@pochita-sama4154 sure, but even the person that was immune to the effects of time couldn't. He's the pinnacle of strength and completely uncontested in his own universe
Arima was "old", blind, had ghoul diabetes and shht and STILL whooping everyone. His mantle passing to Suzuya is what made "The New Reaper" so threatening; it was a testament to how strong Arima was and Suzuya had become. It was painful seeing how kind he could be to Haise, but thats after he stabbed him in the head. The only other time Kaneki would be defeated that bad he was facing TWO Aratas. So yeah, Arima strong.
And Kaneki was very nerfed himself when he faced those two Aratas. He was suffering from the same things Arima was + starvation as they didn’t have much food. The only version of Kaneki that is definitely stronger than an Arima at the peak of his health + how skilled and experienced he was before his death is the final version of Kaneki who isn’t really human nor ghoul anymore and could use all types of Kagune. Honestly those versions of Arima and Kaneki teaming up could probably solo the rest of the verse in a 2vEveryone. Also I just realized how if Kaneki has another kid post his mutation, that kid will probably be the peak lifeform as his daughter is a perfect half ghoul that can eat human food, and Kaneki isn’t really human or ghoul anymore so it’s honestly scary what a second Kaneki child could be.
Dude I keep telling everyone, if Tokyo Ghoul is given the same (or higher) budget and animation studios as mainstream anime nowadays, it could EASILY be one of THE BEST ANIME ADAPTATIONS out there. The story and characters are just that well written!
It's not that good. It has it's flaws and completely drops the ball at the end of re. It could be fixed in an adaptation I guess. I'd much rather see a Choujin X adaptation instead though.
@@Christo_Trismegistus A lot of these new anime fans thinking Nobody makes his characters suffer as much as Gege when Sui Ishida is like Gege's daddy when it comes to making his cast suffer. I didn't know TG: Re was a continuation of the first part and I just felt straight up empty after reading that final arc of part 1 and the shit that happened to Kaneki.
It wasn't completely hopeless, Kaneki cracking Arima's favorite weapon made him spare Kaneki. So, in a way, if Kaneki never crashed out that hard he never would've been able to clap Touka's cheeks in re
Skipping the first Arima fight was a crime. If Root A followed Morita's (s1 director) vision and had less prod com interference, it would have been as good as season 1 Yea S1 barely captures the detailed and evocative art of Ishida but animation wise it moved (unlike most of Re)
@@thebonfireofgains being as good as Season 1 doesn’t really mean much considering it was also bad if you actually read the Manga. Sure animation quality was decent, but everything else was bad (except OST, that was the only saving grace of this series all throughout). Pacing was horrid, they were adapting so much chapters in a single episode, and so much details, and info just left out. :re part 1 had the best adaptation of the story because pacing was actually decent, but the animation quality was just horrendous, and they gave up near the end for some reason, and just completely butchered :re part 2.
One Thing I really Love about Arima and by association Eto is That over the course of TG and TG Re is that They constantly care about Kaneki in a very twisted way but they also want him to carry on their wills to change the world that made them the way they are. Him being the One Eyed King with his glacouma and Kaneki being raised to become the One Eyed King is very beautiful in my eyes.
Both Eto and Arima were some of the most powerful beings in the TG world, yet it never made them truly happy and they kind of felt trapped in a world they were unable to change. they placed both their hopes in him being the new change
@jahjah74 well, Arima never lost tho, he killed himself, and defeated the strongest in his verse while he was, blind of one eye, and almost blind of the other eye
@@irasac1 really it makes no sense i think it makes plenty of sense both are tall handsome individuals with white hair broken arsenal under their belt both started their main journey around high-school both are considered the strongest and literally if you think about no comment has value and it wasent stupid either
Tokyo Ghoul is so goated. Such a phenomenally written manga. It's definitely up there in best written seinens and mangas of all time, imo. I loved every minute of it.
Tokyo Ghoul is pretty much a shonen but “realistic” in the ways that morality and characters are depicted. So it makes sense that “the strongest” in that series is easily one of the best versions of “the strongest” we have ever seen. His decision to team up with Eto, the #1 enemy of the CCG at the time, in order for a better world is great and I just realized that Gojo was accused of working with the #1 enemy of Jujutsu sorcerers as the reason for the higher ups to justify making it illegal to unseal him.
From what i remember, Tokyo Ghoul is a seinen Manga, like Attack on Titan. Seinen mangas are literally made for an older audience. No wonder the series felt so grim at times, but yeah i guess it's "realistic" shonen. i don't like to use that terminology, but whatever. Edit: Yeah, I made a mistake. Apparently AOT IS NOT A SEINEN, BUT IS INFACT A SHONEN MANGA. Mea Culpa.
Arima was written not as a character, but as a force. He is death itself in Tokyo Ghoul, CCG's Grim Reaper. Where he is, death follows right behind him.
yessir. My exact thoughts. Which makes his fight against kaneki so important because ken choosing to fight him is equivalent to ken choosing to live, to not succumb to death, as beautiful as it is. I think thats why kaneki saw arima as beautiful in the beginning and till the end. Happy ken saw Arima as what he needed to be to save everyone, a force of death. And depressed kaneki saw arima as what he wanted, a way to death.
The greatest embodiment of "The Strongest" is a pair of devoted parents who, despite their poverty, lack of formal education, and other shortcoming, succeed in raising their child to become a successful, virtuous, and faithful individual.
I've said it before and i'll say it again: Kishou Arima is my fav character in Tokyo Ghoul because how he's the forefront of the main theme of Tokyo Ghoul and how this guy was SILENTLY suffering and nobody bothered to try to understand him or get to know, even the people that admires didn't understand him. so his fight against Kaneki and the conclusion of that fight really made him my absolute favorite character.
Arima vs Kaneki to me teaches us that to protect other you must protect yourself first. You can't love others if you can't love yourself. Tokyo Ghoul is always the story about Kaneki Ken. His morals are always being tested and challenged forcing him to change his Ideals, his method, his emotions, his personalities. But what Arima did is shoves the Answer Right infront of Kaneki and helps him...Accept who he truly is. Because that is what a father does. "They do what's Best for there Children".
I can’t tell you how much appreciated this video is, Arima is criminally underrated, and it makes me mad not a lot of people knows about how ridiculously strong he is
Let's make one thing clear: Arima kills himself only AFTER Kaneki defeats him, by completely destroying his quinque and leaving him unarmed. Arima didn't "throw" the match: he lost, fair and square. Which is what gave him hope that Kaneki was ready to move forward and fulfill his dream. EDIT: I can't understand if a lot of people here have never actually read the manga, or just have terrible reading comprehension. Yes: Arima could have killed Kaneki numerous times, in the first half of the fight...which is the same half where Kaneki also wasn't fighting seriously. Arima didn't kill him PRECISELY because he knew Kaneki was holding himself back the whole time. Why was Kaneki holding back? 1: Because he didn't want to kill Arima. 2: Because he had a defeatist attitude, didn't think he could win to begin with, and just fought Arima to stall him and give his friends time to escape. 3: Because he didn't value his own life to begin with, and just saw himself as a disposable asset. But in the second half the fight, when Kaneki resolves to fight seriously, and to actually try to win...he wraps up the duel in a couple of moves. In the second half, when BOTH of them are actually serious, Kaneki wins. The whole reason why Arima felt comfortable enough to kill himself and pass the torch, is because he was defeated: which proved to him that Kaneki was strong enough to become the One Eyed King, and change the world.
@@emanuelstornello8009both of yall are wrong yes he could have killed kaneki repeatedly, but it’s shown that kaneki genuinely struggled with the notion of fighting and killing Arima. Kaneki even admits he subconsciously expected to die. He never fought expecting to win. It wasn’t until he spoke to hide that he actually expects to win.
@@Christo_Trismegistus Both of them were holding back. Arima didn't want to kill Kaneki and Kaneki didn't want to kill Arima. Arima let Kaneki live all of those times in the fight because he wanted to see his resolve. He wanted to see if Kaneki had the strength and was capable of committing to beating him. So when he saw that Kaneki not only had the strength to beat him but the kindness to not kill him, Arima took his life to end the stalemate. It's really beautiful because the thing Arima hated the most was himself. This was because he could only destroy, he never had the kindness or gentle nature to subdue something but keep it alive. It was really Kaneki's win that he survived long enough to find his resolve to seriously go all out on Arima. tl;dr - They both stopped holding back when Kaneki regained his will to live and go all out, they kinda reset the fight, and that's when Kaneki beat Arima fair and square.
@@shaggygoatboy1125 He was beating Kaneki's ass with a broken quinque and wasn't trying to beat him. Also Arima never had to upgrade into some sort of "new stage" like Kaneki does all the time.
Tokyo ghoul is one of my tier S animes/mangas, the way they despicted an character so strong was incredible, they didn't put any competitiveness at play when making him, it made him feel so unique, someone who posses such big power but never wished for it, someone who have ideals and moral codes, being the strongest is just an part of him, not his character complety
@@Cliffer_ idk the manga I eard is better but the anime is not that good, very confusing I did watched though but sometimes feels like if a missed something
@@Karim896 to make it short they changed/skipped 95% of what happen in the manga that's why the anime is so confusing. The manga is a masterpiece with some of the best character development ever wheras the anime is one of the worst anime
Arima was so strong that some People still think that Post Dragon Kaneki loses to him. Arima was so strong I see people suggesting that he in his prime (and rhe best quinque) would be the Strongest Character overall over Eos Kaneki.
Tbf, when Kaneki regains his will to live and his white hair came back they reset the fight and Kaneki won fair and square so I'd say he surpassed Arima at that point.
@@jase276 yes, but actually no. Undoubtedly Arima lost to Kaneki, but Arima was blind in one eye and almost in the other, as well as being very debilitated from premature aging. Arima lost, but he also had too many limitations. It would be nice to see Arima prime (around 15-18 years old) against kaneki prime (post dragon).
“just to run into the wrong person” is EXACTLY what it means to run into Arima at ANY point. And I absolutely love that. Arimas depiction not only was great for characterization but for the world building as arima’s absolute nature made the ccg more believable
Finally a video on Arima. Whenever I see videos on depictions on the strongest in anime, I always see common picks like yoriichi or Gojo but I always thought of Arima when this topic got brought up.
I remember when I was young reading Tokyo Ghoul for the first time my friends and I distinguished between Eto and Yoshimura as Baby owl and Daddy owl, respectively. So when Arima pulled up against Eto and started folding her I exclaimed aloud "He's going to kill the baby!" And ever since, that has been my core memory when it comes to Arima.
The greatest depiction of the "strongest" IMO is Madara Uchiha, but he also became the greatest disappointment so I guess overall one wouldn't consider him to be the greatest. But the aura and just overwhelming portrayal of power gap during his introduction is unrivalled
Very good video. Fans that constantly argue about “strongest” and their depiction, they need to watch this. I only ever seen Yoriichi, Gojo, Sukuna, Meruem, etc.
I posit the counter argument- Asakura Hao- Shaman King: A man so strong that the only way to secure victory was to change his heart so that when he does win, the world won't be destroyed.
Man, you're the GOAT, the video was extremely interesting to watch, and at the same time it made me rethink in my head many of those moments with Arima. I've read TG and TG:Re back to back twice, and it's one of my favorite pieces of art ever. And after your video, I might read it once again, maybe I will spot something new for myself. Thank you so much for such dope vid. I will be hoping there will be more from you about Tokyo Ghoul
So how did arima get so strong to being with? Is he like yoruichi from demon slayer just born ridiculously talented. Or does he have some crazy philosophy or a mindset that drove him to become this strong?
He was born from a ghoul and a human , he says this in the anime that one eyed ghouls are extremely rare usually the baby is just super human with no ghoul abilities and it gives them a illness arima was blind in one of his eyes because of this , his lifespan was also shortened because of this which is why he has white hair in his late 20's
@@davidgummo3024 I think you're wrong on some things, It's been 4+ years since I read it but if I remember, he was part of an experimental group of children from a place called the sunlit garden, these children were all genetically modified half ghoul half human attempts adn we're kept super secretive by the washuu family (CCG Leaders), some were full human genetically powerful like Arima and the pink girl (At the cost of a shorter lifespan) and some became full on ghouls like Rize/furuta. There's only 3 one eyed ghouls that were natural in the show, eto, kaneki himself, and his child, any other one eye was some sort of experiment like the quinxs/kaneki clown clones.
@@CloudyPotato-et2mnnono, Riza was a pure blood ghoul for breeding. Furuta was just enhanced human, he got the same transplant by Kano after Arima took Rize from Shachi.
10:30 Wow I never thought of that using the role of the "Strongest" for way to gives reader shiver down there spine. Not only Arima is feared in the story but to the readers as well.
Man, this content is so good. I picked up Tokyo Ghoul when I was in high school and now that I'm an adult I barely get to read any manga again, but you sure will make me want to reread this again. I'd love to see you do more of this analyzation content. Bleach would be so good.
