#TG:re volume 16

[darishima]

BONESY BONESY HIII BONESY

remembwr when i said this

i am home now!!!! here is a pic of both shelves

its a little messy n not well lit.. shelves are a little disorganized too especially the bottom two but its fiine ! lucky star shelf i showed you before is third down on the left. im gonna take better pictures to post here and on mfc once my sega power figure comes in and i move my toga and midari sections around

basic explanation, starting from the top on the left shelf: -combination toga and midari section, with my full ohshc manga set in the back -jiro section, with all my mha manga -lucky star section <333 -misc section, largely demon slayer, w assorted manga -another misc section, kinda where i stuck my least favorite figures LMAO im sorry guys right shelf: -mostly one piece section, partially disgaea section -yamato shrine plus kakegurui section runoff -mainly my edward shrine plus funkos lined up along my tokyo ghoul + tg:re manga sets, but my NSO section is slowly growing. plus miku -hxh section! mostly meruem, komugi, and neferpitou- theyre my 3 favs. couple misc figures next to them too -red box on the right of the lowest shelf is where i stash all my weed LMFAO isnt it a genius spot.. nobody would ever look or suspect. im soo smart.. anyway rest of that is misc manga and its kinda cluttered just pretend you dont see that

speaking of midari and toga sections! here are closeups of both !

midari section is currently cramped and messy.. usually has kakegurui manga behind it (hence the empty spot) but hunter is borrowing the first few volumes rn so it looks sad and empty :( need to move the midari section to another shelf because it and the toga section next to it are getting too large to coexist on the same shelf anymore they need more room. and speaking of toga section

wonderful angel.. also getting crowded mostly because banpresto always makes giant ass bases which take up lots of space on shelves </3 take a hint from pop up parade bp your base game SUCKS.

also just now realizing how BADLY tumblr annihilates quality... pls click on the pictures nd zoom in i promiseee they are better quality than that pls..

here is my jiro section !

gets a whole shelf all to herself (except for the dabi figure.. who is my bookend). im on a quest to get every single (non-gk) figure of jiro EVER made and so far i am missing seven out of sixteen :( most of the rest are trading figures and funkos except for the bellfine scale figure which is hella expensive.. like $100+.. but she will be mine eventually. here are the ones im missing

top 3 are trading figures, middle is still on preorder i think so it cant be mine yet , jst need to track down the other two somewhere. on the bottom are two of the funkos which are easy to buy but i dont LIKE having funkos and i dont WANT them but because its jiro i have to buy them anyway :/ im just putting it off. i almost ordered the first one the other day but decided to wait for the price to go down a bit. middle one is a gamestop exclusive thats bundled with a t shirt and i could easily buy it rn at, yk, gamestop, but i dont want the t shirt so i gotta buy th funko individually off ebay. last pic on the bottom is the bellfine scale, found it for $90 on a site recently when it usually goes for $120/$130+ so hopefully it'll be mine soon!1 anywayy sorry 4 yapping.. just love jiro will collect all her figures 4ever. wish i could do that for toga but she has too many :( 62 compared to jiro's 16 :( anywayyy more shelfies

the midari section was formerly just the kakegurui section but i had to boot these 3 figures out cause they wouldnt fit:

mary nendoroid (which i got for a STEAL at $28 unopened, they usually go for like $70 or more), plus mary and yumeko pop up parades (they are holding hands). and next to them:

yamato section! my beautiful prince yamato! the angle of this one sucks.. wtv. the big figure between the manga is the most expensive figure i've bought so far at $45, not counting the kangel L pop up parade figure i preordered for like $64 (doesnt count cause i dont have it yet). and SPEAKING OF KANGEL...!

kangel pop up parade!!! i got her yesterday!!! and the goodsmile bonus p-chan (the sad kitty)! put her in front of my nso manga + switch game, im so so happy i got her :3 and i'll be even happier when i get the kangel L figure, which is wayy bigger and imo prettier

anywayy hope you liked my yappings bonesy if you see them n read them.. ^_^ and also anyone else who saw this on their dash and checked it out,, sorry for clogging your dash :(

figures are my passion my love my light my one true joy.. would love to answer any questions u have about them ever. need to take more closeup pictures also bc its so hard to see details in that shitty ass full shelf pic i took.. will take better pictures another time <3 shldve taken a closeup of my hxh section its so good,, or my edward section,, oh well

[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 1

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Correction made about volume 7. Ishida was referring to how starting from OG vol. 7, he began pushing himself more and more. Apologies for the confusion.

