Yeah! In addition to those two instances, there was also ch 125 where he dropped the ‘-chan’ honorific… although I guess he was a bit preoccupied there
I don’t think it was a mistake or Ishida trying to foreshadow anything in particular, but rather a progression of Kaneki and Touka’s relationship that was bound to happen sooner or later. Generally, couples refer to each other by just their first name alone because it’s more intimate. Except for these 2 giant idiots of course 😂😂😂
Kaneki still uses the ‘-chan’ honorific with Touka. Touka still calls him by his last name.
It reminds me of this shoujo j-drama I’ve watched. The main couple have known each other for years from high school and when they eventually get married, the girl still calls her husband “LastName-kun” out of years of habit and because she’s too embarrassed to say his first name.
It’s Touka and Kaneki’s first relationship so they’re both still finding their feet in all this, and with Touka getting flustered all the time over intimacy she would definitely be embarrassed saying ‘Ken’. To me, Kaneki’s little ‘Toukachan’ is super endearing so I would actually be sad to see it go completely, but Touka calling him ‘Ken’ for the first time is sure to be a big cheesy cute moment and I can’t wait 😈
Hi Anon! And sure 🙂 I can give you my ranking, although I’m not including the current arc, since we aren’t 100% sure of what’s going on yet and so my opinion on it is only as of ch135.
Campania arc
Best arc so far without a doubt, because of major revelations about UT and Lizzie who became a hundred time more complex. Radically different too in general because the Queen had nothing to do with Ciel’s involvement. Action, flashback, drama, feels, Ed’s introduction, more of Frances…
👍
👍
Weston arc
I know the cricket match ended up not making this arc a favorite of many but, regardless of these few chapters, I loved the entire arc. Of course the fact that the whole cast showed up (UT, the servants, the Midfords, Lau, Soma…) really helped, but in general I like when Ciel has to interact and socialize with many different people, so the school setting was great. 👍
Circus arc
Very good arc. First arc with a real depth which showed how dark and complex Kuro could go so I liked it a lot. Can’t say I was a fan of Joker and co tho’ but then again, they’re dead so I don’t really care.
Murders at manor arc
I’m not fond of locked room mysteries or the thriller genre in general, but I liked the introduction of the war subplot and the complex scheme Ciel and Seb had to prepare in order to counter the Queen’s “surprise”. That’s also the only real look we got of Lau’s true character so I liked it a lot in this aspect too.
Green Witch arc
It’s an interesting and important arc, there is no denying that and I really like Sieglinde & Wolfram but… the true settings behind the supernatural first approach of the arc were too convenient for my taste, so meh. In the end it’s Dee’s involvement, as well as little revelations like the family tree or the shinigamis, that saved the arc for me.
Jack the ripper arc
Good arc but you can still notice that Yana had not worked out everything yet so it’s enjoyable but not as smooth as other arcs. It’s also too bad that we didn’t get to know Madam Red slightly more before she had to be killed and I hope that Ciel will confront Grell about that one day.
Curry arc
I really love Soma and Agni, but the tone of the arc was slightly too different for me to really find it as good as the others. Lau and Ran Mao are as fishy as ever though, just like Victoria already back then, which is was the most interesting part for me.
Everything before the Jack the ripper arc
no much to comment there: Yana wasn’t sure yet that Kuro would be a long serialization so that explains why the tone of the first chapters is very different from the rest of the series and not particularly interesting, at least in my opinion.
I hope I managed to satisfy your curiosity Anon! 🙂 Please have a very enjoyable weekend and thanks for passing by :3
omg, LMAO, you’re slightly late but that’s okay hon’, here’s the perfect gift for you which definitely represented every TG fan’s realization at one point or another xDD
EDIT: that was the very first hint we got that he was the master troll of TG honestly. Ever since then, my love for him knows no boundary xDD
Hi Anon! My day is going well, thank you very much, I hope yours is too. :33
Your ask is not irrelevant, I definitely see what you’re talking about and I even received an ask or two on the subject. 🙂 Seeing as they were copy-pasted asks sent to ten blogs at the same time though and that it’s something that really puts me in a foul mood, I didn’t bother answering at the time.