Arima was the Shit. He had conviction and he backed it up. Honestly all the characters in Tokyo ghoul were deeply complex and all had their strengths from beginning to end.
amazing video, your analysis is great, you illustrate your sayings with nice images and the overall rhythm is impeccable, you gained a new subscriber I'm gonna watch your other videos, thanks for your work !
This was a great video on Arima nice to see this did numbers. He was one of my favourites from TG I was always excited whenever he showed up. He really was just built different the true white Reaper of the CCG.
One of he's best moments is when he arrives to stop eto, like at the start of the series it felt like no one could stop eto, she was slicing through arata armors and made juzo change personality
To me Arima is what i what i wanted Gojo to end up as. Which props to Gege for fully steering away from it. But with a question such as "Are you the strongest because you're Gojo, or are you Gojo because you're the strongest." I feel like gege watsed a huge potential storytelling.
arima is what suguru geto was referring to in the "are you the strongest because youre satoru gojo or are you satoru gojo because you are the strongest?" scene. In the sense that geto could make the impossible possible and mold the world (and story) to his liking if he had as much power as "the strongest"
Especially considering thats a mixed question of genetics/destiny and identity/sense of being Arima was a half-human who maximized his immense potential in spite of his shortened lifespan and aging. He was ALWAYS bodily nerfed yet bec of that, in JJK terms, heavenly restriction, like Toji, Arima was ridiculously strong but he was diff from the other half humans like V and, thematically, Furuta Yea Furuta was strong in his own right but he dwelled in his nihilism and misery and that despair did not make him grow in strength or as a person He was indeed a clown and that childlike being (I am Six Years Old poem) is what makes him Kaneki's dark half
What ive been preaching for years - the tokyo ghoul manga is a timeless masterpiece, and it's very unfortunate the series gets horrible rep from the horrendous anime adaptation. The mediocre animation aside, the studio went as far as to change entire plot points from the original source. What is actually a mature, gruesome and tragic story filled with interesting characters and concepts ends up being an edgy show that almost everyone dismisses because it's cringe, and it's sad because if the entirety of tokyo ghoul was reanimated today by a competent studio, it would be easily as popular as the likes of attack on titan. Very unfortunate, but please give the manga a shot, nothing to regret
You won’t regret reading the manga. Trust me. I thought the manga won’t be as good as I’ve heard back then, but it proved me otherwise. It truly is peak
Really enjoyed the video! It has been so long since I’ve read or watched anything related to Tokyo ghoul. It was refreshing to watch thank you for your work, expecting for more Tokyo ghoul content in future
Could you make a video about the lore of Tokyo Ghoul? Like maybe just a general overview of the series cause I thought re kinda dropped the ball by having all the context and shit be explained at the end rather than slowly explaining it over the series
great video man, personally i don't like Tokyo Ghoul: Re since i really like the painful and hopeless ending of Tokyo Ghoul, but Arima is so mystery that he makes me keep reading Re, but i think i will re-read Re again after this
the thing i've seen with other characters who are the "strongest" is that they either actively make sure they are or don't really care about the title but still act as the role, arima doesn't do either and from what i can tell he actively hates the title
I absolutely agree. I remember seeing the first panel with arima in the original Tokyo ghoul series. That double spread page of kaneki coming into a "valley of flowers" where one man is waiting. Just chills
I'm not saying this to look cool or anything cus that's based but... I was never afraid of Arima, whenever I saw him I was actually hyped instead idk why
I think mine was due to the fact that I watched the anime rather than reading the manga, and now, I understand why people complain so much about it, I haven't seen more than half of the illustrations I saw in this vid before and most of the dialogue just goes unspoken.
Read the manga. He's not scary unless your favorite characters that are ghouls are in his general vicinity because he kills everything in his path. Which is why it was so hype and frightening when Kaneki stumbled onto him at the end of Tokyo Ghoul
Arima Kishou doesn't remind me Kishibe not needing contracts to kick ass. Kishibe not needing contracts to kick ass reminds me of Arime Kishou not needing Quinque to kick ass.
@@tajaemartin2251 a huge part of Gojo's character and role in the story was his title as "the strongest", it's extremely disingenuous to say he's not supposed to be a The Strongest character
Bro was so strong that the only person who could kill him was he himself
@@Mystic2203 close enougu, welcome back yoruichii from demon slayer
@@liloueinlozren Didn't Yoruichi die by time tho?
@pochita-sama4154 sure, but even the person that was immune to the effects of time couldn't. He's the pinnacle of strength and completely uncontested in his own universe
"the only one who can beat me is me" iykyk
@@pochita-sama4154 he was dying also because he's half ghoul
I hate studio Pierrot for doing Tokyo Ghoul dirty.
