TOKYO GHOUL RE: CHAPTERS 144-146 ANALYSIS ken kaneki's decent into full anti-hero territory when the hero becomes the villain for the sake of uniting all

You try your hardest to change the world for the better but no matter how hard you try nothing's changing so you make yourself a martyr go against your strong moral code and become the enemy, a enemy so powerful everyone has no choice but to unite to stop you. This is a character trope that we have scene in comics, manga, and anime for years from Batman in the Dark knight film to leleuche in code geas and it's always been a trope I've loved if done right. If something like this is foreshadowed if the main character has already dwelled in some morally grey moral areas for the sake of Justice then the turn from hero to villian or anti hero from the eyes of the viewers or readers is emotionally satisfying, and ohh was it heartbreaking yet absolutely necessary as well as a long time coming for ken kaneki,s heel turn to the ultimate evil for both human and ghouls. Ken kaneki was been one of the most fleshed out, emotionally damaged, tragic  characters in recent times in manga. From the time rize turned kaneki into a ghoul he was determined no matter what to still keep his humanity, determined not to embrace the ghoul inside him joining up with antieku the ghoul equivalent of vegetarians since they won't feed on humans to survive, and even though he's been slowly losing grip of his humanity he still tries to unite humans and ghouls into peacefully living together and still holding tightly to the little shread of humanity he has left.  His descent into the more anti-hero territory had started during his torture by yamori (Jason), while trying to hold on to his sanity and escape the pain he started having mental conversations with the embodiment of rize who was still a part of him.  Taunting him for being weak and fragile, phycolologically toying with his sense of self righteousness she pushing him to stop only caring about himself and worry more about others, which in logic is a good think but in the fragile mind state kanenki was in during the torture it pushed him into a more darker character with a punisher mentality save the ones you love at all cost no matter what you have to do.  In a matter of chapters ken went from a shinji from neon genesis evengalion character, a whiney emo teenager that was annoying into a more brutal more give no fucks as long as I save everyone vigilante character but despite this he still tried his hardest to stay a good person even if he was riding down a morally grey path at times, a example of this was his joining of agori tree.  Slowly thought the manga he started suffering from dissociative identity disorder while not hinted at much in the original Tokyo ghoul manga in RE. it slowly started coming full circle.  Having developed a more brutal emotionally broken second him in his mind a mental construct of himself still as "Jason's" prisoner who taunted him daily to embrace the more darker side of himself, a mental fight between his two selves he tried his hardest to win. eventually developing a third personality in the form of hide who helped him stay out of the moral grey areas.  This takes us to now starting with Tokyo ghoul re: chapter 144 when juuaza has taken ken down at he's at the bring of death.  Some might say what happens next is his final decent into darkness and fully embracing his full ghoul I intemperate the last three chapters we have so far as the most human he has been in the longest time ever if he fully transformed his kagune into full centipede form.  While slowly dying his mind turns to touka, how he won't be able to say goodbye to her, how we wants to see her one last time, fretting over the fact they haven't even named there child yet, and how he won't be in his Childs life since he believes he's dying.  Then he snaps the rize personality comes into full circle and tells him to kill everything in his path to survive no matter human or ghoul, then he transforms completely into his kagune and starts reaking havoc all over Japan. Yes the rize personality was domininate here but the most proment think that brought him to this state was protecting his wife and unborn child and creating a world of peace and humanity for his unborn child something any human would do anything to protect even diving into morally grey areas or completely psychotic actions to protect.  Its human nature to protect the ones you love and even though ken has fully embraced his ghoul side in appearance his mental state has not been more human since his turn into a ghoul.  Thats why I love the direction Tokyo ghoul is going and by the looks of it its slowly coming to a end but Len's full anti-hero decent is unique from every others I've seen for the fact its personal, its to see his wife one last item to hold his child, its the things that make us human the most that turn us to are darker selves and its a poetic visuals that mirror real life emotions.