Talk:Donato Porpora/@comment-81.34.57.20-20180509035531/@comment-10733658-20180509231722

^ Agreed.

I think the difference lies in how these confrontations have very...well...different purposes and themes.

Uta vs Yomo was about them working their issues out, with the battle kind of a literal metaphor for all the things needing to be said. And they finally said their peaces, and heard each other out. Yomo managed to express himself, in spite of being absolutely crap at getting his feelings across to people most times. And Uta addressed his resentment and "loneliness" that he's been talking about throughout :Re.

Furuta vs Kaneki is going to be about our protagonist facing his shadow, because that is what Furuta is to him. He's the foil and the dark reflection of our protagonist, and has to be dealt with to complete his journey as the Fool.

Amon vs Donato is following the same over-arching theme of Freudian relationships with parents and parental figures.


 * Kaneki has repeatedly "killed" his parent figures, in the forms of Rize, Yamori, Eto, and Arima. Each time, he was symbolically reborn.
 * Furuta literally killed his biological father, and wiped out the Washuu Clan.
 * Eto imprisoned her father as an experiment and a means to an end.
 * Juuzou and his squad slew Big Madam, who raised him.
 * Takizawa was forced to eat his parents, "dying" and being reborn as Owl. He later kills Tatara and Houji, the two superiors that shaped him.
 * Akira and Touka dealt with how their fathers failed them in dying for revenge.
 * Mutsuki's family massacre, and desire to "kill" the replacement figure of Haise.
 * Urie's rage over his father's death, and struggles with the father figures of Haise and Kuroiwa.

So with this battle, we have Amon facing his own parental figure and root of all his issues. If he kills Donato, that will be another example of that Freudian cycle in the series. Parental figures in this series seem to exist partially to be destroyed by their children.