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elmaxlys · 1 year ago

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Nishikimi is monster romance, the rest is not.

Edit: wait I think Ukina eating human flesh so that her baby would survive is pretty up there too 🤔

Dear Monsterfuckers of Tumblr,

here's a poll for you

You see, I'm sloooowly working on a list of various monster romance mangas, (not strictly "good" ones, just ones that I know of, while keeping it varied so that everybody could find sth for themslves) and I want it to be ACTUAL monster romance, no "nomal guy with horns" no "normal girl with animal ears" etc. I have some criteria I go by, and usually it's pretty easy for me to determine if sth is a monster romance or just a supernatural romance.

HOWEVER Tokyo Ghoul is one of those few mangs I keep hesistating over. Because yes, on the one hand they look like humans most of the time and their "monsterous" transformations are basically humans with some power ups, mostly. Which is a big, big point toward "No!". But on the other hand the only thing they can eat is humans. Which is very monsterous! And their different biology, their ways of living and the social tensions their existence inroduces are major plot themes! So I'm just really, really torn here.

Help a gal out?

#as in he was hiding his true nature from her and when she found out instead of betraying him like he expected #and like any other human would have done #she committed the illegal act of offering her life to save his #and he went wait no i like you too much #AND THEN she was abducted by another monster fully set on eating her (or rather eating a guy eating her)#but nishiki went 'not on my watch' even tho he was still half dead #AND THEN kimi was faced with the monster's true appearance (touka's kagune and kakugan) and said 'how beautiful'#so what i'm saying is the gourmet arc is the superior arc and kimi is totally a monster fucker #i mean she then proceeded to elope with a crazy scientist so she could learn off him ways to improve ghouls' lives #nishikimi otp etc etc #but touken for example (and the main couple so tg as whole by extension) is NOT #because the point of it is that kaneki learns that ghouls AREN'T monsters #we'll be ignoring :re's message here #tokyo ghoul #tg meta #in the tags and if you can call it that a meta lmao #but so i can find it again #polls #nishikimi

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