#tg:re spoilers

[captain-astors]

A dragon and owl, unbound by death. 

(Help them tie because they both deserve it, check the comments I’ll try to keep it current.)

[casketxkitten]

i just finished tokyo ghoul :RE for the first time ever n despite some confusion id watch again

im glad i like to read ahead in character wiki pages bc honestly there was So many chunks missing?? especially going on from √A n not realising how much they'd tweaked it

openings were fire, i think asphyxia is right up there w unravel

love the characters n the story (was Not expecting pregnant touka)

maybe will treat myself to the manga at some point so i can experience it all instead of just reading abt it on a fandom wiki

[claremikas]

I'm not like super invested in jujutsu kaisen but man the people who've been complaining about "bad writing" since the culling games are annoying as fuck. I do have a lot of gripes with jjk but saying that "it doesn't have depth" shows abysmal levels of media illiteracy

[kyanitedragon]

I'm screaming, Hori's canonly played the "Oh look it's Kaneki!" card

[Read :re quest here!]

[uriekukistan]

ur one of the only ppl i follow that i know likes tokyo ghoul, and i just started reading it for the first time! (friends tried 2 get me into it when i was younger via the anime but i did Not Wanna so this is actually my first real read of it) i just started tg:re, so i have been Dying to talk abt it with somebody.. if u dont mind, who are ur faves? :3

omg im glad you did not watch the anime actually. the manga is infinitely better 🙏 okay this is not the place for me to rant against the anime let me move on before i get carried away

my number one fav and ofc the namesake of my url is urie <3 idk how far into :re you've gotten but i think he's like. the first to get introduced if im remembering correctly? but you might not get the vision Yet depending on how far you've read, but i just love an angry lil guy w daddy issues who cant express his emotions properly <3 no personal reasons for that at all.............his growth ends up being really nice too you'll see you'll see

another brand of character i like is the guy who can't stand coming in second in anything but always does, and has a one sided beef with the person who beats them every single time, so i also love takizawa. i don't wanna say too much abt him bc i don't wanna spoil the fun for you but he ends up having a really cool arc too

im realizing as i type this out most of my favs are either from :re alone, or get the majority of their development in :re im really trying to hold my tongue so bad rn,,,,,,,

idk if you've met saiko yet? she spends the entire first volume of :re asleep lmaoooo but she's great. i love how she's a character that stands for kindness in a world full of hate and different groups trying to kill each other all the time

recently i've come to appreciate eto more as well, i dont think i liked her much at first, but one of my tg mutuals is a big eto fan and i think that's helped me appreciate her more. also bc said mutual rbs all the posts i rb thinking "oh this post is so me" and adds the eto tag......okay maybe i am like her. also again with the daddy issues characters good lord pls pay that no mind,,,,,,,

cutting myself off after this one but i love both of the kirishima siblings :3 touka is so cool, and i love how her rough exterior hides how gentle and emotional she really is. i love characters like that. and ayato, he's so snarky and fun, but again, his roughness hides how much he cares. i don't think this qualifies as a spoiler (i mean it gets confirmed in :re, but i feel like it was implied in the first half of the series), but after touka kills those doves in retaliation for killing hinami's mom, ayato starts killing doves too, because he also has a rabbit mask, to detract attention from his sister.....so it ties that first incident to him rather than her :')

UGHIDGF i love tokyo ghoul so much, but i barely talk abt it anymore sorry to my tg mutuals :') pls come ask abt it anytime im happy to discuss !! glad you're liking it so far tho ! do u have any favs yet? i'd love to hear more of your thoughts :3

[tg-pilled]

// TG:re spoilers

Thinking abt her (fem!Kaneki) again...

[animehouse-moe]

Choujin X Volume 2: Awkward Positioning

I'm trying really hard to like this story, I am. There's some parts that I really adore and love to see in the work. But alongside that, there's a lot of Tokyo Ghoul baggage attached to Choujin X, and a handful of questionable choices in how it's presented. So, is it worth holding on to hope?

That's a really hard thing to answer, and I think just because of my fondness for Tokyo Ghoul I'm still here. However, I'm not going to pretend that Choujin X is the second coming of Ishida. With that in mind, I want to dip into the negatives to start (I promise there'll be positives on the other side).

So, I'll start with what's holding it back: Tokyo Ghoul. I understand Ishida's a monster man through and through, and I'll even say that Choujin as a concept is far more broad that Ghouls. But, it's still that meek and underpowered main character, and still pieces that it clings to from those days. Take Yamato Mori, a safe haven for Choujin within the city. Not exactly a concept that sparks the thoughts of originality or "uniqueness" within readers.

Not all of it is very explicit or completely lifted from Ishida's work on Tokyo Ghoul, but I certainly found myself passively comparing Coujin X to it. Simple things like, "hey this feels similar", "oh, didn't TG:Re do something like this?". I don't think it's a deal breaker for everyone, but I for one really wanted to see Ishida break out of his shell with the creative freedom he's got with Choujin X, and it just feels like that's held back by its likeness to his prior work.

In terms of fresh stuff, it feels like Ishida is struggling with striking a solid pacing for his story. Some things are dragged out and taken very slowly (which I can appreciate), and then the next second they skip right over it. Take this, for example, Tokio and Ely are enrolled in a 40 day Choujin course, which comprises most of the volume. After the fight against Shiozaki, they get their Choujin cards. You know, the fight sequence that they weren't supposed to be a part of. I would have at least thought they'd have a follow up evaluation considering the fact that they used full beastification and fought against a Choujin in a chaos state.

Now, you might think, "well, isn't that a little too slow?", and you'd be right. That is, if a solid chunk of this volume wasn't about the little details and interactions coming from their 40 day Choujin course. They watch a video, they do an interview, and a few other small things, but the line is drawn at actually exploring, experiencing, and understanding their powers. It just seems so, odd to me, when in the presence of a professional and private organization that aims to assist and combat violent or chaos state Choujins.

Following this piece up (off the top of my head), Shiozaki and Tokio. I really like a lot of what Shiozaki is putting down, but with Tokio in the mix it gets muddy and rushed. Tokio's watching of Shiozaki's high school highlights feels hamfisted at the point that it's placed in the story, while Ishida had a perfect place to stuff it, that I think would have worked even better. Tokio's awkward discussion with Shiozaki at the bus stop.

Following this scene, Shiozaki goes home to his younger brother and sister, who live in their run down and empty home, before heading out to rob a bank. Spoiler, but Shiozaki's whole point in this story is giving up what he loved doing because of who he'd become, and having to find ways to grow up and make ends meet for his siblings.

I just feel like, alongside sentiment like that, Tokio's moment of innocence and admiration for Shiozaki's talent would come off as more dissonant and natural, than it being shown at a convenient time for the story. Now, I wouldn't go as far as saying there's lots of this kind of jumbled approach, but I also wouldn't say that it's a one off thing with the story. It's slightly disappointing as the content is solid, and just a bit of shuffling around can really bring out the best in it.

Last of the negatives: the scope of the world. A private organization exists for Choujins, and violent and evil Choujins roam the streets and take an active part in crime. If Choujins are an understood piece of society, that people accept, where are they in public settings? Considering the presentation and approach to the existence of Choujins, you'd expect celebrities and heroes, and privately hired defense contractors or security for higher profile places. But they don't seem to be there. It's not something you'll really recognize at first because of the story, but if you take a moment to stop and think, it feels like a rather gaping hole, no?

Anyways, we're finally out the other end of the negative. Time to start with the positive!

I really enjoy that Ishida's endeavoring to tackle poverty and class divides with Choujin X. There's a lot of great moments to it, I just wish that some of them could be a bit more subtle or nuanced in their approach.

In terms of good though, I'll start with Ely. Her simple idea that money will solve all problems is both accurate and a good line to take with someone at that age, and her understanding of it is well suited too.

Later on though, that naivete is washed away by the reality of the world. Money is able to fix almost everything, almost. It's a really solid line to take with a younger and more malleable character, and it's approached in a way that doesn't immediately correlate "money" and "poverty" with one another. It's a really nice and simple appeal that dives deeper than the words that joins it.

Similarly, we've got Shiozaki. A bit more literal, since he's able to understand the importance and value of money as he's directly supporting his siblings. Regardless, this spread of him pitching at Koshien is a really solid personification of his character and desires.

And the last little bit I'll share is of the hand lackeys that drag Shiozaki down. He wants to make an earnest living, he wants to be a good person that can provide for his siblings. It's when the greed of those around him grows to be too much, that he's sucked in. They bring him down, and while it's a bit of a hot topic, it is something that's commented on in poorer communities wherein someone has the ability to make it out and others from within will attempt to drag them down out of jealousy and greed.

Moving forward once more, I think the combat's solid. I wouldn't say it's been anything groundbreaking, or as awe inspiring as from titles like Soloist In A Cage, but it's no slouch and doesn't attempt to give the bare minimum. I will say though, that a lot of the "great" stuff is saved up for specific moments rather than being something that's dispersed throughout.

