You know, to be able to make us feel like this, I have to admit that he’s a amazing story teller. It’s hard to make a story like this, to make the readers feel intense emotions and got immersed into the plot as deep as we are now.
We all know he has already planned everything from the start. He knew the risk of making a story like this (maybe that’s the reason why he hide his identity? He said he wants to live in peace.. afterall…), but he executed it anyway.
Some of us might think that he’s cruel and heartless, to kill off our beloved characters that we already related to. But you know Anon, actually we have to thank him for the wild ride he pulled us in. I think lot of us wouldn’t be at where we are now if Tokyo Ghoul doesn’t have a plot as crazy as it is. We might mourn when we lost our favorite characters and be upset at him, but this is his story, the whole plot is his, not ours. So please don’t be mad at him. Just thank him for this emotional journey he created for us. Maybe when TG had ended, we all will close the book, takes a deep breath, and sigh. “What an intense experience.”
If you think someone could write something this gorgeous and this intense and this layered and this devastating without having human emotions you’re just…….
Can you describe what it feels like to stub your toe? To scrape your knee? To fall? Do you think that someone who didn’t feel pain could describe those sensations? Can you describe what it feels like to find acceptance when you feel unlovable? To find mercy when you feel damned? Can you describe what it feels like to start a new school or job, the nerves in your belly, the anxiety in your mind? Can you describe what it feels like to be so exhausted that you can barely move, to pick yourself back up again, to try just one more time?
Could you describe any of this without human emotions?
In order to write profoundly, you must feel profoundly. There is no person who can write tragedy without having experienced human emotion. I imagine that Ishida is a highly emotional, highly sensitive person. To be only 30 years old and able to write about trauma, abuse, suffering, love, fear, triumph, failure, pain, acceptance…to write about all of this with such a deft hand takes, at the least, an acutely sensitive, emotional nature.
Does Ishida have feelings. Really. Really?
How could he break your heart if he didn’t understand the feeling of a heart breaking?