Edit 2: Missed a couple lines, so I’ve added them in. Also corrected for grammar and fluidity.

I’ve already handed in the final manuscript, and I’m now writing this letter.

I would’ve written 4-komas at the end of the volume as usual, but I had a hard time writing “what comes afterwards” in such a format, so I thought that I would write an afterword instead.

Preface

Tokyo Ghoul began its serialization in September of 2011.

7 years have passed since then. My life has revolved around chasing the deadline, week after week.

I felt that if I took a break I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to draw again, so I refused to give myself a break.

Now that the series has ended, I’m finally living a life where I haven’t had a deadline looming over me for the first time in 7 years.

I wonder how I used to spend my time in the past.

If I want to be frank about how I currently feel, should I say it feels...liberating?

Tokyo Ghoul has been something that was intimately intertwined with my life, something that dominated my time and emotions, and something that changed my relationships with other people.

There was good that came with it, but oftentimes there was more bad than good.

Because of this, I felt like I was finally being released from a cage after being trapped in it for so long.

“But it’s just manga. There’s no reason for you to be pressured so much by it,” people may say with a laugh, but to me manga has always been by my side as a huge obstacle.

From the original volume 7 onwards, my stance regarding the manga changed.

I took on impossible amounts of work to try to push myself.

I cast away all sorts of things from my life, and poured all of my time into work.

I think it was because I was trying to get closer to Kaneki who’s been subjected to torture.

I’ve developed complications in my body.

I was scared at first. But after seeing all sorts of symptoms show up every few months, I resigned myself to the fact that this was the kind of body I had.

The most striking part to me was that I lost my sense of taste.

No matter what I ate, everything would taste the same. Even though the symptoms were different, I felt like I’d turned into a ghoul.

I was surprised by to what extent the human spirit is tied to the body.

There may be some readers who are disappointed by this, but I haven’t thought of drawing Tokyo Ghoul itself as fun. I hate working.

“Why am I drawing manga?”

These doubts grew ever more in my mind.

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[super-peace-fangirl]

What if...

the reason behind not announcing any special date for volume 16 is particularly because it’ll be the last volume of :re?

[seijitheclown]

Tokyo Ghoul:Re Volume 16 - Special 1st Edition Print + Special Postcard set.

Some of you might remember Ishida Sui doing special cards (here & here) and a shikishi (here & here) for the german readers of TG in the past, here is the newest (and last) thing he did.

With the first print of TG:re Volume 16 you get a special shikishi with an exclusive drawing he made for the german release.

The text written on it says “Thank you for 5 years of devotedness! We surely will meet again. I love my german fans! Ishida Sui”

If you order the volume through the publisher’s webshop or buy it at conventions you get an additional post card set (8 cards) with known illustrations he published on his blog/twitter during the last years.

The volume is scheduled to be released on the 7th March. But somehow their webshop decided to send it out a bit earlier.

... and yes I can scan them if people are interested, like with the other cards/shikishi.

[ken-nigghoul]

Tokyo ghoul Manga vs TG ANIME (Ken kaneki)

Oh boy where do I begin with this? Now Here me out I’m happy that tg:re is getting an anime adaptation,but why? Why even go there? I mean seriously the monstrosity that was root:A and the half ass excuse of a so call “anime” Of TG. I’m just gather we don’t have a brotherhood or Ultimate like what in the hell is this? First of all So much shit they skip, So much stuff they didn’t add in, So much shit they change! Like what was even the two seasons? Just long ass trailers for the manga? I’m sorry,but when we get parts where characters don’t act like there manga counterpart or even when changing parts of the story so you could fit in interesting fight scenes is not showing the manga justice. Sure tg have grown Popular after the first season and I have to admit. The first season was okay at best and I did enjoy the last episode of the season! It’s like my favorite episode of the whole series. Oh sorry,getting off track! Now your probably wondering “DO YOU HATE THE ANIME OF TG!?” The answer is a Big Fat N.O! I don’t hate actually just early...I just said I like the first season of tg. Sure they fucked it up at most parts,but they did follow the manga at some parts.

