#Kaneki vs Jason

[whitehairandtraumatized-bracket]

WHITE HAIR AND TRAUMA BRAWL ROUND 2!

Polls are gonna be posted in sets of 8 this time around, eight groups of 8!!

As usual, voting is based on level of swag, trauma, and blorbo fave

We love propaganda, especially for those without!

Round 2 will most likely begin sometime late June!! I got finals coming up which makes working on this a bit trickier atm

MATCHUPS

Jonathan Harker (Dracula) vs. Klaus (Klaus)

Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) vs. Orion Lake (The Scholomance)

Asra Al-Nazar (The Arcana Game) vs. Gen Asagiri (Dr. Stone)

Norman (The Promised Neverland) vs. Senku Ishigami (Dr. Stone)

Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom) vs. 2B (Nier: Automata)

Lysithea von Ordelia (Fire Emblem) vs. Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome To Night Vale)

Jean Valjean (Les Miserables) vs. Zane (Ninjago)

Henry (Fire Emblem) vs. Black Jack/Kuro (Black Jack)

Jason Todd (Batman/DC Comics) vs. Loop (In Stars and Time)

Shigaraki Tomura (My Hero Academia) vs. Thief King Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Emet-Selch (Final Fantasy XIV)

Astarion (Baldur’s Gate 3) vs. Hero (The Property of Hate)

Fenris (Dragon Age 2) vs. Chat Blanc (Miraculous Ladybug)

Ginkgo (Mushi-Shi) vs. Yuji Kiba/Horse Orphnoch (Kamen Rider 555)

Anna (Frozen) vs. Bagi (QSMP)

Griffith (Berserk) vs. Seidou Takizawa (Tokyo Ghoul)

Siffrin (In Stars and Time) vs. Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

The Princess (Slay The Princess) vs. Tommy Shepherd (Young Avengers/Marvel Comics)

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson) vs. Ariane Yeong (Signalis)

Ekko (Arcane) vs. Niko Sasaki (Dead Boy Detectives)

Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane (Voltron) vs. Natsume Takashi (Natsume Yuujinchou (the manga)) 

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter) vs. Tam (Aurora)

Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Agito (Origin: Spirits of the Past)

TommyInnit (Dream SMP) vs. Estinen Varineau (Final Fantasy XIV)

Kanade Yoisaki (Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage) vs. Ethoslab (Life Series SMP)

Lucretia/Madame Director (The Adventure Zone) vs. Ryou Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Gojo Satoru (Jujitsu Kaisen) vs. Max (Sam and Max)

Itona Horibe (Assassination Classroom) vs. Michel Bollinger (The House In Fata Morgana)

Kakashi Hatake (Naruto) vs. Kiana Kaslana (Honkai Impact 3rd)

FitzChivalry Farseer (Realm of the Elderlings) vs. Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist)

Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) vs. Bepo (One Piece)

Vergil () vs. Carl Fredricksen (Up)

Shion (No. 6) vs. Riku (Kingdom Hearts)

Eda Clawthone (The Owl House) vs. Magneto (X Men)

Weiss Schnee (RWBY) vs. Mithrun (Dungeon Meshi

Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher) vs. Nate “Near” River (Death Note)

“Godot” Diego Armando (Ace Attorney) vs. Asuka R. Kreutz (Guilty Gear)

Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End) vs. Haruka Sakura (WIND BREAKER)

Lu Guang (Link Click) vs. Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Gorgug Thistlespring (Fantasy High: D20) vs. Lady Maria (Bloodborne)

Simon Blackquill (Ace Attorney) vs. Simon Petrikov/Ice King (Adventure Time)

Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Sabitsuki (.flow)

Boothill (Honkai Star Rail) vs. Thancred Waters (Final Fantasy XIV)

Princess Yue (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs. Hoid (Cosmere)

Dave Strider (Homestuck) vs. Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)

Hearthstone “Hearth” Alderman (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) vs. Kuga Yuma (World Trigger)

Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) vs. Cellbit (QSMP)

Santa Claus (Christmas/Pop Culture) vs. Kouji Ibuki (Cardfight!! Vanguard)

Percy de Rolo (Critical Role) vs. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Claudia (The Dragon Prince) vs. Storm/Ororo Munroe (X-Men)

Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians) vs. Thistle (Dungeon Meshi)

Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire/game of thrones too ig)  vs. Csevet Aisava (The Goblin Emperor)

Santa/Aoi Kurashiki (Zero Escape) vs. Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck)

Guts (Berserk) vs. Liv Moore (iZombie)

Alina Starkov (Shadow and Bone) vs. Remnan (Gnosia)

Ranboo (Dream SMP) vs. Utatane Piko (Vocaloid)

Atsushi Nakajima (Bungou Stray Dogs) vs. Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Emilia (Re: Zero) vs. Kochi Haruno (ZENO Daily Life)

Inuyasha (Inuyasha) vs. Neo Queen Serenity (Sailor Moon)

Kida Nedakh (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) vs. Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) vs. Susan Murphy/Ginormica (Monsters vs. Aliens)

Hakuri Sazanami (Kagurabachi) vs. Dr. Two Brains (WordGirl)

Allen Walker (D. Gray-Man) vs. Mytho (Princess Tutu)

White Lily Cookie (Cookie Run: Kingdom) vs. Kazumi Onimaru (Cardfight!! Vanguard)

polls might not be linked this time around cuz I don't want the post to explode like the first one did,,,,. will still try to update it in some way shape or form however

[ultfreakme]

Hi .... Can I ask your top 5 (or top 10) favorite moments each from any anime (can be series or movies) and manga? Thanks if you want to answer.....

Oh my god....this is tough.....Ah I suck at remembering things, I usually have favorites but my ability to recall is terrible that I suck at listing them ;_; But from what I'm remembering right now:

Tokyo Ghoul final episode Kaneki vs Jason.

Promare, scene where Galo's giving CPR to Lio and lighting a fire.

Fairy Tail the S-Class promotion Island Fight scene where it's this GIANT manga panel/anime shot of Natsu punching someone and behind him is the entire Fairy Tail cast depicted like they're lending him power.

Jujutsu Kaisen Sukuna vs Mahoraga

The Summer Hikaru Died scene where Yoshiki stabs 'Hikaru'.

There's 100% something I really liked that I just forgot because my brain is peanut. Thanks for the asks anon!! Hope you have a nice day~

[geassstudio]

New AMV for my Tokyo Ghoul:Re remix just dropped!

