Is anyone here still interested in this? Anyway, the artbook includes the following: >288 pages in a large size! >A compilation of over 300 cards related to :re since it began! >YJ table of content comments during the 7 years of serialization, contains all 330 questions/answers! >Includes the daily pin-up calendar! >And comments from Ishida Sui himself
This is from Ishida's twitter: >zakki:re and the Tokyo Ghoul Compilation Album will be on sale March 19 and March 27, respectively. >In zakki:re, I’ll be sending TG off while talking about my memories back in those days along with the illustrations. It will be on large and glossy paper so it’ll be worth seeing. >The compilation album includes conversations with the artists, and the songs such as the arranged versions are wonderful…look forward to it!
I stopped giving a shit about TG ages ago, but I'm gonna look forward to scans.
Carter Perry
>Is anyone here still interested in this? Yes. Thanks, user.
Cooper Davis
Is Re: worth reading? I started with the anime and read the manga. I read a few chapters of Re: before life got in the way. I'm really interested in Eto and amnesia-Kaneki
Jaxon Perry
Read till chapter 54 or so and then drop it. Rose arc was TG at it's peak but everything afterwards went downhill and never recovered.
What a shit opinion, some of the dragon chapters were pure kino
Oliver Jenkins
THE HACK STILL HASNT CALMED DOWN????????
Juan James
If it's going to be like the first artbook, then he will include lots of stuff that he's already drawn from his twitter acc and stuff that hasn't been released for whatever reasons yet. Also, it's not only drawings see >YJ table of content comments during the 7 years of serialization, contains all 330 questions/answers
Joshua Moore
Yeah, which is why it weirds me out to see that Kaneki ear on this high profile cover.
Zachary Reyes
The Dragon arc is some End of Evangelion tier shit Underrated af
Logan Stewart
Starts out decently, really goes to shit and ends up disappointing in every way unless you don't care about anything other than Touka x Kaneki.
Carter Robinson
>new versions of illusion is mine and 24REVERSE Love these songs. Excited for the artbook as well.
Jacob Richardson
read snk
Aiden Watson
yeah i think it's still worth reading but almost everything outside of kaneki and touka is an absolute mess. any prior investment you had in the side characters or setting is not rewarded. still glad i read it though
John Bennett
>some of the dragon chapters were pure kino Some of the ambiance and artwork, particularly during "Dragon's" emergence, yes.
But you have to be a mouth breathing retard to unironically believe any of the narrative content was anything short of a subpar, incohesive, rushed clusterfuck riddled with contrivances.
James Allen
>I'm really interested in Eto and amnesia-Kaneki Then you will really love chapters 53 - 56. This is zenith of :re's writing. Tread carefully after this, however. It's all downhill from there.
John Wood
I keep telling myself that I don't need it but I do fuck you Ishida
Nolan Lewis
It makes sense since this was when Haise's arc finally has reached its ending. Though, seeing all of his past personalities having a conservation and finally merging together the chapter before dragon, was imo. peak T
Nathaniel Baker
peak TG*
Jason Fisher
Ch. 144 was the only chapter I can truly say I enjoyed in the Dragon arc. It felt like the original series I fell in love with, if just for that moment. Then it went right back down the garbage chute.
I would have enjoyed it more if any of it made sense. Ishida never explained how Rize was "mutated" into Dragon. Kaneki consumes the kakuhou of 100 Oggai along with a (presumably engineered from Rize) "nucleus" from Furuta - then all of a sudden Rize "hatches" from the biomass of the dragon kakuja? How the hell does she go from pic related to that, based on that series of events? She should still be in the tank.
During serialization, I was fully under the belief it was a "recreation" of Rize based on the nucleus Kanou created and was later integrated into Kaneki. But Ishida wanted us to believe it was the *actual* Rize, which made no sense whatsoever. Kaneki's conversation with "Rize" was alright, but for me, it was boggled down by the implication Kaneki was actually holding a discourse with the real Rize's consciousness as opposed to the general tulpa fare.
Although this can be seen as headcanon, I always thought that Dragon only caused Rize to be reborn because the Oggai coalesced into one essentially within Dragon. And I'd assume if you pull out Kaneki, the Dragon complex needed a new medium and the byproduct was the reborn Rize. But yeah I agree, Ishida should have dug deeper into this, possibly even bring this into correlation with the underground king who was the first Dragon. This stuff had so much potential, shame that the ending got so rushed..
I believe Rize became a "dragon" herself during the whole 24th aftermath. Pic related always struck me as odd as it was a different design from the dragon on the very next page, then I realised that it was actually her. It's symbolic too in a way as the giant black worm seems to be leading the other one (The Black Goat and her little Egg). Also, I am 90% sure that the Rize Kaneki talks to in 158-159 is the real one and I think that it was the real one that Kaneki talked to during his time with Yamori as well.
>won't get a single new drawing in the upcoming artbook ofc
Joshua Peterson
Interesting perspectives, definitely. Seems I wasn't the only one a bit jarred by this.
On that note, I went back to re-read a few scenes to ensure I wasn't missing anything. Rize may have also (conveniently) been Dragon'd offscreen (at the exact same time.) She was definitely the "other" nucleus mentioned here. But that's still a bit contrived as no manifestations of "Dragon" existed in Tokyo until Kaneki's rampage. Other than that, let our headcanons be our guide.