Now I’m not gonna make this a rant. No No No not a rant,but a pro and con type of post. Explaining my hate and likes for both series,Well mostly for the anime,but you get the point. Starting with what I just said like the characters.

KEN KANEKI (manga)

Now this here is manganeki see how avenge looking he is not to mention you can tell he look 18 years old just look at him from this picture. Now you notice something right? The art-style for that pic, its standard at best and somehow it fits the whole way of the manga which is actually interesting.

KEN KANEKI (Anime)

Now this here is animeneki! he is an adorable as mother fucker, Just look at him. I mean he suppose to be an average looking 18 year old,but turn out to look more like an 16 year old. Like I get it, When coming to be animated,you can’t mimic the manga all the way so I’ll accept the change.

Now what do Manganeki and Animeneki have in common? Besides being the main character?

They love reading books especially Takatsuki sen~

Both wear average clothes at best

they’re both quirky and fragile

Adorable

Now did you notice how they have four things in common? Your probably saying “Okay so what’s so different about the two?” Well Let me tell you why are they so different…

Black Hair Animeneki

I say fuck reading! why should I read a book? After the tsukiyama incident I don’t even know what a book is! Shit I’m a ghoul so I’ll just cut down on the reading…

I’m scare of things and worry to much about things. Not to mention i’m so fucking gullible that when people warn me about Tsukiyama, I’m just like “well if he read books than I need to go follow him to the restaurant!”

Is it me or do I suffer a little less than I should…Like damn (well actually that’s a blessing in my book…don’t know if that’s a win or lose)

I’m sometimes a dumb ass during the first season.(see what I mean?)

Off screen training results (ass pull no jutsu)

Now I don’t hate animeneki he is still adorable to not hate him,but damn studio clown what the hell did you do to kaneki? Now for manganeki

Black Hair Manganeki

I read basically all the time. Not to mention that when tsukiyama met me. I was reading a book about how to karate chop a mother fucker (A fighting book) not to mention I even broke a guys arm one time.

Not only you see me train with yomo,but I also train with touka! It was painful as fuck and touka broke my finger because of kagune problems.

My life is like a story that I tell from my point of view! I even reference my life to the books I read that foreshadows the events of my life!

I plan my stuff out even though I do get scared, I still think to myself and see what will happen next. So I’m not gullible like a certain someone.

I’m more careful than usually like I’m high alert~

Did I mention I trained to do back flips

Ghouls think I’m a super ghoul after the whole amon fight

a least after I was discharge from the hospital I got to see hide!

I still go to school…

Now you see what I mean? Manganeki did way more than animeneki How? Well trying to fit so much volumes in 12 episodes. they could of at least made it 25 episodes. One episode means 3 or 5 chapters animated, How can you cut out important character development for ken here? You made him a gullible pansy! Not saying he is a bad character! It’s just he is not like that!

Now don’t get me started on white hair neki,but that’s for another time…

Continue this in part 2

[dragoneki]

a lot of people feel tg:re will end at chapter 143 (to parallel the original manga) and move into a third instalment. if it is ending soon i'd argue a slightly later end. :re has more chapters per volume than the original - ending at 143 means only having thirteen volumes. a more likely parallel is :re having fourteen volumes, as tg did, and finishing at chapter ~154.

the timing of this would also be very interesting. it's 16 chapters away, and (accounting for a christmas break) there should be 16 chapters left in this year. that would leave chapter 154 to be published on... december 28th, the baby's due date 👀

[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 5

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. Ishida’s handwriting is hard to read at times so I may have gotten some words wrong. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Proofread for grammar and wording.

Lastly

I’m truly glad that I was able to finish Tokyo Ghoul.