[glampsnow-blog]

Scarlxrd- HEART ATTACK// Tokyo Ghoul "AMV"

[corazonarts]

I always enjoyed Tokyo Ghoul but when Kaneki changed and stood on his own two feet was awesome!! I haven't caught to the manga though but I hope to soon.  I've always enjoyed the masks in the series they all look super intimidating(except for Touka's Bunny mask)

[satans-favorite]

Sneak peek to my full edit

[tentacletournament]

THE TENTACLE TOURNAMENT

MASTERPOST FOR ALL TENTACLE TOURNAMENT POLLS

ALL POLLS OFFICIALLY RELEASE ON MARCH 1ST -VOTING FOR ROUND 1 IS OVER

Written polls and links under the cut!

ROUND 1:

Squig (Among Us) VS Impostor (Among Us)

Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides) VS Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)

Octillery (Pokemon) VS Malamar (Pokemon)

Mizuki (Arknights) VS Andreana (Arknights)

Ood (Doctor Who) VS Dalek Sec (Doctor Who)

Ventricosus (Land Of The Lustrous) VS Aculeatus (Land Of The Lustrous)

Pretzel (Just Roll With It) VS Aqueous Annie Bell (Jellyfish Felonies)

Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants) VS The Queen Jellyfish (Spongebob Squarepants)

Ln'eta (Sucker For Love) VS Estir (Sucker For Love)

Marie (Splatoon) VS Captain 3 (Splatoon)

Glow Squid (Minecraft) VS Ghast (Minecraft)

Squilliam Fancyson (Spongebob Squarepants) VS Marco Diaz (Star vs The Forces of Evil)

Tako-Chan (OMORI) VS ABBI (OMORI)

Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) VS Ayato Kirishima (Tokyo Ghoul)

Itona Horibe (Assassination Classroom) VS Korosensei (Assassination Classroom)

Monomon The Teacher (Hallow Knight) VS Sibling (Hallow Knight)

The Rot (Rain World) VS Mikitaka Hazekura (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Gnosis (Mythic Ocean) VS N'zoth (World Of Warcraft)

The Wall Monster (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) VS Hank (Finding Dory)

Jelly (A Narwhal and Jelly) VS Soundwave (Transformers)

Slenderman (Creepypasta) VS The Old One (Wizard 101)

Kran (The Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS "Turn The Lights Off" (Tally Hall)

Pearl Houzuki (Splatoon) VS Frye (Splatoon)

Davy Jones (Pirates Of The Caribbean) VS Take Luka (Vocaloid)

Caelum (Anime Campaign) VS Jason Todd (DC Comics)

DJ Octavio (Splatoon) VS Callie (Splatoon)

Londo Mollari (Babylon 5) VS Fukami (Wadanohara and The Great Blue Sea)

Geryuganshoop (One Punch Man) VS Onionsan (UNDERTALE)

Horrorterror (Homestuck) VS Hatchan (One Piece)

Kala Mer'ri (Monster High) VS Professor Inkling (Octonauts)

Blooper (Super Mario Franchise) VS HP Lovecraft (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Cthulhy Squele (Monster Girl Doctor) VS The Creature (Carrion)

Hermaeus Mora (The Elder Scrolls Series) VS Zoe (Monster Prom)

Shiver (Splatoon) VS Agent 4 (Splatoon)

Ebrietas (Bloodborne) VS Octokittens (The Mechanisms)

Ninomae Ina'nis (Hololive EN) VS Vel'Koz (League Of Legends)

Stephano (Reflection) VS Dharkon (Super Smash Bros Ultimate)

Dr. Octopus (Spiderman) VS Olivia Octavious (Spiderman)

Hastur (Identity V) VS Omeluum (Baldur's Gate 3)

Tentacruel (Pokemon) VS Lord Helix (Pokemon)

Nightmare Sans (The Underverse) VS Ultros (Final Fantasy)

Marina Ida (Splatoon) VS Agent 8 (Splatoon)

Squid Ink Cookie (Cookie Run) VS The Kracken (Mythology)

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) VS Killer Bee (Naruto)

Michiru Ichijou (Mieruko-Chan) VS Cthulhu (Lovecraft)

Weed (Transistor) VS Squid Girl (Squid Girl)

Octodad (Octodad) VS Paul (Children of Time Trilogy)

Mind Flayer (Magic: The Gathering) VS Azul Ashengrotto (Twisted Wonderland)

Venom (Venom) VS Eight Armed Willy (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack!)

Squidina (The Patrick Star Show) VS Tamaki Amajiki (My Hero Academia)

Nightmarionne (Five Nights at Freddy's) VS The Kraken (Atlantis)

Lady Luctopus (Psychonauts) VS Oswald the Octopus (Oswald the Octopus)

Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome To Nightvale) VS Khoshekh (Welcome To Nightvale)

[mythicalcoolkid]

So... I did this

[I did not make the original graphic, credit for that goes to neko_nekomancer on Twitter. Link to original Twitter post]

1 Khonjin igiuL Jr. III (Khonjin House)

2 Proto Man (Mega Man)

3 Death the Kid (Soul Eater)

4 Meta Knight (Kirby)

5 Player character (Petscop)

6 Blake Belladonna (RWBY)

7 The Voice Inside Your Head (SiIvaGunner)

8 HABIT (Everyman Hybrid, fanart by CuriosityDotKill on DeviantArt)

9 Edelgard (Fire Emblem)

10 White Face (IMSCARED)

11 Calamitas (Terraria Calamity mod)

12 Abigail (Stardew Valley)

13 Niko (OneShot)

14 Caliborn (Homestuck)

15 Misery (Cave Story)

16 Gideon Graves (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, film)

17 Bubby (Half-Life)

18 Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)

19 Edolon Vryche (Vast Error, Homestuck universe)

20 Romeo (Minecraft)

21 Lord Garmadon (Ninjago)

22 Allister (Pokemon)

23 Ivor (Minecraft)

24 SCP-1471 (SCP Foundation)

25 Henry Cooldown (No More Heroes)

26 Craig Boone (Fallout)

27 GLaDOS (Portal)

28 Dr. Clef (SCP Foundation)

29 The Snatcher (A Hat in Time)

30 Ulfric Stormcloak (Skyrim)

31 Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

32 Napstablook (Undertale)

33 Benrey (Half-Life)

34 Juice (17776)

35 SCP-079 (SCP Foundation)

36 Slenderman (Creepypasta universe)

37 Dr. Bright (SCP Foundation)

38 343 Guilty Spark (Halo)

39 Prince Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

40 Dark Samus (Metroid)

41 SCP-049 (SCP Foundation)

42 Joker (Innocent Sin) (Persona)

43 Goro Akechi (Persona)

44 Tweek Tweak (South Park)

45 Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)

46 Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

47 Jessie Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

48 Wheatley (Portal)

49 Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)

50 Rosalina (Mario)

51 Ghostface (Scream)

52 Soft Fuzzy Man (Lemon Demon, aimkid)

53 Kenji Setou (Katawa Shoujo)

54 Tohru Adachi (Persona)

55 Four (Object Show)

56 Cynthia (Pokemon)

57 Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

58 Okuyasu Nijimura (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

59 Loki Laufeyson (Marvel)

60 Enclave soldier (Fallout)

61 Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Star Wars)

