Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150707195855

Hey people, Hide´s card "the Magician"... I just realized something.

There´s no way to tell if it´s reversed or not since it´s just a "I" and nothing else.

So we wouldn´t know if it was reversed if Ishida drew it for him.

I checked up the reversed meaning of it... Guess what?

...it´s a "Clown"-Card.

Magician Reversed: "Indicate Greed, Deceit, Manipulation and using one´s skills for negative ends."

Here´s more info about it...

I think that it´s a neat representation of Hide´s double-nature as seen multiple times in the manga, between his goofy facade of carefree persona and the "a lot smarter than I look" trait that lets him do stuff like planting a tracking Device on Yamori, aim CCG at Aogiri´s Hideout to for the "sefish" purpose of getting Kaneki back and doing things like manipulating Marude to indirectly let Hide join CCG for the purpose of finding out more about Kaneki through CCG´s resources, manipulating Akira and Amon in the rabbit case, setting them on the track on the black rabbit instead... and then he got the opportunity to not only make the preperations for whatever he had in mind through his last will, he also got access to a warzone that he would never been able to enter otherwise if he hadn´t manipulated the events behind the scenes and thanks to them, found his long lost friend again, turning back to the upright Magician... but immediatly turning reverse as he once again set his plan into motion and put a gamble on Kaneki to do his unspoken part of the plan to save Kaneki´s life from the raid.

And it worked.

So Hide would be, due to his card´s double-edged nature, be the upright magician and the reversed one at the same time as he clearly displayed impressive feats of manipulation of others for his own means, almost in the class of the "Clowns" themselves as absolutely nobody could figure out what he was planning, not even us readers, depsite the proof that he clearly did so.

So what do you all say?

Hide the Reverse Magician?