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20200407 Ishida’s personal project manga

I’ve been gone for a while because I’ve been so busy with school and with everything’s that happening worldwide, but I’m almost done my semester! I’m not sure if Ishida has free time because he’s done his work for JJ, or because of COVID-19 emergency declaration in Japan a few hours ago, but I’m happy to see him back for more content :)

First tweet (X):

I’ll have free time in a little while, so I’m thinking of making a new personal manga during April.

Planning to do it over here. @sotonamix

See you later then…

Second tweet (on his new side account) (X):

hope you like it

Third tweet (X):

(※btw I haven’t drawn anything yet)

…I was thinking, showing people the process as I’m making it and such.

Fourth-sixth tweets (of the actual sketches) (X/X/X):

#DesigningTheMainCharacter

Seventh tweet (X)

I drew a bit as a breather.

Ability-wise, I’d like either a duo or trio.

If I go with the duo, I want to add a girl or a senpai (superior) character.

Final tweet (QRTing his 3rd tweet) (X):

This is the kind of content.

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If you check his Twitter (@sotonami) he’s posting a bit about it and he’s set up a second twt (@sotonamix) so he can document his progress ✌🏻

NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

#fwiw it’s not like a serialisation announcement or anything #it sounds more like he’s just doing it independently #and starting frok scratch with everything #but i think thats really cool!

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Hello, I recently also found Sui Ishida's manga announcement. Throughout the past year, some of his drawings have been of characters not shown in either Tokyo Ghoul or Jack jeanne. For some of these, I found he also drew them for a post on his tumblr (back when he was still updating it). Another character looks similar to the "Necromancer Prince" he drew at the beginning of last year. Do you think that's what the new series could be about?

Honestly, I have zero clue! He seems to still be playing around with potential designs on Twitter so I’m just gonna hang back and see what he comes up with. I’m actually really excited that he wants to document the process for everyone as he goes 😚

#i’m hoping that relieves some of the pressure #and he gives himself the space to just keep playing around #rather than having any kind of expectations or deadlines

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NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

NEW ISHIDA SUI MANGA

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can you make us something?

#tokyo ghoul #mangacaps #touka kirishima #yusa arima #shio ihei #omake

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#[heterosexual feelings intensify] #the colours are stunning water u talking about #god i love him i miss him #art #renji yomo

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One more ask if I may. We don't know if the two pods to Amon's right were in the six shown on page 2. Assuming they were, then the only other pod would be the one to Amon's left (6+1=7). So, these 7 plus Kaneki and Rize would equal 9.

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#superryunosukeyuki

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#ginko!!! they're gorgeous!!! :o #art #uta

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Just by the by, I know I don’t post much on here these days and some ppl have sent asks and I just never responded; I really want you guys to know I’m not trying to be rude or anything, I’ve just been having trouble engaging the brain and talking to people for a while now so I’ll prob just keep laying low for the foreseeable xo

#boring mental health stuff that no one cares about #just don't want anyone to think they're being ignored for any particular reason #it's all me #but hope everyone's doing amazing :)

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Do you think Ishida will ever confirm who was the 1st OEK??? I stopped hoping to get any confirmation (esp. about Uta, since I still kind of believe that he was the 2nd OEK/Nagaraji and thereby also the 1st OEKs twin-brother, which also led me to believe that Itori might have been 1st OEKs wife and feels bad for having feelings for Uta which is why she never told him, but I drift away now, sorry!) Secretly I still hope we get ANY sort of Info though I doubt it...

I’m sure Ishida will drop snippets here and there in the future so hopefully! I’m still pining for a prequel more than anything but I’ll not hold my breath lmao 😭

#anonymous

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Hello, may I ask you about something I've discovered? I think I may have uncovered the origin of the other nuclei for the dragon oviducts. In :re 113 Amon busts out of his lab capsule. Unlike the Oggai capsules which are numbered, his is labeled :re, and there are three other capsules by his labeled :re as well. In 115, on the top panel of page 2 you make out 6 more capsules labeled :re. 3+6 =9, and there were 9 oviducts that were accounted for.

Oh, that’s interesting! I can’t believe we never found out what specifically the ‘re’ on those capsules referred to. I looked back and I see what you mean:

I was under the impression that each of the oviducts’ hosts (? if you can call them that) would all share a biological commonality through the Washuu. My brain is in full-on shut down atm and I can’t even figure out why I’m so sure of that but, if that was the case, I’m confused as to why Amon would initially be prepped as a host, just bc he inheritied the Yoshimura kagune.As for the other 9 capsules, they could def contain potential ‘nuclei’ but I’m not sure if it’s a solid indicator. Obv Kaneki was always intended to be a nucleus so he should be counted as one of the 9 but also Rize; I don’t think she was in any of those pods. Kaneki never recognised her at least, and the pod she’s held in is shaped differently in 119:

#tokyo ghoul #superryunosukeyuki

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Re LGTB characters/rep in Tokyo Ghoul - probably Saiko, too. Hsiao's interest in Saiko might not be one-sided, Saiko calls Hsiao "sexy" and "beautiful" - and if I remember right, there's an omake where Saiko says she wants to share Hsiao's bed. (In other words, there's not a lot of hints dropped, but the hints aren't subtle.)

