Talk:V/@comment-77.208.48.236-20160216194445/@comment-50.141.189.240-20160225085730

It's not. I actually have a theory that the higher ups in V are not ghouls but some other race; possibly Vampires. People seem to have some extreme hatred of this theory since there's this bizarre hatred of all things vampire-related lately (guess it's twilight disgust reactions?) but it makes sense. Kaiko hasn't aged a BIT in over 50 years, he appears the same age when Kuzen/Yoshimura was real young working for V as he is now, and Yoshimura looks to be at least in his late 60's etc.. That's a trait of a vampire, lack of aging, as Yoshimura, the old woman ghoul Mado killed, and Porpoura (the priest) are all examples of ghouls aging just as fast as humans do.

Then there's the fact that their organization is called "V", as in v for vampire. There's the fact that they all act super aristocratic and sophisticted, wearing fancy suits and bowler hats etc.. which fits perfectly with the aristocratic rich "count" appearance of modern fiction vampires. And you notice that Kaiko and the other high ranking members shown all have extremely pale skin and dark purple lips, which really fits the vampire theme. And also the name Kaiko, is a variation of the name Keiko (kai and kei are pretty much interchangeable within the Japanese language) and the Kanji for Kei means SUNLIGHT, which at the very least could be a reference to the "sunlit garden" where arima and Furuta, 2 members of CCG that are also working for V,. were trained as part of a secret special forces group (and it's implied Furuta is a ghoul member of the clowns) and then there's the fact that the entire kanji used (along with the "ko" at the end) means "child of sunlight" which could be a metaphor for the fact that he can't be in the sun, due to being a vampire.

Laslty there's also the fact that Ghouls have historically in folklore and myths, been the SERVANTS of vampires, so it's not farfetch'd for a story about ghouls to have vampires in it.

People really seem to hate the word vampire being used though, so i'll state that it's not necessarily "real vampires" they could be some kind of "ascended ghoul" or "pure ghouls" or something. I mean we've got the manga talking about Norse gods and stuff, saying the one eyed kings name was "Bileyg" which is a term used for Odin, who gouged one of his eyes out so it would float around the earth gathering knowledge for him: so perhaps the One Eyed King is some kind of demi-god; half god and half ghoul (or half human) perhaps he even gave birth to the race of "weaker ghouls" we have now, and the leaders of V are the "original" ghouls that are more powerful and more vampiric.