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Um...I don't really know how to say this.
But I'm going to be taking a break from this website.
Tokyo Ghoul is over, and I feel like I've been spending way too much time on this platform, lmao.
I might be back in a month or so, I might not.
Regardless, it was an amazing journey I got to share with all of you. Thank you to all of my followers, and to the Tokyo Ghoul fandom.
:re Finale Observation #1
The finale chapter of Tokyo Ghoul: re is titled: Song of the Goat.
The word tragedy derives from the Classical Greek τραγῳδία, tragōidia, which translates to “goat song”.
Ergo, given that the translations are accurate, the finale chapter of :re can also mean tragedy.
"shopping" If that's not the best euphemism out there, I don't know what is.
Pleasure-chan ♥
*AHEM*
IM SORRY BUT TOUKA WANTED PLEASURE CHAN SO MUCH SO IM GLAD THAT THERE WAS NO PROBLEMS AND TOUKA IS GONNA HAVE ANOTHER KID LIKE IM SO HAPPY TOUKA GOT WHAT SHE WANTED AFTER SO MUCH FEAR
HINAMI CLEARLY LEARNED THAT FROM TOUKACHAN
touka in the background here like “did it work? have you two banged” and hinami’s like silently crying at how useless ayato is
Some characters got super-happy endings, and others did not.
But those bittersweet endings still feel…….right on some level. At least in keeping with the theme of how the world simply is. There is tragedy and happiness to be found, and people just have to learn to find peace where they can.
Takizawa and Kuro don’t have happy endings, but I get the sense both achieved some measure of peace. They took their tragedies and broken lives, then devoted them to a greater goal.
Kuro spending her life traveling the world, dealing with hostile ghouls and conflicts. Giving other people the peace she’s never had.
Takizawa was always desperate to become a heroic figure acknowledged and respected by others. Instead, he vanishes from society but becomes a hero that protects Tokyo from the shadows.
Rooftops and shots of the sky are a motif I've picked up on in TG. Like when a character will be espousing their worldview it'll be juxtaposed with a picture of the sky or they'll be talking on a rooftop. Ex: Kaneki and Amon's conversation, Amon's speech to Akira about living with emptiness, Kaneki telling Hide he wants to take responsibility. Is there a deeper meaning to these shots other than a cool aesthetic?
I see them as a way of framing a character next to the wider world. As you say, they’re usually discussing their world view - the sky shows how this single figure has adapted to survive in a world which wears them down. Shots of the sky (along with the moon, earth or rays of the sun) often accompany statements on the world’s nature.
Night skies often accompany negative moods, while brighter skies tend to demonstrate hope or new direction, as with the examples you listed. I always felt the rising sun in the last chapter of the first series gave it a tone of biting irony, that day is here but everything the sun now shines upon is tragic. But the last page shows how the brighter sky is a subtle indicator of hope for the next series.
And then, when we get there…
What we enter is not immediately a tragedy, but rather a series where our protagonist is, though not fully, far happier than we’ve seen him before. As the yellow text says, the sky next to the tragedy is a clear blue, and I believe this applies to the story of :re as a whole.
The original series has many moments at night-time, whereas :re tends to have more blue skies as hope is gradually rising. The exceptions to this rule are when tragedy returns to :re when Kaneki regains his memories and continues his tragic story:
Kaneki’s talk with Takizawa, where both are shown to essentially be hanging onto a thread to stay alive.
The talk between Uta and Donato on the rooftop, with the Clowns being the most nihilistic characters of the series…
And the rampage of Dragon, perhaps Kaneki’s darkest moment of all, which is also preceded by this artwork as the attack on the 24th Ward becomes well underway. The darkness and “shadow” is telling, as is the chapter title: Night Comes. This is also the chapter where the strength of Roma, a Clown (therefore associated with night), is demonstrated.
But still far moreso than the original we see lighter skies focused on in :re. Even if the skies and circumstances are cloudy, light still escapes them. I’m holding out for a sky of the most brilliant blue yet to be the ending shot to perfectly wrap up this series. The light shone on the world in 176 is the most hopeful image we’ve had yet.
You’ll have noticed that a lot of these images also incorporate shots of the city as well. This is also about placing actions within the wider context of society, and that city we often see in the background is brought dramatically to the fore with Dragon, where Kaneki’s actions completely change the landscape.
The sky and the city both function as a way of showing the interaction between the world and the individual, and this latest tarot, The World, has introduced a harmony where the world is no longer ‘wrong’ for the individual or at odds with them, and has demonstrated the value of responsibility and selfless dedication to the wider, city-saving, world-saving goal.
Sobbing
SOBBING INTENSIFIES
DYING WHALE NOISES.
WAILING ON THE FLOOR.
WE DID IT, TOUKEN FAM. HAPPY ENDING UNLOCKED!
Welcome to the tokyo ghoul fandom where everybody wished for a happy ending for many characters for years and when it happend it is a disappointing ending.
PREACH
I respect Ishida and his choices and I’ll accept his last chapter as it is. It’s his story and he has his reasons for the way he did things. So just because you don’t understand all of his choices, you shouldn’t insult him by saying that he gave up or that he’s a bad writer. We all fell in love with Tokyo Ghoul at some point because this story touched us or excited us one way or another. Most stories never go 100% like you wish them to be because they’re not yours. If you have followed TG, you should at least show Ishida the respect he deserves and not badmouth everything he did because you’re not satisfied with every aspect of his story.
Born too late to explore the world.
Born too early to explore the outer space.
Born at just the right time to witness the conclusion of a beautiful, soul-touching manga series.
:’-)
i just think touka looks really great in fall colours
be more at peace with your past. you are bigger than your mistakes, but without them, you would not have gotten here. you learned. you grew. and there is no growth without fumbling. we must mess up every now and then to get to better places.
i wish there wasn’t such a stigma around being proved wrong, bc it’s a part of life, no one can be right all the time. if we didn’t feel as much shame about it i think a lot of things would change a lot faster
we all need to practice saying “I hadn’t thought of it like that” “I hadn’t seen it that way before” “I must have misunderstood the first time I heard about it” “if I had known those facts I wouldn’t have thought like I did”
