Hello Anon and thanks for reading. 🙂 Please check her tag for more posts about her because I’m literally addressing all of your questions in the very first page of her tag so far. Here’s a quick mad summary tho:
Roma = Itori’s “protégée” and Roma = 50+ years old
=> so maybe Itori is older than she looks which would go with her introduction when she yelled that she was an old lady (joke or not?)
similarly Yomo couldn’t answer Kaneki when he asked ‘what kind of person’ Itori was and Yomo “doesn’t understand jokes” according to Uta, which is making me highly suspicious of her
no real idea whether Itori is blood-related to Hide, Rio or the kids in the 24th ward, but Itori’s mask has the 4 deck symbols (and each symbol = one kagune type in the TG trump cards) and 3 dots:
Rio has 4 kagune types
Hide and the 24th ward kids have the 3 dots
Roma probably came from the 24th ward as well
so maybe she’s a mentor figure to kids from the 24th ward, if she’s not blood related to Hide, Rio and/or the 3 kids Ayato found?
in that case she might be the Witch to Hide’s role of the “Witch’s servant” in that childhood play with Kaneki, which would also fit because he’s very good at collecting info
also she knows a lot about hybrid pregnancies, looked sad (?) while speaking about it and the cover of TG ch34 may depict a funeral for someone close to Itori
maybe she lost some of/all her own hybrid babies??
thus maybe that’s why she’s the mentor/older sister figure of kids who were originally from the 24th ward? => they become a part of her information network
I’m personally hoping she’ll have a role to play towards Touka’s own hybrid pregnancy
Please go read @eto-when-and-where‘s post: In The Penisman by Sensei, Itori’s lookalike was the mother of Hide’s lookalike
((and also she was the wife of the Penisman I think??? which is super funny because Uta once ate a dick in canon and ’you are what you eat’ lmao => /! be careful, with Ishida I can’t be sure that it isn’t actually going to become relevant at some point))
“naga” => link to the Nagaraj?? who most likely has a link to the Washuus?
“chika” => link to Washuu Yoshitoki’s real first name (”Chika”)??
“hide” => nah nothing
“yoshi” => link to the kanji (same reading) that every Washuu director add to their given name (Chika => Yoshitoki, Nimura => Kichimura)??
so if Hide somehow is blood-related to Itori, then maybe his dad is Washuu Yoshitoki?? Or Itori is just a mentor figure to some kids from the 24th ward like Hide could be.
There you go, pick up whatever crack theory you prefer LMAO! As I said 10 days ago, it’s really just thoughts at the moment, nothing can be certain, but for now I’m personally more rooting for a symbolic link between Hide and Itori (her being an older sister/mentor figure and teaching him how to gather info), rather than a blood relation.
It’s really involved, but has to do with the theory that Hide is Rio’s mysterious “big brother” and a ton of other subtleties that Ishida has worked in, including:
Kijima cutting out Yuuma’s tongue, being maimed in general
Hide speaks in Playstation symbols – Rio and Kijima are crossover characters from the TG videogame, Jail, and there is an ambiguous ending where the brother may not be dead
Also, in the light novel Days, Hide became friends with a ghoul named Ikuma who’s adoptive parents were human. That could be a sign that Hide’s family (or vice versa) adopted one or the other.
Mutsuki cutting out tongues as his calling card
Mutsuki (a Kaneki lookalike) ripping the jaw/tongue out of Haise (a Hide lookalike)
The severe focus on Kaneki’s right eye towards the end of the sewer, V14, and the eye Uta was holding at the end of the first series
We’ve got scars on Hide’s throat. We know he can say a little bit, although not without great difficulty. So, best-case scenario, that means his tongue and jaw are still intact, and it’s only his larynx that’s been crushed/ripped out.
Worst-case scenario, he had his throat ripped, taking a mass of muscle and skin, parts of his jaw, cheek and tongue along with it.
Medium-case scenario, it’s a little of both. Although, you can’t say “M” without both of your lips, and you can’t say “N” clearly without your whole tongue.
in the raws, it looked like it took him a moment to force out the “n”. It’s like “ahmogh…n”
How convenient, having two perfectly functioning swords – that aren’t quinques but that apparently can cut into ghoul flesh just as effortlessly – hanging unused on the CCG crest in the Bureau Director’s office…
But seriously, I wonder what’s the deal with those swords. I wonder if they have anything to do with the katanas that the some of the first Washuu are seen wielding:
They don’t look much alike, but maybe the material of the blade is the same? It would make sense for such swords to be held on a wall as part of the symbol of the Commission of Counter Ghoul, if that were the case. It’s be like a hunter hanging their favourite rifle on their wall.