Anyway, is it true? I don’t know. Every month the same cycle starts, because some well-meaning fans write warnings in the main tags about keeping negative opinions out of Yana’s twitter. Not having a twitter account, I personally don’t have any way to know if Yana receives disrespectful comments every month, but that’s not the point.
Phase 2 of the cycle is when some other fans see those fair warnings and think that they were written because Yana was already sent badly written criticism or complaining, so they in turn start ranting about how disrespectful it is to send mean messages to Yana
(which is a fair point there again), even though no one knows for sure if Yana really received hate or not.
Meanwhile, approximately
at
the same time, other fans who didn’t like the chapter this month will explain why in the main tags
(which is 100% their right), but generally this is when the idea that Yana received hate inflates because not every opinion is written nicely. This in return accentuates fans being pissed at other fans who supposedly are pissed enough at Yana to send her disrespectful comments.
And it is the same cycle for every. new. chapter. in. every. fandom => So did Yana receive hate this month or any month before? Considering that not everyone knows what respect is, sadly it is indeed possible.
However, the important point I want to make with my answer is that this whole cycle is irrelevant in the first place because, fair warnings or not, someone who doesn’t know what respect is will not give a care and will go complain anyway. And we’re giving these so-called fans way too much attention for something so petty and pointless, which is what always bothers me in all this.
So please be as mighty as Yana-sensei, Anon :)) Generally, people who go complain rudely are from the Western fandom anyway, but I believe Yana doesn’t really understand English which means that she’s probably just shrugging or thinking these are compliments 😀
Anyway Anon, best part to keep in mind is that these people’s actions are way too insignificant for you to even waste your time with them. Giving them attention and calling them out on what they did (in the event of Yana really receiving such comments) is just playing their game and making them think that their argument has some kind of validity, when not in the slightest.
In the first place, a rude criticism of a story that’s not even finished lacks credibility. xD I mean, it’s as if I was in the middle of baking a cake, it wasn’t even cooked yet and someone arrived just to tell me “it tastes bad” so
¯_(ツ)_/¯
See what I mean? There is a difference between not liking every aspect of a series you follow (for example, God knows that I can’t bear Kuro’s slow pacing sometimes), or simply not liking the story anymore, and having misplaced conceptions that you’re allowed or required to go shit all over someone’s hard work when the story doesn’t go the way you want it to.
TL;DR I don’t know if Yana-sensei is receiving hate and I don’t think it matters. Yana is going to go forward anyway and simply for that she’s awesome. :))
I hope it answers your question Anon, so sorry for rambling! :3 Please have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Anon! Ah actually, to be fair it’s not something he did because he wanted to…
…but because it’s a tradition he owed to his tenants. Besides, even if the party turned out to be different in a good way, I’m not sure he enjoyed it a lot considering he was worried about Lizzie:
That being said, ch120 aside…
I agree that his words of ch132 were meant to insist that, even in present time, he’s more selfless than most characters or readers give him credit for. Something that UT even commented on during the Weston arc:
…as he was saving Harcourt from the bizarre dolls without any second thought.
And I, too, wish someone would hug him right now, but Lizzie is currently not present and busy with her own predicament, Soma is in shock and Sieglinde doesn’t have this type of proximity with him… Soon though. Soon I’m sure someone will comfort him. :3
Awww Anon, thank you so much! ❤
As I said I really don’t mind writing them to be this long and rereading them from time to time
(since a lot of things in Kuro are linked), but to be honest I always question if they really make sense, since I’m often considering many different versions of the same theory in order to make it work with canon elements with already have.
