Read a Substantial Amount of Tokyo Ghoul Online

To mark the upcoming print release of Tokyo Ghoul volume 2, out August 18, Viz has made a substantial preview (over 130 pages) of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 available at VizManga.com for a limited time.

The horror series by Sui Ishida is “about the dark world of the flesh-eating Ghouls that live in secret all around us.” It won him the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award in 2010 and debuted as a series in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2011. It’s also an anime.

Tokyo Ghoul is a Viz digital-first publication, meaning that volume 3 is already available at the website, through the Viz Manga app, or through their partner Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks, comiXology, and GooglePlay stores. It will be in print in October. Here’s the premise description:

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way — except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human, half-Ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society, and master his new powers.

In the forthcoming Tokyo Ghoul volume 2, unable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent upheavals in Ghoul society attract the police like wolves to prey, and they don’t discriminate between conscientious and ravenous Ghouls.

They’ve also put together a manga trailer with some preview images for the concept: