Talk:Akira Mado/@comment-211.49.126.48-20170319113820

I have mixed feelings about Akira as a character but I like where this new chapter is taking her...I expected her to stay close to Kaneki so I was a bit surprised at her reaction to him, but after rereading the chapter it makes sense. Akira may have saved Takizawa and cared for Kaneki but at the end of the day she's still an investigator- long before she knew Kaneki or even Seidou her father raised her and influenced her strongly as the only adult in her life. All of her morals and worldviews came from him. It's not like she'll just forget that over the span of a few days.

I'm also looking forward to her meeting Hinami because it will no doubt trigger some sort of change in her. Akira views herself as a 'victim' who lost her only family to 'monsters', but Hinami, despite having been directly involved in Mado's death (if she had not interfered, would Touka have stood a chance?) is just as much a 'victim' as Akira is. She was a child at the time, not like Akira, who was already over twenty, and she too was left almost alone in the world due to Mado's actions.

Hinami and Akira are both part of the vicious circle that the Tokyo Ghoul universe revolves around.

I suppose what's important in the end is that Akira learns to realize that while her father was not a monster, there was also more to him than the kind, loving parent she grew up with- that just as he loved and protected her, he hurt and destroyed the lives of others.

(just now realizing that most of this was just my usual pointless rambling lol please ignore it)