Tokyo Ghoul:re Manga Full Set — What’s Inside All 16 Volumes
If you’re searching for the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga full set, here’s the short version: the Tokyo Ghoul:re Complete Box Set contains all 16 volumes of Sui Ishida’s sequel series, plus an exclusive double-sided poster. That’s the entire story — Chapter 1 through Chapter 179, the final chapter — in one box, with an MSRP of $169.99.
Tokyo Ghoul:re is a direct sequel to the original 14-volume Tokyo Ghoul manga, and the story picks up right where the first series ended. If you’ve already finished the original (and if you’re looking for the :re full set, you probably have), you’re good to go — this box set is exactly what you need. If you haven’t read the original yet, we cover the reading order below.
What Happens in Tokyo Ghoul:re (Spoiler-Free Synopsis)
Tokyo Ghoul:re is set two years after the events of the original manga. In this world, ghouls are creatures that look human but survive by eating human flesh — and the CCG (Commission of Counter Ghoul) is the government agency tasked with hunting them down. The story follows Haise Sasaki, a CCG investigator who leads the Quinx Squad — a team of half-human, half-ghoul hybrids created to fight ghouls more effectively.
Without spoiling any of the major reveals (and there are some huge ones), the series digs deep into questions about identity, memory, and the increasingly blurry line between humans and ghouls. If the original Tokyo Ghoul was about one person’s world falling apart, :re is about the aftermath — and whether anything can be rebuilt.
The series ran for 179 chapters across 16 volumes, originally published chapter-by-chapter in the Japanese magazine Weekly Young Jump from October 2014 to July 2018. VIZ Media, the official English publisher, released the translation from October 2017 through April 2020. The entire series is complete, so there’s no waiting for new volumes — you can read straight through from start to finish.
Reading Order: Where Tokyo Ghoul:re Fits In
If you’ve read the original 14 volumes, you already have everything you need to jump into :re. For anyone who hasn’t, here’s the full reading order:
- Tokyo Ghoul — 14 volumes (the original series)
- Tokyo Ghoul:re — 16 volumes (the sequel)
:re picks up directly from the original’s ending. Major characters return without reintroduction, and the emotional weight of this series depends entirely on knowing what happened in the first 14 volumes. There are moments in :re that will hit hard if you’ve been through Kaneki’s story — and mean nothing if you haven’t.
There are also two optional side stories: Tokyo Ghoul: Jack (a prequel) and Tokyo Ghoul: Joker (a standalone single-chapter story that’s actually included in :re Volume 3). They add to Sui Ishida’s world, but they’re not required for the main story.
The Best Way to Buy the Tokyo Ghoul:re Manga Full Set
You’ve got a few options depending on your budget and how you like to collect. Here’s what’s available:
Option 1: The Complete Box Set (All 16 Volumes)
This is the one most people go for, and it’s the best value. The Tokyo Ghoul:re Complete Box Set (MSRP $169.99) comes with all 16 volumes packaged together, plus an exclusive double-sided poster you can’t get anywhere else. The per-volume price works out significantly cheaper than buying each book individually — and since you’re here looking for the full set, this is almost certainly the right call.
Tokyo Ghoul: re Complete Box Set
Option 2: Volumes 1–5 Starter Set
If you want to test the waters before committing to all 16 volumes, the Tokyo Ghoul:re Manga Set, Vol. 1–5 gives you the first five books at a slight discount compared to buying them individually. Just keep in mind that finishing the series with volumes 6 through 16 bought separately will cost more overall than grabbing the complete box set from the start.
Tokyo Ghoul: re Manga Set, Vol. 1-5
Option 3: Individual Volumes
Every volume of Tokyo Ghoul:re is available individually from VIZ Media. This gives you the most flexibility — you can buy at your own pace, replace a damaged volume, or fill in gaps in a collection you’ve already started. The tradeoff is that buying all 16 volumes one by one will cost noticeably more than the box set.
The Original Series Box Set — Complete Your Collection
If you already own the original 14-volume Tokyo Ghoul series, you know what you’re getting into with :re. But if you don’t have the original on your shelf yet — or if you read it through a library or digitally and want to own the physical set — the Tokyo Ghoul Complete Box Set is worth knowing about.
It includes all 14 volumes of the original manga — that’s 2,904 pages of Sui Ishida’s artwork — plus its own exclusive double-sided poster. It’s the same format as the :re box set, so the two sit together perfectly on a shelf.
With both box sets, you’ll have the complete 30-volume Tokyo Ghoul saga. That’s the entire story, from Kaneki’s first encounter at the coffee shop where his story began, all the way through to the final chapter of :re. No gaps, no missing volumes.
Tokyo Ghoul Complete Box Set
Manga vs. Anime — Why the :re Manga Is Worth Reading Even If You Watched the Show
If you watched the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime and figured you got the full story — you really didn’t. Season 1 of the :re anime adapted roughly the first 58 chapters across 12 episodes. That’s already a lot of compression, and fans noticed plenty of skipped details. But Season 2 was on another level entirely.
Tokyo Ghoul:re Season 2 crammed approximately 120 manga chapters into just 12 episodes. That’s about 10 chapters per episode — in a series where a single chapter can contain a major character death or a plot twist that reshapes the entire story. Entire arcs were reduced to montages. Deaths that should have been devastating landed with no emotional buildup. The final arc, which spans multiple volumes in the manga, was left confusing and rushed on screen.
The manga delivers the complete story exactly as Sui Ishida intended. Every fight gets its full choreography. Every character moment gets the space it needs. The artwork — genuinely stunning, especially in the later volumes — speaks for itself in a way the anime’s production schedule simply couldn’t match.
If you only watched the anime, reading the manga isn’t just “the same story but on paper.” It’s a substantially different and significantly better experience. You’ll finally understand plot points that the anime left unexplained, and emotional beats that felt hollow in the show will actually land the way they were meant to.
If you loved the original Tokyo Ghoul manga, :re is the payoff to everything that came before it — and the box set is the easiest way to get the whole thing.