English Dub Review: Tokyo Ghoul Re Episode 24

The finale.

Overview:

The countdown to stop the dragon continues.

Our Take:

In the end, everything wraps up together nicely.

Kaneki fights it out with Furuta, and as usual, the action sequences aren’t that superb. It’s a lot of standing around, but then again that’s better than this animation team’s fight scenes, so I’m willing to forgive it knowing what the alternative is.

Admittedly, Furuta getting a (moderately) happy ending is a little weird to me. I understand that things should be wrapped universally happy, but even Furuta? Getting the flashback scene felt like overkill. It was perfectly fine that he felt completely dissatisfied with how Kaneki wasn’t like him in the end after all, but was still able to be acknowledged as an enemy. Ultimately, Furuta wanted to live a normal life, apart from the Washuus and whatever plots they had, and would have been fine being human. Kaneki could have made fun of him, but in the end didn’t, so Furuta was able to die at least knowing his dream wasn’t a foolish one. But no, we need a flashback too. Action series love their flashbacks.

Kaneki in this final fight summarizes a lot of the series in that Furuta challenges whether everything he did was futile or not. After all, Kaneki is still pretty selfish despite appearing selfless, and his actions sometimes did more harm than good. As the dragon, he killed human and ghoul alike. He was constantly forced into roles that he didn’t want, to perform ideals that he believed in, but wasn’t intending to spearhead. Kaneki’s life was pretty bad, which is why Tokyo Ghoul is seen as so grimdark despite none of the large deaths actually staying not-retconned in the long run.

However, despite all of this, Kaneki is okay with it. Even though he went through an immense amount of pain, messed up plenty of times, and even hurt his loved ones, he’s not still stuck in that same place. Yes, those things happened, but at least they happened. Before he met Rize, he was just an ordinary kid with no place in life. At least now he has a dedicated support system, and has met people he truly cares about. It was harsh and full of mistakes and suffering, yes, but it made him grow as a person.

Also, important to me, Suzuya gets his father figure back when Shinohara is cured from his coma. Suzuya is my favorite, I’m glad he gets this.

Anyway, this is the last episode, big review coming next week.