Or maybe it’s finally time we learn about those mysterious bycicles?
and the material of those wheels, since there’s been foreshadowing of there being something special about them?
I’m really curious about this
Hope you don’t mind me adding, but I think a big part of Kuroiwa Sr’s “trick” was to hit slice Rio in the eyes (Yamori said the membrane was a weak point in a ghoul’s defense)
and then– being part of the .1% of humans that can fight a ghoul barehanded– cracking him with sheer blunt force unguarded across the face,
literally shattering all the bones in the front of his skull (which is why his face swelled up right away) before choking him to death.
^more and more and more ghoul/snake themes
I’m not sure if there was anything particularly special about the swords in the CCG’s crest, but it definitely feels like an interesting lead regarding V’s katanas and how they use them, plus a little more on some of that sweet ghoul biology :O
one of the most direct possible hints at scarecrow being connected to rio and tg jail is the fact that he speaks through the form of playstation symbols ㅡ tg jail can only be played on a ps vita. also if i remember correctly, tg jail was released right after the auction arc (in which scarecrow first made his appearance), as it transitioned into the rose arc and kijima’s introduction to the story (and ultimately, the transition of tg jail into canon).
rio/shikorae also speaks through the use of symbols (alt codes), so that might be another subtle hint at their connection.
@chiselian told me about the various endings in the scenario book in which it hints that kijima didn’t actually kill rio’s older brother and instead, kept him in an isolated warehouse. rio goes to the warehouse and although the scene’s description is ambiguous, it hints that there was another presence, alive (movement within the dark). i think this was also the ending that was titled “coffee for two”, where rio ends up having a cup of coffee with an unknown individual (his brother) at the very end.
I really hope these two are actually pals. Rio and Takizawa were both such precious children. Look what happened to them. I really hope they’re in this crazy, crazy boat together.
I’d like to think they are. When you think back to the original series, sharing meals was always how Takizawa would express friendship towards others.
Having dinner with Amon.
Trying to share crackers with Amon. (And being rejected.)
Having lunch with Hide.
And the one time we see his family, it’s while he’s eating his mother’s cooking. So while we never clicked on it before, Takizawa had a lot of associations with food in the original series and the warmth/kindness involved in sharing meals with others.
As a Ghoul, he seems to be something of a Binge Eater that enjoys chowing down on large numbers of people. But here he is, offering to share a meal with Shikorae just like the old days.
[credit: a big thank you to @chiselian
for providing me with the information and translations based on her own
physical copy of the tg jail scenario book, along with the image of the
back cover shown above. this theory/meta also consists of various
components in which we both have conversed and agreed upon.]
in
the tg jail scenario book, there is a hidden illustration located on
the very back cover and can only be seen if the removable cover is taken
off. the hidden illustration is of the image on the right (shown
above), which reveals only the torso of whom we would initially assume
to be rio/jail (who is on the front cover, shown on the left). however, there is another
character that is nearly identical (physical appearance-wise) to the
supposed hidden rio/jail and has recently appeared in :re. there is the
possibility that this “new” character may be the actual rio/jail that
exists in canon.
so, apparently shikorae is featured on one of the covers(?) of the jail scenario book and based on kijima’s character bio in volume 5, kijima was still chasing after rio/jail in :re (which would mean rio/jail currently exists in canon).
…..is it possible that shikorae is actually rio/jail?
it is likely,yes. in the book there is a strange route in which rio does not go to anteiku at all after escaping coachlea,someone asks him “if he wants to live or die” and he responds that he wants to live,the person then helps him get up and they go somewhere.
thats about it. this could mean that that person could be eto and he joined aogiri in the canon manga
Guys, don’t do this to me! Now I can’t unsee the hair, and the stripes on their clothes.
Fandom: we want Rio ! Ishida: here you go 😀
Every. Single. Time.
stop this now
It’s too late…
Taken from the Tokyo Ghoul: Jail scenario book.
:’)))..let’s hope the fandom is wrong this time…but a genius like him would do something like this
midnight-in-town 