POP Ken Kaneki (Glow in The Dark) (Tokyo Ghoul)

Ken Kaneki is the main character of the mangas Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:re, written and drawn by Sui Ishida. Ken is a young and discreet student of Kamii University in his first year of Japanese Literature. He is passionate about literature and one day he meets a girl named Rize Kamishiro, also passionate about literature. They spend one day together to eat and to discuss in a coffee. Then in the evening, when Ken takes her home, Lize suddenly attacks her, inflicting a serious wound on her abdomen. It turns out that Rize is a powerful ghoul of rank S, and that she had the intention to devour the young man since the beginning. Luckily, Kaneki is saved by falling metal beams that kill Lize instantly. He is then brought urgently to the hospital where the doctors transplant him the organs of the young woman in order to save him, giving birth to a new Ken, half human and half ghoul.

A few days after this drama, Ken realizes little by little that his body changes and that he has become an artificial ghoul, both human and ghoul. At the beginning, he denies this ghoul part of him by forcing himself to eat like a normal human being but he quickly realizes that his body cannot ingest this type of food anymore and rejects it. The only food he can eat now is human flesh. For Ken it will be very difficult to imagine himself hurting a person, being a deeply kind person. Afterwards, he will meet other ghouls who feed on dead humans to survive. These ghouls work in a café called L'Antique and Ken will join them in order to be able to accept himself better.

As a half ghoul, Ken has much more powerful abilities than a normal ghoul. He has a superhuman regeneration capacity, exceptional strength and speed as well as a great resistance to pain which allows him to fight at 100% all the time. Ken also uses a weapon unique to each ghoul, a kagune to fight. His kagune is like extra limbs allowing him to attack and defend himself. It has the shape of red tentacles very powerful and resistant. Ken has four of them that he can manipulate as he wishes to throw his enemies with a formidable power.

In this POP figure, Funko illustrates Ken Kaneki the main character of the anime series and the manga Tokyo Ghoul. He is dressed in a completely black outfit, consisting of a jacket, shorts under which he wears black pants. Ken also wears his famous ghoul mask which hides his human side and highlights his red ghoul eye. This mask also features a mouth showing red gums and a big psychopathic smile. Kaneki on this figure is taking out his kagunes and is cracking his knuckles. This is the famous Ken tic that all fans of the saga know and have already reproduced at least once. This tic comes from his former tormentor and opponent Yakumo Oomori also known as Jason. The particularity of this POP is that it is "Glow in the dark", the four red kagunes of Ken shine in the dark. This makes the figure even more terrifying, accentuating the ghoulish and merciless side of Kaneki, ready to kill all his enemies.