Kaneki’s Shield Arm

floppyamon:

tsukinopen:

Thanks @floppyamon for this post on Abraxas (link). Kaneki’s arm looks like a shield, which reminded me of an illustration in Zakki. 

tg:re 74 pg 16 (mangastream)

Zakki (pg 81)

Annotation for the above from Ishida.

I think he’s saying this was drawn when TG ch 50 was [released/drawn?] 

This could work! I guess Ishida would be squishing the two arm functions into one arm (since the right arm had the whip and the left the shield), but I was wondering what the purpose of his shovel arm was

faiell:

This quote is by Herman Hesse from his novel Demian. Ishida quoted it in chapter 8 when Kaneki unleashes his kagune for the first time against Nishiki. I was super excited because Demian was one of the few required readings from high school that I had really enjoyed! There are actually a lot of parallels between the journeys of the protags of these two stories which was really fun to see.