birthday boy!!

Why nobody likes Shikorae?

I LOVE him!!! Love, love, love him. So do a lot of mutuals I have! He’s a minor character but he’s a baby and must be protected and saved.

~~when will rio return to the war~~

Do you know what’s Tokyo Ghoul Jail?

It’s a video game based in the TG world, and the main character is Rio, aka Shikorae! But before he was Shikorae. He has a crush on Touka and it’s cute.

Do you know why Rio/Shikorae had 4 types of Kajune? Was he born with them? Does he have a chimera kagune? Sorry if it’s a stupid question

It’s not stupid at all! Presumably he was born with them, like Hinami was born with a koukaku and a rinkaku, and Nutcracker was born with two different types as well. Rio probably had two opposite chimera parents (like Hinami’s parents, one was a rinkaku and one a koukaku) and thus wound up with four.

I saw here lots of discussions about Rio. I don’t know anything about Tokyo Ghoul Jail, am I missing something about Rio or in general? I would like to know if so 😊

Oooh! So Shikorae appears a few times in the manga and is Rio. The wikia gives a good summary of Jail’s premise, and Rio’s character profile also explains. The canon version of his character is summarized here.

He’s a tragic murder baby and therefore my son.

If you like Rio asks, I’ll keep asking them! What do you think the endgame for him will be? It’s so hard to guess his motivation. Is he just following people who exert control over him in some way? (Eto, Nami, Roma) What will happen to him now that he’s on his own after the fight at the CCG?

Not Tragedy.

Haha. But I think Rio will live, and will find family. Probably not his brother, since he’s got to move on and I do believe his brother is dead, but he will probably find a makeshift family. That’s how :re started–the makeshift Qs family–and I think it will end with many other characters finding their makeshift families.

Rio is in some ways a foil to Tatara, in that both of them were never able to get over their brothers’ cruel deaths, but vengeance ultimately consumed and killed Tatara, and we won’t see that same story again with Rio. I don’t quite know how he’ll return to the story but I am sure he will, and hopefully to find kindness and love with others that will help heal him.

Now that Scarecrow was revealed to be Hide, how does that affect the theories that Scarecrow is Rio’s brother? With how little we know about Hide’s past, do you think it’s still a possibility?

Not really, alas. I liked those theories but I never thought they had much weight. If it’s true though I’d absolutely love it, and it’s certainly not impossible. But my thoughts are that Rio needs to properly mourn his brother (which was denied to him) like Kurona needs to mourn Nashiro and Urie Shirazu and Ui Hairu etc. I’m not saying I think nashiro or rio’s brother will be zombies because I don’t but I think this arc is about moving on at its core. The balance between living while losing instead of being stuck in the past and not so easily giving up on what you have.

I’m loving all the Rio asks by the way!

who’s rio?? i forgot and i can’t find it in the manga

He’s the protagonist of Tokyo Ghoul Jail, also known as Shikorae, and is the one who fought Urie with Roma!

What are the odda of Seidou being with Rio rn?

That’s an interesting idea! They did eat Hachikawa together actually. Seidou please arrive with Kurona, Hakatori, and Rio in tow. The misfits here to save yo’ undeserving ass CCG.

But actually there’s a lot of potential there. Seidou was an adult who voluntarily entered the CCG wanting to be a hero and was turned against by his own mentor (granted he also turned against them, but he’d just saved them). Kurona was an orphan taken in by the CCG and then exploited by Kanou. Hakatori is a ghoul who lost the Bin brothers to Amon (a CCG agent) and who’s been hunted by the CCG all her life. Rio was imprisoned and tortured and lost his brother to the CCG. The CCG does not deserve their help; they all have huge reasons to have grudges against the CCG. But if Seidou, Kuro, Hakatori, and Rio want a world where they can live without fear (and Rio isn’t even capable of reasoning as far as we know rn) and live as Seidou said he wanted, as ghouls, they need to fight for it, because Furuta’s seemingly aiming to kill everyone.

Hakatori hates Amon, but Seidou loves Amon as his friend. Kurona cares about Amon as well. It’s be interesting to see what happens as I do think Amon is key to drawing these three back into the conflict, and Rio has to return at some point… and he is linked to the clowns so (I don’t consider Rio a real clown). So this confrontation seems like a good point for all four of them to return.

Is Rio dead?

Nope! He’s alive and was last seen running from the CCG building when Urie killed Roma. Hopefully someone finds and saves him soon. I’m sure they will; Rio isn’t going to die. Even if we just get a panel towards the end.