Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27143318-20151031170043/@comment-10733658-20151102035423

As for her mistakes, Touka herself admits that what she did was wrong.

We can agree that Kureo Mado needed to be stopped, because he wasn't going to quit until he'd killed Hinami. And I do agree that blaming Touka for Anteiku's fall isn't fair, because that was only one of many factors that played into that eventual outcome.

But she was wrong, in that her actions were selfish. Yoshimura had spent a decade making the 20th Ward peaceful enough that the CCG wasn't paying it much attention. With Rize gone, they had clearly hoped the heightened attention would die down. But Touka killing two Investigators made them pay greater attention. There hadn't been a killing in a decade, but she ended all the hard work that Anteiku put into making the 20th Ward seem low priority.

And like I said, it was one of several factors that eventually led to Anteiku falling. There were many others, but it did play a part. But she did learn from her mistakes, and realized that she couldn't just fly off doing whatever she wanted to do.

Anyway, I agree that there's a whole lot we've missed in how Touka got from broken/traumatized over her loss to her current, mature self. I disagree that she seems like an entirely new person, she's simply grown up just like Ayato has grown up and matured. Part of that is simply that they're older and no longer kids. But I do hope that Ishida will give us some flashback into what the :re gang have been up to.