Correct his death isn't even present in the anime
Never forget what they took from us
Now they are redeeming themselves with Bleach.
Pierrot turned a below average manga into a above average anime
@@DoggyP00 are you talking about Bleach or
Arima was "old", blind, had ghoul diabetes and shht and STILL whooping everyone. His mantle passing to Suzuya is what made "The New Reaper" so threatening; it was a testament to how strong Arima was and Suzuya had become. It was painful seeing how kind he could be to Haise, but thats after he stabbed him in the head. The only other time Kaneki would be defeated that bad he was facing TWO Aratas. So yeah, Arima strong.
And Kaneki was very nerfed himself when he faced those two Aratas. He was suffering from the same things Arima was + starvation as they didn’t have much food. The only version of Kaneki that is definitely stronger than an Arima at the peak of his health + how skilled and experienced he was before his death is the final version of Kaneki who isn’t really human nor ghoul anymore and could use all types of Kagune. Honestly those versions of Arima and Kaneki teaming up could probably solo the rest of the verse in a 2vEveryone. Also I just realized how if Kaneki has another kid post his mutation, that kid will probably be the peak lifeform as his daughter is a perfect half ghoul that can eat human food, and Kaneki isn’t really human or ghoul anymore so it’s honestly scary what a second Kaneki child could be.
@@crammothykaneki still beat arima though, arima only lived cause kaneki spared him after breaking his quinque
if arima became a true half ghoul like furata, it'd be wraps for everyone for an even longer time
What in the blazes is ghoul diabetes?
@@randomt800kiddo2 you got ut wrong, furuta had an inplant like kaneki, he wasn't the same as arima
Dude I keep telling everyone, if Tokyo Ghoul is given the same (or higher) budget and animation studios as mainstream anime nowadays, it could EASILY be one of THE BEST ANIME ADAPTATIONS out there. The story and characters are just that well written!
TOO BAD SO SAD THE IP HOLDERS WERE TOO BRAINDEAD SO THEY LET MEDIOCRE ANIMATION IMMORTALIZE IT AS A DISAPPOINTMENT
"if tokyo ghoul gets the best anime adaptation out there it could easily be the best anime adaptation out there"
not tryna hate was jus funny
i would just say over top 5 anime no doubt
It's not that good. It has it's flaws and completely drops the ball at the end of re. It could be fixed in an adaptation I guess. I'd much rather see a Choujin X adaptation instead though.
i mean just look at the first season for an example
Seeing Kaneki get tortured was one thing dawg
But seeing how hopeless he was during the first fight was Arima was a different level of Pain
🥹😭
had him on the ground screaming about "he stabbed me through my head" followed by screaming and convulsing it was berserk levels of brutal brutal 💀
Yeah when i was reading i was so hyped for the fight and literally next frame is kaneki with no eyes
It could be argued that Tokyo Ghoul is just as brutal as Berserk.
@@Christo_Trismegistus A lot of these new anime fans thinking Nobody makes his characters suffer as much as Gege when Sui Ishida is like Gege's daddy when it comes to making his cast suffer. I didn't know TG: Re was a continuation of the first part and I just felt straight up empty after reading that final arc of part 1 and the shit that happened to Kaneki.
It wasn't completely hopeless, Kaneki cracking Arima's favorite weapon made him spare Kaneki. So, in a way, if Kaneki never crashed out that hard he never would've been able to clap Touka's cheeks in re
This is why many manga readers hated the anime even though it had great reception from the non manga reader's
For me it was due to the ost and having not read the manga, like you said.
Skipping the first Arima fight was a crime. If Root A followed Morita's (s1 director) vision and had less prod com interference, it would have been as good as season 1
Yea S1 barely captures the detailed and evocative art of Ishida but animation wise it moved (unlike most of Re)
The non manga readers didn’t like it neither lol
@@thebonfireofgains being as good as Season 1 doesn’t really mean much considering it was also bad if you actually read the Manga. Sure animation quality was decent, but everything else was bad (except OST, that was the only saving grace of this series all throughout). Pacing was horrid, they were adapting so much chapters in a single episode, and so much details, and info just left out. :re part 1 had the best adaptation of the story because pacing was actually decent, but the animation quality was just horrendous, and they gave up near the end for some reason, and just completely butchered :re part 2.
@@izmedyan Ughhh TG anime pacing felt so wrong.
