Talk:Re: Chapter 56/@comment-86.134.254.4-20151205194432/@comment-10733658-20151205195453

I don't think anyone is actually dropping it right now?

Personally speaking, I'm leery of things because if things are as simple as "Kaneki one-hit kills Eto and eats her", then....I'm not sure about things. Not simply as a fan of the character of Eto, but in terms of literary criticism such a move feels like a very lazy one.

It would involve all the build-up and foreshadowing around Eto being meaningless. It would mean her entire storyline(s) being abandoned, in favor of making Kaneki badass and giving him a quick power-up. It isn't what I've come to expect from Ishida's work, so if he really did just toss nearly 200 chapters of Eto being this great presence with so much influence on the narrative and the other characters......I'm not sure.

I don't mean it as a tantrum over "Oh no, he killed my fav" because I fully expect a lot of characters I like to die. But I dislike the idea of casually offing such a significant character with so many unresolved threads just....so the hero can have a notch on his belt. It's like a lot of us felt when Tokyo Ghoul ended, and there wasn't yet an announcement of :Re.

Like....that's it? All this build-up, mystery, foreshadowing, and hype....for that?

But I think I'm going to trust that Ishida is a better writer than that, and wouldn't just toss away such a major character as mere fodder.