Title: Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol. 14
Author: Sui Ishida
Publisher: Viz Media
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Genre: Fantasy, Battle
Publication Date: December 17, 2019
The Story
Tokyo Ghoul:re Volume fourteen introduces us to Dragon Kaneki! Kaneki’s RC cells go out of control and his kagune expands to the point where it grips the entire city! Things are looking kind of bleak on the CCG side, too since Furuta steps down from his position having accomplished his goal, no longer needing the CCG to carry it out. Mardue takes command with the top priority being to evacuate everyone and preserve as much life as possible. When the task seems too much, Marude receives some unexpected help in the search for Kaneki.
During the search, we catch up with Touka; however, right when they find a major clue as to Kaneki’s actual location, a certain someone shows up for an unexpected battle. The battle is subdued for now but in the end, it heats back up again as former teammates now face each other.
Short synopsis but I tried to leave as many reveals out of it as possible… otherwise, the synopsis would have been “Kaneki goes super Saiyan, entangles the city, the search begins but suddenly… A FIGHT!” In essence, that’s all that happened here in this volume and for 224 pages, it flew by as the first chapter was mainly just images of Dragon Kaneki’s awakening. Still, the plot continued to move forward and we finally learn who the person under the scarecrow-esque mask is. For the first time in a while, a volume of Tokyo Ghoul felt like one straight line with one clear goal. No multi-platform battles, no switching in between squads… just one solid continuous plotline which was great!
It allowed you to absorb everything all while marveling in reveal after reveal after reveal.
Characters
This is an odd section this time around because I believe that the entire cast grew and developed as a whole. While there was one character who (in the end) decided to further their own progression, it was still built upon all of the volumes leading up to this moment. Still, despite that, one particular decision in the middle of the volume helped begin the transformation of everyone’s way of thinking. Sui Ishida even highlighted that with a lot of negativity among the humans but once someone stepped up and made sense of it all, people’s minds began to change.
This moment was a product of Ken Kaneki’s thinking. In the very beginning of the series, he wanted to become the bridge that links human and ghouls together. That was his ultimate goal. It took 28 volumes of the manga to get to this point but back when Kaneki stated that original goal, nobody would have thought it would have ended up happening in this sort of way. Was this truly the goal Kankei wanted? Probably not but it still happened, nevertheless.
Because of this moment, the paradigm has shifted and a healing process can begin between humans and ghouls but there’s still a lot of hell to walk through before that happens and Furuta is continuing to be the object that wants to see that world never come to fruition.
Final Thoughts
Amazing volume of Tokyo Ghoul. We are getting close to the end, though. With only two volumes left, it seems like Kaneki will be found in the next volume which leaves the battle with Furuta and the epilogue as the last remaining pieces of story. I’m expecting a great battle against Furuta but the aftermath is what is truly going to be interesting to see. Can the seeds that were sown here in this volume bear fruit in the finale?
Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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