Anyway, not to ramble, thank you very much for reading and for such nice words! 😀
Please have a very enjoyable weekend Anon-chan, wishing you the best! ^3^
Hello! Ah, very interesting question. I’ll answer it but I just want to precise that my thoughts on the subject change pretty often, so take the current version with a grain of salt. 🙂
I’ll tell you what though, if Klaus isn’t mistaken…
then yes, I think UT acted as one of the evil nobles and full-time mortician ever since Vincent’s time as the Watchdog. So basically he did the same thing for Vincent than he did for Ciel until the Campania arc: info broker, autopsies, taking care of dead bodies…
I think it’s rather clear he liked his job as a mortician
since he even took care of dead bodies from hospitals, both because of the job in itself and the position that it brought him as a center part of the Watchdog’s investigations. However I wonder if the info broker and doing autopsies parts weren’t Watchdog-only.
Anyway, I always wondered if the situation wasn’t different for when Claudia was the Watchdog though and he became a mortician full time only after she died. Sometimes I even wonder if Vincent had any idea about the ties between his mom and UT, if Klaus is right and UT is the second of Vincent’s evil nobles.
To be honest, not so long ago I initially thought that if UT was one of Claudia’s evil nobles too (or just simply close to her), it would be logical for him to already be by Vincent’s side when he became the Watchdog at 15 years old. However, ever since ch131 I changed my mind.
This chapter kinda confirmed that UT’s main focus definitely is “the Watchdog”: he apparently met our!Ciel when he was 7, he didn’t bother sending gifts for the twins’ birthday unlike Klaus and Dee, which shows he kept more of a distance than other evil nobles and which contrasts with how much he seems to care for this family (or with sketches like this).
I’m not saying that Vincent didn’t want him at home or anything, just that UT could have made some kind of promise to himself and/or Claudia about keeping an eye on the Watchdogs that would follow in her footsteps, which is why he never involved himself more than that with anyone besides the Watchdog, ever since Claudia died.
Besides, it’s something I pointed out before, but I wouldn’t be surprised if UT’s strange appearance was, like, 30% depression and 70% on purpose which would imply that he doesn’t want any reason to fit in either. I mean, we all saw it, he cleaned up good during the Weston arc, so there must be a reason he’d rather constantly act the part of a creeper, especially when he’s “the most beautiful character” of the entire cast.
All that to say, right now I think Claudia’s death was a transition in UT’s history with the P family and he became the character we met in ch6 probably within the first 3 years of Vincent’s time as the Watchdog. And in that case, Klaus is not wrong and UT officially met “Earl Vincent Phantomhive” after he became ”the Undertaker” and after Vincent had already tricked Diedrich.
There you go. That’s my current take on it, which is if UT’s not Cedric K. Ros lmao. I’ll spare you the very complicated versions with this additional detail. xD
Sorry for the confusing explanation, but I hope it helps a little, even if it is completely theoretical! Have a very enjoyable weekend Anon. 🙂
I have been sitting on this theory for a long time and I’m finally going to type it out.
DISCLAIMER: This is my personal opinion. In no way am I stating what I say here is canon or completely accurate. if you disagree with my opinion, that’s perfectly fine! Everyone has a different interpretation, but if you are going to send me messages trying to argue points of view with me or send me hate messages; please do us both a favor and just don’t even bother with it.
I honestly think the strength of the Ackerman family was the result of an experiment to test and see if the titan serum would work on people outside of the Eldian bloodlines. It was a failed experiment in the sense that none of them became titans, but the end result was their insane strength, their rapidly healing bodies, super high stamina, etc. Basically, a family of super human’s who carry the experimental titan gene in their DNA that can be passed down to anyone having Ackerman blood, but it has to be activated in some kind of dire situation which is the catalyst of having said power.
They have to have a reason to use it, and loyally choosing to follow someone else and dedicate their strength seems to enhance their abilities. Seems like a very fitting sub-product to a king that holds the power of a god with the sword of the world at his back. If they dedicated themselves to him, surely they would be an unstoppable force. Which was true, but he quickly realized that because they weren’t Eldian, he couldn’t control them or wipe their memories with the coordinate regardless of the titan gene. Thus, he had them hunted and killed.
I mean… They had to find out that the titan serum’s only worked on Eldian’s one way or another, right? I think the Ackerman’s are the result of this, which would explain a lot of things. One of them being why Zeke refers to them as a “sub-product of titan science”.
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