62 Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa)

63 Kokichi Oma (sprite) (Danganronpa)

64 Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)

65 Joker (Persona)

66 Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)

67 Shizune Hakamichi (Katawa Shoujo)

68 Hanako Ikezawa (Katawa Shoujo)

69 Kylo Ren (Star Wars)

70 Alexsandr Kallus (Star Wars)

71 Rio Ranger (Your Turn To Die)

72 Raymond (Animal Crossing)

73 Leafy (Object Show)

74 Tsumugi Shirogane (Danganronpa)

75 L Lawliet (Death Note)

76 Walter White (Breaking Bad)

77 Jay Blitzerian (Big Mouth)

78 Jessi Glaser (Big Mouth)

79 Missy Foreman-Greenwald (Big Mouth)

80 Nick Birch (Big Mouth)

81 Andrew Glouberman (Big Mouth)

82 Asuka Langley (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

83 Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa)

84 Korekiyo Shinguji (Danganronpa)

85 Teruteru Hanamura (Danganronpa)

86 The Joker (Batman)

87 Kanamori Sayaka (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

88 Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

89 Aaron Burr (Hamilton)

90 Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

91 Killua Zoldyck (Hunter X Hunter)

92 Dirk Strider (Homestuck)

93 Tom (Eddsworld)

94 Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa)

95 Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa)

96 Spy (Team Fortress 2)

97 Trophy (Object Show)

98 Rantaro Amami (Danganronpa)

99 Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)

100 Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100)

101 Bea Santello (Night in the Woods)

102 Miu Iruma (Danganronpa)

103 Suitcase (Object Show)

104 N (Pokemon)

105 Light Yagami (Death Note)

106 Lollipop (Object Show)

107 Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice the Musical)

108 Pyro (Team Fortress 2)

109 Maki Harukara (Danganronpa)

110 Tord (Eddsworld)

111 Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine)

112 Heather Chandler (Heathers)

113 Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club)

114 Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

115 Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

116 Hisao Nakai (Katawa Shoujo)

117 The Onceler (The Lorax)

118 Sans (Undertale)

119 Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

120 Jolyne Cujoh (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

121 Ticci Toby (Creepypasta universe, fanart by fatal-impurity on DeviantArt)

122 Monokuma (Danganronpa)

123 Jason "JD" Dean (Heathers)

124 Susie (Deltarune)

125 Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton)

126 Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

127 Vinegar Doppio (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

128 JFK (Clone High)

129 Gamzee Makara (Homestuck)

130 Sou Hiyori (Your Turn To Die)

131 Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

132 Spinel (Steven Universe)

133 Eric Cartman (South Park)

134 William "Purple Guy" Afton (early form) (Five Nights at Freddy's)

135 Kokichi Oma (illustration) (Danganronpa)

136 Mikan Tsumiki (Danganronpa)

137 Cronus Ampora (Homestuck)

138 William "Purple Guy" Afton (later form) (Five Nights at Freddy's)

139 Alex Delarge (A Clockwork Orange)

140 Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)

141 Hiyoko Saionji (Danganronpa)

142 Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)

143 Peridot (Steven Universe)

144 Nickel (Object Show)

145 Magolor (Kirby)

146 Chara (Undertale)

147 Rodrick Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

148 Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants)

149 The Observer (TribeTwelve)

150 Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)

151 Eridan Ampora (Homestuck)

152 Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

153 Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Characters by source:

Juice (17776)

Raymond (Animal Crossing)

Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

The Joker (Batman)

Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice the Musical)

Bendy (Bendy and the Ink Machine)

Jay Blitzerian, Jessi Glaser, Missy Foreman-Greenwald, Judd Birch, Nick Birch, Andrew Glouberman (Big Mouth)

Walter White, Jessie Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Misery (Cave Story)

Alex Delarge (A Clockwork Orange)

JFK (Clone High)

Slenderman, Ticci Toby (Creepypasta universe)

Nagito Komaeda, Kokichi Oma (illustration and sprite), Teruteru Hanamura, Byakuya Togami, Kaede Akamatsu, Tsumugi Shirogane, Junko Enoshima, Mikan Tsumiki, Monokuma, Miu Iruma, Hiyoko Saionji, Rantaro Amami, Celestia Ludenberg, Maki Harukara, Korekiyo Shinguji (Danganronpa)

L Lawliet, Light Yagami (Death Note)

Susie (Deltarune)

Greg Heffley, Rodrick Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Yuri, Monika, Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Tord, Tom (Eddsworld)

Ulfric Stormcloak (The Elder Scrolls)

HABIT (Everyman Hybrid, fanart by CuriosityDotKill on DeviantArt)

Frank Horrigan, Craig Boone (Fallout)

Edelgard (Fire Emblem)

William "Purple Guy" Afton (two forms) (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Benrey, Bubby (Half-Life)

343 Guilty Spark (Halo)

Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr (Hamilton)

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)

Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)

The Snatcher (A Hat in Time)

Heather Chandler, Jason "JD" Dean (Heathers)

Dirk Strider, Aradia Megido, Vriska Serket, Gamzee Makara, Eridan Ampora, Cronus Ampora, Terezi Pyrope, Caliborn, Edolon Vryche (Homestuck universe)

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter X Hunter)

White Face (IMSCARED)

Dib Membrane (Invader Zim)

Vinegar Doppio, Okuyasu Nijimura, Dio Brando, Jolyne Cujoh (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Hanako Ikezawa, Shizune Hakamichi, Kenji Setou, Hisao Nakai (Katawa Shoujo)

Kanamori Sayaka (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

Khonjin igiuL Jr. III (Khonjin House)

Meta Knight, Magolor (Kirby)

Soft Fuzzy Man (Lemon Demon, aimkid)

The Onceler (The Lorax)

Rosalina (Mario)

Loki Laufeyson (Marvel)

Proto Man (Mega Man)

Dark Samus (Metroid)

Ivor, Romeo (Minecraft)

Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama, Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)

Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)

Asuka Langley (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Bea Santello (Night in the Woods)

Lord Garmadon (Ninjago)

Henry Cooldown (No More Heroes)

Lollipop, Suitcase, Leafy, Four, Nickel, Trophy (Object Show)

Niko (OneShot)

Joker, Joker (Innocent Sin), Goro Akechi, Tohru Adachi (Persona)

Player character (Petscop)

Cynthia, N, Allister (Pokemon)

GLaDOS, Wheatley (Portal)

Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

Blake Belladonna (RWBY)

Gideon Graves (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, film)

Dr. Bright, Dr. Clef, SCP-079, SCP-1471, SCP-049 (SCP Foundation)

Ghostface (Scream)

Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Plague Knight (Shovel Knight)

