#tg re 135

[kyanitedragon]

So often I wonder how different this manga would have gone if Aogiri Tree was a little more honest and direct about their goals. That they weren't just fighting for ghouls, but for human-ghoul peace.

If it hadn't been for his awful experience with Yamori, then Kaneki probably would have joined Aogiri when Kanou asked him. The entire reason he hates Aogiri is because he associates it with Yamori.

If he had never been tortured by Yamori, then I think he would be a lot more receptive to joining Aogiri.

And even Roma....!

We see in this flashback that she denied Tatara when asked.

But then a mere 3 pages later she says this...

Maybe she just liked the chaotic violent nature of Furuta's plan more than Aogiri, but I think that last panel holds a lot of weight: Furuta's wish got her to step onto the stage.

An AU where Kaneki and/or Roma joined Aogiri Tree and fought for their goals sure would be interesting...

[littleharpethcrossfit]

Sunday, 16 June, 2024.

Happy Father's Day. This is traditionally the day the little wifey stages a re-enactment of how you became a Father.

CrossFit sessions are at 0730 when it will be cool, and at 1 PM when the temp will be 95 degrees. You decide.

Warmup #1

WG led us in a mobility warmup for the 1 PM class.

Warmup

100 Partner Med-Ball Sit-Ups

Or 15/15/15 GHD's

Strength

Deadlifts.....3 Reps EMOM X 10 Minutes

Start Light and Progress Weight

Armando=315.....Dana=245..... Paul=235.....Sam D=225.....Warren A=205..... Coach=185.....Warren G/TG/Cheri/Elisa=135..... Shannon=125.....Linda=115.....Sabrina=75.....Faith=65

WOD

2 Rounds

Equipment

A Loaded Barbell..........(95/75/55)

Exercise Mat

15 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls

30 Seconds Plank

15 Lateral Burpees Over Your Bar

30 Seconds Plank

15 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls

30 Seconds Plank

15 Lateral Burpees Over Your Bar

Sam D=8:47 Warren G=8:54 Dana=9:29 Sabrina=12:28 Elisa=14:07 Cheri=14:28 TG=15:27 Armando=17:15 Faith=17:35 Shannon=18:32 Paul=22:05 Warren A=23:17 Coach/Linda =PJ

Cool-Down

Run/Jog/Walk the 1.1 Arboretum Loop.

Take some friends if you have any.

Go any distance..........choose your own pace.

Notes:

HOT, Especially for the 1 PM class.

Tuesday at 4 PM

[randomthoughtpatterns]

Hey Eddie! Can I ask you something? Vol 13, ch135, page7, could you tell us how you'd translate Roma's line about a wish coming true and the underground king if that's not too much trouble? Thanks!

It ties back to her monologue. She says that if she’s not careful, her existential crisis will catch up to her, so in order to stave it off she’s got to always keep up the excitement, meaningless fun. Basically, she can’t stop or she’ll start thinking, and no one wants that.

Then she says, “The world is a circus. Please keep up the parade, cutie. Just like the Underground King so many decades ago. If you do that, I will even step onto the stage”.

The word she uses for “parade” is written as  「快楽提供」, “entertain” or (lit. “provide good feelings”). The parade itself is just continuing the circus metaphor (as is the stage). 

Roma’s wish is that it continues for a while longer so she could stop thinking, and for that she was willing to straight up participate, even though the Clowns usually operate behind the curtain.

[toukadefensesquad]

kaneki (mostly about touka) : all women are queens

mutsuki : sensei, if she breathes, she a thot

[eardun]

I have 2 boxes in my life

just kidding there’re more

[levi-trash476]

Me: Okay! I’ve been preparing myself for one week. I am mentally, physically and spiritually prepared.

*checked tokyo ghoul:re 135 spoilers

Also me: OMG whyyyyyy! I AM NOT PREPAREDDD *sobbing *running around *restless

[brave-symphonia]

You’re not.

[coolpotatouniverse]

REACTIONS (pt.1... I guess. LELS.)

While I was scrolling through my news feed, I stumbled upon this picture:

Kaneki... you dying again, man. So before I read the rest of the chapters, I started reading Chapter 143. And yes, I did that. And I also decided to continue reading from the last chapter I’ve read. Pardon for my English though.

