri attacking the Cochlea. A complete massacre, like dead bodies flying everywhere, some of those are of Aogiri Tree's members but most are of humans. That scene where Tatara just throws away one of the ghoul investigator after killing him was plain badass, we don't know a lot about him, sure looks interesting. We also get to see Amon and Akira teaming up to kill all those ghouls who are released, while doing so they encounter the emotionally unstable, Naki. He looked like had the upperhand fighting against Akira while Amon was busy fighting other members but then Akira pulls off another quinque which stabs right through Naki's torso. In the end he gets to eat a part of Akira's leg before he's sent flying away by Amon, interesting build up between Amon and Akira here. Nashiro and Kurona are also inside Cochlea in search for their "brother" Kaneki when they encounter Suzuya who from what it looks pretty much know who these twins are but kinda surprised to see them turn into ghouls, does that mean they were humans like Kaneki before and were turned into ghoul artificially?

We have two more encounters in this episode, firstly Ayato encounters Shinohara, a really interesting point is laid out us in this scene. Shinohara's Arata or that special quinque that covers the body like a armor is made from Ayato and Touka's father! if I remember correctly but that's something which is not mentioned in the manga. Whoa, I mean we know the ghoul from which this was made from was once one of the strongest ghouls out there and that ghoul was their father? Shocking. Now, the second awesome encounter shown in this episode was between Kaneki and Shachi. Apparently Kankei came here to rescue him but he pretty much turned on him. We don't know much about Shachi, all we know is that he knows Rize and he's quick like super fast. During their awesome fight in which he pretty much out classed Kaneki and threw him far away, crashing through walls, Eto, outta nowhere comes there and asks Shachi if he wants to see Rize, what does that mean exactly? Is she referring to Kaneki or is Rize alive and captured by Aogiri tree? So many questions! 

Coming towards the end of this review, we finally get to see Kaneki turn into his Centipede-Chan mode! After Shachi throws him away, he is shown lying there in despair of his weakness and inability to protect Hide, Touka etc, so in order to overcome that, he turns into centipede mode. Though we only got a glimpse of it, I was fanboying all over the place. Hype, pure hype for the next episode, can't wait! Good episode overall, really digging the beautiful artwork of the ending credits. Another thought came to mind after watching this episode, what do CCG feed these ghouls prisoners in Cochlea? What do you think? let me know in the comments below. Thank you for reading this anime review, have a wonderful day or night wherever you live! Links to this episode are available in download section.