Talk:One-Eyed King/@comment-26689808-20150922220431/@comment-10733658-20151001162247

I'm not insulted, though I confess I'm honestly a little baffled at your comment. There's a lot there that honestly seems like.....you're reaching to incredible lengths to deny something we're explicitly told multiple times, by multiple parties.

Suggesting that Chie Hori is a more reliable source than Tsuneyoshi Washuu makes no sense to me. Chie is a street-level information broker, while the other is the Chairman of the CCG and the head of the Washuu Clan. That's like suggesting that the head of the CIA knows less than some random kid that writes a blog about stuff they witnessed around town.

Here's the facts:


 * Aogiri is a relatively new organization, as their activities were only kicking up at the beginning of Tokyo Ghoul. Prior to that, they were not on the radar of the CCG or Yoshimura's information network.
 * Kaito, when speaking as a representative of V itself, confronts Yoshimura about his child and the problems Aogiri has caused as a result.
 * Yoshimura himself does not deny Aogiri's leader is his child, but rather confesses through telling his/Eto's story to Kaneki.
 * Dr. Kanou, a man that discovered a terrible truth about the world while working for the CCG, states that Yoshimura is responsible for Aogiri's creation.
 * Nico spent time among the upper-ranks of Aogiri, and returns to the Clowns with information he shares with Souta. He later tells something to Kaneki that we are not told. However, Kaneki immediately afterwards becomes interested in Eto when she'd never been mentioned to him by name in any panel.
 * Tsuneyoshi Washuu states in the final chapter that the One-Eyed Owl and the One-Eyed King are the same person. This confirms something we'd already been told several times prior.

Ishida spent literally the entire first series building up this final reveal of the original series. Since the introduction of Aogiri, the mystery of the One-Eyed King was a driving plot point. Then, the finale of the series gave us our answer. Since then, in :Re, we have seen Eto emerge from the shadows. Ishida is now openly using her, instead of restricting her to the shadows. She has been revealed, and he is now free as a creator to begin really showing us her chops as a villain.

It is also worth noting that every single major antagonist in a Tokyo Ghoul manga thus far has been revealed to be a woman.


 * The Binge Eater in the One-Shot.
 * Lantern in Jack.
 * The Skull Mask Leader in Joker.
 * Eto in Tokyo Ghoul.

I am not saying that Ishida is predictable. I am simply pointing towards the literary devices he uses, and the patterns/themes he has established within the work. Ishida spending an entire series building up to a reveal, only to cancel it out later would be.....incredibly strange and difficult to pull off without being just plain old bad writing.

Quite literally, Eto not being the King after all would require Ishida to backpedal on everything he has told us or revealed to us in Tokyo Ghoul. I believe he is a much better writer than to do such a thing.

Honestly, it seems to me that some people were simply disappointed with the reveal. So instead of accepting that it's Eto, they deny what we've been explicitly told because Eto herself didn't shout it from the roof tops.