It became more fucked up in so many ways. Surprising turns are taking place. Well, almost all of the fans are like, “what the fuck have you done, Ishida?” And I am also one of them.

LIKE, DUDE! AFTER I FREED MY TIME TO READ THIS MANGA, THIS IS WHAT I’M GONNA GET!? I WAS ALMOST CRYING BECAUSE EVERYONE IS TRYING AND DYING! THEY WERE HAPPY IN THE SHORTEST TIME THEN SUDDENLY THEY ARE ALL FUCKED UP BY THE CCG. BIG TIME, BRO. BIG TIME!

*ehem* That’s why I decided to make this blog, to remember this day that I finished reading it. Instead of sulking over the manga, I’ll just... make fun of the panels and write some not-so funny reactions. I just want to ease the tragedy that my heart is feeling. Okay, so, I started reading at Chapter 132 and then started saving pictures. I have a habit of saving pictures but CREDITS FOR THE MANGAFOX!!!

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Kaneki: I married Touka.

Tsukiyama:

Yomo:

Well, who wouldn’t be surprised? Tsukiyama’s reaction like, “what did I just heard?” and Yomo’s reaction be like, “yeah, I saw this happening”. That escalated quickly. Kaneki married the girl who punches him like a punching bag in the past. By the way, love that background.

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Saiko: *keeps on yelling about saving Yoriko and helping Takeomi*

Urie: *still not changing his mind*

Saiko:

YOU COCKHEAD! Just kidding but ooh, that’s gotta hurt. I was wondering about what was of Urie’s face when Saiko did that. It seems like it doesn’t hurt at all, at least it is Saiko who is doing it to him. But yeah, my heart is fangirling for the both of them. Urie followed her to the playground, talked to her and said that they’ll just become terrorists. Fluttering hearts. (Even though I know that they’ll become terrorists along with the others.)

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The wedding of the year goes to...

You didn’t invite me *le cries in the corner*

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Look who’s really happy. Can ghouls drink beers or wines? Or they really can drink and I wasn’t paying attention.

And then, ooh la la. Why are these two so sexy and full of gorgeousness? *intensified heavy breathing*

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This one really made me laugh. DIVORCE MEEEEE!!!

And this one!!! Yomo was so crazily drunk that he regrets it afterwards.

Also this one!!! Tsukiyama’s reaction though was funny and Naki was so innocently cute!!! He’s so adorable but he died.

Damn. I wanna see this animated.

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The model of death has come to eradicate our lives. Too young to die, bruh.

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When you’re trying to be cute in your selfies:

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Look who’s back bitches. I’m gonna fabulously kill you all because sensei is my inspiration.

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I never thought that Roma was the one who created the clowns and she is 51 years old!  I thought she is 30 years old. Like, what the fuck!? It was surprising. When boredom makes you create the clowns.  Damn this old woman.

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LIFE:

ME:

MY EFFORT AND WILL TO LIVE:

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That’s all for now and it has been too long for me to continue. I don’t know if I will be continuing this because I’m a girl full of uncertainty. I still want explanations from chapter 143 and why it has come to that. I was wondering where the theories are :( Where are you, guys? ENLIGHTEN ME!!! How can I move on in this manga full of twists?

[mamasaiko]

I love this page so much:

The subtle smile he gives to her with a loaded look of sorrow, is like he isn't only saying to her that he knows that she is pregnant, but to know that maybe he won't be able to see it being born.

[super-peace-fangirl]

Oh no I'm not ready for uncle Yomo's death! T.T We also got a flashback which is a jinx. He still hasn't told Touka and Ayato that he's their uncle :'(

[the-one-eyed-pirate-king]

Tokyo Ghoul:Re Chapter 135 Reaction

a flashback reveals that Roma is 51 years old, and she is the founder of the clowns.

when Aogiri broke into Cochlea, Roma didn’t want to join them, so Tatara tried to kill her, but she just escaped.

Roma beats up Urie, and reveals her Kakuja.

Iwao (with a freaking medieval sword) stands between Urie and Roma.

the Oggai goes berserk in the 24th ward, and Yomo tells Touka to go, because she has other things to protect. Yomo vs. Aura and Mutsuki incoming.