The Voice Inside Your Head (SiIvaGunner)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Death the Kid (Soul Eater)

Eric Cartman, Tweek Tweak (South Park)

Anakin Skywalker, Kylo Ren, Alexsandr Kallus, Mitth'raw'nuruodo (Star Wars)

Spinel, Peridot (Steven Universe)

Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants)

Abigail (Stardew Valley)

Spy, Pyro (Team Fortress 2)

Calamitas (Terraria Calamity mod)

Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)

The Observer (TribeTwelve)

Sans, Chara, Napstablook (Undertale)

Sou Hiyori, Rio Ranger (Your Turn To Die)

[finch-beeps]

Your DSMP-TokyoGhoul crossover is giving me BRAINROT (/pos). Like Dream's smiley mask being his thing he uses to cover his eyes!! And imagine the Kaneki vs Jason fight being Tommy vs Dream!! And imagine the white hair scene was actually Tommy being revived by Dream instead!! I just!!!! AAA (/pos)

See the au isnt actually following canon plot OMG YES SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS ME

Like when I have two hyperfixations ill try to link similarities between them because it brings me serotonin!! Instead of Tommy as Kaneki, I associate Ranboo as Kaneki because Tubbo is 100% Hide. They were both spies, both scarred and both would rather talk about shit then actual issues. Hide and Kaneki? More like beeduo I mean seriously.

I also feel like Kaneki and Techno would have a book club because they're both kingly blood god who went to college for a fucking degree related to reading (classic lit and english) and I absolutely would see them vibin!!! Kaneki talking about how he used to braid Hinamis hair when they were a small group and Techno like "I think Tommy still has the braid I gave him :)))"

CONTINUING ON!!! Akira and Puffy HAND SHAKE!!! They keep fucking losing the people they care about! Akira has Kaneki, Amon and Takizawa and Puffy has Tommy, Badboyhalo and Antfrost :(((

THEN AGAIN I do enjoy drawing connections between Takizawa and Wilbur as two little meows meows that I want to get therapy sO FUVKING BAD OMG PL E A SE. At least Takizawa kinda went "oh shit" after Akira took a blow for him. I just hope Wilbur goes through a same thing were its like "boo im evil" until someone he cares about gets actually hurt and he's just "wait no :((( fuck I care..."

IS IT OBVIOUS MY BRAINROT HAS NO BOUNDS IM FBJESJSBSJA

Tommy absolutely shakes hands with Kaneki with the whole 'sudden white hair omg I didnt ask to be your protagonist holy shit let me REST' though, but also Tommy would get pissed off when Kaneki and Ranboo shake hands for the same thing then actually become friends chdjdgsish

Another random tangent but in the tokyo ghoul novels there is a beanie wearing acoustic guitar playing musician and I love him very much him and Wilbur would absolutely vibe 10/10

[transsexualhamlet]

tg anime vs manga *sighs*

i have the power of hyperfixation and anime on my side! AAAAAAAA

Ok now that we’ve gotten the sins of re post out of the way we need to discuss this. And I just feel that this needs to be covered because I can’t ever get away from constant discourse on this, mostly fueled by manga readers who feel entitled to always think they’re superior for reading the manga, that the manga is the only real canon, that it’s more complex or better, I’m so fucking tired of it. I am also a manga reader, and I tend to get like that sometimes too with many series (for example no. 6 and the promised neverland.) I get it. It can be really annoying to see something butchered on screen to what the original is, changed or represented differently or given a different message or simplified. But just. Some people like the anime and it’s not a goddamn holy war for y’all to fight. It only makes anime fans not want to read the thing even more yknow cause manga readers are pretentious assholes, and I am aware of this as one of them.

(again ok i’d like to mention i know this fandom is basically dead but a certain p*nterest is always like 4 years behind on fandoms so i keep fucking running into Discourse that’s like, still current, whenever i want old random ass content) (and youtube, why do i look at youtube comments, because I personally enjoy being offended? yeah probably)

And that brings me to the point of this anime vs manga. 

This is a lot harder to compare than a lot of other series, because there are just... so many more differences not just in the style and vibe but the story itself.

Disclaimer, I’ve never watched the anime for :re and i don’t intend to, because I honestly have no earthly clue how tf you can get from the highly diverged tokyo ghoul root A to re and make it make sense, and I don’t really want A ruined for me. So you can call me biased towards the manga in the case of re, i guess (which makes my eventual conclusion even more strong I’d say) Honestly I just see them as two completely different stories, the manga’s version connecting with re and A just like... ending there. So how we’re drawing the lines is basically tokyo ghoul A versus the manga and :re. God, I know this isn’t a fair fight because I already hate re so much, but I feel like the manga’s story is much more intertwined with :re than the anime’s is, so that’s what we’re going with.

oh god also another disclaimer this opinion is coming from the biggest fucking kanehide whore, you can disregard anything i say if you ship The Straights and/or do not care for my boi hide

To be honest, if I can take my own conclusions and liberties to the story, I like both versions, each have their pros and cons and kind of a conflicting message. They can’t really coexist. Usually I’d consume all versions and then create one consistent canon in my head for what I accept as the true events (for example my main owari no seraph, first season of the anime is canon but after that we only follow the manga since those can come together and make sense.) but it’s very hard to do that in tokyo ghoul, since I must confess... I really like root A. Like of course, it’s a lot different from the manga, but tbh I think it’s super valid. (unlike most Fans TM like this Fan TM who i’m sending this post to just to spite their singular Youtube Comment Section Discourse, yes I did write this post for you and many others like you) But the ideas that make up root A conflict a lot with the ones of the manga, so I just have to accept that they’re separate things and treat them as such.

Now to break it down so people can understand where I’m coming from I guess? God this is already so long here’s a read more

The Case for The Manga (including :re manga)

More Lore + Plot Shit: One of the main reasons that manga readers are pretentious little bitches is a valid reason, namely that, as is the case with most manga, there’s simply more to it than people can fit into an anime. (Although people need to understand that’s because,,, it’s simply a different medium, so it will have different pluses and minuses, such as for example a soundtrack, color, moving pictures,,, you know, all that. Anime onlys don’t say that the anime is better by stating these things that a manga won’t have... because they’re fucking obvious. So manga readers should stop acting like an anime is inherently sub-par for being less in depth, but we digress.) I can understand that reading the manga is kind of important for wanting to understand the lore (though there are like so many other reasons ppl might want to watch it other than to get the lore) and without the explanation of how all this came to be and how it works, everything tends to be really mysterious, confusing, and seemingly random. It’s really nice to know what’s all going on, of course, and stuff like the washuus, rize’s backstory, the explanation for like, kaneki in general, all that- if you’re looking for like, plot shit, manga is definitely your go to. But like, sometimes, you like, don’t actually care about those things.

