When Reiner told Gabi and the rest of his family about the 104th, he described Mikasa as someone who’s blindly loyal to Eren: a boy “whose head is filled only with revenge.”
He didn’t refer to Mikasa (or Eren) by name, and I doubt Gabi knows the name of the solider who saved her anyway, but I find it rather poignant that Gabi was first “introduced” to Mikasa as someone who’s blindly loyal to a child’s need for revenge no matter what. Given the chance to prove Reiner’s words true, Mikasa instead saves Gabi, of all people, from a child’s revenge—instinctively, immediately, and without hesitation.
So, remember how in the Murder arc, when Sebastian and Ciel framed Karl Woodley, and Charles Gray hauled him off for “Scotland Yard” to handle it?
Remember how the “police wagon” that took him away was actually being driven by Charles Phipps and John Brown?
(Vol 11 pg 117)
Remember how Charles Gray killed Woodley while he was in that wagon?
So I wonder who’s driving the wagon Sebastian and Ciel are in…
(Ch 144 pg 8)
Abberline says he’ll question Our Ciel at the station, but he already knows what our young master’s involvement was. I’m sure Abberline has some alternative plan to make sure Our Ciel isn’t actually imprisoned.
But if someone else has different plans, and drives the wagon away from Scotland Yard and Abberline’s protection, things could get much more interesting.
i never paid enough attention to this until i suddenly remembered the scene when griffith tried to raise his sword, but the sword symbolism and how it represents the casca x guts x griffith relationship and how it developed through the golden age arc and how griffith lost casca’s admiration and devotion??? i mean
I have this theory that there’s a ccg facility (like the sunlit garden) down there and Arima would have to lead the whack-a-mole mission (and any others in that ward) so they wouldn’t suspect anything. Idk I just think it would be interesting
OH MAN LET ME TELL YOU-
I am almost completely sure that the entrance to V’s headquarters is below Tokyo, and through it is the only way into the Sunlit Garden.
First, V14 is modeled after a real place:
It’s Tokyo’s underground discharge channel, which helps the city control flooding in the rainy season. It’s a series of chambers, tunnels, and pumps that runs about 4 miles long beneath several prefectures. The part where Arima and Kaneki fought is called the “Underground Temple” on tours.
As Arima said, “no ghoul can pass V14″– probably because something is hidden beyond it. And although Ishida probably took some liberties outside of the Temple (tourists aren’t allowed to see the tunnels, etc) he put similar pillars where Arima and Furuta met with Kaiko.
they do reach the ceiling in other panels
To the right is pair of gigantic doors with what appears to be the likeness of the CCG’s dove-wing emblem on them. There still isn’t much we know about Garden, but light being shone through a dark passage/doorway appears to be another one of it’s motifs:
NP! it’s an underground ward dug out by the “old ghouls” of Tokyo. There isn’t much known about it, other than the fact that it’s very large and labyrinthine, and has an extremely high concentration of ghouls (which means more cannibalism).
Eto was raised there by Noroi, and it’s where the first OEK apparently came from. Arima has used “an emergency in the 24th ward” once or twice to duck out of missions like the Aogiri raid. Apparently there’s an entrance through V14…
It’s been a bit of a looming presence in the manga for a while– something big is going to happen down there, I think 😐
Volume 8′s cover of Arima also has him hugging his knees in the dark, with a room full of light being opened on him
So yeah, even though we saw Arima letting that moth go out of a window (with the flowers and things inside???), I have reason to believe the only way out of the Garden is through that massive underground hall they spoke to Kaiko, into V14, though the 24th Ward, and up into the city.
My guess is that the kids are trained in the 24th ward among the many violent, powerful ghouls that live there. Getting through to V14 is a literal rite of passage to “””freedom”””.
Actually, seeing Ken-totally-not-an-Uta-clone-Kaneki getting his head cut off this chapter has put my mind at ease, because it provides a way for that art to make sense without requiring the real Kaneki’s head to fall off.
Touka’s probably going to have a big role in playing up Kaneki’s ‘death’ for the Ghoul community as a heroic martyr, turning him into a legend that far surpassed the perception of the original man, especially since heroes always look better in posterity. And all of this will be set up for the miraculous ‘resurrection’ of the One-Eyed King, completing his image as a messianic figure. Kaneki will seem heaven-sent, and all the Tokyo Ghouls will flock towards Goat, swelling his numbers to the thousands.
That’s the opportunity Kaneki sees in all this. A death is bad for morale, but a resurrection is a godsend.
This is probably a silly thing to point out, but the area Furuta’s standing in throughout this scene is reminiscent of a cage. From what I could gather from the pictures, this is where the person in command stands, since it’s a far off, higher place that looks out over the area everyone else is in, but still…
There’s something quite profound about the CCG members standing below Furuta, clapping and cheering together, while Furuta stands alone in a cage, separated, higher than the rest of them, and hiding an ugly smile.
midnight-in-town 