Touka runs into Hazuki. Touka vs. Hazuki incoming.

Afternotes: i thing Iwao and Yomo is gonna die, but their deaths will be extremely badass.

[dreamysinner]

Roma, Furuta and the End.

  Today’s chapter was a big one. I didn’t get so hyped since Furuta claimed himself has ‘’The Washuu King’’.

So, we learned A LOT today, primarily, about Roma Hoito. This girl, the Clumsy Waitress from Anteiku is a fucking SSS rate full kakuja Ghoul. She is 51 and looks 25. Also, she was the ghoul who fought with Tsuneyoshi back in the days.

So, on the first page, we get a little bit of her background, apparently, she never knew her parents and lived on the streets for a long time, she used only to eat rotting meat - how she says - to survive until she kills her first human. After her first bite, she was done for it. She began even to eat others, ghouls, she herself says that not in a day she didn’t smell the scent of blood.

She was bored, then she did something.

She is the original founder of the Clown. She created the Clowns because she wants to poke their nest. Wanted to mercilessly kill them. Want to force them to live. For her, they were simply her bread. 

The CCG and the Clowns don't know she created the Clowns, it’s part of her ‘’game’’. And we were all like: ‘’Uta is obviously the Clown leaders, look at him and’’ 

‘‘Of course not, it’s obviously Furuta, he commands them all’‘

‘‘What? Look at Donato’s mask, has a Crown on it, obviously is him’‘

Hear my words: No one is the Clown’s leaders. Roma simply created this ‘’Squad’’ because she was bored. She is the FOUNDER, not the Leader. Every Clown is a Clown because they want chaos and fun. They do what is convenient for them or what is fun.

After she was free from the Cochlea, she goes directly to Uta’s shop to hear two news, one of them was Kaneki Ken. Uta tells her about a one eyed guy was in the Kuzen’s shop (Anteiku). She rapidly gets excited about it and decides to join the shop just to get close to Kaneki and learn some things about him. And, of course, get some laughs. And the other news was... Furuta. 

In this time, Furuta (probably) wasn’t in the Ghoul Restaurant yet, so he was only affiliated with the CCG (how he says), V, Kanou and, of course, the Washuu Clan. Some people are saying that now with all this power ‘’Roma is the Final Boss’’, ‘’Furuta was just a puppet’’, ‘’The Clowns are the final boss’’ and I will say: Nor the clowns, nor Roma are the final boss. 

I’m going to be completely honest with you guys, I NEVER expected that Furuta could be ‘’manipulated’’ or something, but apparently, Roma is doing that.

Do you see this panel? ‘’Keep up the parade, my dear boy.’’ Roma is literally speaking how Furuta is her son, almost. Because she needed Furuta. Since very young, Roma wanted the pure chaos (what leads her to create the Clowns in the first place) but she needed someone for does the ‘’dirty’ work for her. Furuta is, you liking or not, is a very smart and strong person, he also has the power of manipulation and more important, he has the Washuu blood, so, was easy for him to do what he did (kill his father and take over the CCG. Furuta IS the Final Boss. Roma just helped him to make his ‘’SUPERPEACE’’ because it was going to be fun. Roma doesn’t care if she is the ‘’Final Boss’’ or not, she just wants to have fun. How herself said: ‘’I was bored.’’ She and the rest of the Clowns are helping Furuta right now because, again, IT’S FUN, you know? 

[hamliet]

The Quinxes, Kaneki, & the Need for Reconciliation

Why hello, it’s time for me to blab about the Quinxes again because I love them.

Every single original Quinx also struggles with a flaw that Kaneki is trying to overcome. The predictions offered by Ishida way back in volume 2 of :re about what the Quinx will do next pretty much lists them:

Mutsuki: will lie again

Urie: will keep his mouth shut again

Shirazu: will carry the burden again

Saiko: will sleep again

Like Mutsuki, Kaneki’s not really honest with himself, or with other people. Hide notices that he has a habit of holding his chin when he’s lying, and we see this as Haise when he claims to be happy...

...and when he’s struggling with becoming a king who’s supposed to lead ghouls. 

