Ken Kaneki.

description.

Ken Kaneki (金カネ木キ 研ケン, Kaneki Ken) is the first known artificial one-eyed ghoul. His unique half ghoul state is what later inspires the idea of the Quinx. After joining Anteiku as a part-time waiter, he learns how to live as a ghoul and eventually becomes known as Eyepatch (眼帯, Gantai) After being captured by Aogiri Tree, he underwent a drastic personality change and after escaping, formed a group with the goal of protecting those precious to him and exterminating individuals threatening his place of belonging. His kagune form's distinct appearance earned him the alias Centipede (ムカデ, Mukade).[14] Two years following his defeat against Kishou Arima, he lived under the identity of Haise Sasaki (佐々木ササキ 琲ハイ世セ, Sasaki Haise), a Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator who served as the mentor of the CCG's Quinx Squad. His memories were initially lost to him, but regained during the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation. Six months after the operation, ghouls came to know him by the moniker of the Black Reaper (黒い死神, Kuroi Shinigami). After defeating Arima and Eto, having unveiled their joint plan to raise a one-eyed ghoul who could stand as the hope for all ghouls, he calls himself the One-Eyed King (隻眼の王, Sekigan no Ō). Kaneki has since then formed the organization he named Goat.

appearance.

As a child, Kaneki had all the same features he has now as an adult with black hair. As a normal university student, Kaneki was a somewhat short and scrawny young man with little to no athletic background and preferred to read books. After the steel beam incident, Kaneki bears a scar from the transplant operation on the right side of his abdomen not far from his navel. In his free time, he wore casual clothes. His casual outfit consists of a turquoise hoodie, light black pants, running shoes with a yellow toe and blue outlines reaching the middle of the black base of the soles. At work, he wore the standard Anteiku waiter uniform, consisting of black trousers and a gray waistcoat over a white dress shirt and a black necktie. Because he could not yet properly control his single kakugan that manifests in his left eye, he wore a medical eye patch to cover it. His ghoul mask resembles a leather gimp mask with an eye patch. It bears a lipless mouth with large, gnashing teeth, much like a restrained asylum monster. The bolts sticking out of his neck and the fact that he is an artificial ghoul invoke a Frankenstein-like theme. After being tortured by Yamori, his appearance changed drastically. His hair became completely white, his nails were blackened, and he developed a more muscular physique. He began to favor monochrome clothing and wore a form-fitting black bodysuit with cutouts when going into battle. His attitude changed as well. He became more cold, and left his innocence behind as he fully embraced his inner ghoul.

personality. ( pre-aogiri )

Kaneki was a shy and reserved person, with Hide being his only close friend. He usually spent most of his time reading books, mostly novels. He was extremely gentle and appeared to be optimistic most of the time. Influenced by his mother and a true testament of modesty, he willingly took blame and punishment from others so that he can be someone who does not hurt people, but rather absorb the torment. However, this lack of assertiveness normally got him bullied and taken advantage of. However, beneath his altruistic and gentle nature was an underlying fear of being alone that was aggravated by his mother's death. He despised the idea of solitude, hence he tried to protect those dear to him so he would not have to face his fear of being alone in the world. This was perhaps his greatest weakness. Since Kaneki was always trying to protect others, he was essentially trying to protect himself from ever being alone again. Therefore, to escape that scenario, he would shoulder the task of protecting others onto himself, without relying on anyone else. This was also why Kaneki rejected the notion of "living," because watching others die reminded him of those lonely days without anyone beside him. After he was turned into a half-ghoul, he clung to his human side. To keep living in the human world, he began to work at Anteiku and established relationships with the ghouls there. He started to develop an interest in becoming stronger and began reading martial art books so he could protect those closest to him. However, he was still troubled with the fact that he was a half-ghoul and wanted to search for a place where he could belong. As much as he treasured his life, if people close to him were threatened, he would not hesitate to put his life on the line.

personality. ( post-aogiri )

