Does the manga get more subtle?

[u/pjjiveturkey]

Bought both the box sets because I was pretty sure I would love TG. After one volume I can say I'm really enjoying it so far, I like how kaneki being a half ghoul is at least to start more of a curse than a power boost like every shounen.

I'm wondering though, do the themes and everything become more subtle? Right now pretty much everything is in my face. I'm talking about how they keep mentioning how ghouls can't eat food every time one of them eats food, or keneki continually talking about how he doesn't belong as a human or ghoul. I'm pretty sure TG is considered seinen but it's really pushing the story as if it were a shounen if that makes sense.

Idk just an observation not really a complaint.

[u/Iatemydoggo]

Well to point out the obvious, Tokyo Ghoul is a seinen, not a shonen. Also, if you’re still at the beginning you gotta realize that Kaneki is processing this shit as it just happened to him. If you suddenly had your life turned ass backwards like he did it’d probably be the first thing on your mind at all times for quite a while. When the major plot begins to unfold the contrast between human and ghoul will become more important