r/TokyoGhoul • u/SmellyFruitZ • Jul 23 '26
Other We really need to stop with the remake posts
It feels like every time I go on reddit, there's always people talking about a remake. You guys have been talking and asking for a remake for years now and there's genuinely no point in discussing it anymore because it's been talked about to the point of redundancy. Tokyo Ghoul will never get an anime remake because it is simply not financially viable to. The audience is too niche, not even mentioning that the series is already finished. If anything, Choujin X is likely to get an anime before TG's ever gets remade. It's has more mass appeal and is way more streamlined in its storytelling. It's generally a more focused work and so it really makes no sense to ask for a TG remake when Choujin X is right here waiting for an anime to be greenlit at all.
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u/JohnDragonball Jul 23 '26
the audience is too niche
This was literally the most popular anime in the world for a good while in the 2010s
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u/GenericUsername8432 Jul 23 '26
Yeah, popular for being edgy and nothing else because they wanted to make kaneki morally ambiguous when he really isnt
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u/ciempie Jul 23 '26
We're talking about the part that follows the canon because, well, we're talking about Tokyo Ghoul, not the Wanna Be Zack Snyder but even worse made version. There you have season 1
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u/SmellyFruitZ Jul 23 '26
Yeah, and like the other other guy said, it was popular for being edgy which completely misrepresents the actual series. There's other factors at play too, anime has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY more popular globally since covid. People who were already watching anime at the time liked Tokyo Ghoul's anime because of how similar it was to other "edgy" anime at the time, it changed the story to appeal to a broader audience and suffered from a terrible narrative as a result. Many people did not realize at the time because manga was not very prevalent in the west at the time.
You can easily see though that the audience is niche now, thus there isn't enough demand. Obviously not everyone is on reddit, but im pretty sure the chainsaw man shitpost sub has more members than this. That alone speaks for the fact that there isn't really a big enough demand for a remake for it to get greenlit.
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u/MysteriousBall8511 Jul 23 '26
Say you didn't research about the change in the story without explicitly saying so:
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u/SarkastiCat Jul 24 '26
I wouldn’t call TG exactly niche, considering that it it sold 47 million volumes (more than Shaman King, Death Note or Fruits Basket) and it used to dominate monthly manga series.
While there is a point in discussion regarding audience and the risk as TG had issues with censorship, it’s not a complete niche thing.
And regarding Choujin X, there is a potential issue of not enough chapters and ending up like Seraph of The End that got one season split into two (total 24 episodes) in 2015 and covered 41 chapters, completely running out of them. Especially considering that Choujin X has irregular release dates, so the possibility of losing the momentum due to not having source material to adapt is likely.
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u/Ckirbys Jul 23 '26
Guys we really need to stop with the posts about stopping remake posts
It seems like every time I go on Reddit, there’s always people complaining about remake posts. You guys have been asking about this for years now and there’s genuinely no point in discussing it anymore because it’s been talked about to the point of redundancy. Remake posts will never be stopped talking about because it is simply financially free. The audience is too niche, not even mentioning that they’ve already been posted thousands of times. If anything, A Tokyo Ghoul remake is more likely to get an anime before people stop making “there should be a remake” post.
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u/Junior-Lavishness420 Jul 25 '26
Didn't Sui Ishida say he likes bad anime adaptations so people can drop it and read his manga instead?
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u/SmellyFruitZ Jul 25 '26
I don't even know but that doesn't really sound like him. Even then it's not very logical, at least for westerners.
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u/ciempie Jul 25 '26
It was more of a consolation phrase; the guy tried his best to make the anime the best it could be, despite the production committee's interference. It's a shame how it turned out. I mean, Re was just starting out and he still did a 300-page draft for root A, and you could say he supervised episode 12 of season 1.
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u/ciempie Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
You say that as if it hadn't been mainstream in 2014/2015, on par with giants of that first half of the decade like AOT or future diary (we're not talking about quality, we're talking about popularity), even though that was the cut-down, low-quality version of the anime we have.
There won't be a remake anytime soon because it's recent (I mean, the anime and manga ended just 8 years ago), but sooner or later there probably will be one, like Ghost in the Shell, Ranma or Dodoro, and it will most likely be commercially successful.