Talk:Eto Yoshimura/@comment-171.96.173.101-20160127160449/@comment-70.193.138.92-20160129010643

Actually if I remember correctly, one of the commenters on the whole "shiiku" translation thing actually argued it was "double entendre" like you said and something about how Ishida could have drawn something related to zoo keeping (like juuzou at the zoo with giraffes, I think) and still gotten the right context.

Took me a while to pull up the kanji for it, but if you google "飼育の日" (Rearing/Breeding Day) - all the image results have zoo related images. So Eto and Kaneki really don't seem to make much sense (outside of a Black Goat's Egg parallel? "I'll make you my child!") unless you take a look at the group which set the day up and their goals. Someone linked their official japanese website and explained, but I don't know Japanese and can't find it. Here's the english wiki though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Association_of_Zoos_and_Aquariums

When you think of "one eyed ghouls" as the rare animals, it makes sense.

I totally agree on your conclusion about her feelings. She wants him as her personal pet, but also as a partner, king, god, whatever. She's weird. She's definitely in love with him though. I'd also find it stop breathing hilarious if Eto had any intentions like this, came so far, only find out she were sterile. Hahaha. Started laughing irl when I read your comment. :p

But ya. We'll see if this whole zany topic has any place in canon soon enough. I don't really think anything will come of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does. Haha.