Oh, yeah, you might be right about that one! With Saiko, I’ve always read her as kind of oblivious, like her flirting with Hsiao is accidental but she def does flirt.

#tokyo ghoul #lurkerwithcomputer

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Do you think there's much lgbt representation in Tokyo Ghoul? I know we have characters such as Nico (gay) and Mutsuki (trans) but I didnt know if there were any more.

I think there’s a pretty sizeable cast of LGBT+ characters in Tokyo Ghoul, actually - I just also happen to think the representation is pretty bad and that there’s a lot of negative coding. I’ll try and keep this short but here’s who I can think of off the top of my head:

→Mutsuki is a trans man and his struggle with his gender identity is tightly woven into his entire storyline in a lot of disturbing ways i.e. it’s a device used to reflect his mental instability and violent inclinations. He’s also in love with Haise, which is written as, uh, a little unhealthy.

→Big Madam is a trans woman who seemingly projects her own dysphoria onto her ‘loved’ one (Juuzou), a child that’s been snatched from his family and is forced to disembowel others for entertainment; she wants him to remain a feminine ‘doll’ so she castrates him. She was always abusive but some of that is anchored specifically in her relationship with gender.

→Juuzou’s gender is brought up a lot - after he’s taken in by the CCG, he’s registered as ‘sexless’ and ridiculed by other investigators (not that this is presented as good or fair). He’s constantly infantilised throughout the story as a result, and it becomes a running gag.

→Kanae (afab) lives as a man - personally, I think they do so out of social obligation and want to live as a woman - it’s their dying wish to be recognised as Karren, not Kanae, in their final moments with Shuu.

→Rikai, unlike Yusa and Shio, is never assigned a gender in their character profile. I think they’re the only character in the story whose gender is never specified?→Tsukiyama is blatantly in love with Kaneki - again, his sexuality is (frustratingly) never really confirmed in canon but I think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who believes his feelings are platonic. That love is completely warped and deviant through Shuu’s whole goal of consuming Kaneki; negatively coded.

→Nico, I’ve talked about before - I had always read Nico as non-binary but people who are more familiar with LGBT+ culture in Japan suggested otherwise; that he’s a fairly accurate representation of many gay Japanese men, so I’ll defer to that reading since mine was very Eurocentric! Either way, his gender and appearance are also running gags, and his interest in men is super creepy and predatory (especially wrt Ayato).

→Yamori? A lot of people of people don’t consider Yamori to be LGBT+ but I’ve always read him as gay. I think his relationship with Nico was probably sexual but, even if it wasn’t, Nico is definitely presented as sexually gratified by Yamori’s abuse.

→Urie is implied to have romantic feelings towards Mutsuki. I feel like there’s a lot of queer baiting with Urie in particular; to offer so many hints about his feelings and not follow through with them was really... eh.

→Hsiao is also strongly implied to be romantically interested in other women - Saiko.

→Matsuri is gay; he has no interest whatsoever in his wife, and he’s very open about his feelings towards Urie. He’s also a lot older than Urie, which I find pretty dodgy, and he’s super creepy and predatory towards him.

→Yomo... is maybe bi/pan? He tells Nico he likes women in an omake but his internal thoughts when he’s talking to Touka in the same omake suggest he’s open to men too. I don’t think his relationship with Uta is purely platonic and I was frustrated by the end of the manga that it wasn’t explored properly, although I never really expected it to be anyway.

→Uta tells Urie that girls are cute and also that Urie is sexy - he’s presumably bi/pan. Again with the Yomo/Uta queerbaiting, it’s predominantly Uta whose written as having a lot of Big Gay Feelings so to not have those explicitly explored is... womp womp. From subtext, he’s similar to Tsukiyama in that, if romantic feelings do exist, they’re totally corrupted and scary and fucked up. 

Obviously there’s a little more nuance but, yeah, I think a lot of harmful stereotypes are reinforced and, where there is potential for honest and interesting discussions, Ishida trails off and doesn’t commit to representing them.

#tokyo ghoul #i don't think hide's feelings were romantic #but i don't think the possibility is as far fetched as some others do #and i can easily understand why people were frustrated by any implications given how other lgbt rep is written in the series #and then there's take #who is obviously truly madly deeply in love with arima poor boy

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… they’ve become even more active.

#yusa arima #my heart’s in my arse i feel so sad ☹️ #this is my favourite thing you’ve ever written

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... they’ve become even more active.

#tokyo ghoul #mangacaps #yusa arima #:re chapter 179 #manga: re

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— what if the girl who died… was the binge eater? 

#its rize hours at emo o’clock #rize kamishiro

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#[ugly sobbing] #please respect my privacy in these trying times #take hirako #kishou arima #aritake