History NightmareFuel / TokyoGhoul

* The GenderReveal in chapters 4 and 5, which has numerous elements in common with a sexual assault. Mutsuki is choked, pinned to the floor, and is clearly horrified when his shirt is torn open with Torso gleefully calling him a woman. He manages to fight back briefly, but is given a brutal beating and it isn't clear what Torso might have done had Urie and Shirazu not interrupted him. Made even more horrifying since sexual assault is a [[TruthInTelevision common danger]] faced by trans men, with numerous cases of this happening after being outed. Suffice to say, more than a few fans found the sequence nightmarish.

What starts off as an innocent college student going out with an unsuspecting pretty girl quickly devolves into a chain of events exposing the poor protagonist to the horrors the world he lives in has to offer, in which he starts to lose his mind in the process...

What starts off as an innocent college student going out with an unsuspecting pretty girl quickly devolves into a chain of events exposing the poor protagonist to the horrors his world has to offer where he starts to lose his mind in the process...

What starts off as an innocent college student going out with an unsuspecting pretty girl quickly devolves into chain of events that makes our poor protagonist start to lose his mind...

* Everything related to Kaneki's operation is this. He went in for an organ transplant and came out not even being human. What's worse is that this was done deliberately and to several people as part of an experiment by a MadScientist.
** Also, what became of the "failed experiments" is pretty horrifying -- they're kept imprisoned in Kanou's lab. They get set on Kaneki and he winds up killing and eating them.

** Yamori was clearly a lot younger when he was tortured. Numerous instances have demonstrated that the CCG is not above targeting ghoul children - after all, it's not like they're ''human''...

** [[http://eyepatch-centipede.tumblr.com/tagged/TINY-TEXT This]] often glossed over part of chapter 30. Tsukiyama's wanted poster has the following text: “On November 11 close to 8 pm, city council Kuninari was stabbed with a knife. Additionally, his [[GroinAttack genitals were severed and removed]].”

** In the manga, however, we are treated to a rather detailed illustration of how, exactly, Kaneki does this. It's rather gruesome, and very messed up, accompanied by what are potentially the most disturbing set of suffixes to date, to say the least. Not that Kaneki's behavior was unjustified, but however you look at it, someone pinning someone else to the ground and then eating their flesh with a salivating mouth, (remarking on how bad it tastes) while they ramble incoherently about how they're being eaten, definitely counts as nightmare fuel.

** It's also revealed that she used him as a scrapper for the ghoul restaurant. Now mind you he was a young kid being forced to kill other humans for sadistic ghouls enjoyment at the threat of being horribly tortured and abused by his ghoul owner. To make it worse, his introspection reveals that his first kill made him sick and gave him nightmares for three straight days. And then he just got... [[AxeCrazy used to it]]. After that reveal it's not surprising that he is so kill happy--not just in regards to ghouls, but to everything else too.

** And then they fight, if it can even be called that--Kaneki, who at this point has become a powerful ghoul in his own right , still stands absolutely no chance against Arima, and he gets skewered through the eye. What follows is probably the most horrifying meltdown the poor kid has had since his torture at the Aogiri Tree HQ, as he staggers around screaming and rambling from the pain and asking if he's going to die. [[HeroKiller And then Arima ends the battle]].
* Owl, the one-eyed ghoul, is a monster that looks closer to a VideoGame/ResidentEvil boss than it does anything from earth. It crawls around on a multi-legged, insectoid body, has a super long tongue, is incredibly fast and powerful, and only has a single eye.
* How the Owl seemingly kills Shinohara. It cuts Shinohara's right leg into a shish kabob, using its Kagune as the stick and eats it. It then gives a nightmarish face to Suzuya, saying that now they match (Suzuya lost his right leg earlier) and then stabs Shinohara through the chest as Suzuya desperately tries to save him.

** Also, what became of the "failed experiments" is pretty horrifying.

** When Touka and Kaneki go to a CCG office to get information, the person they speak to cheerfully says it doesn't matter what they do to ghoul children--''[[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they're ghouls,]]'' after all.. Some investigators themselves go overboard when capturing ghouls since they don't care if they cause them pain. This despite the fact that there is a ''rule'' that prohibits this kind of behavior against ghouls. Not to protect ghouls (it's noted that there is not a single rule that does such a thing), but because it's "''[[{{Hypocrite}} what a human would do.]]''"

