Tokyo Ghoul:re 2nd Season Episode 9 Discussion

Himawari9 said:


This series has been seinen from the start, Hide and Kaneki is 23 now. The way Hide said that is pretty ambiguous since it can mean other type of love, not only romantic.
FYI, shounen and seinen can't have openly gay characters unless they are treated as joke characters like Puri Puri Prisoner in One Punch Man, at most they will keep thing open to interpretation. They can have lesbian but not gay like in Psycho-Pass and Darling in the Franxx. It is simply because of the demographic of shounen and seinen. The target demographic of shounen and seinen are straight males who want to see girls, boobs and panty-shot.If you read Bakuman, you will see a scenario where a female mangaka has to learn to draw ecchi if she wants to survive in the shounen industry.
You can't really ask for lesbian Yuri or ecchi in a shounen-ai or Yaoi manga right? Japanese publishers are really strict about this. The magazine won't allow anything that does not play out according to their policy. If a manga has elements unsuitable to the magazine demographic, the manga will be asked to change publisher or remove them from their manga. That is why you can find gay characters in shoujo like Usotsuki Lily but not shounen.
As a female, I sometimes feel uncomfortable with fan services when reading shounen and seinen but I know and understand that I am not the target those manga intended for so I learn to ignore that.

teubert2 said:
So... I'm the only one who is surprised to find out Mutsuki is a girl?

Darkbloom said:


No, they've been hiding it in the anime for whatever reason. It was revealed pretty early in the manga.

The Mutsuki scene from this episode is the only good thing that came from this anime these past few episodes, would been even better if they hadn't cut his entire backstory and his scenes with Torso but whatever.

Not even disappointed that they changed the "because I love him" line because I'd have to have expectations to actually be disappointed. It was pretty obvious that they would changed/cut it.

teubert2 said:


Oh, I see. I thought my dumb ass had forgotten something lol. This anime is all over the place, no way I can keep track of things like names and stuff at this pace :S I really loved the "original" Tokyo Ghoul and while I didn't hate it when he had amnesia as Sasaki Haise later on (I actually liked it, though not nearly as much as the "original"), at some point it slowly began to get worse and worse, especially after he regained his memories. Now it's just something that constantly confuses or surprises me (or both). I truly hope the manga is better, though that shouldn't be too difficult XD

I could keep ranting about how disappointed I am in this anime, but I won't XD

Darkbloom said:


The manga is much better than the anime but at this point during the last arc the manga went downhill too, the author confirmed that he wanted to end the manga quickly due to some personal issues. But at least everything makes sense, the anime plot is a mess since root A is confirmed not canon and a lot of stuff that happens in :re has foundations in the arc that root A skipped.