Tag: seidou takizawa

I got the idea from this post from @pseudocitrus ‘s fantastic fanart!!

Kaneki – He starts out as a Villager, before becoming a Master of Arms a couple of months after Yamori’s torture.

Hide – Hide is the Dancer class.

Shuu – Shuu starts out as a Cavalier in TG: Pinto, but in Tokyo Ghoul, he is a Paladin.

Touka – She starts out as Pegasus knight, and becomes a in :Re is a Falcon knight. She chose it over becoming a Kinshi knight because she wanted to be able to heal, as well as fight.

Hinami – Starts out as a Shrine Maiden in Tokyo Ghoul, but in Re: she becomes an Onmyoji.

Yomo – He starts out as a fighter during his childhood, but in Tokyo Ghoul and :Re, he is a Berserker.

Nishiki – Nishiki is a Kitsune that becomes a Nine-Tails when he becomes an S-rank.

Eto – Eto was a “Nohr Princess”/One-Eyed Ghoul before changing into a “Nohr Noble”/One-Eyed Owl.

Tatara – Tatara is a dread fighter.

Noro – Noro was a Dark Knight upon taking Eto in, but before that, he was a dark mage.  

Naki – Naki was a dark mage, but became a Sorcerer after meeting Yamori.

Ayato – In Tokyo Ghoul, he is a Wyvern rider, to contrast Touka, but in Re: he is a Wyvern Lord.

Arima – Arima started out as a Villager, before becoming a Merchant, after which he reclassed into a Cavalier and then into a Great Knight.

Amon – Amon starts out as a Knight, before reclassing into a General after Mado’s death.

Akira – Akira was a lancer, before becoming a Spear Master at the end of Tokyo Ghoul.

Seidou – Seidou was a Bowman, before becoming a Sniper when he fought Tatara in Cochlea. With Aogiri, he became an Outlaw, before becoming an Adventurer sometime between the Auction arc, and the Tsukiyama family extermination arc.  

Suzuya – Suzuya started out as an outlaw, before changing into ninja and eventually becoming a master Ninja.

Mutsuki – Mutsuki stared out as a Monk, before reclassing into a Great Master after the auction arc.  

Urie – Urie started out as a Samurai, before becoming a Swordmaster right before :Re started.

Saiko – Saiko was a troubadour before becoming a Strategist after the battle with Noro.

Shirazu – Shirazu was a Mercenary before becoming a Hero after killing Nutcracker.

Shinohara – Shinohara started out as a Knight, before becoming a Great Knight.

The ghoul’s weapons ranks are based on the character’s rank as a ghoul.

C-ranked ghoul -> E-ranked weapon

B-ranked ghoul -> D-ranked weapon

A-ranked ghoul -> C-ranked weapon

S-ranked ghoul -> B-ranked weapon

SS-ranked ghoul -> A-ranked weapon

SSS-ranked ghoul -> S-ranked weapon

For the CCG/Humans, the weapons ranks are based on what type of ghoul they can exterminate.

3rd Rank  -> E-ranked weapon

2nd Rank -> D-ranked weapon

1st Rank -> C-ranked weapon

First Class Investigator -> B-ranked weapon

Associate Special Class Investigator -> A-ranked weapon

Special Class Investigator -> S-ranked weapon

hipghost:

The Devil is related both through his cross sum (sum of the digits) and his iconography with Key VI, The Lovers. Both cards speak to
our drives; the drives that take us out of the
garden. The central character in each is winged; each lives in the
archetypal ether. Each is crowned: the Angel in The Lovers with fire,
The Devil by a Pentagram
and ram’s horns. Above each rides a naked man and a naked woman. But in
The Lovers, there is still some sense of newness, wholesomeness, and
hope; in The Devil they are chained by the neck and partially
transformed into creatures of the underworld; transformed by their taste
of the darkness; by the fruit of the underworld.

