Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-210.186.54.24-20160705161951/@comment-24.74.64.155-20160705211618

Touka is a great character, its just for some reason in this wiki she receives a bunch of flak and even people just started to mock her for about a month or so. It got so bad that the mods had to step in, twice. Even then we still see the amount of shitposting that goes on here. It feel that most of it stems from shipping as they see her as being a threat towards their own ships.

When you talk about how people remember how Kaneki carried Touka in the Aogiri arc, I went back to several forms when the chapters were being released at the time and they were overjoyed that he saved her. He also said the he won't leave her alone, which the previous chapters were emphaized on how many loved ones she lost over time. The way how that flashback transaction underwent the typical reaction of a Tokyo Ghoul fan it was mainly despair and then some semblance of hope.

I say that its kind of wrong to not include her relationship with Kaneki, it might come across as being a shipper, but her attitude towards Kaneki changes as time goes on. She went from being annoyed by him to caring about him. His may of had some influence to her.

Currently Touka hasn't had a lot of focus in :Re but that might change soon. Early in her appearance it was about Kaneki and how she was waiting for him. Maybe why people seem to emphazied her relationship with Kaneki is that people at the beginning of :Re wanted him to comeback to her and join up with them. But she has other storylines to fullfil such as the Akira ordeal and Yoriko. Which both have been setup and therefore needs a payoff.

Maybe the reason why people tend to ship them is the several characters such as Yoriko and Hinami want them to be together. Or that they have the good chemisty together or that they look good together, as well as having the underlaying fear of being alone. But it is very apparent when on both sides of the fandom both the Japanese and Western ship them the most. Other series seem to have not accomplished that. Personally I would feel fine if they did get together because there is setup, but it has to feel earned. Just because Touka might end up with Kaneki doesn't mean it is a bad thing or that it would devalue her character. As it has been said over and over again that relationships are important romantic or not. It's not going to be the case of Asuna in Sword Art Online where character becomes completely disrepected and just turns into a damsal in destress, stripped of her characterization. Ishida has proven that he knows how to handle the material and it tends to be better than anyone has expected. That being said all of the things that I said might not even matter as Ishida tells the story that he wants to tell and I'd rather keep it that way.