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Ken Kaneki (金木 研, Kaneki Ken) Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae [1] [2] (Japanese); Austin Tindle [3] (English) Played by: Masataka Kubota The main protagonist of the story, Ken Kaneki (金木 研, Kaneki Ken) is an seventeen-year-old black haired university freshman that receives an organ transplant from Rize, who was trying to kill him before she was struck by a fallen I-beam and seemingly killed.
Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種 （ トーキョーグール ）, Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha 's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from September 2011 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 14 tankōbon volumes.
Furthermore, writer Andrew C. McKevitt described Shinji's design, with his brown hair and blue eyes, as an example of mukokuseki (無国籍), a deliberate lack of ethnic features included in the character design of Japanese fictional characters which "allowed Japanese creations to be simultaneously Western and transnational".
In addition to the increased international appeal of culturally neutral properties, Brian Ruh paraphrased Susan J. Napier in describing mukokuseki as "a way for contemporary Japanese to playfully escape their own concepts of Japan and their own feelings of Japaneseness... fantasized mukokuseki anime bodies can be free from the cultural and societal baggage of physical bodies."
Nico appears and gives Nishiki the address of Dr Ogura, the leader of the Great Wheel Act, a ghoul rights organization. Kaneki, Nishio and Tsukiyama meet him, and he offers his support as well as his doctors in order to cure Akira. Kaneki reunites with Amon and they have a conversation about Kaneki's motives on forming Goat.
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.
According to traditional Chinese and Japanese face reading, the eye is composed of two parts, the yin (black, iris and pupil) and the yang (white, sclera).The visibility of the sclera beneath the iris is said to represent physical imbalance in the body, and is claimed to be present in alcoholics, drug addicts, and people who over-consume sugar or grain.
An alternative interpretation is that his name is a combination of tsukiyo (月夜, "moonlit night") and mi (見, "looking, watching"). -no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Kami; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the Great'. There is so little known about Tsukuyomi that even their sex is unknown.