Talk:Uta/@comment-27387891-20170128163620/@comment-27247962-20170128234655

^^ To continue on what you said and I'm inclined to search for material explanations as well, instead of automatically appointing the kagune as explanation-tool.

I've been looking back and forth between the Arima-mask incident and this one.

I noticed these things:

- He starts the confrontation with a bland mask. Introducing himself as no-face.

- In the Arima-mask incident, we can pretty safely say the arima face was a mask he either had under his bland mask or inside his jacket. It was something he clearly put on. It lacked convincingness.

-But in this one it goes further. It's not the type of mask we're used to see off him,not one to put on and off whenever he wants. The fact that it literally looked like Shinohara's face and since i'm leaving out the kagune as source, I believe it to be something used in special agent work or spy-work. A sort of wax-face he prepared for the encounter of a very specific opponent. (Suzuya in this case)

My proof for this or at least what got my attention, is that his ears in the Arima-incident are his own, with a lot of excessive ear piercings. But if you look at the start of the confrontation between Uta & Juuzou, you'll notice the absence of ear piercings. So what is certain now, is that in the Arima-incident it defintily was just a mask & that the no-face target mask was just a facade to hide the real act, a curtain to be opened when the time is ripe. He operates like a Clown. Starts with some mocking (=target mask), then continues with the main act (=Shinohara face). To have his piercings on, wouldn't make for a very convincing Shinohara look, so for this particular instance he left his piercings at home. He very much intended to confront Juuzou in this whole ordeal. If he didn't intend to confront Juuzou, then we'd have seen his ear-piercings, just like in the Arima-incident. If his kagune was capable off transforming into any person, then we'd see his ear piercings dissapear behind a mass off RC cells, but the fact that the ear piercings were absent from the start, indicates handywork, instead of kagunework.

Since he works together with Furuta, it's not a stretch that Uta and the other members exactly know where they can find their prey on the battle field, which makes it easy to prepare these kind of trollacts.

The way Ishida drew that panel where he hugs Juuzou with the looming danger of kagune stretching over Juuzou, made me think of those type of fish with their lantern that bait other fish into their direction, just like Uta baited Juuzou into his arms and give him the killing blow.

-After his main act fails, he puts his bland mask back on.

Remember that i'm trying to find a logical explanation where the kagune isn't the answer. If it so happens to be the kagune, very well.

But Uta stays an artist & enjoys toying around as much as any other Clown, so this psychological attack is besides fun also confirmation off his skills as maskmaker and the effectiveness off his wares, is a big indicator for it's quality. That he'd create a facial replica of a CCG-agent in his freetime is not too farfetched, imo. Just as his jacket suggests him being packed with a lot of handmade masks, which he can pull out whenever he faces a certain opponent, which is something I assume he did with Take. He didn't particularly plan to confront Take, but he was one of the clients he could suprise with a mask made with them in mind.

Naturally there's a lot of stuff linked to each other to make it work & just my perspective on how it would fit, so this is nothing more then a possibility i'm sharing here. I fully understand it's easier to appoint the kagune as source of this spectacular performance.