May The Force Be With You

jaegerbroshoe:

Yesss, exactly. This also goes along with my theory that Eren and Ymir’s souls are intertwined. I believe they’re part of the same entity, so they won’t be complete until they merge together. 

voluntaddefuego:

 Steins Gate 

 Bungou stray dogs 

 boku dake ga inai machi

 Yakusoku no Neverland

  kimetsu no yaiba

Akatsuki no yona

 Nana

Fruit basket 2001

 Paradise kiss

Assassination classroom

 Darling in the franxx

Banana Fish 

 Dororo 

 Ao haru ride 

 Shigatsu wa kimi no uso

 Yuri on ice

 Charlotte

 Natsuyuki rendezvous

Anohana

Angel beats

Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood

 Masamune-kun’s Revenge

 Orange

 Lovely complex

 Naruto shippuden

 Tokyo ghoul 

temporada 1

 Romeo and juliet 

 ReLIFE

 Skip beat

 Shingeki no kyojin

Ouran highschool host club

inu x boku ss

 Devils line 

 Free

 Nanatsu no taizai

 Super lovers

 Black clover

Black cat

Satsuriku no Tenshi

Violet evergarden

Rokudenashi majutsu koushi to akashic

Rainbow nisha rokubou no shichinin

Sakamichi no apollon

Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō

Psycho pass

Akame ga kill

Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari

Boku no hero academia

Hitorijime my hero

91 days

spiritpact

kamisama hajimemashita

Shokugeki no soma

Plastic Memories

Mushishi zoku shou

Danmachi

Zankyou no terror

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bookcub:

Gonna start a post with blank memes. Please add any you have on hand and reblog to spread them.

very good content

Here’s a few I’ve accumulated over the years

Ah, some gold!

Omfg, a goldmine

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icedancingdaddies:

For those of you who’ve yet to bear witness to the dub of the Soiya… You’re welcome, otterly sexy.

superryunosukeyuki:

One of the most overlooked battles in the Tokyo Ghoul series is Kaya Irimi’s battle with Chuu Hachikawa at the end of Part 1. This may be since they both have limited screentime (Irimi only appears personally in around 30 chapters, and Hachikawa has far less). In particular, Hachikawa only appears for a few chapters in the final arc in part 1, and then for even fewer chapters in :re before he is killed off by Rio on Rushima Island. However, in what time he has important information is provided about his past, and how it’s linked to Irimi’s.

Ten years before the end of the original series, Hachikawa was part of an operation against Irimi and her old gang (the Black Dobers). However, his entire unit was wiped out with him being the sole survivor, and his face mauled. This led to him bearing an intense grudge against Irimi that culminated in his battle with her. However, information given during their battle and subsequent information hint at a deeper relationship between them.

Firstly, it’s mentioned that his superiors were with him in the unit that was wiped out (meaning, investigators more skilled than himself). Not only that, but as we see during the battle at Anteiku, the Black Dobers as a group were fully intact.

So, not only was Hachikawa’s unit entirely wiped out, but they caused little if any damage to the Black Dobers. So, if at the end of this operation the Black Dobers lost few if any members and Hachikawa was all alone (and not even the strongest investigator who’d been present), what stopped them from finishing him off? As Ghouls are much faster than humans and have heightened senses, it’s doubtful that he could’ve escaped. So, what then?

Well, during Irimi’s fight with Hachikawa, we get subtle hints as to why. Firstly, before their fight Irimi hears a familiar sound.

This sound stops her in her tracks, but what was it? It wasn’t the incoming shots being fired at her, because those are what snaps her out of what she was focusing on. So, what was the sound? Well, first we need to review how a ghoul’s sound detection ability works. As revealed by Kaya herself earlier in the manga:

Ghouls can determine who a person is based on the sound that their bodies create. So, during the Anteiku raid when she stopped dead in her tracks when she heard “that sound” is must have been made by someone she was familiar with. After she dodges the bullets shot at her, we see who it is:

Hachikawa was supposedly just a member of an investigative team that Irimi once fought. However, she’s able to notice his presence among all the other investigators just by hearing the sound his body makes (after not seeing him for ten years). Not only that, but she even knows him by name. She also refers to him by the nickname “Hachi,” which is the same nickname his subordinate Ayumu Hogi refers to him by.

So, she not only knows him by name, but she can even sense when his body is present after being apart for a decade. She refers to him by the affectionate nickname of “Hachi” and they even engage in playful banter while trying to kill one another. This all points to one thing: they were lovers.

Further Evidence

Now, you may be thinking this is crazy, but there is additional evidence. In the Tokyo Ghoul novel, Past, in one chapter it goes over Enji Koma’s first days at Anteiku. He was Yoshimura’s first employee, and after a while Kaya Irimi started working there as well. He is extremely surprised by this and wonders why she chose to start working there. He also mentions that when she started working there is around the time that the CCG became aware of her gang. If the CCG hadn’t become aware of the Black Dobers yet, then they couldn’t have performed any operations against them. So, the first operation against the Black Dobers (where Hachikawa’s face was mauled) actually happened after Irimi started working at Anteiku.

During this chapter, a regular customer who seems to be infatuated with Koma points out his good points to Irimi, and she then becomes jealous of easily he can get along with humans. She then resolves to work harder at this. Why would the leader of a violent ghoul gang just suddenly want to be friendly with humans? Well, in this chapter when Irimi is talking with this customer it’s revealed she had a boyfriend around this time. If this boyfriend were a human then it could explain why she inexplicably started working at Anteiku. She wanted to learn how to live in the human world with him, and so she saw Anteiku as a way out of the life she had been living now that the CCG had begun targeting her and her gang.

Based on this reasoning and the previous evidence, we would assume this boyfriend to be Hachikawa. It would also explain why Hachikawa was spared when the rest of his squad was killed. However, during the battle of Anteiku Hachikawa wasn’t surprised when Irimi was unmasked (he wasn’t surprised to see who the Black Dog really was). Therefore, if they were in a relationship he must have learned she was a ghoul at some point.

However, if he knew what she looked like why didn’t he inform the CCG after his squad was killed by her gang? A textual reason:

If Hachikawa knew Irimi was a ghoul and didn’t report her to the CCG then he could have been punished due to this law. Even if he didn’t know (perhaps he found out during the first Black Dober operation) he could still have been punished regardless. Remember, we see in Tokyo Ghoul :re that Furuta uses this law to have Yoriko imprisoned even though she didn’t know Touka was a ghoul (because there was no way to prove it). There would be no way to prove Hachikawa didn’t know his girlfriend was a ghoul, and so he could’ve been punished regardless. Even if wasn’t punished, if it became public knowledge that he dated a ghoul (the one who killed his team no less) he would’ve become severely stigmatized in the CCG and elsewhere due to the overwhelming prejudice against ghouls. So, Hachikawa was maimed by the woman he loved and all his friends were killed, but he had no chance to take revenge on her for a decade. This is likely what caused him to develop his bitter personality.

Fun fact, Ishida-sensei says he partially named Hachikawa after “Hachiko.” Hachiko was a loyal Akita dog who waited on his dead owner to return for nine years until his death (like Hachikawa waited nearly a decade to try and obtain revenge against Irimi). Takizawa even refers to Hachikawa as this when he spots him on Rushima.

Irimi’s Side of the Story

However, if Hachikawa was Irimi’s boyfriend why would she bite his face off? During the Anteiku battle, she also seems to have great animosity towards him. Perhaps Hachikawa (after learning she was a ghoul ten years previously) leaked information about the Black Dobers to the CCG which led to his squad’s operation against them? This betrayal would make Hachikawa’s desire for revenge rather ironic, as it would mean it was his fault that his squad got killed. However, there is more. After the end of her battle against Hachikawa in the Anteiku raid (when she thinks she is going to die) she tells him she will see him in hell with a knowing smile on her face.

While Irimi spends this chapter reflecting on her own past sins, here she reveals knowledge of something damning she knows he’s done. As for what that is, Ishida-sensei leaves us a clue on the cover page of chapter 131.

Here, Ishida-sensei draws an “X” mark on Irimi’s stomach. He has used “X” several times throughout the story, and it always refers to one thing.

He uses it to refer to a hybrid of the two species. He uses “X” to denote this several times in the story. For example, when Eto Yoshimura (who is a one-eyed ghoul) went on her first rampage, she was titled “X” by the CCG. The title of :re chapter 125 (where Kaneki and Touka have sex and conceive a hybrid child) was also “X.” So, this is Ishida telling that at one point Irimi became pregnant with a hybrid child.

However, when Itori discusses hybrids in the original series, she states it’s impossible for female ghouls to give birth to hybrids.

Here she states a ghoul mother’s body would absorb her child for nutrition. However, the validity of this statement comes into question when her other statement was proven to be false. She states that if a human mother becomes pregnant with a hybrid then that hybrid wouldn’t be able to receive proper nourishment (rc cells). Despite this, we’ve seen that the mother could simply consume human flesh like Ukina did for her daughter Eto. However, we’ve seen in a few instances in the story that Eto (a natural hybrid) is capable of consuming human food, so even this may not have been necessary. Furthermore, Kishou Arima stated that most hybrids were born as half-humans who only required human food, and so they wouldn’t need to be fed rc cells in the womb regardless.

So, since Itori was wrong/lying about human mothers of hybrids, could she be incorrect about ghoul mothers as well? How exactly would a ghoul mother’s body consume her child from the uterus?

