Talk:Arata Kirishima/@comment-172.90.187.179-20170411071111/@comment-217.212.214.57-20170411092225

Well, vengeance tends to warp even the most peaceful minds when infesting them.

Arata went insane from his own self-loathing, lack of ability to protect what he loved, and went out of his way to try and fill the hole in his heart that the loss of his wife left him with, trying to fill it up with corpses instead. Only that could only fillup his stomach, not his heart, and leaving him with an addiction for more death and bloodshed as he tried to find closure with himself in a way that would never work. As one cannot stop eating at all or death comes by starvation after three weeks.

Why he would do it?

Same reason Mado went nuts in his crusade.

Vengeance makes one blind. (symbolic value shown in Arata's kakuja, which was basically a series of blindfolds over his eyes, nose, ears and mouth, symboling on how closed off he really was to his senses as he willingly blinded himself to the truth, clamped over his ears to not listen and gagged his mouth to not be distracted by the need for nourishment or food. Showing how utterly wsteful his wrath and revenge really was.)

Symbolism is strong in Tokyo ghoul.