And lastly, the teasing of the direction of the story is interesting. There's a lot going on for sure, but there's also a good few ideas sticking out of it. How that soot guy gave his powers to Ely, how close he is to whatever that being is, what the tower really is, and so on and so forth.

So, I would say Choujin X is far from terrible, and maybe even bad, but I wouldn't put it all that far on the opposite end of the spectrum. Ishida is Ishida, so the art's gonna be outstanding, but the rest of what can make for a good series seems somewhat up in the air at this point in time. I really want to like, I really do, but it feels like one of those things where I just find more and more holes and points of confusion with. So, here's hoping volume 3 can mark a turning point for Choujin X

[lesbianminou]

i wonder how confused anime onlys were when tg:re came out after route A with no manga complaint second season. they’d be like [SPOILERS] what do you MEAN hides alive???? i watched kaneki carry his dead body!!! i saw him bleed out!!!!

meanwhile manga readers were hoping a praying that hide was still alive and fucking excited when he was!

[marshmallow-soul]

Tokyo Ghoul:re icons pt. 5

Hope you enjoy it ~

[weeped]

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[fweguchi]

hidekane rant by the big hide stan!

it is i, rising from the ashes, to deliver u a hidekane rant bc i was talking to my friend about ships and remembered the Pinnacle of true love. spoilers! sorry if u ship touken pls dont be mad these are my opinions!! and it doesnt dictae anything about ur character ✨ obviously lol

i m a g i n e:

• reading hide say "because i love him" as a reason to keep fighting for kaneki when kaneki a) didnt even know he was alive and b) hadnt been reciprocating. obviously. bc he didnt know hide was alive

• knowing hide Gave Up A Part Of Himself at da end of tg in the sewers, HIS MOUTH A R EA GONE via Kiss bc theres no other way that kaneki couldve eaten it, because hide wanted kaneki to live so desperately

• READING THE CHAPTER WHERE hide, literally coming to kaneki in a near-death hallucination, representing kaneki's desire to live and GETTING HIM TO STAY ALIVE

• r e a d i n g kaneki get sad as shitfuck when touka asks him if he misses hide and kaneki is like: i dont think abt missing hide cuz if i do, i just remember how much i want to be with him

imagine reading all of this. reading All Of This. and shipping touken????? could NOT be me. 

and honestly??? i don't think this becoming canon did very much for the holy trinity. of course, hide didn't get the reunion that should've been warranted by the intensity and complexity of his friendship w kaneki. that's just a fact. but after touka got pregnant she just sort of faded into the background. of course she was still very kind and her spark didn't die but it also wasn't her. she couldn't fight anymore and became this pillar of support for kaneki and a plot device to pull him out of his Monster Stage in the final arc. like. im so mad abt that. she deserves the absolute world and not This. and like ... kaneki's character is also unfinished and i do think that's partly bc ishida was tired of tg which is understandable! but i dont think kaneki having a standby wife helped him either. hmm. much to discuss.

anyways that is my rant! let me know if u wanna vibe or talk or also show me ur perspective about touken! i got a little heated with this but its also interesting to hear others’ POVs for their own ships :)

[coromoor]

“I KIND OF DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT” 😂

[claremikas]

having witnessed both the tokyo ghoul and attack on titan fandom discourse, I can tell you right now that this jjk chapter is going to be praised like it's the best chapter ever written in like 2-3 years (once the fandom hype dies down).

I think a problem like this arises because of two things:

1) personal perception of people's favorite character turns out to be factually wrong and now they have to call the author a "fraud" and say that they retconed them instead of admitting that they themselves missed the point

2) following an ongoing manga, without going back to read its entirety or certain chapters, makes people forget a lot of things about the world itself and the characters which ties back into point 1)

[kyanitedragon]

Hori: I need to be careful, Tsukiyama's family is all ghouls, and I don't want to die

Also Hori: (insults Tsukiyama right to his dad's face)

[Read :re quest here!]

[uriekukistan]

heyyy, I didn't finish reading tg:re so I wanted to ask what was tooru's ending pls? he's my fave pookie lil boy

yeah! spoilers for anyone who also hasn’t read but wants to

so the ccg becomes the tsc (tokyo security committee) where ghouls and humans cooperate. the rest of the quinx squad stays in tokyo and work for the tsc but mutsuki split with them to go to a local branch where he becomes a special class investigator. he keeps his relations with the squad though as well as keeping a friendly relationship with kaneki and touka because he sends them a gift for their kid via saiko.

that’s the objective ending i have very many personal thoughts about the ending in general not just about tooru but i’ll save that for a different day

[kizegg]

You`re the sunflower