Happy late Birthday and thank you for all your efforts in answering asks and making translations. Everything is appreciated :). If you want can you tell me a short comment of why you don’t like Takizawa’s character? Only if you want of course since it may be strange asking people why they don’t like characters and you may not want to write about a character you aren’t fond of.

harostar:

randomthoughtpatterns:

Thank you! Sorry I took so long to reply, anon, I was thinking how I want to phrase this. Usual disclaimer about my personal opinion obviously applies.

Takizawa when we first meet him has ugly marks of a boy raised in the patriarchal Japanese society on him. He doesn’t like Suzuya because he does’t conform in more ways than just physical appearance. Suzuya didn’t go to the Academy = didn’t put in as much effort as Takizawa, but was promoted faster than him. Takizawa also resents Akira for being smarter than him despite being a woman. He is deeply average, a solid if inexperienced investigator (although probably better suited as a bureau investigator rather than a field one), but he feels like he’s owed respect based on nothing but hierarchy (again, a highly valued thing in Japanese salaryman masculine society for which CCG is a stand-in).

All of that didn’t endear him to me but, truth be told, I think he might have improved given a bit more time – a couple more field operations and he might’ve seen that respect is earned, not owed. Takizawa wasn’t a bad kid per se, I just think he wanted to be an investigator for the wrong reasons, you know? For glory, or perceived status, or because it was “cool”.

Thing is, I dislike him mostly because of his choices post-capture. We know jack shit about what happened at No Fun Allowed Casa de Aogiri, but we have two outcomes of that stay, and one of them is out there helping people or at least not offing them left and right. Meanwhile Takizawa: ate his whole family, murdered a ton of people without remorse including those he personally knew, likes his new powerful form and still thinks he’s better than ghouls (the scene with Ayato). Takizawa may have been an arrogant and annoying human, but as a ghoul he’s got about as much conscience in him as Torso, so I really can’t see any redeeming qualities in that mess.

Look, I feel pity and compassion for Takizawa, being experimented on is definitely not his fault, not his choice and not something I would wish to anyone. Despite that, everything he did after being set free was his choice. So I’m judging him on his choices. I wrote a long post, but here’s a gif I probably should’ve posted instead:

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One thing I think is interesting about TG Takizawa in comparison to RE Takizawa is how completely flipped around his character becomes.

He starts out as someone molded completely in the image of Standard Japanese Masculinity. This makes him horribly insecure in an environment where he is not only surrounded by Exceptional people, but several of them are non-conforming but highly rewarded.

He seems to have been learning, and could have gone down a completely different path. But ironically, his change of heart is what ultimately doomed him. Through choosing to respect and trust Akira, and realizing how important people were to him…..he ended up losing everything.

I’m genuinely curious to see what happened during the years between the series. We know that Amon was rejected as a failure, and Takizawa was labeled as their success to be molded into a weapon. What I find interesting about what he became is that he started out as someone that conformed to standard Japanese Masculinity, but has become someone that so heavily imitates a woman.

His entire persona as a Ghoul is based around Eto. He mimics her mannerisms, her speeches and philosophies, her nickname for Hinami, her fighting style, and even the clothing she wore during her original rampage as the One Eyed Owl. His altered appearance makes him more feminine looking, with longer hair and darkening of his lips and extremities that resembles makeup.

Takizawa states that he was compared to Kaneki, and grew to resent them. So it seems that his arrogance and violent behavior are born from what Aogiri wanted him to become. His insecurities were intentionally used to make him want to kill Sasaki, which we’ve seen learned was one step in Eto’s plan to re-awaken Kaneki.

Ultimately, I think Takizawa as a Ghoul as intended to serve as a foil to Amon and Kaneki just as he was a foil to the others in the CCG in the original series. He is an ordinary person, in the company of extraordinary people. In the original series, this made him insecure and challenged his traditional values. In the sequel, in demonstrates how incredible Kaneki and Amon are to have survived the things they have experienced. And it seems to me a very terrifying glimpse of the person Kaneki could have become, had Aogiri not simply discarded him. Who knows what Eto could have done to his mind, given the opportunity to work him over.