It practically skipped core character elements, like Kaneki's split personality
I cannot get over how beautiful Ishida's art is. I haven't gotten to see it in a long time until watching this.
@@Hex430 He has another ongoing series called Choujin X you might like it.
One Thing I really Love about Arima and by association Eto is That over the course of TG and TG Re is that They constantly care about Kaneki in a very twisted way but they also want him to carry on their wills to change the world that made them the way they are. Him being the One Eyed King with his glacouma and Kaneki being raised to become the One Eyed King is very beautiful in my eyes.
Both Eto and Arima were some of the most powerful beings in the TG world, yet it never made them truly happy and they kind of felt trapped in a world they were unable to change. they placed both their hopes in him being the new change
Indeed, the end of volume 8 is truly peak fiction.
Growing is realizing that arima kishou with his handsomeness and white hairs was basically the first gojo of his own universe
@@guibzmitrail9522 maturity is realizing gojo was just the arima of his universe
@jahjah74 well, Arima never lost tho, he killed himself, and defeated the strongest in his verse while he was, blind of one eye, and almost blind of the other eye
@@maatvasques3800 my point was that arima was first. That’s all
Growing is to stop making stupid comparisons that make no sense and have no value.
@@irasac1 really it makes no sense i think it makes plenty of sense both are tall handsome individuals with white hair broken arsenal under their belt both started their main journey around high-school both are considered the strongest and literally if you think about no comment has value and it wasent stupid either
ARIMA IS SO COLD, God I was fiending to see him more in the series
Doesn't feigning mean pretending/faking
@@Twelvebeans I think he means fiending
Teen Arima was peak. Adult Arima is the Grim Reaper but Teen Arima was the judgement of God
@jay-vg5eg yea people don’t know how to spell anymore
Tokyo Ghoul is so goated. Such a phenomenally written manga. It's definitely up there in best written seinens and mangas of all time, imo. I loved every minute of it.
He was frightening to see show up on panel because you knew somebody was going to die.
Tokyo Ghoul is pretty much a shonen but “realistic” in the ways that morality and characters are depicted. So it makes sense that “the strongest” in that series is easily one of the best versions of “the strongest” we have ever seen. His decision to team up with Eto, the #1 enemy of the CCG at the time, in order for a better world is great and I just realized that Gojo was accused of working with the #1 enemy of Jujutsu sorcerers as the reason for the higher ups to justify making it illegal to unseal him.
From what i remember, Tokyo Ghoul is a seinen Manga, like Attack on Titan. Seinen mangas are literally made for an older audience. No wonder the series felt so grim at times, but yeah i guess it's "realistic" shonen. i don't like to use that terminology, but whatever.
Edit: Yeah, I made a mistake. Apparently AOT IS NOT A SEINEN, BUT IS INFACT A SHONEN MANGA. Mea Culpa.
@@pavlemarjanovic1896 attack on titan is a shonen manga
@@dantain550 well I'll be damned you are right. I don't know why I thought AOT was a seinen. Mea Culpa, my friend. You are right.
@@pavlemarjanovic1896 To be fair, AOT is way more at home among the likes of Tokyo Ghoul than say Naruto, the "demographic" is often pretty arbitrary
@@crammothy Basically Attack on Titan. TG is Seinen by placement but both shows have shonen as protags and are popular for young boys too
Arima was written not as a character, but as a force.
He is death itself in Tokyo Ghoul, CCG's Grim Reaper. Where he is, death follows right behind him.
yessir. My exact thoughts. Which makes his fight against kaneki so important because ken choosing to fight him is equivalent to ken choosing to live, to not succumb to death, as beautiful as it is. I think thats why kaneki saw arima as beautiful in the beginning and till the end. Happy ken saw Arima as what he needed to be to save everyone, a force of death. And depressed kaneki saw arima as what he wanted, a way to death.
Literal embodiment of strong
The greatest embodiment of "The Strongest" is a pair of devoted parents who, despite their poverty, lack of formal education, and other shortcoming, succeed in raising their child to become a successful, virtuous, and faithful individual.
Arima and his panels are incomparable to any other manga.
@bxrcode4898 really bro? In a world where stuff like Berserk or Vagabond exist, this is the incomparable piece of art?
@bxrcode4898 Usogui victim
I've said it before and i'll say it again: Kishou Arima is my fav character in Tokyo Ghoul because how he's the forefront of the main theme of Tokyo Ghoul and how this guy was SILENTLY suffering and nobody bothered to try to understand him or get to know, even the people that admires didn't understand him. so his fight against Kaneki and the conclusion of that fight really made him my absolute favorite character.
