i love how Itori is watching Uta and Yomo fight like [x]
hey guys, on the subject of “Yomo won against Uta???”, I know the chapter isn’t out yet, but I just want to say that it makes sense considering the recurring themes of TG + the fact that Ishida ironically debunked the power ranking
shonen
trope a while ago.
Keep in mind, this is why Yomo fights…
vs this is the reason for the Clowns (and thus Uta)
so this is yet one more reminder that hope & love >> despair & loneliness in TG.
I strongly doubt that in terms of raw strength Yomo is stronger than Uta (not that I think there is that much of a gap between them, but all in all Uta is probably physically stronger). However Yomo’s reasons for fighting (and wanting to win against Uta) in this precise moment make him stronger than Uta who feels mostly loneliness if he’s not playing around.
It’s Mutsuki winning over Seidou during the Rushima arc all over again, it’s not about raw strength but about what makes you strong enough to win. EDIT: to word this better, I’d rather say that ultimately I think “who wins a fight” is directly correlated to whom the defeat might bring more development/insight.
I actually wonder if the bad condition of RC’s body, i.e. the severe damages in his intestines caused by OC’s struggle of getting the ring, has something to do with the fact that RC (aka Lord Sirius) was dependent on blood transfusion…?
So this is just something that came to me and I could totally be imaging this but considering yana’s love of symbolism I figured I’d mention it. Does our ciel’s reflection in the ring here look like a funeral portrait to anyone else or is it just me.
The beginning of chapter 139 once again shows Sebastian that he will take our!Ciel’s soul once the contract has been fulfilled.
Our!Ciel initially protests as Sebastian had already eaten his brother’s soul.
Sebastian explains that real!Ciel’s soul was merely the price for him to manifest in this world and not his compensation for his services.
After only a brief moment of our!Ciel appearing shocked/frightened at giving up his soul, he then calmly says that he understands.
This surprises Sebastian, and he says that this was usually when people panic.
What makes this interesting is that Sebastian had this expectation that our!Ciel would panic, based on past experiences – and Sebastian had gone out of his way to act/appear very dangerous and menacing. In other words, he had thought that this would be how our!Ciel would act, and he had simply played into this expectation.
Look at how Sebastian had hovered over our!Ciel and allowed more of his demonic features to show with his eyes and teeth.
And this isn’t even considering how Sebastian had first appeared in real!Ciel’s blood, took the form of multiple animals, and had brutally slaughtered the cult members. Of course, our!Ciel had ever right to panic.
Sebastian does have a basic understanding about humanity and how people usually act – especially those who might summon him. He plays into those expectations with a certain grace and mastery. He’s good at it.
It’s been stated numerous times, however, that our!Ciel is not the typical type of person who usually makes a contract with a demon.
So, what does all this mean? Well, I’ve written before about expectations here. Sebastian says he acts like a beast because that’s what our!Ciel expects of him even if he actually prefers playing the part of butler. At the same time, it’s understandable that our!Ciel thinks that Sebastian likes to play a part of a beast because that’s how Sebastian acted upon their first meeting.
This plays more into the idea of expectations. Sebastian expected our!Ciel to panic and be afraid, so he acted more terrifying and threatening, but our!Ciel didn’t act as Sebastian had anticipated. It’s no wonder that our!Ciel fascinates Sebastian so much. He doesn’t act in a manner that Sebastian expects.
So, Sebastian plays into expectations while our!Ciel continues to act almost in opposition.
Watch Gintama guys. It’s an anime about a single dad that tries to hide his horrible past from his two adoptive children all the while getting support from them, his adoptive mom, police boyfriend, terrorist boyfriend, terminator girlfriend, and gay sister. The interactions between these colourfull blend of cast is really what makes Gintama a worthwhile watch.
Long story short, it turns out that this far in :Re, there are still fans who get confused about the timeline that we were given (I’m aware that overlapping different hints is not always easy though, so no pressure).So, due to a certain post I saw yesterday and that I can’t get out of my head, I decided to make a recap post on the subject to hopefully clear up some confusion.
(Please note that all of this is based on the assumption that the timeline I mentioned is accurate/can be trusted.)
Firstly, there is supposedly no need to wonder about the identity of the Nagaraj who’s a kakuja ghoul who went on a rampage 100 years ago or so, because…
we already know he’s the One Eyed Washuu Matsuri mentioned in ch151 and we even saw what he looked like on the same occasion.
