The latest installment of Shochiku’s manga/anime adapted titles with Tokyo Ghoul: S is finally en route to a July release and with a brand new trailer currently circulating. I still haven’t seen the anime despite my own efforts but if the reception for this entry measures the same as the first one from 2017, then this ought to make for a promising addition to one’s moviegoing collection.
Kaneki (Masataka Kubota) who becomes half human and half ghoul (man-eating monsters who are only able to ingest human flesh in order to live) is living at a coffee house called “Anteiku” with fellow ghouls such as Touka (Maika Yamamoto) hiding their identities from the police unit CCG (Commission of Counter Ghoul).
One day a gourmet ghoul Shu Tsukiyama (Shota Matsuda) who loves to eat different “foods” visits Anteiku and meets Kaneki. Tsukiyama becomes obsessed with Kaneki’s special scent and desires to eat him. The battle between Kaneki vs Tsukiyama begins for survival in the food chain of ghouls and humans!
Two heads are at the forefront for this sequel with Kazuhiko Hiramaki and Takuya Kawasaki both directing. Funimation acquired U.S. rights to the first film directed by Kentaro Hagiwara, which garnered ample praise from fans after its world premiere at Anime Expo in Los Angeles that year.
The rest of the year should be all the more prospective for lead actor Kubota who last played badass villain Bansai opposite Oguri Shun in Gintama 2: Rules Are Made To Be Broken. Kubota recently took to the screen in Cannes for the Director’s Fortnight premiere of Takashi Miike’s latest jewel, First Love, which immediately got snagged for the U.S. by Well Go USA Entertainment, and will next star alongside Tatsuya Fujiwara and Tina Tamashiro in Mika Ninagawa’s Diner also next month.