Haise: Of course one of the most important things about well, including re is that I fucking love Haise. Like he is my favorite Kaneki. He’s just so wonderful, look at him in he glasses and he floofy hair and he striped pants and he energy boxers and he s p i c e and he MOM. And I really like how they took Kaneki’s character and developed it more with Haise, you can see his turnaround from innocent--> Emo--> Trying To Be Innocent Again But Failing and I think that’s really sweet tbh. I rejected that at first because I didn’t understand it but once I actually read re I thought it made a lot of sense and was a logical thing to do with his character. (though, uh, moving forward, after his hair changes again i disagree with it, haise 1.0 is a good take and i love him and i want the best for him) I could go on I’ve already written a post of what I think is wrong with :re so if you want to hear my take on kaneki’s 37 pokemon evolutions that’s in there

Good New Characters: And of course there are my favorite bitches such as quinx squad, oh my god, there was a terminal lack of dumbass squad vibes in the original and ishida fucking gave it to us, I love them, I love them with all my heart and I think that if I wasn’t attached to them I’d probably just cancel all of :re but like this is just my personal problem. God I love them. Ishida always pulls through with characters I’m now too attached to.

Vore Lmao:Ok like hear me out. I just get a laugh out of it every time the manga has to remind me of this little fucking fact. Like ok I just. Cannot get over it. It’s so serious about it too and like I realize it’s a serious deal but o h  m y  g o d

Ok and now that we’ve got that little rant over I do want to say that it is like actually really important past the “lmao that’s pretty gay” bit, like??? In some ways it’s more fitting than the anime because well, ishida’s point always seems to be “what would mentally and physically hurt kaneki the most right now” and does it because that’s who this bitch is. But it just?? Kind of makes a bit more sense for the storyline if we’re being picky here, it’s so,,, painfully on point? Like the entire reason he gave in to Being A Ghoul and all was so he could save his friends and shit (i actually do not remember if this was a thing in the manga but like? when he was being tortured and he like imagined hide being really mad at him and getting killed by jason and shit?) LIKE AND THEN HE GOES AND HAS TO BASICALLY BE THE PERPETRATOR OF THAT HIMSELF, FUCK, it’s a lose/lose situation of “don’t do the bad thing and watch your friends suffer” or “do the bad thing and watch your friends suffer but like, later” ishida please

The meaning of Hide being alive: Ok this is just me crying over chapter 75 still but like. Instead of in the anime, where hide’s point seems to be that instead of letting kaneki sacrifice anything more he’d be the one to give his life up and such, and save kaneki, in the anime tbh he just really wanted to be with kaneki right then?? and like ouch but understanding that in the manga he wasn’t just planning on dying and leaving kaneki to deal with it afterward he wanted to go on and continue to try to help the guy no matter the shit he had to go through, no matter if the dude just like forgot that he existed for two years and all- LIKE UH CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW HIDE DOESN’T EVEN EXPECT ANY APOLOGY? like kaneki’s like “OH MY GOD I’M SUCH A TERRIBLE PERSON” and hide’s like lmao nah it’s cool i’m thriving- that his big motto was “live” rather than “peace out motherfuckers it’s been fun”. Cause. Fucking. Ishida. Can’t kill off characters well but like at least he made keeping this one alive justified. 

The D e t a i l s: Ok well I feel like this is something everyone knows but the anime is missing a lot of really,,, crunchy details that the manga throws in there, like, well, kaneki’s fucking,,, bones thing, and other assorted details, g o d like those are missable if you want to never understand half the memes but also like,,, sometimes you just gotta read that shit. It also like, makes more sense when you do but sometimes it’s just stupid things that aren’t important but are fucking hilarious.

The Flavor: In general I’d say the greatest difference between the anime and the manga is the general flavor of the thing, the vibe in the manga is a lot, to be frank, darker and grosser and bloodier than the anime, which is a lot more focused on being pretty and Tragic than “HOLY SHIT WTF” but like. That’s valid. With that comes it being a lot more, real, and although the art may not be as polished as the anime’s, sometimes that’s exactly what you need, and the really gritty sketchy shit that’s in the manga sometimes is exactly what it’s supposed to be for the manga. (in the anime, i’d say that the colored and polished style fits it better, so we’re good there.) It’s a lot more real, in the manga, when the anime hesitates to “go there” a lot (and well, sometimes that’s welcome, but sometimes it’s like y o u  g u y s  c o m e  o n  r e a l l y maybe i DID want to see that did you ever think of that)

So like, to sum it up i’d just like to say it’s more detailed, sharper and darker and is simply So Much. There is just More Content

The Case for Root A

ON THE OTHER HAND, (buckle up fuckers)

Depth of Emotion (that Ishida was too much of a pissbaby for): God like you know what I mean if you read the last post, we spent a whole episode on these gay fucks in root A, with backstory and dreams and drawn out suspense and emotion and GUYS LOOK AT THEM NO REALLY OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS whereas hide’s limelight in the manga is a whole... two pages, oh whoopee, and that’s mostly due to the fact of ishida putting himself in a spot of “oh fuck goddamn if i drew that in i’d get flagged for gay porn” but that’s his own fault, so he downplays the whole scene and really keeps it in the dark, whereas in this anime it’s understandably a lot less,,, like that, but how it plays out here is simply... really nice and makes you cry and shit, whereas in the manga I’d go “oh god oh damn oh fuck” *laughs my ass off because i really can’t take this seriously*. You get just... more here.

To elaborate on this, in the anime, as a gay fucking bastard, I can get practically an endless amount of content from episode twelve, and endlessly stew over all Those Things about it, every hard hitting line, the expressions, the music making it even sadder, the ways the VAs say the words, the cinematic beauty of the blood dripping on the floor and like how it’s supposed to make you think it’s kaneki’s, GOD I COULD FUCKING GO ON, but if we want to get that in the manga... 

we get three incredibly basic lines, a blackout, and then a “QUICK LET’S MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE ANYONE NOTICES THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT HAHA”

So if we want to have more, we need to write it. (sadly) None of it is ever played out canonically so like,,, all we can do is infer and make shit up. It’s like, I am a writer so like that’s my whole job but I really would rather have more content, and have the content that’s there get to be emotional instead of *blank face* “this is plot that is happening, sadly” but like maybe it’s just bc i’m gay

Really Fucking Beautiful (aesthetically as well as story-wise): This kind of just goes hand in hand with the depth of emotion bit, and I think it can’t really compared to the manga here because I’m gay so I see pretty colors and cry so the anime is understandably appealing for me, but I’m also talking emotionally, yeah. There’s a lot of plotlines and implications of the story that are really well played out, I always love to watch the original because it does a very good job handling a lot of the harder topics and stuff that makes the whole thing worthwhile- like the whole point you’re supposed to see that the ghouls and humans are both just as monstrous when you break it down, that there are good and bad people on both sides, everyone just wants to live and feel good in their own life and perspective, everyone has reasons that justify their behaviour in their mind, sometimes you just can’t win no matter what, all that... they’re all really important messages and make the whole story, and they were handled much more delicately and with more expertise in the anime. 

