Again, a great installment in the series! My only two real complainants about Vol 3 was that a LOT of time was spent bouncing back and forth between the two main fight scenes near the end. I feel like that was imbalanced with the first half of the volume. And second (and I mentioned this about Vol 1) some of the action sequences are just difficult to follow in regards to the drawing! I can't always see what's happening, and it's a little annoying. ( )

Not as good as the first two, but i do enjoy Mado. ( )

Another excellent volume. This one really had me thinking about both sides of the human versus ghoul conflict.....who's right and who's wrong? Is either right or wrong? ( )

I'm still pretty thrilled to see Kaneki in his mask. I don't know how Uta came up with it but I'm glad. He is supposed to be the bridge between humans and ghouls and so far he's showing how ghouls feel too. Touka is really pushing it as far as getting revenge. I'm thoroughly enjoying this series and I hope to see even more fight scenes later on. ( )

Touka and Kaneki try to spread a little disinformation about Hinami at the CCG 20th Ward branch. It doesn't work, but they do discover that Kaneki can go through RC scan gates like a normal human being - apparently his body is still human enough for that. At any rate, Hinami leaves Anteiku, and Touka and Kaneki go after her. Touka finds her first, but the two are soon attacked by Investigator Mado. Kaneki, meanwhile, comes across Investigator Amon. Hinami attacks Mado when it looks like he might be about to kill Touka - it turns out that Mado (who is, in fact, human and not a ghoul, no matter how strange he looks) fights with quinques he made from the kagunes of Hinami's parents. It's no wonder the ghouls hate the ghoul investigators so much, when they use pieces of their friends and family members as weapons against them. Mado is killed by Touka. Kaneki defeats but doesn't kill Amon, determined to show Amon that there's more to ghouls than he thinks.

Dang but these battles are hard to follow.

I rolled my eyes a bit at Kaneki's battle. As cool as it was that he was able to survive and defeat Amon, he really shouldn't have been able to. Amon had at least some experience under his belt, while Kaneki had no clue what he was doing. He was just lucky that Amon was apparently off his game or something.

Hinami is the first ghoul we've seen in this series who for sure has ghoul weaponry but who also doesn't seem to be emotionally capable to killing. I wonder if that's what Yoshimura meant by ghouls who are unable to hunt?

This volume was pretty decent, and I'm interested to see if Kaneki can bridge the gap between humans and ghouls, but I'm still not in love with this series.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )