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“From the shoulder, beyond the wrist, look out evil it’s my fist!”

I’ve seen a few inaccurate translations of Tsukiyama’s words to Kaneki before he left to fight in the Anteiku raid, so I thought I would point it out.

“ 後生” does mean “afterlife”, but “ 後生だから” means what the above definitions says. 

Tsukiyama says it twice to Kaneki. The first was in TG Vol 5 after Touka cut his arm off. His words were broken up, but basically he was trying to say “For mercy’s sake, just let me have one bite (of you)”.

And this here is a scene that I really love…

This is from when everyone at Anteiku, Uta and Tsukiyama teamed up to save Kaneki from Aogiri.

Nishiki and Touka claimed that Tsukiyama only wants to eat Kaneki and doesn’t actually see him as a friend. In reply, Tsukiyama confidently explained that he has started to like Kaneki. However, he’s thinking to himself how he would eat him when he has the chance.

What I like about this scene is that it basically foreshadows what will happen in the future: Tsukiyama will genuinely start to like Kaneki but realize it when it will be too late.