It’s hard to pin down, but I feel like the manga was just based more on Fight Scenes Characters OoH Fake Science and kind of just gave kaneki infinite power ups after Trying Harder no offense, obviously those things were there and they were still very good in the manga it’s just sometimes they were cheapened a lot by ishida really not keeping track of what he’s trying to say with his story and sacrificing it a lot for “BUT WHAT IF KANEKI’S HAIR AND IDEALS CHANGED AGAIN” instead of making it a whole cohesive work. (and yes, I am VERY aware of your “well aCtuAlLy the hair represents his sanity” thing i know i know and i’m about to rip it to fucking shreds so)

Understandable Character Development And Staying True To It: Which brings me to this point, character development. This was another thing that was just... handled with more expertise in the anime, whoever was in charge of it. Mostly this has to do with Kaneki, since like, no offense but he’s the only one who ever gets much character development other than like, juuzou (asmr you only get character development if your hair color changes) oh and i guess there’s tsukiyama but he’s someone who shouldn’t have gotten character development. Touka gets character development only before re for some reason, and like tbh that’s kind of it. I do think Juuzou’s character development was valid, because well... it made sense? I complained about it before because I was like “well he just turns into spicy L” but i’ve since changed my opinion, he’s best boy. But Kaneki? They went way overboard with him in the manga, and generally? Calm tf down ishida.

Breaking it down, one of the main things that most of the tried and true manga stans seem to hate about the anime the most is Kaneki going over to Aogiri in root A. Since they’re much more acclimated to the manga, they don’t understand why he would do that (quoting a particular ‘probably made sense in the manga!’ yes i know that whole thing was poking fun at the show and i felt it lmao) and they just pin it to “ahaha he has now become Edgy for the fans ehehe time to make fun of him” and TO BE FAIR YOU’D BE COMPLETELY RIGHT. I love to make fun of Kaneki when he does his edgy bitch thing because that’s what he is. A basic edgy bitch who is just,,, such a main character. But like. He does actually have his reasons despite popular opinion and to be honest I think they’re a bit more valid than in the manga, where he’s just like “well I’ve been tortured, that was not pleasant and i kinda did a bad thing, let’s go back to anteiku but i’m just gonna Try Harder To Fight this time”. I can understand that, but like, it seems like in the manga every Character Development of kaneki is some form of “i will now be stronger” except for the singular “I will now be a different person” which, well, we’ll get to that. 

In the anime though, even if it seems like more of a basic edgy bitch move, it’s like?? It makes perfect sense to me, and to be honest more than the manga does? Obviously he doesn’t wanna be best bros with Aogiri, he realizes they’re all bad people who have done really terrible things, but the fact is he now sees himself as the same thing, he now understands their motives because in his mind he is also now Bad TM. His whole character development of being tortured was that peace wasn’t an option no matter how much he wanted it, he couldn’t live being a pacifist and the world was forcing him to give the “i am the only one that understands! we need to stop fighting!” bullshit up because there was no way to achieve it. He realized if he kept himself the way he was more people he loved would be hurt like they already had because he couldn’t, so he doesn’t just Decide To Become Stronger, he gives up his humanity. And that includes basically letting himself defend his own actions and try to do “the right thing”. 

Him then joining aogiri makes sense because well. They’re the people who are the strongest, who have the power, who are the same as he sees himself. He still wants to protect the people he loves, he just also realizes he can’t do it by working with them since he now understands that their more peaceful ways will by definition get them fucking killed. His understanding is flawed, of course. He’s not really right. But this is his understanding and from that it makes perfect sense for him to join up with aogiri and try to still do as much as possible from that standpoint, realizing that most likely the people he’s trying to protect will hate him for it. I think that makes sense to me, what do you not understand about it? (I also understand that may make some people mad because he’d Doing Bad Things but I point to you he’s so soft, remember when he was really nice to naki when he was literally the one who killed the guy naki was crying about? remember when he was doing a raid and he saw that guy hiding and he never mentioned it? remember like the seventy times he Cried TM, yeah he’s problematic obviously but if you want problematic I’ll point you to a certain fucking black reaper. Shironeki has nothing on that asshole.)

I think what Kaneki did in the manga was fine, but in general the anime (again) had more depth of understanding and emotion versus a steady Try Harder Get Stronger shonen deal, which, well, fair, but like, nah. Continuing why I think the anime dealt it better is the ending of A, which was a lot more well rounded then *kaneki gets stabbed and then there’s a lot of random plot shit going on in the background*. Here Kaneki then got to round out the end of his character development by realizing slowly through the second half of this season, him becoming a kakuja and then basically deciding like, not to

((kakuja kaneki was dealt with again different in the anime and manga because he basically stopped trying to use it in the anime bc he realized it was a bad fucking idea but this goes along with the ‘his character development of “i’m gonna do bad things for good reasons” --> “actually no wait that was a bad idea” was actually done in root A instead of being dragged out into :re and it’s appropriate for its own medium and the messages it’s trying to get across so manga loyalists hate it’ but we digress))

So in root A we got to see him actually develop and realize himself through the second half of the season starting with cochlea, his interactions with Amon, and ultimately through Hide, that he’d been doing the wrong thing by becoming more monstrous/fighting harder because what he did was ended up forgetting the most important thing, *smiles in gay* HIDE.(well, his humanity. yeah. i cite the terrible opening for root A with the fun ‘the hands taking off kaneki’s mask are hide’s’ bit.) He then remembered again why he wanted so bad to stop the war between humans and ghouls, he wanted to be able to live in peace and not have to be a monster- something that was not dealt with in the manga (though for understandable reasons of We Need To Fuck With Him In Re More, they then didn’t deliver on creating something like that later so I take this.)

That’s most of the difference between the original manga and anime, but I’d also like to discuss (briefly, I’ve already yelled about them) the ridiculous amount of hurdles ishida went through to fuck with kaneki in the manga, Of course there is the fact that well, the slower transition of his character does make some more sense for the manga because if you take :re into consideration, his eight billion character changes are more tolerable when they haven’t like, already happened before in the manga (just the anime). It makes more sense there for Haise to be tormented by past kaneki telling him He’s Too Weak because in the manga he hasn’t already had that development prior to “dying”, and he lost his memories still believing he had to be strong even if he did bad things, whereas in the anime it doesn’t track because at the end like i just said he kind of gives up his ghoulhood on purpose because he realizes that joining aogiri and fighting and shit was really wrong because, hide. So I can see why those character decisions were not made in the original when planning for :re, but... the fact remains that those previous decisions do not make up for how absolutely weak :re’s game ended up being with kaneki. 