FINALLY someone is talking about the REAL strongest, and my favorite character in fiction
Arima was truly a presence man every time he came on the scene it was straight smoke. Definiton of Aura man
Arima vs Kaneki to me teaches us that to protect other you must protect yourself first.
You can't love others if you can't love yourself.
Tokyo Ghoul is always the story about Kaneki Ken. His morals are always being tested and challenged forcing him to change his Ideals, his method, his emotions, his personalities.
But what Arima did is shoves the Answer Right infront of Kaneki and helps him...Accept who he truly is.
Because that is what a father does. "They do what's Best for there Children".
I can’t tell you how much appreciated this video is, Arima is criminally underrated, and it makes me mad not a lot of people knows about how ridiculously strong he is
Let's make one thing clear: Arima kills himself only AFTER Kaneki defeats him, by completely destroying his quinque and leaving him unarmed. Arima didn't "throw" the match: he lost, fair and square. Which is what gave him hope that Kaneki was ready to move forward and fulfill his dream.
EDIT: I can't understand if a lot of people here have never actually read the manga, or just have terrible reading comprehension.
Yes: Arima could have killed Kaneki numerous times, in the first half of the fight...which is the same half where Kaneki also wasn't fighting seriously. Arima didn't kill him PRECISELY because he knew Kaneki was holding himself back the whole time. Why was Kaneki holding back?
1: Because he didn't want to kill Arima.
2: Because he had a defeatist attitude, didn't think he could win to begin with, and just fought Arima to stall him and give his friends time to escape.
3: Because he didn't value his own life to begin with, and just saw himself as a disposable asset.
But in the second half the fight, when Kaneki resolves to fight seriously, and to actually try to win...he wraps up the duel in a couple of moves.
In the second half, when BOTH of them are actually serious, Kaneki wins. The whole reason why Arima felt comfortable enough to kill himself and pass the torch, is because he was defeated: which proved to him that Kaneki was strong enough to become the One Eyed King, and change the world.
That's cap. He let Kaneki beat him. Arima clapped Kaneki countless times and was getting old and tired so decided to let him finally win
@@shaggygoatboy1125 it's not really "Fair and square" when he could have won a lot and didn't do so on purpose to give kaneki a chance...
@@emanuelstornello8009both of yall are wrong yes he could have killed kaneki repeatedly, but it’s shown that kaneki genuinely struggled with the notion of fighting and killing Arima. Kaneki even admits he subconsciously expected to die. He never fought expecting to win. It wasn’t until he spoke to hide that he actually expects to win.
@@Christo_Trismegistus Both of them were holding back. Arima didn't want to kill Kaneki and Kaneki didn't want to kill Arima. Arima let Kaneki live all of those times in the fight because he wanted to see his resolve. He wanted to see if Kaneki had the strength and was capable of committing to beating him. So when he saw that Kaneki not only had the strength to beat him but the kindness to not kill him, Arima took his life to end the stalemate. It's really beautiful because the thing Arima hated the most was himself. This was because he could only destroy, he never had the kindness or gentle nature to subdue something but keep it alive. It was really Kaneki's win that he survived long enough to find his resolve to seriously go all out on Arima.
tl;dr - They both stopped holding back when Kaneki regained his will to live and go all out, they kinda reset the fight, and that's when Kaneki beat Arima fair and square.
@@shaggygoatboy1125 He was beating Kaneki's ass with a broken quinque and wasn't trying to beat him. Also Arima never had to upgrade into some sort of "new stage" like Kaneki does all the time.
Tokyo ghoul is one of my tier S animes/mangas, the way they despicted an character so strong was incredible, they didn't put any competitiveness at play when making him, it made him feel so unique, someone who posses such big power but never wished for it, someone who have ideals and moral codes, being the strongest is just an part of him, not his character complety
@@Cliffer_ idk the manga I eard is better but the anime is not that good, very confusing I did watched though but sometimes feels like if a missed something
@@Karim896 to make it short they changed/skipped 95% of what happen in the manga that's why the anime is so confusing. The manga is a masterpiece with some of the best character development ever wheras the anime is one of the worst anime
Arima was so strong that some People still think that Post Dragon Kaneki loses to him.
Arima was so strong I see people suggesting that he in his prime (and rhe best quinque) would be the Strongest Character overall over Eos Kaneki.
