Talk:Tatara/@comment-73.218.210.185-20160906015228

Here's why there's a lot of salt/bitterness around Tatara/Houji getting killed off: When Aogiri was first introduced, who was seen as the leader/boss (prior to revelations about Eto)? Tatara. Even as the first part of TG went on, it seemed like he was going to eventually gain a bigger role, either as a antangonist, or something much larger than what he amounted to.

The whole subplot of Ghouls in China has seemingly died with them. His and Houji's pasts back in China didn't even get a panel, let alone chapter or two. More insignificant characters like Torso and Miza got a full chapter. Tatara went from being a major figure in Aogiri to a background character way too fast. His design always screamed "future antagonist/more significant role" to me. I thought Houji was going to be a window into the darker side of CCG's past, or possibly V, but he didn't really get much either.

Not to mention how Yumitsu Tomoe got killed off when she had maybe a few panels in another chapter. The whole Ghoul who uses Quinques was pretty cool. I almost forgot who she was until she came out of nowhere to get killed by Takizawa in three seconds.

Sometimes it feels as though there are sooo man characters that Ishida has to either kill some off, or leave them out. It's a bummer man, I felt like he could have done so much more with Tatara and Houji than he did. They way they ended was so...anticlimactic. I'm not sure if Ishida has something more planned later on, or had something planned but the editors are making him rush the pacing (kinda like what they did to Kubo and Bleach).

TL;DR: salt and feelsbadman.jpeg