Once I let go of it, I was able to think a lot about what I had done by drawing this work. I thought a lot about myself, being creative, and the creative industry. I was also able to meet lots of great people.

During the last half year, I really enjoyed drawing Tokyo Ghoul. I discovered and learned to appreciate many things.

“Why am I drawing manga?”

If I ask myself that now, my answer would be: “Because it was necessary.”

Tokyo Ghoul is a crude, unpolished work, but I love it nonetheless.

Those who have been involved with the series, those who have been reading the series. I have nothing but gratitude to whoever is reading this sentence right now.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

While I’m At It

This is a diary entry I wrote 9 years ago. I discovered it recently.

I want to bring this immature young man out here and bring shame upon him.

Amen to myself of 9 years past.

July 7, 2009

I’ve arrived in Tokyo. I am living alone.

Looking back at my diary, I can see just how rough around the edges I was. I was so foolish, short-sighted, naive.

From around 2nd year (of technical college was it) I was such a giant brat who couldn’t stop laughing.

Compare him to now and I sure have grown a lot! Looking back at the recent diary entries, it occurred to me, why didn’t I write a lot...

I want to grow as a person, even a tiny bit...

Why do the diary entries from my technical college days have nothing but dreams written in them?

I must’ve been asleep for quite some time...

Right now I’m creating storyboards that I can bring to Shueisha. I’m bringing them in tomorrow at 17:30.

It’s a story about war. Though I’m not sure whether I can draw a sci-fi with my skills as they are now.

There have been times where I’ve been at a loss, when I’ve had regrets.

Like, what was the point of me going to technical school for 5 years?

Or, would you be living a better life if you tried harder? Stuff like that.

But everything in the past is connected to the present.

Every mistake, every bit of suffering, every little success is creating the person that I am today.

If I can acknowledge myself now, that will acknowledge everything in the past.

All my failures are a part of who I am today.

If I’m happy now, I owe it to my past (and of course to my present) self.

I can’t acknowledge myself 100%. But I kinda like who I am.

Then I can’t be that bad, right?

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[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 2

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Proofread for grammar and fluidity.

My Childhood

My family moved a lot due to my father’s work.

By sixth grade of elementary school I’d lived in Tokushima, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saga and Fukuoka. I even lived in Taiwan when I was in kindergarten.

It was an endless cycle of making friends and parting ways from them, so I never developed any childhood or close friendships.

My relationship with my family grew stronger as a result, but because my father was so strict my home felt incredibly cramped to me.

I liked playing games when my father wasn’t around. Drawing wasn’t so bad either.

Drawing

It was sometime around first grade of elementary school that I’d play with my older sister by drawing pictures.

We’d assemble bundles of paper, and draw fantastical manga about going on adventures and involving dragons and swords.

Eventually I wanted the real professional tools. If you studied with Shinken Seminar* at the time, you could receive achievement points and save them up for a free gift. Knowing that I could exchange those points for a become-a-mangaka set, I worked hard to save up those points.

I think it took several months to save up because the set was expensive point-wise and of good quality.

I finally saved up the points, and once I obtained the mangaka set I grasped the G pen for the first time in my life.

When I dipped the pen in ink and drew a line on the stiff Kent paper, I got the feeling that I had opened a forbidden door.

For a little while I spent time feeling like I was a mangaka, when one day my hand slipped and spilled ink on the tatami mat.

I watched the scene despondently, wondering why my exasperated mother was wiping the spilled ink off the mat with steaming hot rice (is it that good at absorbing things?).

I couldn’t endure it, and so I sealed the mangaka set. I wouldn’t hold a pen again for more than ten years after that incident.

Who knows, if I hadn’t spilled ink at that time, I might have become a super genius mangaka...

Note: Shinken Seminar (進研ゼミ) is an educational correspondence program run by Benesse.

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[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 3

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Proofread for grammar and wording.

My Dream Back in Elementary School

I remember writing “gymnast” for this prompt in the school anthology.

From when I was born up until the first year of junior high, I was very thick and so overweight that I looked like a pig, but I had fairly good motor skills.

Mat competition and horizontal bar were my forte, and I also did backflips.

