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Finding Kafka in Kaneki: Tokyo Ghoul and the Perils of Boyhood

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous bug.” Technically, this is the first sentence of The Metamorphosis, which is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1915. Scratch that funny-sounding German name and replace it with “Ken Kaneki,” however, and you have now just about […]

By Tim Brinkhof

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