Tokyo is infested with ghouls, monsters who eat people.
People are beginning to fear the threat of "ghouls" whose true identity is shrouded in mystery and who live hidden in their daily lives.
Kaneki, an ordinary college student who loves reading, meets Rize, a girl who loves reading Izumi Takatsuki like him, at the coffee shop ``Anteiku'' he frequents.
Little did I know that it would drastically change my destiny...
What will the future hold for a young man who is searching for the way the world should be, while having doubts and conflicts about the existence of monsters that take and eat human lives to survive?
A certain kind of "despair" lurks in "Tokyo"... Monsters who blend in with crowds, hunt humans, and eat their carrion are called ``ghouls.'' When a young man meets a monster, a strange turn of fate begins...!