Though in reality I had no desire to become a gymnast. For some reason I thought that I’d feel guilty if I wrote that my dream was to be a mangaka.

My Junior High School Days

These were at most memories from my junior high school days, but I found it easier to study back then. My parents kept nagging at me to study and study, so I was studious so I wouldn’t have to hear the nagging.

I liked English, so when I was in my second year of junior high I took the grade 2 English proficiency exam, which was the highlight of those days. (Apart from that I don’t really understand English that well.)

My parents scolded me as my grades dropped. I didn’t want to be reprimanded again and so I kept studying.

When I got the highest grade in the school, I happily announced it to my father and he said, “Keep it up for next time.”

Looking back on that, that might’ve been his way of telling me that I did a good job, but back then I thought, “There’s no point even if I do my best,” and so I lost all meaning in studying.

Secondary Education Moratorium Period

I wanted to get away from my parents, so I applied for schools that had dormitories.

I enjoyed the dorm life and I mainly spent my time just playing games.

My grades were beyond horrible, and I was at the bottom of my class. The content I studied in school just didn’t hold my interest.

I also began drawing via the Internet. Although I started out by drawing with a mouse, I bought a pen tablet and began drawing colour illustrations on my PC.

Finding a Job

I began going around looking for jobs, but I ended up not doing anything because there wasn’t any job that I wanted to do.

The only jobs I could apply for required expertise that you could only learn in school, but because I hadn’t been interested in the content in school back then, it was impossible for me to apply.

Left all alone, I fretted over what I should do.

I fought a lot with my parents.

In the end, after being screamed at by my father, I gave up and agreed to go job hunting. My memory is a bit hazy, but on that occasion I seem to have told him, “I’m dead.”

I wonder if it was those words that broke me, because it eventually allowed me to choose a path other than finding employment.

The path that came to mind at the time was becoming a mangaka.

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[kenkamishiro]

Ishida’s afterword part 4

Please feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. (source of the afterword)

Edit 1: Proofread for grammar and wording.

Heading to Tokyo

After studying manga and heading to Tokyo, I received an assistant position and a referral from Matsuo-san, who was in charge.

For some time I gratefully worked under Hara Yasuhisa-sensei of Kingdom.

I really was a useless assistant and I only caused trouble, but I learned many things under his tutelage.

I remember receiving a huge shock and being impacted by his flaming passion the first time I saw a manuscript drawn by a pro like him.

Hara-sensei has always been standing at the top of the magazine since then, and he is still a huge feature who supports it to this day. He is truly amazing, and I absolutely respect him.

Things That Made Me Happy

I’ve only listed hardships, but there were plenty of good things that happened as well.

I was able to request songs from my favourite artists for the anime:

TK-san of Ling Tosite Sigure for “unravel”,

People In The Box for “The Saints”,

amazarashi for “Seasons Die One After Another”,

Takahashi Kunimitsu for “Incompetence”.

And for :re,

Jooubachi for “HALF”,

Cö shu Nie for “asphyxia”.

(the songs for the latter half of :re are still in their demo phase, but they both sound amazing).

It brings back memories when I listen to them even now. They are very precious songs to me.

Through the Hisoka spinoff project for HUNTER X HUNTER, I was able to meet and talk with Togashi Yoshihiro-sensei. I have wonderful memories of the experience.

Togashi really is a cool and wonderful person.

“I’m always coming up with storyboards,” he’d say, demonstrating it while sprawled on the bare floor, which I would watch while kneeling.

During those times I couldn’t tell whether this was reality or just a dream.

Before we met he gave me a letter that had a HUNTER X HUNTER storyboard written on one side, and it was the storyboard for chapter 351 featuring Hisoka vs. Chrollo. I can’t believe he did something so considerate for me, I thought, deeply touched.

To this day I still look back on it whenever I need courage. It’s an heirloom to me.

...it gives me pure happiness that I could get readers to enjoy themselves. Even though drawing for me was tough, if there’s someone out there who can take pleasure in it I can do my best.

It may seem like lip service, but that is the best reward and means just about everything to me.

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