** The best part? This was ''all'' part of Furutas plan as he declares [[OhCrap he won]] as Kaneki eats his upper half.

* Chapter 110: Uta, or [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast No-Face]], employs the same trick against Suzuya which he also used against Hirako during the auction. He initially and much to Suzuya's confusion allows himself to be beaten up, only to lose his mask, revealing Shinohara's face underneath. It is unclear if he sounds like the investigator, but his impersonation takes Suzuya's will to fight away instantly. In a following panel we see Uta hugging the frozen Suzuya while still impersonating his mentor. As he does so, his nightmarish kagune resembling fleshy, spider-like limbs with hooks emerge from his back and loom over Suzuya. Fortunately, his squad comes to save him.

* Everything related to Kaneki's operation is this. He went in for an organ transplant and came out not even being human. What's worse is that this [[spoiler: was done deliberately and to several people as part of an experiment by a MadScientist.]]

** Especially the fight between [[spoiler: Kaneki]] and Ayato Kirishima. [[spoiler: Kaneki]] says that because Ayato is Touka's brother, he will not kill him. No, instead he will only half kill him, and the way that he decides to do this is by breaking half of the bones in Ayato's body, all the while displaying his extensive knowledge of the skeletal system by casually informing Ayato which bones he is currently breaking. Of course, (this being Tokyo Ghoul), the real nightmare fuel comes from the disturbing suffixes of crunching noises, and Ayato's horrifying expressions and screams of pain.

* [[TheDreaded Kakuja ghouls.]] They're monstrously powerful ghouls who attained a higher form of kagune through [[CannibalismSuperpower eating other ghouls]]. Their kagune have evolved into a sort of grotesque fleshy armor that covers their bodies and take on various horrific forms. For example, [[TortureTechnician Yamori]]'s kakuja covers most of his upper body and head in what looks like a mess of tentacles and muscle tissue, and also makes it look like he's got a giant claw instead of an arm. [[spoiler:Kaneki]]'s half-kakuja state is a centipede-like speed demon with a razor beak cyclops mask. The one thing all kakuja ghouls appear to have in common is being extremely prone to psychosis, if not being outright AxCrazy, since it's implied that the cannibalizing costs you your sanity.
** For proof, one need not look any further than [[spoiler:Kaneki]]'s little episode in Kanou's mansion. His insane babbling (which implies he's hallucinating) coupled with his monstrous appearance and abilities are not only enough to completely freak out everyone in range, but to also make a [[BadassNormal Special Investigator]], someone who's seen and fought with ''plenty'' of downright depraved and AxCrazy ghouls, say that he ([[spoiler:Kaneki]]) is '''by far''' the craziest one he has ever faced. What follows after only drives the point home even further.

** [[spoiler: His backstory, too, what with being raised and tortured by a ghoul 'mother' who castrated him with a hammer.]]
** [[spoiler: It's also revealed that she used him as a scrapper for the ghoul restaurant. Now mind you he was a young kid being forced to kill other humans for sadistic ghouls enjoyment at the threat of being horribly tortured and abused by his ghoul owner. To make it worse, his introspection reveals that his first kill made him sick and gave him nightmares for three straight days. And then he just got... [[AxeCrazy used to it]]. After that reveal it's not surprising that he is so kill happy--not just in regards to ghouls, but to everything else too.]]

* [[spoiler: A heavily-wounded Kaneki, while wandering through the sewers, starts hallucinating zombies of Rize and Yamori trying to tear off hunks of his body.]]
* Arima walks the line between [=CMoAs=] and pure nightmare fuel. For the CCG, he's a symbol, an idol, someone everyone admires for his unparalleled talent. But for ghouls, his name as CCG's grim reaper is wholly earned. [[spoiler: His appearance in the Anteiku Raid arc cements this: Kaneki heads to V14 to meet up with Koma and Irimi, only to find to his horror Arima standing, completely untouched, in the middle of scores of slaughtered ghoul corpses.]]
** [[spoiler: And then they fight, if it can even be called that--Kaneki, who at this point has become a powerful ghoul in his own right , still stands absolutely no chance against Arima, and he gets skewered through the eye. What follows is probably the most horrifying meltdown the poor kid has had since his torture at the Aogiri Tree HQ, as he staggers around screaming and rambling from the pain and asking if he's going to die. [[HeroKiller And then Arima ends the battle]].]]

