Death happens all the time in Sui Ishida’s manga series and its anime adaptations, but is Hide from Tokyo Ghoul dead or alive when the show ends? The world of Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality Japan where flesh-eating creatures known as ghouls live in secrecy among the population. The series follows Ken Kaneki, a student who is transformed into a half-ghoul after a date with a notoriously ravenous ghoul name Rize Kamishiro goes awry. As Kaneki learns to deal with his ghoul side, he tries to keep his new identity a secret from his human companions including his best friend Hideyoshi “Hide” Nagachika.
In Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki and Hide have been friends since childhood. Their close relationship, combined with Hide’s intelligence, meant that Kaneki couldn’t keep his half-ghoul identity hidden from his BFF for long as Hide soon guessed what was going on. Kaneki needn’t have worried too much as Hide stayed a loyal friend to him regardless of his new hunger for human flesh. Hide even started working at the Commission of Counter Ghouls (AKA the CCG, a federal organization that investigates ghoul-related crimes) to find clues as to Kaneki’s whereabouts after he went missing.
Hide features in both Sui Ishida’s original manga and the Tokyo Ghoul anime adaptations, although the character’s journey differs in the two works. In the manga, Hide and a badly wounded Kaneki encountered each other in a sewer where the latter sought refuge following his fight with investigator Koutarou Amon. Hide insisted Kaneki eat him to regain his strength after which Kaneki blacked out only to wake up with the taste of blood in his mouth. Kaneki assumed he’d devoured his friend but Hide later turned out to be alive and living under the alias Scarecrow in Tokyo Ghoul:re. The friends eventually reunited and Hide revealed Kaneki had eaten part of his face but he’d survived the ordeal.
However, in the season 2 finale of the anime (AKA Tokyo Ghoul √A) Hide sustained a fatal injury at the hands of ghoul Noro and died in Kaneki’s arms. Hide’s death was a departure from the manga but the decision to kill him was actually Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida’s, who took some elements of his manga but blended them with original storylines crafted just for the anime series.
The changes made in Tokyo Ghoul √A weren’t very popular with fans of the manga and when the anime adaptation of Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul:re sequel series arrived, it seemed a lot of the action in season 2 had been retconned. That applied to Hide too who appeared in Tokyo Ghoul:re and followed his Scarecrow storyline from the manga. So, despite his apparent death in the anime’s second season, Hide is indeed alive and well in the Tokyo Ghoul manga and anime series thanks to a whole load of retconning.
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July 22, 2021 at 12:10AM
