Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27143318-20151031170043

Is it just me or has Touka's character development become quite bad? This is gonna be kinda long but please bear with me. Throughout the entirety of Tokyo Ghoul Touka's been built up as a kind, but emotional and conflicted young lass with a troubled past that was bad at expressing her feelings. She had always been quite emotional about all of her actions - she always displayed extreme feelings (desire for vengence on the CCG, anger about Ayato and Kaneki abandoning her and so on). In fact, her entire character could be summed up in that sentence, and that's not even a bad thing - those flaws used to make her character seem noticeable and somehow complete - that's what made her a good character and that's one of the reasons she was so popular with the fans. However, oddly enough, in Tokyo Ghoul :re she's shown to not have basically any of those traits. She had discarded her hot headedness (which is understandable, albeit such progess in 3 years is quite unbelievable, put aside that all the circumstances were pointing towards her emotional state deteriorating, not improving) and was nowhere near as emotional or active. She's essentially reverted into a blank slate with no character at all, as if she had just been introduced into the show. Her character has become extremely one-dimensional (now the only thing we can say about her is that she's "kind". That's it. That's her entire character). Moreover, in the past she was shown to be severely upset over being abandoned by those closest to her, so after losing pretty much her entire life in the Anteiku raid, you'd expect her to be angry, depressed or at least emotionless. Instead, she seems to be pretty happy doing whatever she's doing now despite all the build-up about how much she loved her past life. She doesn't really seem to care that everything else has been taken away. All the character inconsistencies aside, the new Touka is also massive a hypocrite. Remember how she went as far as attacking Kaneki over him deciding in her stead that she needs to be protected? Remember how she lashed out against him and called him selfish over it? Well, absolutely shockingly, she did the same damn thing - she decided in Kaneki's stead that he doesn't need to remember - he doesn't need to have a choice - whether to come back or not. She decided that it would be better for Kaneki to be protected, even though he didn't ask for this. This was the point at which I severely started losing faith in the character development of Touka. Frankly, Tsukiyama, despite being in the right, didn't have the guts to argue his point more either. The sad thing is that it doesn't even make sense - she loves Kaneki and wants him back, yet, despite Kaneki never asking to be protected and possibly desiring to get back together with her (assuming he gets his memories back), she eliminates that chance by deciding on her own that Kaneki shouldn't know his past and his true self. Every time a new chapter comes out I am anxious to see if Touka is featured, because I used to be a huge Touka fanboy in the past, but every time she's been shown so far has only helped make her seem as a worse character overall and I am on the borderline of starting to hate her. As a result, I am both eager and kind of afraid to see any future developments with her character, because I believe that so far it's still salvagable but if Ishida decides to really continue with this development, then that's one major character lost. Either way, I'd love to here you guys' opinions on the matter.