#aogiri raid arc

Even better, it's specifically "kuso-yama" and specifically using the kanji for yama. (クソ山) Tsukiyama's name means Moon Mountain, with the -yama part meaning mountain.

Shit Mountain > Pile of Shit.

What an insult. It's great.

Nishiki also uses the same insult in Ch 117.

And then Touka uses it again in the V12 Omake

1) His hair did indeed turn white from his time being tortured. (I think he's the only natural ghoul that we see this happen to?)

2) Read those last two text boxes above. Even Yamori was seeking "being human".

It reminds me a lot of how Tsukiyama and the other restaurant ghouls imitate humanity. It's not just the Anteiku ghouls who try to be human; it's probably all ghouls, it just comes out in different ways.

3) Just... this omake...

More parallels with Kaneki, and getting a glimpse of his past...

I've always admired how Ishida can show sympathy for some of his worst characters, while never excusing their actions. Not a lot of authors can pull that off so well.

And then after this arc... It feels like just about every ghoul we meet has cannibalized at some point or another and gotten incredibly strong because of it.

Kinda makes Yamori seem a lot less scary. In comparison to all the ghouls we know, he seems much more out of the loop. Not to mention he was only ever a half-kakuja.

Kaneki tells this to Rize...

and its pretty clear to the audience that his aunt was lying the whole time, just sleazing money off her sister

and it seems like Kaneki was unaware of it, or at least in heavy denial

But he wasn't.

Because in TG Past, when Kaneki's 15, he directly realizes this...

We even get to see that two-story home in Ch 62

Versus where Kaneki and his mom had lived

Yoshimura: (Crashes the CCG raid on Aogiri)