So tldr this entire section, All the manga’s defense of how they handled Kaneki’s development is basically void because all those choices were buildup for development in :re which ishida then COMPLETELY fell down on. So the alternative is better.

And now comes my yelling about how exactly Ishida fucked it up: hair colors and kaneki’s 80 kanekis. If black is supposed to represent sane and white is supposed to represent insane or, whatever, i dunno, who tf thought black reaper kaneki was sane? Who tf would think kaneki in the end isn’t? I haven’t looked into this really, and I’d really love it if someone explained it to me the way ishida was going for bc I do not understand it. Like that tracks with Juuzou, and with Kaneki up to Haise Original, but they don’t really make a cohesive sense seeing as after Haise’s hair color changed again that whole deal kind of goes to shit. Not to mention... I just... they completely failed to make those character changes actually part of the story, I’m mostly complaining about black reaper haise, none of him makes any sense. What’s his deal? He wants to protect who he loves? Tracks with the ghouls but fun fact he abandoned his kids? He actually cared for them? What then, he wants to be the strongest as possible? Sure but then?? Why?? I don’t understand his motives at all.

We also didn’t get to see him get his memories back either, which I was actually very much looking forward to, it just,,, like all of a sudden he’s talking with eto about yoshimura and i’m like bruh when tf did that happen? It’s bad, and although chapter 74-76 is super valid, and his change back into white hair kaneki makes sense, I also have the complaint about how haise basically disappeared just like he was worried he would. I think that was bad and I’ve said that already, it doesn’t make sense, he just literally throws those entire two years away to go back to the way he was before he was with the CCG and just forgets everything he’s wanted for the last few years? Fiction logic test fucking failed, and you’ve also broken my heart. Love Haise. You got rid of him. I love kaneki too but like. Why don’t they just. Like. Merge. He is one whole complex person, not one and an imposter, god. 

This is a big negative for re and the manga, so automatically a positive for root A where I simply Do Not Have To Deal With That Bullshit and the character development actually makes sense. I can understand the decisions in the original manga could have set up for good development in :re, but they completely failed to deliver.

root a didn’t fast forward to re at the end god damn let us process this shit first before you try to connect it to something else: The thing with this point is that it’s really difficult to separate the original manga from the continuing story in :re because the thing intertwines so much and immediately moves us forward with a ton of plot points for the next part of the story before we’re done with this climax and the end of this story. Sometimes that’s ok and I can see doing that from an author’s perspective because you want people to continue reading your story instead of taking that as the end but it’s really annoying on a reader’s end, because I’m picky and I want to be able to just be able to enjoy my original canon without it like, metaphorically touching :re on a plate. It’s something that I don’t even do with my own longer stories, like for example I have like a trilogy of >100k fics that like, well i’m technically not done with them but like. 

People really like the first one because it’s more focused on a more popular ship and basic elements people like about the thing, and then by the second book it moves on to talk more about the plot and lore and brings in more secondary characters. And so I knew that a lot of the readers of the first one wouldn’t want to have to deal with a lot of the “oh well stuff is happening elsewhere that will effect stuff later!!!” random plot shit that none of my readers actually cared about. So I kept it to wrapping up the points of the first book and then leaving the introduction of new characters and plot for the people who actually wanted to read it. Ishida didn’t do that, and of course it’s within his right to like?? Want to promote the next series but I’d have enjoyed it more if we ended it at kaneki’s “death” and wrapping up the deals with the rest of the characters instead of quickly shoving in the beginning of seventy more plotlines before the book ends. Like honey I simply do not have the reading comprehension for that. In the anime we get something that... makes sense.

In the anime, however, it’s quite the opposite, for example the reveals like Eto=owl=takatsuki sen were pushed before that and they saved episode twelve for, well, the end bit. Like what was actually the ending. There were detriments to this I had to say (LIKE GUYS I GET IT HE’S CARRYING HIDE HE’S CARRYING HIM I GET IT YOU’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR HALF THE EPISODE NOW OK I UNDERSTAND CAN WE MOVE ON) But like, I prefer the concept of a simple idea with as much emotion squeezed out of it as possible to a ton of confusing and contradicting ideas that are touched on for a second before moving on. So the *cries for half an hour* ending was much more appealing to me, and I can keep that separate in my head from any of the ideas that :re creates, letting me pretend it doesnt exist and imagine that’s the end and there’s nothing else to worry about. If we want to move forward and hear more, then we can, but it isn’t necessary like it is with the manga.

No Bad Takes that are hard to pry apart from good plot and characters:This is basically the downsides of the new characters, which is well, if I had to make a whole ~keep reading~ post about how problematic everything in re was that does have to count as a downside. I love the new characters, but they also come intertwined with a thousand really bad takes on like, everything, and of course I can ignore it and just act as though they were written in like, to be perfectly honest, a non transphobic way, it’s a real downside when the original anime was pretty pain-free in the way of their takes on their characters. They fucked everyone up in re and I will not elaborate, we’ve talked about this, it’s just the anime, and which i mean season 1 and root A, don’t really have any bad takes I need to try to get rid of, it’s surprisingly something I have little complaint about at all and I ALWAYS have complaints.

Hide!!!!: Obviously, you can tell that a lot of my opinions are going to be hide based because he’s the only thing I ever think about. But we have to take into account just how... hide???? This goes a lot into the depth of emotion bit but it also offers the other side of the argument for Hide’s part in the :re manga, which well. Was mostly chapter 75 if we’re going to be perfectly honest here. He doesn’t get any other limelight. Even in the chapter where Kaneki meets him again he gets a whole what, three pages? In the manga, he has an extremely valid deal about basically, living, keeping going no matter what, and that is a fitting part for the manga, considering the rest of the points there ride more on Keep Fighting instead of Think About Your Emotions And Morals, but honestly chapter 75 was really valid. So why do I still think the anime’s version where he like (ok I don’t know about the re anime we’ve discussed this, i don’t even know how they choose to explain that) he like, dies in kaneki’s arms is better overall? Again, I would have totally accepted that deal if it was made a part of the story because it made me cry, it was super valid, and if they’d continued in that way I would have agreed with it completely over that. But the fact is again that they failed to deliver, and Hide got largely ignored, suffered so much with so little outcome. There was so much buildup and it was incredibly valid, but when the time came for them to meet again and basically show... why it was important that Hide lived in the end? 