* How [[spoiler:the Owl seemingly kills Shinohara. It cuts Shinohara's right leg into a shish kabob, using its Kagune as the stick and eats it. It then gives a nightmarish face to Suzuya, saying that now they match (Suzuya lost his right leg earlier) and then stabs Shinohara through the chest as Suzuya desperately tries to save him.]]

* In chapter 7, [[spoiler: immediately after Haise sees Nishiki, he falls to the ground screaming in agony as the memories of being Kaneki (which the CCG had wiped him of) start rushing back to him, causing him to go through a {{Amnesiac Dissonance}}.]] [[spoiler: As Haise starts to writhe on the ground from the rush of memories, Nishiki makes his escape.]] [[spoiler: The CCG, seeing that he is regaining his memories, rush to the scene to keep "SS Rated Ghoul Haise." from running away while Akira shoots a gun with RC suppressant bullets at Haise to calm him.]] [[spoiler: Soon after that, we see Akira holding the now calm and crying Haise while she reminds him that he is Haise Sasaki and not Kaneki.]]

* The appearance of Dr. Kanou's new Owl: [[spoiler: former PluckyComicRelief Seidou Takizawa, transformed into a [[DiseaseBleach white-haired]] Ghoul with a deranged expression declaring that he's starving]]. Just the ''implications'' of being experimented on and possibly tortured by Aogiri for ''two years'' are terrifying to consider.

* Chapter 22: [[spoiler: Uta "wearing" Arima's face, with his face turning into a mass of wriggling tendrils when damaged]]. The implications of what this could mean are ''terrifying'' and pure ParanoiaFuel.
** The fact that he can take [[spoiler: his face being cut open without missing a beat and wound Take before the investigator has even realized what happened]]

** [[spoiler: Takizawa]] casually chewing on a severed head while two survivors cower in the corner, so terrified they cannot move.
* Big Madam is not only a horrific sadist, but her WallCrawl and attempting to [[spoiler: [[SwallowedWhole swallow]] Urie]] is disturbing as hell.

** [[spoiler: Takizawa]] apparently torturing Sasaki, with an accidental broadcast causing ''everyone'' at the Auction to hear his screams. Saiko's horrified look when she turns on the monitors looking for Sasaki speaks volumes about what is being done to him.
-->[[spoiler:'''Takizawa:''']] HAHAHAHAHA! This is amazing. Who set up this strange thing for me? Now everyone on the premises can hear me! I just thought of something great. I've made holes in various places, so let's get your friends... to hear your vibrations.
* Chapter 31: Once ''again'', [[spoiler: Takizawa]] provides a hefty dose of the nightmare fuel.
-->'''[[spoiler: Takizawa]]:''' ''"Mommy! Daddy! I'm sorry! I can't help it! I couldn't help it! [[SelfMadeOrphan I ate]] [[MamasBoy Mom's intestines]]. Ta-....ta-.....TASTY!!!"''

* Chapter 35: Tsukiyama´s condition is further elaborated upon early on in the chapter and the affect his flawed genetic condition have done with him. His [[BodyHorror defective kakuja]] has grown his koukaku to a leech of immense size from starvation, cannibalism and turned Tsukiyama into a [[AxeCrazy raving]] lunatic while lucid who easily mirror [[TheBerserker Kaneki]] in his worst moments. The fact that this happens whenever the sedatives used on him wears off and that he doesn´t seem to remember anything afterwards just makes it no mystery why he´s locked up or why the servants fears him.