Irimi becoming pregnant with a human’s child and then it dying in the womb serves no narrative purpose. So, we presume that she became pregnant with Hachikawa’s child and successfully delivered, but there is no mention of such a child in the original series or the sequel. So, what happened to it?

This “X” on Irimi’s womb is shown on the cover of chapter 131, and this is the same chapter where she states she will see Hachikawa “in hell.” So, what could Hachikawa have done to merit him going to hell? Considering the “X” symbol, he probably killed their child. He figured out at some point that Irimi was a ghoul, and so he killed the child they had together due to his prejudice against ghouls.

Irimi’s Disillusionment with the Past

When Irimi and Koma reunite with Kaneki in :re chapter 99, at first all parties appear happy. However, then Kaneki states that having them all together feels like “Anteiku” all over again. Upon hearing this statement, everyone begins to either smile or reminisce. All except for one:

If you look close enough at Kaya’s hair, you can see a “2,” a “3” to the right of it, and a “J” above the 3. Ishida-sensei commonly places tarot numbers on character in their defining moments.

The 2 refers to the High Priestess which represents: hidden talents, things yet to be revealed, mystery, spiritual insight, and intuition. While the others remember Anteiku happily, Irimi’s intuition and insight let her know that it was only a happy dream (an escape from the normal, everyday lives of ghouls). She joined to learn how to live with her lover, but that lover betrayed her. And how did this dream end? All her old friends from her gang were slaughtered like animals.

The 3 refers to the empress which represents: pregnancy, a new opportunity, abundance, stability, nurturing, and maternal care. This likely refers to the child she lost, another down side of her days at Anteiku (which further explains why she is unhappy at the mention of Anteiku).

The J is part of the High Priestess card. In the background of this card there are two pillars.

The “B” refers to “Boaz,” which means “to negate.” The “J” refers to “Jachin” which means “beginning.” The beginning of what exactly in unclear. Perhaps she will finally begin to move beyond her past?

Kaya Irimi, The Lord of Ruin, and the Future

Sui Ishida once released a playing card deck called “Tokyo Ghoul Trump.” In it, each playing card has the illustration of either one or two characters (meaning he identified them with that card). For Irimi, he placed her on the 10 of Spades card.

Regarding tarot, the spades suit also refers to the swords suit. Thus, she is also the 10 of Swords, which is also known as The Lord of Ruin.

When it is upright, the 10 of Swords refer to: painful endings, deep wounds, betrayal, loss, and crisis. However, we also see in this card that the sun is rising. It is the end of a dark night and the dawning of a new day. We also see that the hand gesture that is made is the same one made by tarot #5: the Hierophant. Ishida-sensei has also identified her with this number in the past as well.

In addition to the “X” that had identified she had a hybrid child at one point, there is also a “5” here which refers back to the 10 of Swords. She has suffered deep wounds in the past: her lover betrayed her, she lost her child, and she thinks she is going meet a painful ending until she is saved by Kaneki. However, we also see her with this number at the end of Tokyo Ghoul :re.

Here, after rotating this image sideways we can see #5, which again refers back to the 10 of Swords. Here it seems to be in a reversed position, and when the 10 of Swords is reversed it refers to recovery and regeneration. However, Irimi is presumed to have died in this panel, and so if she died how could she recover?

Well, Naki and his White Suits were shown to have died in the 24^th Ward, but they later returned. Many fans have theorized that this is because they were exposed to Dragon’s toxin underground, and so this same method could be used to restore Irimi to life. At the end of the original series Irimi stated she felt the need for her past sins with her death. So, maybe dying and then being brought back is exactly what she needs in order to move on?

Sui Ishida has stated that there “probably” wouldn’t be any further Tokyo Ghoul sequels, and recently he has been working on a video game related series called “Jack Jeanne” for the past three years (which is about to be released). However, he has also expressed interest in creating another manga in the future, and him saying “probably” still leaves the option open. If the sun rises on Tokyo Ghoul again, the sun will rise on Kaya Irimi as well.

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peraltastark:

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thisworldgodonlyknows:

After months of telling myself to post a little something for each new Snk chapter, I’ve finally mustered the motivation to start writing them. I was impressed by the way some of the story’s central themes like were once again packed into one chapter, especially in relation to Zeke. I can’t believe it but I actually like him now (yes I am weak AF against tragic backstories where the “villain” used to be a cute, sweet child 😖), and my sympathy for him further grew after this chapter, although I am certainly NOT rooting for him to succeed. 

There are various points that I’d like to touch upon, but l’ll start with Zeke’s relation to Eren since we finally got the Jaeger bros talk (which went by way more quickly than I expected). Zeke has often been called a psychopath for his general arrogance, remorselessness, sadism and lack of empathy towards others. While he certainly exhibits those qualities (especially pre-timeskip), this chapter makes it clear that he not only cares but feels empathy for Eren, since he is his own brother and someone he believes was in the same situation as him, namely being groomed by Grisha to accomplish his goals for Eldia. His genuinely pained face and monologue while he’s alone says it all. 

