thought about this on the way home from work and felt like writing about it, so here's a couple of examples.
The best bits imo, visually-speaking, of Tokyo Ghoul's early parts are the instances where you're just shown A Character Or Two. There's good imagery in early Tokyo Ghoul for sure, but a lot of it is very... rough and bland, the style that starts dominating during :re just isn't there. :re's art gradually gets more and more erratic, scratchy, just generally kind of noisy, and the only thing that really compares (but is still VASTLY different in presentation) are a couple of bits towards the end of part 1 of Tokyo Ghoul, and some of the torture scenes in the middle-ish of part 1.
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