* Chapter 43: Eto's kagune. Just.....the sheer BodyHorror of [[spoiler: branch-like things exploding from her shoulders, with ''human limbs' growing out of human limbs growing out of the branches, and numerous grinning mouths that can SPEAK on their own]].
* Chapter 45: We get to see the aftermath of what Eto did to Kanae. The results are not pretty to say the least.[[spoiler: His eyes and lips have been [[EyeScream stitched]] and he kneels on the floor, bloodied and without a shirt, surrounded by ticking clocks as Eto speaks to him]].
* Chapter 47 gives us a brief glimpse of [[spoiler: of Kanae wearing a new mask and outfit after Eto was done torturing him. A mask that looks very similar to '''Noro's''' and an outfit that looks similar to Seidou's. This is going to get very bloody and violent for CCG judging by it....]]
** Then, in the next chapter, the first thing we see him do is [[spoiler: is brutally kill Shimoguchi and his squad, then cradling his severed head while saying that's it's a fine rose for Tsukiyama before beginning to scale the wall.]]

** [[spoiler: Noro]] goes to town on the Ito and Quinx squad with its toothy kagune. When it is later bisected by [[spoiler:Saiko's]] kagune, it simply pulls its body together in seconds through its bizarre and highly effective HealingFactor.

** [[spoiler: Noro]] lands a crushing blow on [[spoiler: Ito]], resulting in a broken ribcage with some ribs sticking out of a wound.
** [[spoiler: Ihei]] comes undone completely in the wake of [[spoiler: Matsumae]] badly wounding her. She whips out [[spoiler:her Quinque ''T-Human'']] in an attempt to eradicate her foe. [[spoiler: Mairo]] takes the hit, being bisected himself in the process, but still manages to [[spoiler:unceremoniously behead Ihei]]. With the last of his strength he distracts [[spoiler: Kijima]] long enough for [[spoiler: Matsumae to cut straight into his head with his own chainsaw quinque]].

* Chapter 50: Furuta [[spoiler: using his comrade as a meat shield and jabbing Matsumae's eyes out with his hands.]]
** Sasaki breaking down and nearly stabbing Tsukiyama through before [[spoiler: Kanae cuts his hand off]].
* Chapter 51: A monstrous kagune sprouts from [[spoiler: Noro's dismembered body and brutally dismembers Shinji]]
** This kagune looks rather similar to [[spoiler: Eto's, which has some terrifying implications...]]
** Kanae is revealed to have [[spoiler: cut Sasaki's hand off and tries to drop him off the side of a building like he did with his hand due to his jealousy of Sasaki having Tsukiyama's attention but Sasaki decapitates him with his legs]].

** [[spoiler: Arima threatening to ''kill'' Kaneki/haise again in a flashback and calling him his quinque. The implications of Kaneki having suffered repeated torture at the hands of his mentor in order to become Haise are there, and he is so distressed over the flashback that the voice within expresses a desire to kill Arima]].
** After [[spoiler: Haise subdues Kanae]], a fully transformed [[spoiler: kakuja Eto]] swoops in and promptly attacks.

** The flashback to Kaneki's childhood, and the rather graphic shot of [[spoiler: his mother beating him]].
** [[spoiler: Ui]] walking in on the bloody aftermath of the [[spoiler:Ihei squad vs. Tsukiyama's bodyguards]] battle.
** Shirazu is shown engaging what appears to be [[spoiler: Noro's kagune, which appears as an absolutely massive jaw, complete with grotesque, salivating tongue and enormous teeth.]]

** The first thing [[spoiler: Kaneki does upon regaining his identity]] is give [[TragicVillain Kanae]] one of the worst beatings in ''Re'' to date, all while sporting a PsychoticSmirk. To elaborate, [[spoiler: Kaneki]] tears off Kanae's arm, impales him through the eye with a metal beam, and after dodging his kagune's agonized swings, he impales him from behind while pinning Kanae's remaining arm with offshoot tentacles. Meanwhile Shirazu may have [[spoiler: pushed himself into becoming a full-fledged half-ghoul]] in his effort to defeat Noro.

