I really, really like the theory! I do think there is a connection. The OEK definitely looked like Uta in the last chapter too to the point where my eyebrows raised, and then there’s the eyeball thing, and that’s just the last chapter. I think I’m still leaning towards Uta and Itori being children of the Nagaraj a la the 24th ward kids Ayato found, but we shall see.
Hello! I’m not sure about the game! Regarding the hair color, well… I do see a resemblance:
It looks pretty similar to me. Also the girl there, as @mercyandmagic pointed out earlier today to me, looks like Itori. Which could be just because Ishida’s drawing them all buuuuuut. I’m increasingly thinking they are connected to the original Nagaraj–maybe as kids like these ones?
Ooooh. I think it’s possible. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about Polynesian tattoos and not being from that culture don’t feel comfortable answering based on my Google knowledge, but. I do see the resemblance.
As for Uta, I am starting to believe he has a more important role than just a clown. I’m hesitant to subscribe to theories in general but I’m very curious and definitely think Uta as the OEK is completely possible, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it at all. In fact I’d kind of like to see it.
I… don’t know if I see the clowns as villains. Antagonists sure, manipulators definitely, people who have done inexcusable things to Mutsuki and Juuzou and Kaneki and countless innocent people just for kicks, yeah. But villains?
I wouldn’t expect an endgame villain to save Uncle Yomo for no benefit other than that Yomo is his friend. They’re not really orchestrating the world’s issues, unlike V; they’re just watching and . Roma was a pure nihilist. Itori says here that their goal is to watch:
Whether she actually means it or not though is another question. Her words–that Kaneki did this for the ghouls–are blatantly lies and she knows it, and they seem calculated to provoke just the reaction it did provoke from Tsukiyama (and the reaction we were oh-so-close to seeing from Touka).
Uta has said himself that he doesn’t find tragedies as fun and chose to save Yomo (still let Dragon be unleashed though). Donato is a terrible person, but a terrible person who can provide Amon a reality check as he clearly loves Amon. Nico may be on Kaneki’s side, as @kingkishou theorizes here. Rio… Rio just needs help. He’s not really a clown; I doubt he’s capable of buying into any philosophy. And Roma, our chief nihilist, is dead. I’m not saying I think they’ll all get happy endings (on the contrary really), but I also don’t think they’re all quite as uninvolved and just in it for laughs as they claim to be.
I really don’t have any definitive answer or theories that I subscribe to, but I do think that he might know more about the Nagaraj than it might initially appear. This post by @kingkishou points out some interesting similarities in Dragon’s design and Uta’s tattoo, and @midnight-in-town has some very interesting posts on the theory of Uta actually being the Nagaraj that you can check out on her blog!
Pffft, Mucchan was clearly wrong about emotions helping him overcome Yomo, but clearly they helped him overcome death itself so, not bad, Mucchan, not bad.
But in all seriousness, no, I don’t think they’re going to encounter Yomo and Uta again, or any of the ghouls in the 24th ward. I think all of the ghouls and Yomo and Uta are probably gone by now. The impression I got from this chapter–it seems to be set at around dawn (fitting symbolically, sun arc please?)–is that several hours have passed. Yoriko says it here that it shook all night:
And Touka, Hina, Miza, and the other Aogiri ghouls got away in the meantime and made it to the forest to meet up with Nishiki and Banjou. I don’t think there’s a reason Yomo and Uta would still be hanging around there. I do think that there will be another Uta-Mutsuki encounter at some point, but I don’t see the point in Yomo vs. Mutsuki and Aura round 2 so quickly after the climax of their fight a few chapters ago, and the climax of the raid producing Dragon. My guess is Uta’s unfinished business with Mutsuki will be dealt with later (I’m getting increasingly suspicious of Uta), but the next few chapters will focus on characters including Mutsuki and Aura realizing who Dragon is, and the build-up for the plan to stop Dragoneki, not on another fight so soon.
My guess is Mutsuki and Aura will head up to the surface and maybe to the CCG, but either way, they’ll be faced with the horrifying reality that is Dragoneki. My guess is this is not going to in any way slow Aura’s desire to kill Kaneki; it will only amplify it. On the contrast, I think Mutsuki, even though this will likely help break his obsession with Kaneki and he has been foreshadowed, along with Urie and Saiko, to have a role in taking down Dragon, will not so easily want to kill Kaneki, since I don’t think he ever wanted truly to do that in the first place. He told Urie he did not want Kaneki killed:
And he told Aura he wanted to kill Kaneki, but during the raid was only thinking of how much he loved Sensei and how that love would help him win against Yomo:
Judging from this, and from the fact that Mutsuki and Urie have a far longer rapport with one another than Mutsuki and Aura, I think Mutsuki is lying to Aura. Thus their relationship might fracture at some point. I do wonder if any conflict between them and/or disagreement among the Quinx over how to handle Dragoneki is somehow tied to that foreshadowing in that omake about hulked-out Urie fighting hulked-out Aura…
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