They didn’t. They straight up didn’t. Kaneki’s like “oh sorry bro... glad you’re alive and all...” *goes off and fights* and like? Honestly? @everlastingspiral is right, if that’s all they’re gonna do with him what’s the point of keeping him alive? I love every single panel of him and I wouldn’t have read re if he didn’t, but hide gets absolutely NO payoff. For letting kaneki literally vore his entire mouth off, leaving him disfigured and unable to talk, then kind of disappearing for two years and doing seemingly nothing but trying to help kaneki even though he’d forgotten the guy existed, risks his life like a thousand fucking times, eventually gets back to him and the dude’s running a fucking anti-human organization, helps him like Not Be A Volitile Pile Of Flesh Anymore and then what should have been a very important moment of them meeting again gets completely overshadowed by touka and random plot shit and more fights and they barely interact, they don’t even hug or anything, they barely talk, and at the end hide is still there but to be honest he’s gotten absolutely no thanks for all he did and ishida acts at the end as though he’s done very well with hide and gives him a tiny bit at the end throwing in a tragic backstory for fun (which hot take he really didn’t fucking need on top of it all) and... there’s no real hint that Kaneki is better off with Hide there, even though there should be. In 75, in his dream, kaneki is sobbing and crying and all like i’m so lonely without you but when they actually meet each other again? “yo” “hey” “uh sorry about,,, the thing,,, you know” “nah man it’s ok” “let me talk about myself for a bit” “yes you always do do you want to hear what I’ve been up to” “not really” “that’s fine i’m only here to support you”

...So you can understand why I’ve gone a bit sour on that. If that’s all you’re going to give him? Hot take? Let him die. Hide deserves better. (and i will deliver that in writing, but for the purposes of canon.)

In the anime, however (not counting re again... although he still gets the short end of the stick just in the original manga too compared to the anime) he’s properly dealt with! he gets his proper limelight and he gets acknowledged for what he’s done thusfar in the story, which is already so much. Kaneki then realizes that, but it’s already too late (or it isn’t, and they like negotiate with the ccg and then they get to live happily ever after) either way he gets appreciated and he gets hurt, but it’s properly acknowledged. And after all that, after saving kaneki and getting him to the cafe and doing it all while bleeding the fuck out, he gets to spend that time with kaneki and die in kaneki’s arms. And frankly? That’s all I think he’s ever needed. It’s really poetic and pretty and brings kaneki’s character around full circle, and even if it’s overly sappy, cliche, drawn out... he gets the attention he’s due and he gets a fucking break. He wanted to show Kaneki he wanted to do something for him and save him instead of the other way around, but then HE GOT ACKNOWLEDGED FOR THAT, instead of just well, tirelessly working towards it forever and having to be content to be a background character with practically no value to Kaneki anymore.

Keeps The Same Vibe: The big thing about this is that with the manga and with re, shit just goes all over the place, and I feel like I’ve amply showed that already through this essay or whatever this is. Again about the consistency and the professionalism, It’s a concise story that makes more sense than the manga while also being simply neater and more deep, making sure all the points, themes and messages work together and make sense to create a cohesive deal even if it’s not as long. (the manga is like ishida had a TON of good ideas for an essay but then fleshed out the thing ten minutes before deadline and managed to completely lose what his original thesis was even if the thing was 10 pages long.) Basically. yeah. That kind of sums it up, my last point concerns the ending.

Not Cheap Ending: If you want to hear my take about how absolutely terrible re’s ending was, check out my The Many Sins Of Tokyo Ghoul :Re post, and we’ve discussed how the original’s manga ending was bad and well not really an ending, it just leaves you unfulfilled and takes you into “well I guess I have to start a whole nother sequel series ig...” but root A like? Actually ends it? If a reader didn’t know that there was any content after that, they could pretty much infer that hide’s death or almost death whatever you inferred out of that ending (again we’re ignoring re) allowed Kaneki to finish his character development and realize they needed to stop the war, which basically tracks with what’s going on in everyone else’s perspective- eto’s problem with the world because of what happened with everything, is basically like, all of aogiri, juuzou and shinohara, amon and akira and kaneki and they can realize all they have to do is just sit down and fucking stop it because none of them want to be fighting, hide is the catalyst for that because the CCG can see how Kaneki cares for him? And it’s so open ended that you could just like literally believe that and there’d be no way for that canon to tell you otherwise, or you could go onto re and whatever if you wanted to. I think that’s the best thing. 

In conclusion, both have valid points, and in general I’d say that the manga goes better with :re and the anime is better as a stand alone but if I had to choose overall, this particular anime is better (taking into account only seasons 1 and 2), for mostly the reasons of favoring a simpler story taken with much more care and depth versus a more complex story with many, MANY imperfect elements, and I am aware I will get shot on sight for this opinion. So sue me.

[peachy-inserts]

Oh!!! Can i ask for aizawa, toshinori/All might, Present mic and hawks with a s/o Who has a kagune quirk?? Like kaneki (Kaneki vs jason is a good example) or like Hinami's kagune. When the villains attack the students at the simulator, the reader went nuts. (I think it would be cool, when the reader uses her quirk she developes a New level of anger at the ponit she sees the villain as her prey for hurting her students)

Although I love all of those characters, we don’t do Tokyo Ghoul related quirks due to the canibalistic nature of it not complying with our ‘no trigger topic’ rule (this actually isn’t the first time we’ve been asked for a prompt like this, oddly enough!) but thank you for asking!

[fallingstormphoenix]

Whumpers, what your favorite Whump from a book, tv show, or movie?

Mine is Kaneki-Kun vs Jason. It has everything, psychological torture (“count backwards from 1000 by 7s”), Bugs, Extremity Removal, a panicking Whumpee begging to die, and then the best part of all, the Whumpee turns on the Whumper and delivers him the brutal death he deserved. Also whumpee picked up an interesting characteristic from the whumper, his signature finger cracking move.

[x-anime-love-x]

Finished season 1, and am now 3 episodes into season 2. Episodes 11 and 12 of season 1 may have been the most beautiful, yet fucked up episodes I have ever seen. They were incredible. 

It was so well done how they showed Kaneki’s change of character. Through the symbolism of the white flowers turning red as Rise invaded his memories and corrupted his thoughts, illustrating that his ghoul side was taking over. But did he come out a monster? I half expected him to, but no, he came out ice cold. And when he took on Jason, made him count, and then ate him, I was lost for words. 

Despite that I hear ghouls being compared to zombies a lot, I think they are more like vampires (which is great, I love vampire stories). The self loathing, the hatred, the need to feed on humans to survive and the mindset that results between those who want to coexist and find alternative ways to survive vs those who believe they are above their food source, it’s so similar. Nothing like zombies. 

And Kaneki’s change is similar too. This happens in most vampire stories, when the vampire side takes over and they begin to act with no remorse, I wonder when his actions will catch up to him. Though I have to admit-I do like him like this way. 

[android17sama]

Kaneki vs Jason

[osrictheinspiration]

TOKYO GHOUL LIVE ACTION - JASON VS KANEKI (RE:Anime)

Great job Osric!!

@osrictumbles