Of course, one could argue that Matsuri is lying/doesn’t know the real truth but… (personal opinion here) it’s not really the kind of plot twists Sensei seems to work with in general?
So, without mentioning theories about a link between Uta & the One Eyed Washuu (if just because of the resemblance in ch151), while I can understand the need to imagine more complicated plot twists, I find it hard to consider that, say Itori, could be the Nagaraj of 100 years ago when we already saw who he supposedly was in ch151.
However, again considering the timeline we were given throughout :Re, since there is another OEG/OEK that started a second rebellion after the Nagaraj’s but before Eto’s, I think it’s legit to wonder about their identity because it’s bound to be addressed eventually.
I personally have 3 suspects at the moment:
Noro
Itori
and Donato
(since this post is a little late, considering the next chapter is soon, more below)
For Noro, I already explained why I thought it was a possibility along with the timeline here.
For Itori, I advanced “arguments” in different posts [x][x][x][x] but to make a really general and superficial summary (something I actually put together for @hamliet who I think love the idea of Itori being a OEG):
This is obviously not something to take super seriously (actually I made this set as some kind of joke compared to the one I had made for Uta a long time ago), but I think that with the posts I linked to above, there is at least a small basis to consider the idea.
In general the second OEG of the timeline was less addressed than the Nagaraj, because they were defeated by the newly created V and didn’t have the opportunity to go on a rampage like the One Eyed Washuu or even Kaneki himself.
So far, Kaneki mentioned them in ch121, Nishiki in ch128 and maybe Roma briefly in ch135 (when she said that she went to Cochlea after “the grand party” and Roma being 51 years old, she would have only bee, born in time for the second rebellion), but as far as I could notice that’s it, which is not a lot compared to the One Eyed Washuu/Nagaraj.
Of course, that’s not the only theory about Itori’s identity and past, another popular one being that she’s a breeder (like Rize was supposed to be), possibly already alive by the time the Nagaraj went on a rampage (@cirrocumulus-cloud made a good recap post on the subject after the latest chapter and you can read it here).
[Additional note: the ending cards of Root A episode 8, which was about Yoshimura’s backstory, were
So as always make whatever you want from that, but Eto and Kaneki are OEGs, there are theories that Uta could have a link to the One Eyed Washuu, so there might be a reason Sensei decided to make a card for Itori at the same time too]
Finally, for Donato, it gets slightly more complicated and symbolic…
…knowing that this is the biggest hint, as far as I’m concerned.
We already know thanks to Itori that the Clowns are ghouls tired of despairing, which means that it would seem legit that Donato lost more than Amon and his orphanage throughout his life, before he ended up in Cochlea for 18 years or so.
However, despite that, he’s also the suspect I am the least sure about because:
I don’t think he’s a Washuu (not that all OEGs have to be Washuus, look at Kaneki and Eto), but he’s also not Japanese, so it’s hard to see why a Russian OEG would come to Japan to launch a rebellion if he’s neither.
Not to ramble, but I also don’t think he’s such a strong ghoul. I mean, he’s definitely SS rated but I think his “cloning abilities” are possibly triggered by ghouls who were hinted they could be Washuus (and thus “their blood holds profound power”, by Kanou, ch149), namely Uta for the Clowns’ raid arc and Nico healing him in the last chapter.
best theoretical “proof” I have is that he apparently couldn’t make a clone of himself in order to escape Urie’s father and run away with Amon, which is how he ended up in Cochlea.
Nonetheless, there is also some symbolism that might vouch he’s still a likely candidate for the second OEG of the timeline, but since this isn’t really something I’m good at, I’ll let @linkspooky explain! :3
“Today’s the release date of GFantasy May issue! (This month’s) Kuroshitsuji is rather short due to the *page (limit) of the comicbook. I drew a bit too much last month. In this month, (Ciel’s flashback) will eventually tie in with Sebastian’s cinematic record in the Luxury Liner arc and the details of the origin of Sebastian and Ciel’s master-servant relationship will be revealed. – Toboso”
*Note: A comicbook usually has a set amount of pages (around 170 pages) and since ch139 is the last chapter that will be included in the coming comicbook vol.27, Yana had to adjust the number of pages of this chapter to make it fit in the comicbook.
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