Mutsuki likewise has seldom been honest with himself, and his dissociative issues have only compounded this. He didn't remember killing his family, or the cats. He's telling himself he loves Sasaki and can only be happy if their entire family is back living together (which also parallels Kaneki's desire to keep those he loves close to him) even though he knows it's not going to happen. 

Both Kaneki (as Haise) and Mutsuki (as a CCG investigator) have accepted roles that were forced on them when they were in vulnerable states. Kaneki, too, had the One Eyed King role essentially forced on him by Eto and Arima, and he didn't seem to really want the responsibilities, as Ayato calls him out on.

However, I do think Kaneki's making progress in recent chapters towards accepting his role of King, as imperfect as he might be, thanks in part to his relationship with Touka.

Like Urie, Kaneki has been known to keep his mouth shut–and in particular, it tends to be detrimental to his relationships with those he cares about. It’s one of the main causes behind Kaneki’s frequent miscommunications with Touka, as seen most recently in how he doesn’t tell Touka about Yoriko’s arrest and pending execution but rather leaves the papers around for her to find. 

And we also see this again in how Kaneki has presumably not told Touka that he's aging rapidly and his prognosis looks grim. Instead, his reaction is to cling to the happiness he does have and marry Touka, which I won't lie made me extremely happy as a Touken shipper, but while I think their wedding was beautiful and fundamentally a positive development for both of them, he really needs to tell her; if he doesn't tell her soon, it's only going to hurt her when she does find out.

Urie, likewise, is unable to do what he needs to do. We see Urie being unable to make a proper decision when he's just discovered Mutsuki's fixation on Touka and by extension Yoriko.

The next chapter, Urie thinks about wanting to talk to Juuzou, Mutsuki's mentor, quite possibly about Mutsuki or maybe just about the direction of the CCG, but either way in the end Urie chooses to say nothing. 

After Yoriko's arrest, he should have confronted Mutsuki about his actions–it actually would have made way more sense to talk to Mutsuki about Yoriko rather than storming Furuta’s office, but he didn't. And going even further back, if Urie really meant it about getting Shirazu’s body back, he should have prioritized that, but he didn't. To be frank, he should also just tell Mutsuki about his feelings for him–even if Mutsuki doesn’t reciprocate, I doubt that, given the level of trust Mutsuki has in Urie, it wouldn’t benefit Mutsuki to know he’s loved. He keeps silent, and it has the same consequences it has for Kaneki: hurting everyone he loves and hurting him as well. (It’s also interesting to note that Mutsuki and Urie’s situations are inverses of each other: Mutsuki chooses to actively pursue a lie, whereas Urie knows the truth, but chooses to passively not speak up about it.)

Like Shirazu, Kaneki constantly tries to carry the burden alone. He thinks it’s his duty to protect the people close to him, but he’s actually motivated by his own selfish desire to keep them close to him. It’s a very human desire and it’s one I confess I relate to a lot personally, but within Tokyo Ghoul and :re Kaneki’s constant trying to carry the burden for others has only led to disastrous results. 

Shirazu also literally took the burden by charging at Noro to save everyone else, and he died, as Kaneki almost did at Anteiku. (This isn’t to demean Shirazu’s sacrifice by the way, but rather it's to point out the ways in which they are alike.) Even when he was alive, he focused on trying to force others to be responsible (like Saiko), which is not necessarily a negative thing for Shirazu, but for Kaneki it often becomes about control, which Touka called him out on in 120 of the original TG. Again, he's only recently starting to take some steps to move past this.

Like Saiko, sometimes Kaneki would rather sleep (i.e. ignore/postpone what he should do). Saiko, of course, had no agency when her mom signed her up for Quinx surgery, and since then has handed that agency off to others--namely, Sasaki, Shirazu, and now Urie. While she initially wondered whether it might not be right to kill ghouls, she didn't follow up on that, and only recently have we begun to see Saiko express her own desires and the determination to follow through with them, and only after her friends’ lives are in danger: first Urie when he frames out, and then when Yoriko is sentenced to death. 