** [[spoiler: Shirazu asking where everyone is and why no one is talking, even though Urie and Saiko are right beside him and shouting. It's because his body is starting to shut down, causing his senses to fail and this ''terrifies'' him when he realizes it]].
** Noro's true form: [[spoiler: He's a mummified corpse, implied to have been kept going all these years by Eto's kagune]].
* Chapter 56: Remember Kankeki's kakuja-induced madness in Kanou's laboratory, complete with the [[WordSaladHorror nonsensical ramblings]] and erratic behavior? [[spoiler: Kaneki's attack on Eto drives her into a similar state, and her kakuja body begins undergoing a series of ''[[SarcasmMode lovely]]'' mutations such as extra eyes and ''mouths on top of mouths'']]. All while she pursues him across the surface of a building, spouting random and confused sentences. It turns a scene that should have been badass into pure horror.
** Eto varies between [[{{Yandere}} trying to kill Kaneki and declaring her love for him while licking his eye]]. It doesn't help that she's naked and [[spoiler: missing her legs]].
** The cliffhanger of the chapter, with Koori Ui discovering [[spoiler: Kaneki feasting on the gruesome remains of Eto's discarded kakuja]].

* Chapter 59 gives us [[spoiler: Kaneki making an ''incredibly'' sinister smile while talking to Eto's manager. It's especially jarring because it's become increasingly rare to see him smile, and that the way it's drawn and the context makes it increasingly apparent that poor Ken's sanity is going down the toilet. Never mind the fact that he has been partnered with [[BitchInSheepsClothing Furuta]], of all people.]]
* After the TimeSkip, Kaneki's started wearing gloves. There's a pretty good reason for that: [[spoiler:his arm apparently grew back with ''scales''.]]
* Chapter 62: It turns out Eto's manager [[spoiler: has been aware of her identity as a ghoul for quite some time]]. Just how did he discover this? Well, the chunks of human flesh in marked containers, including ''the clearly defined parts of a person's face'' made things pretty obvious.
* Chapter 64: [[spoiler: Mutsuki wakes up to discover that Torso has kidnapped him. Torso declares that they are getting married, and shows Mutsuki his severed limbs]].
* Chapter 65 continues this with a single glimpse of a [[spoiler: masked, shirtless Torso looming over Mutsuki and panting heavily. The [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil potential]] [[NothingIsScarier implications]] terrified the fandom, suffice to say]].

* In Chapter 67, we finally have a flashback to post-V14 events: [[spoiler: an amnesiac Kaneki, locked up in Cochlea and completely insane. He would claw at the walls until his nails were torn off, begging to be let out because he had to "save everyone". Who did he need to save? He didn't know, he just couldn't let go of that single thought. He would regularly claw out his own eyes until they became infected, and refused any food to the extent the staff were convinced he would die soon. He didn't know who he was, or where he was, or who he needed to save....leaving him in a constant state of hysteria and self-harm, plagued by nightmares and slowly dying from self-inflicted injuries]].

* Kaneki has resolved himself [[spoiler: to die against Arima in a beautiful way so that he will be remembered and loved]].
** In chapter 73 its revealed [[spoiler: Kaneki doesn't even want to fight Arima and secretly doesn't want to die by his hand]].
** [[spoiler: Torso brings Mutsuki a flower crown, but gets angry when Mutsuki glares at him and won't accept his compliments. He beats Mutsuki violently while screaming insults. Mutsuki flashbacks to his father beating him up and drowning him telling him he won't stop until he gives him the praise he deserves. It's also implied Torso raped Mutsuki and Mutuski's father raped him with a parallel to Suzuka and Big Madam. Mutsuki laments being cursed from his tendency to be abused by men]].
** Also at the end of the chapter [[spoiler: Arima cuts off Kaneki's legs]].

* In chapter 74 of re [[spoiler: Arima thrusts IXA at Kaneki's eyes, and asks if this is what he wants. Kaneki panics and tries to put his legs back on, but Arima throws them away and starts berating him. Telling him that his eyes are empty like a dead person, and a person that is dead can't beat him, and he will kill Kaneki's friends if he doesn't make his choice. Kaneki imagines all his friends dead at Arima's hand, and his kakuja emerges making him appear monstrous. He shatters IXA completely. Arima calls out to someone standing in the shadows, and asks for that Quinque. He tells the person about the other ghouls going to the Control Room. Arima then prepares to use his final quinque, SSS-rated Ukaku: OWL. It was made for him as a teenager, after he drove off a Kakuja. He's never used it on a person before he says. We also have when Banjou catches up to the others in the control room, and they shut down the systems. They all start going down into the Disposal System, when it suddenly starts back up. Chaos and ghouls getting pulled into the press, while Furuta laughs hysterically in the control booth with what looks to be members of V behind him. ]]
* Furuta [[spoiler: being revealed to being a ghoul.]]
* While [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] it was also creepy to see [[spoiler: Eto in her true form attack Furuta while telling him that the food he made of her manager was delicious and warns him that he's next on the menu.]]
* At the end of chapter 77 Urie comes across a horrid smell and [[spoiler: supposedly finds where Mutsuki is being held. He finds a headless limbless torso under a sheet]].