After being held captive and undergoing intense torture at the hands of Yamori, Kaneki's personality changed drastically. He abandoned his previous ideology of "being hurt rather than hurting others," vowing to crush those who dared threaten his place of belonging. He adopted the habit of cracking his knuckles from his torturer, Yamori. In his subconscious, Kaneki consumed "Rize," the image of his ghoul self. This displayed that he accepted the "ghoul" within him; instead of being influenced by it, he appeared to have become the one to surpass it. Kaneki became ruthless, cruel, and brutal in order to protect his friends, yet he managed to maintain complete composure. He no longer feared his ghoul side and was more violent during battles, such as when he cannibalized Yamori's kagune to strengthen himself, and mercilessly broke 103 of Ayato's bones.[20] By wholeheartedly embracing his ghoul nature, Kaneki gave up on being "human." Kaneki was still capable of showing his gentle nature to those he cared about, but instantly turned merciless against his enemies. He yearned for strength and power, therefore becoming more power-hungry and superficially arrogant. His new creed—that as "the strong" he had the right to "devour the weak"—was originally an ideology held by Yamori. Banjou assumed that Kaneki developed some form of mental instability during his torture in the 11th ward, and that this would gradually wear him down. Whenever he was near starvation and losing control of his kagune (or half-kakuja), he behaved in a way that mimicked others, such as Rize or Yamori. He would speak in a crazed, disorganized manner, further implying his mental instability during these periods. After raiding Kanou's lab and attacking Banjou, Kaneki entered a period of soul-searching. He wished to reclaim his lost "human" side and became uncertain about the path he had taken to become stronger.

background. ( 1 / 2 )

As a child, Kaneki enjoyed eating the burgers his mother made when she was still alive. He lost his father when he was four years old. He barely remembered his face and was terribly curious about what kind of person he was. He knew that his father was an avid reader and had many books. Kaneki would follow the sentences in the books his father had been reading, saying he felt like he was having a conversation with his father, which calmed him down. This developed his hobby of reading and interest in literature. When he was a child, his mother struggled to provide for them. The amount of work she had to handle was overwhelming, and the person who put the most stress on her was Kaneki's aunt (his mother's sister). His aunt was short on money and constantly pressured his mother for cash. Left with nothing but burden, his aunt can be seen as the one who drove his mother to her death. Kaneki's mother, in turn, turned her frustration towards Kaneki, abusing and beating the boy. Kaneki, however, repressed these memories and convinced himself his mother treated him kindly. His mother finally died from overwork when he was 10. Now orphaned, Kaneki was then adopted by his aunt's family, the Asaoka family. However, Kaneki's life with his adopted family was no less hostile. His aunt constantly compared him to her son, Yuuichi, who did not do well in school, which greatly angered her. When comparing her son to Kaneki, she also likened Kaneki to his late mother, saying how alike they were. Her feelings of inferiority regarding Kaneki's mother were turned on him as spite. As time passed, the family became a place that offered Kaneki little comfort, as no one in the family would look after or care for him. He barely had any friends during elementary school. During that time, Hide approached Kaneki, most likely because he noticed that Kaneki had trouble dealing with his classmates.

background. ( 2 / 2 )

Previously, he was a student who studied Japanese literature at Kamii University, living a relatively normal life. However, this quickly changed after Rize Kamishiro's kakuhou was transplanted into him and transformed him into a one-eyed ghoul Kaneki and Hide listened to the news about ghoul attacks in the 20th ward while in Anteiku. Hide then wondered if Touka was Kaneki's new crush that he wanted to show, which Kaneki denied. Instead, he pointed to Rize as she entered the café. After Hide left, Kaneki was able to arrange a date with Rize after they were able to talk when she bumped into his book. However, Rize later revealed herself to be a ghoul targeting Kaneki after tricking him into entering a isolated alley. During her attack, Kaneki was pierced through the abdomen by her kagune, but before she could finish him off and feed, steel beams fell and crushed her. To save his life, the staff of the Kanou General Hospital under the direction of Dr. Kanou decided to transplant Rize's organs into him. From then on, Kaneki became a half-human, half-ghoul. After the accident, Kaneki hid the fact that Rize was a ghoul. He found that everything he ate tasted disgusting and he was hardly able to eat normal food, so he started to live on little more than water for days. Around that time he realized ghouls were also unable to eat normal food, his hunger struck him. Unable to find anything to satisfy his hunger, he wandered the streets. At that time, he found out that the waitress, Touka, from Anteiku was also a ghoul when she killed a human in front of him.[5] In terror, he ran away. Moments later, he saw that he could barely keep himself in check, salivating profusely. Since he thought the organ transplant was the reason for his transformation, he tried to get rid of the transplanted organs, but was unsuccessful. Desperate, he turned to Touka for help.

