yes anon !!! they’re the best pairings honestly, strong girls + striving boys = perfection ahhh if there was ever a world where they met it’ll be like
touka: so are you and eren together yet? mikasa: no… he’s too busy killing titans and saving the world touka: sounds like kaneki but seriously? mika the only way to get his attention is to ask him if he’s a virgin mikasa: touka no- touka: look at where it got me mikasa: ….. *thinks about it but is hesitant* i’ll think about it
Also Annie asking Armin because like. She totally would.
annie: i asked armin and it went well mikasa: wait what? touka: see mikasa, you’ve just gotta give it a shot! mikasa: i know… but- touka: you’re the only virgin here mikasa: ….. you didn’t need to point that out
Well confronting her is certainly his
means of bringing the chaotic life she threw him into to a close, but he
doesn’t necessarily need to kill her.
Like both Kaneki and Furuta, Rize is looking for a life of normality, at least subconsciously. Like Shironeki she is controlled by the very tragedy she believes she is rebelling against, and like Furuta she succumbs to it further in aiming to master her tragedy by inflicting it on others. Both these characters became very isolated as a result, and it is the same for Rize.
The friendships Kaneki forged beforehand helped to bring him back from the brink. Furuta only forged a relationship with someone who had already adopted the same selfish attitude he would develop, so he had no such luck. Rize is an in-between case. At various times people who care about her have tried to bring her back into normality:
However, she has always rejected them. So unlike Kaneki and like Furuta, she never sees any value to her life’s chaos, because she has not allowed it to forge for her any kind of lasting community or home.
The compulsive need to be tied down by nothing whatsoever comes from her terror of being trapped, but it’s this same recklessness that has led to her being trapped in the worst way possible as an immobilised experiment. It symbolises how she was never really free despite all her struggling, because she was still trapped in her mind, always focused on the fear of her past.
:re is about moving beyond one’s past, preventing the original series’ tragedy from repeating and moving beyond the parallel arc structure altogether (Kaneki does not die in 143). It is breaking the cycle of the Black Goat’s Egg where one is forced to repeat history, whether of their parents or their own. This could not be the case with Furuta because unlike Kaneki and Rize, he never even tried to fight against his fate. But this reason I think Kaneki has a good chance of getting through to Rize – many have already tried, so she just needs one last major push.
It’ll be a difficult one though. Rize has lived this way for a long while, and with Furuta and Kanou gone and Kaiko surely on the way out, she’ll see the opportunity for boundless freedom in her new form and threaten to consume all of Tokyo in the greatest binge-eating of all.
Furuta’s death is likely to play a a part in communicating to her, as I believe she must have cared for him at least somewhat; and it is direct evidence that burying her grief by inflicting more tragedy like he did is just going to send her further down into the abyss.
Kaneki does not need to kill the chaotic element to return to normality; making it cease to be chaotic and normalising it works just as well, as he has the same attitude to death in 176. There’s still room for the wandering Rize to find a home too.
To continue from what I mentioned here, this big announcement doesn’t even seem to be about Tokyo Ghoul:re ending. At first I thought it was strange that they had this big announcement and a color cover three chapters before the actual end when that is usually when a manga gets its color cover to celebrate, but well… this big announcement was probably just about the climax and the anime. Isn’t it kind of strange that this huge piece of news about the manga ending in three chapters isn’t even mentioned on the cover of the magazine?
When last time Tokyo Ghoul did in fact end, it had huge kanji 「 終幕 」right on the left side of the cover, making it quite clear to everyone that it was in fact ending.
This new cover as far as I can see only mentions the climax, the anime’s second season, the new visual for it, the opening color page for the chapter, how many copies of volumes has been sold worldwide and it also has the caption for the picture of Kaneki, that’s it. Literally nothing else. I’m pretty sure the series ending would be the biggest piece of news they have to offer so logically it would be bound to be on the cover, right?
Forget about part 3, Tokyo Ghoul:re is not even ending.
oh yeah btw JaiminisBox translated this line differently… maybe for all you out there who are hoping Tsukiyama talks to Kaneki about what happened to Kanae.
And in the midst of all this death, Marco fucking Bodt and Ymir swoop into the first panel in chapter 83, 100% alive, with a magical potion to revive literally anybody. And then everybody goes to the ocean. And then they live happily ever after. The end.
How about they do this in Chapter 86 now? Yeeeaaaaahhhhhhh!
Some of you may have seen me mention previously that I would be spending an hour with JJ Abrams at a discussion panel here in New York City. Well, that time has come and I have brought back the goods. Two things before I begin:
1. Before anybody decides to descend upon my flesh, I want to emphasize that I am not under a NDA.
2. Thank you for all of your questions. I wasn’t given the opportunity to ask any of them, but there was a child in the audience that had the audacity to ask the thing that has been burning a hole in our brains.
"Who are Rey’s parents?“
JJ was flustered. Perhaps he would have been more prepared if the question hadn’t come from an adorable, unassuming kid.
But this was his response:
"I can’t say much, but I will say this: they were not in Episode VII, and it’s something she thinks about a lot, too.”
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