** His FreudianExcuse, having [[spoiler: grown up in complete isolation while being abused by his father, and witnessing his father dismember and eat his OnlyFriend. He then is implied to have killed his father for this]].
*** [[spoiler: When they were without food his father ate his mother.]]
** The final page of the chapter, with [[spoiler: Torso looming over Mutsuki in a pose that shows off how thin and creepy-looking he is and his freakishly long [[NoodlePeople Noodle Person]] arms]].

** The chapter focuses primarily on [[spoiler: Mutsuki's TomatoInTheMirror sequence, as he watches memories of himself killing his family with an axe, killing a cat while at the Academy, digging up a jar of organs he hid in the woods outside the Academy, and eating a dead Investigator at the Auction. Horrified, he calls himself disgusting and decides that he should just allow Torso to kill him.....but comes back to his senses, fully healed. Mutsuki discovers Torso's mutilated remains, and remembers killing him before having a complete mental breakdown]].
** [[spoiler: Torso's fate, graphically described by an Investigator's report. It is perhaps the most gruesome killing in the entire series, with Mutsuki mutilating and abusing the corpse before leaving it on display for Urie to later find]].

** [[spoiler: The chapter switches the focus to Hanbee's situation. He is defeated by Kuro, and saved at the last minute by Juuzou. Kuro celebrates that she can show her sister a "suffering Rei", and Juuzou is confused because he was sure that Shiro had died of her wounds. Kuro is angry at him being rude by ignoring her sister, and pulls open her cloak to reveal a horrific skull-like face merged into her stomach that is speaking quietly. Kuro and Shiro have apparently been merged into some kind of horrific monster.]]
* Chapter 83: [[spoiler: The shot of Yoshitoki Washuu lunging at Marude with gaping mouth, active kakugan, and a bullet lodged in his forehead]].
* Furuta [[spoiler: appears to win his fight against Eto and leaves her in her horrifically maimed state for death]] while stating he's got a lot more people to fuck up.
* Chapter 88 treats us to many ''extremely'' graphic, close-up shots of RedShirts being killed in a horrifying fashion. In a series filled with gruesome deaths, these are perhaps the most nightmarish, as the hapless soldiers are essentially [[spoiler: doused with napalm, melting their gear to their ''faces'' or vaporizing pieces of their skulls]] in "loving" detail. Their screaming and struggling as they die only makes it worse. WarIsHell indeed.
* Chapter 90 once again ups the ante, with copious doses of MedicalHorror. [[spoiler: Graphically detailing the OWL experiments, the chapter shows how Takizawa was changed from the PluckyComicRelief into a deranged OneManArmy. Dr. Kanou personally oversaw his experiment's progress, cheerfully explaining his situation to him before announcing a variety of experiments would be carried out once he stabilized. Extensive torture is portrayed, with Kanou utterly detached from the horror he's inflicting to strengthen his new subject.....and medical rape is casually mentioned as well]].

* Chapter 98 sees the battle with Amon take a sudden and horrific turn. In the midst of being consumed by Urie's [[CombatTentacles Ginkui]], [[spoiler: the former investigator undergoes a sudden mutation into a smaller version of Eto's kakuja body, it's worst feature being his grimacing and wide-eyed head twisted into an unnatural angle at the end of the creature's "neck". Seeing ''Amon'' of all people turn into something so alien and without any warning whatsoever is beyond jarring.]] Not to mention that his retaliation is so [[CurbStompBattle fast, brutal and one-sided]] that it's all the shocked Quinx can do to ''survive''.
* Chapter 101 gives us more to shudder over. [[spoiler: Furuta discusses the setup of the Sunlit Garden in more detail, revealing how certain children there are used as [[BreedingCult breeding slaves]]. Rize was one of such child, but he helped her escape because he didn't want ''his own father'' to someday rape the girl he loved. But he didn't do this for altruistic reasons, but because he's a CrazyJealousGuy that wants to make her his wife and personal BabyFactory]].

