Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-3173617-20141220213003/@comment-71.118.133.153-20141221231527

BErserk REALLY is more screwed up than Tokyo Ghoul.

Tokyo Ghoul's still better to me, though. Being more screwed up doesn't mean having a a better story. It isn't a dicksize contest.

Berserk has dark elements more so for the sake of having dark elements, at least that's how I felt. Kinda like Game of Thrones. Guts getting raped as a kid or his wife getting raped by a jealous douchebag is really horrible stuff, and sure, there's a mesage to be found in those actions, but it doesn't get any deeper to me than "life is fucked up," which isn't a real issue, honestly, but it's still an obvious truth. I feel it tries too hard to be that "ZOMG ITS SO MESSED UP YOU NEED TO READ IT" sort of series that inadvertently spells out a message or theme that wasn't really the central reason Bersek was made. Tokyo Ghoul, on the other hand, feels much more on the "ZOMG, IT'S A FANTASTIC READ WITH A VERY MORAL-DRIVEN MESSAGE" sort of series, that needs fucked up things to happen so that can show, meaning the purpose of TG's creation was the message, then the content. Not content, that coincidentally has a message. I'm not saying Bererk's author DIDN'T want to convey a message with his work, but I feel it wasn't the main reaosn why Bersek was made.

Tokyo Ghoul tackles a lot of reality, and is honestly a real tragedy in the purest term: A main character with a controversial flaw that leads to his demise. Now sure, in the end Kaneki did live in the end, but that doesn't lessen the moral message presented in Part 1. TG:re is more of a rebirth and a restart for the guy born as "Kaneki" and it gives hope that he fixes his big flaw enough so that he won't waste his second chance. There's also how much more relatable it is to the modern world than in Bersek. We don't have raping troll caves around, but we do have discriminated people who had no choice but to live the way they did or born the way they were.

This is my OPINION, so dont get any panties in a pretzel. Both are great reads, but seeing these messages as if "being more fucked up = better" is even remotely true, convinced this rant of mine.