Tokyo Ghoul: Analyzing Kaneki's Torture

This was a pretty long overdue video for Tokyo Ghoul. In this video I'm covering Kaneki's torture by Jason and Aogiri and interpreting/ breaking down certain parts of it in the way I perceive them; hopefully you enjoy as this is entertainment first, analysis second.

#kaneki #tokyoghoul #jason #arima #centipede

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If you enjoyed this analysis, be sure to check out these other 2!

How Kaneki Became The One Eyed King

[kermitwithamustache]

You can't understand how happy it makes me feel to see Tokyo Ghoul still being relevant in 2023 😭

[Grayson-Winchester]

Kaneki's torture is infamous. Just as what Guts of Berserk went through in the eclipse. It's a wonder that both protagonists haven't lost their mind completely. Yet they turned out to be more vicious than anything.

[VioletZe]

Manga kaneki: Ill never forgive the aogiritree
anime kaneki: I'm going to join the aogiri tree

[ladyblubel]

I find it absolutely interesting that Jason and Kanaki reflect two different sides of childhood torture: Kaneki become extremely passive, to the point where he’s basically naive, while Jason turned to trauma reenactment, turning the harm he felt to others

[TheDarkOne]

It is a warcrime how truly awful the anime portrayed this manga. It was good. Tokyo Ghoul deserves the FMAB treatment unbelievably bad.

[darthgrevious]

This was really good but he never went on to explain just HOW LONG Kaneki was actually tortured for. He was held in that amphitheater for 10 days reliving the same hell countless times per day.

[k.g.]

I suppose that this comic expresses something which not everyone can come to grips with easily in their own lives and that’s dealing with moral compromise. A lot of young adult media isn’t willing to really accept moral compromise as a part of life, when I say that in many ways it’s an inevitability. No one stays morally pure their whole lives. Some times you’re doomed to choose between helping someone and helping yourself and no matter what you choose you will feel bad. Learning to cope with the very rational decision of choosing yourself or not helping when you can’t afford to physically, emotionally, or financially is something you will have to learn to do.

[pineapplesarentapples]

I don’t think I will EVER forget when Jason put a centipede into Kaneki’s ear. Actually the craziest moment in anime in my opinion.

[cutepotato]

9:16 Minor correction : When the centipede is put inside Kaneki's ear, the pain can't directly come from the insect eating his brain since the brain has no pain receptors. It must be from the damage it causes around.

[imkindofsleepy]

Kinda crazy that after so long, Kaneki and Tokyo Ghoul still aren’t forgotten, even to amass a huge amount of views with videos such as this. Goes to show how well written the manga really was(easily one of the top mangas). With so much traction I’ve seen lately, they should definitely consider doing the manga right.

[aquaos]

Honestly growing up with Tokyo Ghoul (it was my first read and intro to the Otaku culture), Kaneki's journey has given me so much. Outside of the cool fights, the amazing art designs, Kaneki's journey of self discovering his worth and loving himself, the ghoul part and the human part, is just beautiful. And then his conclusion at the end of TG Re how "The world is just is" from his vicious claim "The world is warped" in TG is to this day one of my favorite. Gosh I could just write paragraphs on this :)). Beautiful video and analysis!

[peaxce]

I remember running across this tik tok where this guy said guts torture during the eclipse was worse than Kanekis torture and I have to disagree not because it was more atrocious or anything it’s because guts was way stronger mentally Kaneki was a still a kid still trying to figure out his new life thrown into multiple days of constant torture and mental manipulation

[colin]

Just did the math, if you subtract 7 from 1000 142 times you're left with 6, 143 times leaves you with -1

[kyleslifestyle]

I spent many years of my childhood under the duress of physical and sexual abuse. Tokyo Ghoul has never been my absolute favorite anime, but Kenaki has always been one of my favorite anime characters. This is because I know first hand how the cruelty of the world can make you into a ghoul.

[dusan]

I did not expect this out of nowhere thank you YouTube, you have done so well with this video. I am really happy to see one of my favorite stories still being talked about, Hundred you understood Kaneki so well, same with the message and story what it was telling us. And the importance of facing the truth and growing as a person.

[noonespecial]

So I don’t read manga like at all. But I have watched the anime and thought it was ok, it was one of the first I watched and I never understood why people hated it so much. But now I see that it left out like 85% of the amazing story telling and art of this manga. I’m buying it asap

[naraikuu]

I watched Season 1 of the Anime and this scene left me absolutley speechless, i was around 14 by that point and it changed alot about how i feel and think. Didn't even start Season 2 even tho it released about a week prior but directly bought the Manga and read it completly. Kaneki turned into my favorite fictional character and still stands there till to date. I've read the Manga countless of times at this point. I can't relate to him at all and can only hope to grasp how he felt, the struggles and absolute Nightmare he had to live through. This video was truly amazing and added so many new things to my thoughts, so i want to truly thank you for taking the time to analyze and express the mind of Kaneki for us <3

[Zaxster_--]

Something that I hate about complex characters within an appealing story is that more than half of the people who read/watch it will overlook a character's motives and how significant every precursor leading up to their catharsis or reform actually was. Hell most people don't even identify any of it. I understand thats its simply "each to their own", but man, it really hurts when someone denotes Kaneki's process as a typical edgy shonen transformation.

[TheSkullkid]

Counting backwards from 1000 by 7s, if you do the math, you'll make it to 300 eventually, then make it to 20, 14, 6... The final number you get to before passing 0 into the negatives is as far away from 0 as you can be without being divisible by 7 for the first time. One could also do this by doing 6s or 9s without being divisible by 1000, but since the last digit of any number will always change when counting by 7s (7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70 and so on), it forces your mind to stay focused on the task of said math, unlike with 6s and 9s which both have very easy patterns (6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 and so on, as well as 9, 18, 27, 36, 45 and so on). The other possible numbers, being 8s, 5s, 4s, 3s, 2s and 1s, either have very easy patterns of doing the math, are numbers that 1000 is divisible by, or both.

Whoever did this scene definitely did their homework, and it shows.