While it was nice to see confirmation about Zeke’s genuine care for Eren, the problem for Zeke and his plans lies with the fact that he actually doesn’t understand who Eren is at his core, namely someone who values freedom and life above all (the latter more so for his people in general than himself in particular). If there is one takeaway from their talk in Liberio, it’s that Eren played Zeke like a fiddle by appealing to his desire to be understood and form a connection with his brother. I seriously cannot see what Eren said there to be anything other than blatant lies. For him to actually mean what he says about being a mistake and whatnot would be negating all the character development he underwent during the Uprising arc, when he had an existential crisis that he only began to overcome after learning about Carla’s belief in his inherent value just for being born. Eren may be willing to sacrifice his own life for the greater good if necessary but he still realizes the importance of life, especially when it comes to his friends, as shown by his open admission about how precious they all are to him and his wish for them to enjoy long lives. Moreover, if he truly shared Zeke’s belief that death is the merciful fate for an Eldian, he probably wouldn’t have grieved and looked so distressed over Sasha’s death.

With all of that said about how Eren must be manipulating Zeke for his own goals, this really makes Zeke fall back into the position of a pawn in someone else’s grand scheme. His desire to be understood by Eren (in addition to the fact that he barely knows him) made him susceptible to believing Eren’s apparent understanding of him and recognition of him as his brother. This ties in with the recurring theme in SnK of family members using their own kin to further their own goals. Usually, it is with parents and their children, as shown by Karina Braun and Reiner, Rod Reiss and Historia and of course Grisha and Dina with Zeke. If the theories about Tom Xaver, his “adoptive” father, having ulterior motives for befriending Zeke turn out to be true, then it just illustrates how Zeke has always been a pawn in the greater-scope plans of various family members (aside from his grandparents), which is ironic considering how he was initially introduced as a brilliant and ruthless chessmaster capable of matching wits with Erwin Smith. 

As an added cruel and perhaps karmic twist, the one (s) playing him like a fiddle is someone he really cares for and seems happy to have on his side. The look he gives Eren in the last panel up there is reminiscent of the tender, expressive looks he gave Xaver as a child. Then of course, there’s also the baseball he gives Eren as a token of their new alliance. The baseball is a symbol of Zeke’s familial bond with Xaver and their fun days of playing catch together. Him passing it on to Eren is a sign of Zeke’s willingness to connect and accept Eren not only as his new “partner-in-crime” but also his last remaining family. Ah, this would be a lot sweeter if it weren’t for Zeke’s twisted, self-righteous views on salvation and the almost certain prospect that Eren will eventually turn on him :/

Moving along, another overarching theme that was emphasized and played with this chapter in relation to Zeke was that of “beauty in a cruel world. As Zeke lays dying, there is a particular focus on this flower before and after his flashback. I can’t be totally certain, but it seems to be the cosmos.

Because I’m a symbolism fanatic, I had to look into the specific meaning of the cosmos in the language of flowers, and found that in general, it is associated with qualities like “beauty”, “peace” and “wholeness”. It is essentially a flower about the beauty of life and the world. Zeke is seeing this “beauty” visually but its meaning is not actively registering in his mind. He has already been too affected by the cruelties of his world and developed a severe case of internalized racism. As such, the focus of his “last thoughts” ultimately revolves around his grand plan of saving the world by killing the Eldian race instead of anything about the beautiful things in life that are worth cherishing. 

His conviction in his suicidal plan remains (and perhaps strengthened?) even after Ymir Fritz specifically brings him back to life via Paths and lets him rise like a god before his followers. The whole scene with Zeke’s revival in the Titan’s stomach looked so surreal and absurd, I honestly wasn’t sure what to make of it at first but I really loved what @aspoonofsugar said (I hope you don’t mind me referencing you ^^;) about the mother-child symbolism involved in the scene, and how it accentuates the value of life along with the possibility that Zeke may be more attached to life than he lets on, if only because he feels the need to accomplish his goal at all cost. 

This does lead to a certain contradiction and hypocrisy in his way of thinking, but also makes me wonder whether in the end he might realize the errors of his views. It’s probably impossible for Zeke to ever get redemption (and I don’t particularly hope for him to get it either), but with the set-up surrounding the theme of “beauty in a cruel world” for him in this chapter, I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if he were to be shown seriously reconsidering his perspective before he dies. 

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hoina-hysteria:

It’s kind of nice when everything turns out just about as well as you’d expected. Going into winter, I was pretty optimistic about it; I didn’t expect it to be anywhere as strong as last season, but I thought it would still be pretty good overall. And now here we are, 2/3 of the way through a season not quite as good as the last but pretty good overall. Funny how that works.

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