universe. ( 1 / 3 )

in the world there are two sides constantly confronting each other - ordinary people and ghouls. ghouls are the same people, a carnivorous and cannibalistic species, capable of feeding only on people or other ghouls. They are as similar to people as possible: as a rule, they have the same external appearance and the same developed intelligence, but their diet, mentality and internal structure are slightly different from humans. In rare cases, human and ghoul individuals are able to have offspring, and ghoul organs can be transplanted (with a low chance of success) into a human body. Because of their diet, ghouls are persecuted by the forces of nature CCG (organization for the killing of ghouls), deprived of any rights in human society, including the right to life. ghouls are able to feed only on human flesh or the flesh of other ghouls. The taste buds of ghouls are also different from humans, which is why the taste of ordinary food causes disgust and nausea in ghouls. If a ghoul tries to eat human food, it will subsequently experience a strong urge to vomit. Forcing itself to eat such food will result in the degradation of its physical condition. Ghouls, unlike humans, do not need to eat frequently. They are able to survive by eating only once every one or two months. However, some ghouls eat much more often for their own pleasure. Despite the fact that ghouls can go without human flesh for two months, some of them are able to eat up to eleven people at once in a short period of time. Such ghouls are also known as "devourers", one example of which was Rize Kamishiro. In addition, food is "fuel" for the use of ghouls' special abilities; frequent release of kagune and regeneration of wounds require more intensive nutrition. Ghouls have high physical abilities, which makes them much stronger than an ordinary person: by striking with sufficient force, they are able to throw a person into the air or pierce his body through and through.

universe. ( 2 / 3 )

In addition, the height of their jumps can reach several meters. Under normal conditions, ghouls have a high regenerative capacity. Minor wounds and fractures heal in a matter of hours; more serious wounds heal within a few days if the ghoul has a sufficient supply of food. Kagune (赫子, kagune) is a ghoul's hunting organ, used as a weapon. It is usually blood-red or black in color, flexible like a stream of water, but also hard and durable. After releasing the kagune, the ghoul's body is strengthened: it becomes more resilient, its movement speed increases, and its reactions become sharper. The kagune is made up of Rc cells, which circulate in the ghoul's body like blood. They are capable of acquiring a hardness similar to tooth enamel; in addition, they can be described as "liquid muscles". RC cells are released through the kakuhou located on the back, after which they form the kagune. After being released, the kagune takes on the state of a "controlled muscle", which the ghoul can either strengthen, making it stronger, or soften/relax. The size depends on the quality and quantity of Rc cells in the owner's body, while its shape is influenced by the ghoul's intelligence, creativity, and imagination. Kakuhō (赫包, kakuhō) is a sac-like organ that only ghouls possess. The kakuhō is designed to store RC cells. RC cells are recreated during the ghoul's feeding, after which they are transported along with the blood to the kakuhō, where they are subsequently accumulated. RC cells, piercing the skin, can be released through the kakuhō by the ghoul's will or during periods of intense excitement. Once manifested, they take the form of a kagune Kakugan (赫眼) is a ghoul's eye, with a red glowing pupil and black sclera. Often, red glowing "vessels" diverge from the kakugan's pupil, which are actually RC channels that.

universe. ( 3 / 3 )

One-Eyed Ghoul (隻眼の喰種, Sekigan no Gūru) is a human-ghoul hybrid that possesses the physiology of a ghoul. Most ghouls are either completely unaware of them or believe their existence to be an urban legend. Quinx (クインクス, kuinks) is a human with a quinque implanted in their body. Because the quinque resembles a kagune, quinxes can be mistaken for ghouls or half-ghouls. Quinke (クインケ, kuinke, labeled as "former enemy") is a weapon created from a ghoul's kagune. Made from a kakuhou, the quinque emits electrical impulses that stimulate the kakuhou, allowing control of the kagune. The Quinque can be created in various forms, such as bladed weapons/firearms or even armor, with most retaining some of the characteristics of the original Kagune. Another difference between the Quinque and the Kagune is that the Quinque can no longer evolve and absorb Rc cells.