A small observation but it’s interesting how this year’s Amon illustration looks in comparison to last year’s.
He’s shed his robes, and not only that but the cross around his neck as well. If you look in both pictures his ghoul eye is revealed by the red coloring of his iris, but in the first one it’s much more obvious than in the second.
I wonder if it’s a reference to the fact that Amon has now thrown his across away and Seidou has taken it instead.
However, considering that Amon’s ghoul side is more concealed in the second picture and he’s gone back to wearing the exact same clothes he did when he was in the CCG, mirroring his trump card’s outfit even almost exactly.
It makes me wonder if the new birthday art is a sign of his regression. The last twitter art that Ishida drew of Amon, as well as his volume 9 cover both show an Amon that’s much closer to his ghoul side.
There’s even a shining red in the eyes of this one as well. The Amon drawn this year however on the surface looks like a return to his normal form, his robes have been shed and he looks much better put together.
In a way Amon’s received exactly what he wanted, he got to return to the CCG and fight for the right cause again.
Having found the right cause to finally fight for, it seems that he’s rid himself of his emptiness and is able to fight once more without losing control as he did against the Q’s, and during the lab raid.
As I’ve said many times in the past though the sin that the cross symbolized for Amon was ignorance.
Perhaps, mirroring Kaneki’s own arc when he was presented with Re: as an illusory return to Anteiku which later turned out to be false as :Re fell, and Irimi and Koma the two people Kaneki saved died far out of his sight once more we’ll witness the same thing with Amon in the next few chapters.
Amon, wearing a suit again just like he did in his days as a dove, allowed to fight on the side of the CCG that’s now fighting unquestionably for the right thing is shown an illusory return to his days as an investigator where he knew what to fight for and was not plagued by the emptiness he had on the inside.
However, that illusory return should fall apart the same as all the others have. Amon’s no longer carrying the cross that is the symbol of his sin of ignorance, he’s marked with it in one drawing and free from it in the other. Without the cross it’s easy for him to fall back into the illusion.
Anyway, this was my daily dose of overanalysis but as I said with the appearance of Donato it’s likely we’ll get something from Amon in the next few chapters.
Which is why Ishida’s decision to draw Amon looking almost exactly like he did in og tg, instead of his slightly changed appearance in :Re was so interesting to me.
His change in hair color is probably due to Marie Antoinette Syndrom.It designates the condition in which scalp hair suddenly turns white in response to certain triggers. In Kaneki’s case it was a huge amount of
physical and mental
stress.It’s a quite rare condition, though. That being said the Anime portrayed Kaneki’s hair color change TOTALLY wrong. The hair hasn’t changed in a moment. Kaneki was being tortured 2 or 3 times everyday for over 10 days. The Manga has shown us his hair gradually turning white while he also loses his mind.
After the timeskip, his white hair is now adorned by black streaks which have grown out from the center of his head. Natural hair growth. However, it has happened over years.
To hype or not to hype, that is the question. However, I don’t want to ruin the ongoing hype, but the hair of Kaneki, Haise (or whatever you want him to be) hasn’t turned full black. “Blood… my skull is split and I taste honey.” (Haise, :re Chapter 53) Kanae repeatedly kicked him in the head, he cracked his skull and that’s why his hair is covered in blood now. Most Mangas have a black-and-white style, so his hair has shown to be black because of the blood. It’s not black. There is no realistic spell to change your hair color in a whimp. Ishida-sensei wouldn’t stretch it so far. It’s unrealistic.
Don’t get confused! We could consider it (dark) red, but it’s only temporary. Akaneki, lulz. Ishida has frequently used different hair colors as a mechanism to differentiate character development and
characterization, because it has an associated symbolism.
￭ Kaneki’s/Haise’s(?) hair is covered in blood = (dark) red = Males: Red (temper or an outgoing, aggressive personality) is resilient; you seek to survive at all costs. The color is associated with both life and death in psychology, because it is connected with blood.
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