Tokyo Ghoul Creator's Manga Choujin X Explains Title's True Meaning
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Choujin X chapter 24!
Mangaka Sui Ishida of Tokyo Ghoul just explained the meaning behind his new manga's title Choujin X in a shocking new chapter that continues to expand Ishida's new world in more ways than one.
Before now, fans always knew what «choujin» was referring to as choujin are superpowered beings wholive in Ishida's new manga, Choujin X. Similarly, the manga's main characters — or at least the protagonist and deuteragonist — were never in doubt. Tokio was a weakling who only chose to become a choujin because he feared that he would lose his childhood friend and hero Azuma who was already much more powerful than him. Meanwhile, Azuma failed to become a choujin unlike Tokio and came to resent Tokio's newfound powers, a negative emotion he's apparently been harboring for quite some time.
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But at the end of chapter 24, Ishida reveals that a powerful choujin known as Choujin X who is capable of destroying the world appears every era to either herald calamity or to deliver people to a greater existence. He then goes on to say that this manga is the story of such a choujin and those swept in their tale. During this profoundly emotional explanation, Azuma is obviously pondering over his recent loss against Tokio as he walks across a serene beach. This especially vulnerable moment for the young choujin then comes to a head when a morbid scene of vultures feasting upon the remains of a hyena causes Azuma to fall to his knees and wail at the skies as he holds the dead creature in his arms.
The hyena and vulture are a metaphor for both Azuma and Tokio's choujin powers, and this morbid display exemplifies what
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