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I am a huge fan of Tokyo Ghoul so I immediately requested for the new series from Sui Ishida.

This is the first volume so it is still too early to hell how much I will like this series, but I did enjoy it. I know many people are going to compare it to the masterpiece that is Tokyo Ghoul and might have a hard time with the new direction in this series, but hopefully people will still give this manga a chance!

I was REALLY excited for this one, but once I started reading it I just couldn't get into it. Given that it is by Ishida I was expecting a Tokyo Ghoul level sotry, but what we got was choppy, difficult to follow, and just all over the place.

From the creator of Tokyo Ghoul, a new series with fantastical humanoid monsters. But if you're expecting anything like Tokyo Ghoul, you can forget about it. The first volume is choppy and utterly confusing. I found myself struggling to follow the plot and the action sequences are all over the place. Sadly, I almost didn't want to finish reading this one since it's so fragmented. I don't know if I can give the second volume a go.

Tokio Kurohara is one of our main characters, always preferring to hide in the background and rely on the protection of his best friend, Azuma. After they both take an experimental injection, Tokio takes on a the features of a bird-like creature. Forced to make decisions for himself and without the help of his friend (who seems to have turned on him out of nowhere), he is suddenly up against more of these strange human-animal mixes known as Choujin.
On an entirely different note, a young girl named Ely is on a plane headed to the big city to sell her family vegetables. A Chouin is on the plane and for whatever reason, sends the whole thing down in flames. Ely miraculously survives and seems to have taken on some of the Choujin's powers. And now there's a chase scene happening through the city before both characters will collide.
I wish I could say I enjoyed this as I loved Tokyo Ghoul, but after the first chapter or so, it was utter chaos, and not in a good way.

I was (am?) a huge Tokyo Ghoul fan and have admired Ishida Sui's art for years so I was really
excited to get ahold of Choujin X. Unfortunately all I can say is that it was.... okay. There's a lot of similarities between Tokio and Kaneki, which I wouldn't mind normally, but it just made me remember how much more immediately compelling and original Tokyo Ghoul was. In fact, everything felt kind of like a poor echo of Tokyo Ghoul.
Also wasn't a fan of the underdeveloped female characters, especially the hypersexualized villain girl. This is a more recent problem of Ishida's writing and art, which really got its start in Tokyo Ghoul:re, so I'm not surprised but I am disappointed. Nishiki was a better snake-themed antagonist anyway lol.
I'll probably try reading the next volume to see if it's worth continuing, because I really do like Tokio's choujin form and I think his relationship/dependency on Azuma could be interesting; there's little bits that seem promising in here, and the art is beautiful, but for now I'm really not sold.

Let’s start by saying that I really enjoyed Tokyo Ghoul. This is written and drawn in a similar vein. The story is still unfolding but if you Iike horror manga like I do then this will appeal to you. I look forward to exploring more of where this tale will lead.

Tokyo Ghoul is one of my favorite manga series. It’s one of the first ones that I’ve read that got me into manga. I’m a late starter but it’s better late than never.

I’ve been waiting for this to come out for a long time. I’ve been seeing it everywhere and I needed this one now. Then the arc gods blessed me and here we are.

This was an okay read. Some of the art reminded me of Beetlejuice and that made me more interested in the story but it really fell flat for me. I found myself trying to read other things to get out of reading this but I did push through. It just didn't live up to my expectations.

As a huge Tokyo Ghoul fan, I was extremely excited to hear that Ishida had a new manga out. Choujin X follows a perpetual follower and hanger-on Tokio, as he goes through his life in high school. Choujin are monsters or mutants, humans who have extra-ordinary abilities-- some shapeshift into beast forms, and others might control a certain element for example.

When Tokio injects himself with a Choujin serum to turn himself into a choujin in order to do good in the world, he ends up becoming some kind of beaked creature, with no real sign of abilities or powers.

While I liked the concept at hand, where a choujin wannabe takes a serum and it doesn't go how they expect at all, I found the two merging plotlines to be rather confusing and convoluted. I didn't really see enough of Tokio or the farmer girl to feel particularly strongly about either of them.

I would like to see more of this series before I would recommend it to customers, but so far, I haven't really been sold with volume 1. I think this probably would have benefitted by solely following Tokio for a time, before introducing the other protagonist character.

I was very excited to read this manga because it's by the same author as Tokyo Ghoul. And that cover art is so perfect!

I really think I should give this one another read when I can see the art around the Viz Media watermark a little better. Usually it's not a huge issue, but this time I had a little bit of a hard time understanding what I was seeing. The art is very dark and during the action scenes, quite wild and scratchy at times, so the watermark did a lot to obscure the art.

Like one of the other reviewers here, I was also turned off by the female representation. And I knew it was going to be bad when we saw Tokio's teacher. I showed my husband her panel, and he said she looked like she has back problems.

If we were to set that aside though, I'm very interested in how Tokio will grow from this point on. He seems like the kind of character that hasn't learned how to rely on himself or BE his own person before, and now he's being forced to become independent. I think he has so much potential and I have a lot of hope for him. I'm also very interested in the little girl who was in the plane crash, Elly, and Azuma.

Elly is an incredibly likeable character from what I've seen of her so far, and I really want to see her continue to grow. I'm interested in Azuma because for years Tokio has been his shadow. How will he respond as Tokio separates himself from him?

Overall, I was slightly confused, but I think it's more that I was reading a watermarked digital galley than it is the volume itself. And the female representation isn't great. But this story holds promise and it's dark and quirky and honestly will probably have amazing reception from readers because of who wrote it!

ARC provided by NetGalley.

This new manga put out by the same creators of Tokyo Ghoul definitely give up the same creepy, weird vibes that TG does. The story is centered around a student, Tokio, who is best friends with an all star athlete, student, overall 10/10 guy named Azuma. One day the two are trying to help someone when they find out that the person doing the harm is actually a human hybrid monster thing?? Not quite sure how this all works as not too much information has been revealed yet but the kids end up taking the two vials that the villain had with him and shooting themselves up with this liquid that will turn them into this hybrid, a choujin.
Turns out Azuma gets off with no changes but Tokios face turns into one of a vulture.
The rest of the manga is tokio trying to figure out how to live like this and all the while having others come find him (probably the bad guys) to see if he is worth keeping around.

I think the premise is interesting and our main character is learning to not rely on Azuma and try to do his own thing. It seems like it could be a really fun adventure manga but I still get stuck on mangas representation of female characters. 1) is a kid who is a badass but we haven’t gotten much of her just yet (she did not have a profile at the end of the issue like most other characters so I guess she wasn’t important enough even though she saved tokios life…) 2) one of our villains in the issue is a woman who is literally wearing two straps of clothing - which yes all for if that’s the nightclub vibe we are going for but they are at a zoo and it’s literally only there to woo the male readers. Like hello what. At least she has a a character profile at the end of the manga! That lists her bra cup size. But guess what??? I have no idea what the penis size of the male characters are because wow that isn’t important to the plot.
So yeah overall the story could be good but dear god in our year 2022 can we PLEASE get good female representation in manga??? Please????

I am iffy about getting it for my school mostly because I haven’t found the age rating on it yet. TBD. It could have been about 3.5 stars but the female rep makes me so mad that I’m putting it as 2.5.

Awesome new series! The humor was well done and there was ton of action! I love it! I will watch out for volume two!