Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27704373-20161202225436/@comment-10733658-20161203030509

Eh, this is an argument we've all had so many times.

I think that fans can be too hard on Touka, in comparison to other members of the cast. Ishida's characters are fairly realistic both in their reactions and their flaws, which I suppose can be off-putting since it's not always pretty.

But I don't understand why people focus so strongly on Touka, when everyone in the series is a flawed person that has done hypocritical or harmful things. No one is innocent or perfect.

I honestly don't understand the claims that she never paid for her actions. She very clearly did, since she blames herself for what happened to Anteiku and lost everything. I mean, do people forget what she lost at the end of the original series? That was the first home she'd had since losing her father, and a life she'd been working so hard to build. She'd started to dream of a future, and was working to get into college so she could be a teacher or a Biologist. She lost all of that in an instant. That's a hard price to pay for anything.

And as I said, if you look at it from the in-series perspective of the Ghoul characters......her actions were a minor offense. Teens disobey adults all the time, it's part of being a teenager to challenge limits and run afoul of authority. Even Yoshimura's harsh words were merely a test for Kaneki, to see what he would do if told Touka was on her own.

I don't get why people act like disobeying is such a horrible crime, when it's....pretty normal. If you flip out every time kids disobey you, you're going to be flipping out all the time. Adults know that teenagers are going to act out, and not listen, and think they know better, and be impulsive or emotional. It happens, it's perfectly normal. Touka's actions seem to have been, within the frame of ghoul society, normal teen rebellion.

And honestly, it's been about 200 chapters and almost 4 canonical years since Touka screwed up. I don't see why that should be held against her forever, when we don't hold Nishiki or Tsukiyama or Takizawa or Kaneki himself to that high of a standard?