Talk:Roma Hoito/@comment-104.254.93.176-20171025041415/@comment-217.209.94.177-20171025075414

^ You clearly don't understand what the definition of "Realistic" really is, huh?

(Ps, it's not "historical", a fantasy can be realistic within its setting as well since the term "realistic" is not a privilege designated to the universe that we the readers occupy here and now. It is a conceptual concept that belongs to the "world", meaning that in every world, there is a definition degree of "realism" holding it together. This is how one can tell the difference between a "story" and a "verse". Stories are "told", a Verse is "experienced". In other words, anyone that uses our reality as "Core standard" for the word "Realism", is sadly nothing short but highly arrogant and drowning in hybris. There are more worlds than this one after all, they are created every day through the windows of our minds.)

When I say realistic, then I mean "Non-existent convenience and a visible thread of fate" aka "We learn through experiencing, not being told."

Nothing happens that could be attributed to a act of divine intervention to even happen in the first place. Everything is a result of the actions made by the characters (or lack of actions in Kaneki Ken's case) and the consequences are built straight on those actions.

Ex machinas are absent completely, making Tokyo Ghoul a "Verse" and not a "story". There are consequences for each action, nothing is set in stone due to outer circumstances alone and all failures and victories are a testamony of the individual characters' abilities, choices and actions. Not decided by others but themselves.

In the "Verse" of Tokyo Ghoul, the ghouls can exists because of inherited logic within the "Verse",

And the reason a "story" cna become a "verse" is solely due to the amount of realism poured into it to make it something more and distinct.

Without realism, it would have "shriveled up on the bedsheets" years ago.

So there is realism involved in this story.

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Also, Tokyo Ghoul is NOT a "fantasy".

It's a..."Action, Horror, Mature, Psychological, Seinen, Supernatural, Tragedy"

(Straight from the category system on manga sites, Not made up.)

Not a shred of fantasy there...

Get your facts straight first before tossing empty hooks in the water, would you?