The Tokyo Ghoul Manga Gallery
Fourteen volumes, and a cover style that became the series’ signature.
This is the paper shelf for the first series: every Japanese tankōbon cover of Tokyo Ghoul, in the Young Jump Comics editions Shueisha published between February 2012 and October 2014. Each one is a stand-alone colour painting by Sui Ishida, and together they chart how his art loosened and darkened across the run.
Tokyo Ghoul is a dark series written for adults; this page keeps to the covers themselves: the art, the dates, and the editions. The sequel has its own gallery.
VOLUME 1, TWICE
Tokyo Ghoul, 2012 and 2015Volume 1, in both languages
Same painting · new letters · four years apart
Viz kept Sui Ishida’s cover paintings across the whole English run and rebuilt the lettering instead. The full comparison is on the covers page.
THE FOURTEEN VOLUMES
Young Jump Comics · 2012–2014
Volume 1
Shueisha · February 17, 2012. Ken Kaneki, seated, holding his mask: the painting the whole series is recognised by.
Volume 2
Shueisha · March 19, 2012.
Volume 3
Shueisha · June 19, 2012.
Volume 4
Shueisha · September 19, 2012.
Volume 5
Shueisha · December 19, 2012. Rize Kamishiro, in the long purple fall of hair that drives the plot.
Volume 6
Shueisha · January 18, 2013.
Volume 7
Shueisha · April 19, 2013. Kaneki with white hair, after the break that remakes him.
Volume 8
Shueisha · July 19, 2013.
Volume 9
Shueisha · October 18, 2013.
Volume 10
Shueisha · January 17, 2014.
Volume 11
Shueisha · April 18, 2014.
Volume 12
Shueisha · June 19, 2014.
Volume 13
Shueisha · August 20, 2014. Kishō Arima, the investigator, in portrait.
Volume 14
Shueisha · October 17, 2014. The final volume, published the same day as the Zakki illustration book.