* Chapter 123 gives us an AxCrazy Mitsuki showing [[spoiler: Touka]] [[FingerInTheMail part of a hand]], which lacks multiple fingers and has a bone sticking out but is wearing an engagement ring - in other words [[spoiler: [[DamselInDistress Yoriko]] is being punished simply for once having ties to Touka, and, in addition to the mutilation, she may already be dead.]]

** To elaborate, it pretty much demonstrates [[spoiler: that forcing Kaneki to fight to survive again is ''still'' a bad idea, especially now that he decides to drop all of this ethical restraints. As in ''[[WouldHurtAChild he kills every single Oggai near-effortlessly]]'' once he has absolutely no choice but to come back from the brink of death to eliminate every single threat in his path, even starting this off by eating Hajime's face to boot. And shortly thereafter, he becomes what can only be considered the closest the series has come yet to EldritchAbomination, as a ''gigantic mass of berserk, sentient kagune flesh tearing through a city block like it's nothing.'']]
** It also shows how psychologically unhinged Kaneki's really become by this point in the series. [[spoiler: He literally argues with multiple facets of his personality, each one based off of himself from different points in the series. As in, each time Kaneki's had CharacterDevelopment, he considered the previous Kaneki a completely different individual and isolated it into his mind. The one thing they can all agree on ultimately? [[MadnessMantra Solely focusing on saving Touka as they disregard anything else to kill their enemy.]]]]
** The best part? [[spoiler:This was ''all'' part of Furutas plan as he declares [[OhCrap he won]] as Kaneki eats his upper half.]]
* Chapter 145: A NoDialogueEpisode as the results of the previous chapter come to bare: [[spoiler: Kaneki is now pretty much a full-on EldritchAbomination befitting of the title [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Dragon"]], with massive glowing kakugan eyes the size of buildings. The entire city is in a MassOhCrap, and the context heavily implies that this is the epitome that things like the One-Eyed Owl were mere stepping stones towards; a monstrosity that could wipe out the entire capital city if it isn't stopped, because in only a handful of pages, it's strongly implied that Kaneki ''has devoured massive amounts of Tokyo's population right off the streets as they scream and try to flee in terror.'']]
** One particular shot emphasizes this when a young man working on a paper turns his head to the window [[spoiler: and sees a Kaiju-sized kakugan staring back at him through his apartment window.]]
* Chapter 161: [[spoiler: Dragon collapsing? Hooray. Dragon releasing spores across Tokyo which turns humans into full-fledged ghouls upon contact as it does so? Uh-oh.]]
* Chapter 165/166: An uncanny parallel with the Anteiku raid arc. [[spoiler: The CCG/Goat alliance appears to have the situation under control as they slaughter their way through the V soldiers. Then Kaiko steps out of the shadows and offers the investigators a tough fight. Right as this happens, a massive kakuja resembling Eto's "Owl" form drops from the sky and begins assaulting the allied forces. After a short yet desperate fight in which many allied forces are killed or injured, Kaiko and the "Owl" are both critically injured... [[HopeSpot Seemingly]]. As the kakuja's head falls, what's revealed inside is the headless form of what appears to be Eto, with a cross sticking out of her neck. As the forces watch in bewilderment, Kaiko simply regenerates his head and announces that it's time for round two, after which the headless Owl continues its brutal assault.]]
** The zombie [[spoiler: Owl's]] appearance. It still mostly looks the same, except for the head. [[spoiler: Where the horned, one-eyed head once was there is now an owl-mask stitched to the neck stump. There's even trickles of blood flowing from the stitches.]]

** The [[spoiler: zombie owl]] continues its assault and seems impossible to stop. Koori Ui also quickly finds out that the [[spoiler: main body's [[HealingFactor regeneration]] is still top notch.]] Then a whistle is blown, signalling all V members to retreat, after which [[spoiler: the zombie owl gets on all fours, produces an extra number of appendages and releases a powerful schockwave that decimates the investigators in front of it.]]
** Ayato and Kaneki's expedition towards the root of the kagune mass. [[spoiler: As they find the monsters that have the ghoulification toxins in them, said monsters seemingly notice them and begin crawling from their egg-sacks.]]

