Talk:Re: Chapter 145/@comment-187.189.110.74-20171016143132/@comment-10733658-20171016190502

We don't know much about that, beyond the fact that Furuta knew from the Washuu's history how to accomplish this and what would happen once it was unleashed.

It seems to rampage and consume everything, plain and simple.

I think it's also worthwhile to keep in mind the themes and ideas behind the Japanese concept of the "Kaiju". As best demonstrated by Godzilla, which was a literal manifestation of Nuclear Warfare. This idea of a massive creature/force of nature that represents these very real fears, sins, and arrogance of humanity. Japanese Kaiju tend to be creatures that represent human sins and fears of nuclear and environmental destruction.

In this case, Kaneki becoming Dragon is the ultimate result of the horrors that have been escalating all along. Furuta held up a hideous mirror to people, using a cult of personality to drag all the ugliness of the CCG into the open and to encourage people to be their worst selves. Humans cheering him while he stood on a pile of mangled corpses. Investigators killing in plain view, at seemingly random, and committing greater acts of brutality. The Oggai themselves, a team of preteens being used as living weapons.

Everyone went along with it. Everyone took part in things to one degree or another, accepting it or at the most expressing slight misgivings while not actually willing to examine themselves, their guilt, or actually fight back. Kuroiwa and Urie only acted because the violence had reached them through Yoriko's arrest, but willingly took part in the horrors.

No one is really innocent in this, because they have either actively taken part, encouraged and cheered it, or turned a blind eye and pretended it didn't matter to them.

Kaneki as Dragon has become that depravity given physical form. And now Tokyo is being punished, as always happens in Kaiju stories.