And yet I feel I have to at least comment on it, because it’s the elephant in the room. This dangerous territory for me to even venture into, sorely testing Mom’s advice about “If you can’t say…”. In terms of pure directorial flair – sound and vision as a tool to create art – it was as fine an anime episode as I’ve seen in a very long time.Īnd yet, the reaction. The glint of a broken shard of china in the snowy night. Kaneki crying his eye clear with red tears. The drips of blood, presumed to be Kaneki’s, turning out to be Hide’s. But this final episode was practically one long master class on cinematography, lighting and scene blocking – panning shots, stunning use of light, incredible dissolves, and subtle misdirection.
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He’s clearly a massively talented director, and there have been moments of brilliance throughout the series despite the limited budget. Morita’s artistic sense seemed liberated in every way, too. It may not have been what most fans of the manga wanted, but I thought it was inspired and powerful. In watching it felt like Morita-sensei just said “fuck it” and rather than a conventional narrative, delivered an impressionist painting – the inherent tragedy that was always the strongest part of Tokyo Ghoul told mostly in silence and beautiful but terrible imagery. For me as a viewer, and for Morita as a director. So, then, without knowing how close these events were to the source material, my sense in watching the finale was glorious liberation. One where Ishida was never quite sure how close to the printed word he wanted to steer, and his halting approach impacted Morita’s.
I get the sense that there’s been an uneasy relationship between Ishida Sui and this adaptation – and maybe between he and director Morita Shuhei too, for all I know. This has clearly been a major source of trouble, a cause of much of the inconsistency that’s been the only consistent thing in “Root A”. I haven’t read it (not this far into it at least), and I know this season has been a strange dance with manga canon – lots of spins and dips, sometimes cheek-to-cheek and sometimes in a different room. Here’s what I don’t know: what the relationship of this ending to the manga is. After I tweeted that I started reading some of the reaction in the usual places, and lo and behold – almost universal derision and snark. And my first comment (on Twitter) after it was over was “Whatever you may think of the story choices, that was one of the most artistically beautiful anime episodes ever.” Now it so happens that I liked the story choices, but I’ll get to that shortly.
I hadn’t read a word of reaction to the finale when I watched it – watched it half a day later than normal due to RL commitments, as it happens. It’s a vexing, confusing, irritating, enigma of a show and it seems only right that it should end with such a spectacular disconnect – between the audience and the series, and between myself and most of the audience. Fitting, because Tokyo Ghoul (all the more so “Root A”) has been all over the map.
Fitting, because it seems rarer and rarer that I agree with the mainstream on anything anime-related. This feels like a fitting moment to me in so many ways.
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Many of us plan to read it in full later. I don’t know what stunned me more – that final episode, or the reaction to it.Īuthor’s Note: Given the obvious gap between anime and manga events, please refrain from posting manga spoilers in the comments even if the anime has concluded.
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