Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-24.74.64.155-20160713051003/@comment-26074716-20160713134618

I'm not sure if we can really describe the real meaning behind the chair but some said that the chair symbolizes Kaneki's life or his mental health, his persona, his will etc etc it's up to intepreation.

You can see the chair had been drawn since Volume 1 of TG, and how good the chair condition was but in the most recent one, its almost broken to the core. In chapter 120, we had Touka leaning against the broken chair as if she was saving the place for someone. We all know what happened in the chapter, they argued, Anteiku raid happened, Kaneki dissapeared. I guess it symbolizes or foreshadows that Touka will wait for him thus her securing the chair for him no matter how rotten and broken it is.

in chapter 72, we finally had both Kaneki and Touka leaning against the chair and Kaneki fondly stared at her. I guess it means that Kaneki finally acknowledges Touka's feeling and that she has been always waiting for him to come back to her side?

And the editor's words for the cover is ' even a faint warmth is reassuring. As long as that support on we lean, does not rot away ', I dont actually understand this but it seems that they both lean on each other as support or something along the lines idk.