"You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"

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[tecochet]

if i had a floating quirk, i would 100% make everything in my room float

[ginkohs]

here i am again with tender looks 

[harostar]

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. 

[coromoor]

I feel like he ended it because he wanted to, I don't remember which chapters were released in January but that was six months ago and that's when he started planning the end.

Yeah, to be honest it really bugs me that rumours Ishida got axed from the magazine or that editors forced his hand are being spread around. From his message it seems like he really did need to finish for his own personal reasons. Even friends of his have tweeted him mentioning “You were so tired” in their thankyou messages so I wish people would give the rumour mill a rest and just let it be. As silly as it sounds, I’ve had the overall vibe that Ishida has been ready to finish the series for a long time now ever since he skipped doing a New Years Illustration 2 years ago. It seems like such a minor thing but it felt like a tradition was being broken and I got that gut feeling that he was tired even back then.

Even though the story was obviously cut short, I personally think that the overall main story line was what Ishida had planned all along- there are too many elements with Dragon, etc. that were foreshadowed 100′s of chapters ago for this to be a random last minute decision in my opinion.

I also think Kaneki having a happy ending was intended all along. Even though I was always hoping for a happy conclusion from the start, back during Cochlea Arc I thought a bittersweet ending was in store. The way Haise and then Kaneki’s state slowly spiraled downwards had me worried we were in for tragedy. But after Arima’s death, :re has been building up for a bittersweet but overall uplifting story for Kaneki. It kind of makes me scratch my head when people say its the “asspull married with kids happy ending” when Touka and Kaneki have been married and pregnant for a year in real time already. We’ve already had Kaneki say he’s found happiness in his life 20 chapters ago so this ending is seeing that play out. 

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Ishida had that final page in mind from the beginning since these 3 “blue sky” pages all take place on the same hill

Tokyo Ghoul started with Kaneki wishing to find love. :re started with Haise alone on the hill. The series as a whole ended with Kaneki and his family on that same hill.

Fair enough if you prefer tragedy, I absolutely respect that because tragic endings can be amazing in that kick-in-the-stomach way, but I personally don’t see much point in that besides gratuitous suffering for Kaneki. He’s been through so much; child abuse, torture, traumatic amnesia, death of his loved ones, manipulation, being on the verge of breaking again and again and again. It’s a much more meaningful ending for me personally to see a main character who has tried to commit suicide twice triumph over his tragedy.

[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 5

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. Ishida’s handwriting is hard to read at times so I may have gotten some words wrong. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Proofread for grammar and wording.

Lastly

I’m truly glad that I was able to finish Tokyo Ghoul.

Once I let go of it, I was able to think a lot about what I had done by drawing this work. I thought a lot about myself, being creative, and the creative industry. I was also able to meet lots of great people.

During the last half year, I really enjoyed drawing Tokyo Ghoul. I discovered and learned to appreciate many things.

“Why am I drawing manga?”

If I ask myself that now, my answer would be: “Because it was necessary.”

Tokyo Ghoul is a crude, unpolished work, but I love it nonetheless.

Those who have been involved with the series, those who have been reading the series. I have nothing but gratitude to whoever is reading this sentence right now.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

While I’m At It

This is a diary entry I wrote 9 years ago. I discovered it recently.

I want to bring this immature young man out here and bring shame upon him.

Amen to myself of 9 years past.

July 7, 2009

I’ve arrived in Tokyo. I am living alone.

Looking back at my diary, I can see just how rough around the edges I was. I was so foolish, short-sighted, naive.

From around 2nd year (of technical college was it) I was such a giant brat who couldn’t stop laughing.

Compare him to now and I sure have grown a lot! Looking back at the recent diary entries, it occurred to me, why didn’t I write a lot…

I want to grow as a person, even a tiny bit…

Why do the diary entries from my technical college days have nothing but dreams written in them?

I must’ve been asleep for quite some time…

Right now I’m creating storyboards that I can bring to Shueisha. I’m bringing them in tomorrow at 17:30.

It’s a story about war. Though I’m not sure whether I can draw a sci-fi with my skills as they are now.

There have been times where I’ve been at a loss, when I’ve had regrets.

Like, what was the point of me going to technical school for 5 years?

Or, would you be living a better life if you tried harder? Stuff like that.

But everything in the past is connected to the present.

Every mistake, every bit of suffering, every little success is creating the person that I am today.

If I can acknowledge myself now, that will acknowledge everything in the past.

All my failures are a part of who I am today.

If I’m happy now, I owe it to my past (and of course to my present) self.

I can’t acknowledge myself 100%. But I kinda like who I am.

Then I can’t be that bad, right?

previous || end!

[perkokka]

T o k y o  G h o u l  :  r e    ♔  V o l u m e  C o v e r  ♔

[tgcalendar2016]

June 29, 2016

“People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”

[petaledpout]

[boydonttemptme]

me constantly

[grumpybets-deactivated20180424]

my all time favourite gintama episode titles

[melo-9ba]

「Tokyo Ghoul : re」TAKe

[fearooren849607079104]

HAPPY 31st BIRTHDAY TO DEAREST SILLY GIRAFFE, EGUCHI TAKUYA !!!!

[1987.05.22 - 2018.05.22]

[cybercrimer]

Happy 413!

[melo-9ba]

Give me… Courage!

[eternalfrowning]

here’s the unfinished painting for you Hide Anon

[mindlessadventurer]

ok but when i first started reading the tg:re manga i was just as confused as those who only watched the anime on its first episode

i didnt know what was going on and why i was reading about the CCG and who haise sasaki was until the reveal and i had to wait weekly until the reveal came out but i feel the anime will eventually pick up the pace and get less confusing (hopefully)

also, question, i don't get the hate on the latest chapter. can anyone enlighten me?

[boingmann]

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