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Oh, thanks for the heads up anon! Ishida’s wishing us a Happy New Year. There’s nothing much relevant on the panel, just “hope nothing stands in your way, ladies”. Or at least I think so within the context of this tweet. Might be a different translation once I see the whole scene in context.

although to be fair this time around I’ll probably be writing Twitter threads instead of Tumblr long posts. But maybe fancy’ll strike me to do both.

My bet is on Kodansha’s monthly Bessatsu Margaret. The wording seemed to me like a self-produced thing at first, but then I remembered the suspiciously deleted early concepts.

Translated from Ishida’s personal twitter (X):

Yesterday, after finalizing the name of my new manga, I fell asleep. Kaneki and Touka were in my dreams, for the first time in a long while. In my dreams, they defeated Mado, fought against a mysterious ghoul, and their conversing back and forth was a mess, but it was fun. It almost seemed like they were telling me to go have fun.

TK did an interview about his new album “Sainou”, and a couple questions were related to the song collab he did with Ishida (see here for more info), so I decided to translate those parts. Original article can be found here.

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Regarding the lyrics of “Sainou ~Sui Side~”, how did you interact with the lyricist Ishida Sui? Some parts seem like they can extend to Tokyo Ghoul’s world view, but did you have any discussions with him about that?

I originally wrote the lyrics for Tokyo Ghoul and handed it over to Sui-san, telling him, “Please rewrite it as you see fit.” And so he wrote the lyrics with the image of Sigure*. It wasn’t like I made a request to him, but more like we were sending love letters to each other (laughs).

T/N: He mentioned 時雨 (shigure) which means “late autumn rainfall”, but after listening to the song I think TK actually meant that Ishida wrote the lyrics based on Ling Tosite Sigure’s (凛として時雨) style.

The word “Sainou” is also the title of the album, and the collection of songs in the album is linked to the idea of “multicoloured/diverse talents”, but was it deliberately given that title based on the overall picture? Or did it just happen to be a title suitable for the album? I’d also like to know more about the subtitle “Sui Side.”