Now he faces the new life he must embark on and it goes down a very dark and twisted story that leaves you satisfied yet wanting more, a strange thing to feel. The anime focuses on Ken Kaneki who is an average college school student who ends up going on a date with a ghoul that changes his life forever. However, if you feat upon the flesh of a ghoul you receive serious repercussions. Vampires as in they keep their sanity about them and thirst for the blood of humans and ghouls alike. They are zombie like creatures only in the fact that they feed off of the flesh of humans and any other food they eat makes them sick.
It is a new spin on a mix of zombies, and vampires themselves in what is called ghouls. Tokyo Ghoul season one is a uniquely strange rollercoaster that makes you hang on to your seat.