However, despite Saiko's vow to talk to "Mucchy," (a nickname I am so going to use, thank you Saiko) she apparently did not before Mutsuki left for the 24th ward. Saiko has also noticed before anyone else even did that something is wrong with Mutsuki and asked him about smelling human blood, but chose not to follow it up just like she chose not to follow-up with Urie after his frame-out, presumably because those would be uncomfortable actions to take, actions that would threaten the family she loves dearly. 

Again, Saiko essentially passed the burden onto Urie here. Now, with everything that's happened to Shirazu, Yoriko, and now Urie and Mutsuki, Saiko's paying the price for her inaction. (Like Mutsuki and Urie’s situation, Saiko and Shirazu’s are inverses of each other: Saiko willingly hands over her responsibilities to others to handle, and Shirazu takes up those burdens.)

Kaneki, too, struggles with inaction. In the first TG, before his ghoulification, he essentially clung to Hide the way Saiko attaches herself to Sasaki, Shirazu, and Urie. (I love Hide and Kaneki's friendship and think it has lots of positive traits, but it also has some codependent ones as well.) And as has been demonstrated in the original TG and very recently in :re, Kaneki cannot make (admittedly horrifically hard) decisions because he doesn't want anyone's deaths on his conscience.

But of course, that only leads to two deaths on his conscience in TG. And while he’s supposed to be leading ghouls, he’s been letting them starve because he doesn’t want to have to do what he needs to do. However, recently in :re, he finally made a choice when he chose to marry Touka and go out to procure food for the ghouls he's leading, so there’s some progress.

Basically all the living Quinx are currently, like Kaneki in the end of the original TG, losing everyone and everything they care about as a result of their flaws (I covered the irony of both Mutsuki's and Urie's situations previously). But I don't think they're all necessarily doomed to tragedy. Everything seems to be hinting that Shirazu is likely to be revived, too, though in what state we don't know, and I don't think the story is going to end with Kaneki losing all of his Quinx children to their flaws--rather, I think Kaneki will overcome his flaws, and therefore it’s likely the Quinx will too. While the original Qs all parallel Kaneki, they are not Kaneki: they are fully rounded characters with their own arcs (well, Saiko doesn't have an arc yet, but I think she will, and she's still multi-dimensional)--as opposed to, say, the second-generation Quinx who are not going to have their own arcs and seem to represent something that the three living Quinx need to grow away from (Aura is essentially the personification of Mutsuki's dark side, sadistic and seeking revenge for petty reasons and as far as we know sans the brutal past and dissociative mental illness afflicting Mutsuki; Higemaru, like Urie, focuses on success, and Hsiao, like Saiko, chooses to do nothing about Important Things she knows about--namely, the Sunlit Garden). I don't have a lot of hope for most of the second-generation Quinx (maybe some for Hsiao), but who knows. The original Quinx, on the other hand--I think there is plenty of reason to hope for them.

Due to their development and due to Kaneki's arc as well (which is about reconciling his two natures and with it the world) I think Kaneki needs to reconcile with all of original Quinx--if it's possible, maybe even with a revived Shirazu before he inevitably gets to finally rest in peace--to really grow, and I think all of the Quinx need that too. He doesn't need to lose the ‘children’ he has who share his flaws: what Kaneki needs is to face them honestly, admit he has these flaws and that he does love the Quinx and knows he hurt them by leaving (instead of pretending his flaws/the Quinx don’t exist like he’s done in the past), and hopefully make peace with the three/four of them.

Which doesn't necessarily mean that I think they'll all survive, but I don't see any of them, including Mutsuki, being relegated to pure villain-who-needs-to-be-put-down status (we already have a Kaneki "what he could have become” foil who will be die as a villain in Furuta), or dying before they have the chance to reconcile with Kaneki (which is why I’m still confident Urie’s going to survive this encounter with Furuta, Roma, and Rio).

[toukadefensesquad]

touka : *breathes*

some of y’all :

[cloud111]

I’m actually really glad to hear right now that a lot of people are struggling with the storyline. I’ve admired sensei so much up until recently, it hurts to read this work and wonder why I can’t enjoy it anymore. I hope that whatever is causing the plot to fall short is temporary, he’s an amazing storyteller and I’d hate to lose that.

[justsumfangurlmind]

UMMMM AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT OF THIS??!!