Talk:Re: Chapter 123/@comment-103.255.6.73-20170507080346/@comment-217.212.214.57-20170507083101

Liked it, a bit puzzled over some things, fearing we might not get some background info regarding some things (like the Washuus for example, why aren't they using kagune, why founding the CCG...and on other things, like Rize's opinion on this whole matter, Uta and the clowns and what Gagi and Guge's kagune is...things like that.)

It feels realistic, in that there's no real "final boss" sense to this current ongoing event playing out. Just like any other conflict in th eworld, it just plays without any promises of a happy ending afterwards as there's no such things in real life. A happy ending, by definition, is basically "Never be happy after the ending = Dead" and that's not what life is.

I find it really rare to see a series depict the realism of life with small tweaks to the rules of the reality applied to them without making these the massive plot point.

(kagunes, rc-cells etc...none of this is actually really important, they are basically tools to be used and that's it...and I like that.)

The whole story could be seen as a battle between two different groups and opinions (religions, political stances, minorities and the like) against each other as they fight for what they believe in. Them being "ghouls" or "not" is just a physical manifestation of these differences between opinion in the story to make it easier on us readers to not find this hitting too close to home.

Part one was basically "Welcome to the real world kid..." depicting Kaneki (a isolated youth from society which is dragged out into the real world he couldn't see beyond the frames of the books he held up in frotn of his face...akin to how other young adults of today keeps staring at their computer screens and cellphones without ever interracting with the world around them, making bubbles of isolation around themselves, until an event happens that forces him to discover what kind of world he has been living in all this time in a way where he can't go back to how things were.)

And part two is "...Now deal with it."

(where kaneki basically has to try and act as a adult in this world that dragged him out from his bubble, tripping and walking along the way as he meets both the past and the present with the future unkown to him until he finally decides to set his goals and do something with his life before he goes.)

So I am greatly enjoying both part one and part two as a whole due to being a metaphorical depiction of life, growing up, metting and interacting with other people of different opinion and discovering how to live it to the fullest, through the fool's journey of Kaneki Ken.

It is not a fantasitc story like some of those epos, but one grounded in reality...

...and this is what makes it so good.