* Nutcracker is pretty bad too. She crushes men's testicles and then sucks then up. What's worse is that we actually see her do this to some poor bastard.

* While [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] it was also creepy to see [[spoiler: Eto in her true form attack Furuta while telling him that the food he made of her manager was delicious and warns him that he's next on the menu.]]

* The Gourmet ghoul, Shuu Tsukiyama, is introduced having eaten a woman's eyes and leaving her to wander the streets with two gaping holes in her bloody face. Then there's the dining club he attends, where people have literally ripped apart and fed to the crowd.

* One make of the first manga features Touka biting Kaneki in the church to gain the strength to fight Tsukiyama. However, she finds him delicious and keeps eating until ''Kaneki's nothing but a skull and a pile of bones''. This is played for laughs, of course, but still...

!!Tokyo Ghoul:RE :

* Chapter 165/166: An uncanny parallel with the Anteiku raid arc. [[spoiler: The CCG/Goat alliance appears to have the situation under control as they slaughter their way through the V soldiers. Then Kaiko steps out of the shadows and offers the investigators a tough fight. Right as this happens, a massive kakuja resembling Eto's "Owl" form drops from the sky and begins assaulting the allied forces. After a short yet desperate fight in which many allied forces are killed or injured, Kaiko and the "Owl" are both critically injured... [[HopeSpot Seemingly]]. As the kakuja's head falls, what's revealed inside is the headless form of what appears to be Eto, with a cross sticking out of her neck. As the forces watch in bewilderment, Kaiko simply regenerates his head and announces that it's time for round two before the slaughter continues.]]

* Chapter 165/166: An uncanny parallel with the Anteiku raid arc. [[spoiler: The CCG/Goat alliance appears to have the situation under control as they slaughter their way through the V soldiers. Then Kaiku steps out of the shadows and offers the investigators a tough fight. Right as this happens, a massive kakuja resembling Eto's "Owl" form drops from the sky and begins assaulting the allied forces. After a short yet desperate fight in which many allied forces are killed or injured, Kaiko and the "Owl" are both critically injured... [[HopeSpot Seemingly]]. As the kakuja's head falls, what's revealed inside is the headless form of what appears to be Eto, with a cross sticking out of her neck. As the forces watch in bewilderment, Kaiko simply regenerates his head and announces that it's time for round two before the slaughter continues.]]

** The zombie [[spoiler: Owl's]] appearance. It still mostly looks the same, escept for the head. [[spoiler: Where the horned, one-eyed head once was there is now an owl-mask stitched to the neck stump. There's even trickles of blood flowing from the stitches.]]

* Chapter 165/166: An uncanny parallel with the Anteiku raid arc. [[spoiler: The CCG/Goat alliance appears to have the situation under control as they slaughter their way through the V soldiers. Then Kaiku steps out of the shadows and offers the investigators a tough fight. Right as this happens, a massive kakuja resembling Eto's "Owl" form drops from the sky and begins assaulting the allied forces. After holding out as best as they can, Kaiko and the "Owl" are both critically injured... Seemingly. As the kakuja's head falls, what's revealed inside is the headless form of what appears to be Eto, with a cross sticking out of her neck. As the forces watch in bewilderment, Kaiko simply regenerates his head and announces that it's time for round two before the slaughter continues.]]

* Chapter 165/166: An uncanny parallel with the Anteiku raid arc. [[spoiler: The CCG/Goat alliance appears to have the situation under control as they slaughter their way through the V soldiers. Then Kaiku steps out of the shadows and offers the investigators a tough fight. Right as this happens, a massive kakuja resembling Eto's "Owl" form drops from the sky and begins assaulting the allied forces. After holding out as best as they can, Kaiko and the "Owl" are both critically injured... Seemingly. As kakuja's head falls, what's revealed inside is the headless form of what appears to be Eto, with a cross sticking out of her neck. As the forces watch in bewilderment, Kaiko simply regenerates his head and announces that it's time for round two before the slaughter continues.]]