He's not beating post dragon kaneki nor furuta imo
@@tricatel5434i personally think he is beating them. He had a lots of restraints and still dominated. A prime Arima would've bested them.
Tbf, when Kaneki regains his will to live and his white hair came back they reset the fight and Kaneki won fair and square so I'd say he surpassed Arima at that point.
@@jase276 yes, but actually no.
Undoubtedly Arima lost to Kaneki, but Arima was blind in one eye and almost in the other, as well as being very debilitated from premature aging.
Arima lost, but he also had too many limitations.
It would be nice to see Arima prime (around 15-18 years old) against kaneki prime (post dragon).
“just to run into the wrong person” is EXACTLY what it means to run into Arima at ANY point. And I absolutely love that. Arimas depiction not only was great for characterization but for the world building as arima’s absolute nature made the ccg more believable
Finally a video on Arima. Whenever I see videos on depictions on the strongest in anime, I always see common picks like yoriichi or Gojo but I always thought of Arima when this topic got brought up.
Any Tokyo Ghoul video is a big win in my eyes, thank you for another Tokyo Ghoul video, Hundred. Arima would be one of my favorites from Tokyo Ghoul.
I remember when I was young reading Tokyo Ghoul for the first time my friends and I distinguished between Eto and Yoshimura as Baby owl and Daddy owl, respectively. So when Arima pulled up against Eto and started folding her I exclaimed aloud "He's going to kill the baby!"
And ever since, that has been my core memory when it comes to Arima.
There was always a sadness in his eyes
Even before re
His character flows naturally never felt forced at any point
The greatest depiction of the "strongest" IMO is Madara Uchiha, but he also became the greatest disappointment so I guess overall one wouldn't consider him to be the greatest. But the aura and just overwhelming portrayal of power gap during his introduction is unrivalled
Very good video. Fans that constantly argue about “strongest” and their depiction, they need to watch this. I only ever seen Yoriichi, Gojo, Sukuna, Meruem, etc.
A gas video on my favorite manga of all time on a top 2-3 character in the series? my favorite.
The Grim Reaper standing in a field of flowers as Kaneki walks into him in a daze is still one of the best setups for a fight that I've seen in manga.
I posit the counter argument-
Asakura Hao- Shaman King:
A man so strong that the only way to secure victory was to change his heart so that when he does win, the world won't be destroyed.
Hao is wild
Perfect timing, I just finished rereading volume 8 of re a week ago
Peak of Peakness
Sui Ishida will always be in my heart. Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul Re. Change Me.
Man, you're the GOAT, the video was extremely interesting to watch, and at the same time it made me rethink in my head many of those moments with Arima. I've read TG and TG:Re back to back twice, and it's one of my favorite pieces of art ever. And after your video, I might read it once again, maybe I will spot something new for myself.
Thank you so much for such dope vid. I will be hoping there will be more from you about Tokyo Ghoul
So how did arima get so strong to being with? Is he like yoruichi from demon slayer just born ridiculously talented. Or does he have some crazy philosophy or a mindset that drove him to become this strong?
talent & genetically engineered (through optimal parents) & hard work
He was born from a ghoul and a human , he says this in the anime that one eyed ghouls are extremely rare usually the baby is just super human with no ghoul abilities and it gives them a illness arima was blind in one of his eyes because of this , his lifespan was also shortened because of this which is why he has white hair in his late 20's
@@davidgummo3024 I think you're wrong on some things, It's been 4+ years since I read it but if I remember, he was part of an experimental group of children from a place called the sunlit garden, these children were all genetically modified half ghoul half human attempts adn we're kept super secretive by the washuu family (CCG Leaders), some were full human genetically powerful like Arima and the pink girl (At the cost of a shorter lifespan) and some became full on ghouls like Rize/furuta. There's only 3 one eyed ghouls that were natural in the show, eto, kaneki himself, and his child, any other one eye was some sort of experiment like the quinxs/kaneki clown clones.
@@CloudyPotato-et2mnnono, Riza was a pure blood ghoul for breeding. Furuta was just enhanced human, he got the same transplant by Kano after Arima took Rize from Shachi.
@@izzymosley1970 Arima is a hybrid.
10:30 Wow I never thought of that using the role of the "Strongest" for way to gives reader shiver down there spine.
Not only Arima is feared in the story but to the readers as well.
Man, this content is so good. I picked up Tokyo Ghoul when I was in high school and now that I'm an adult I barely get to read any manga again, but you sure will make me want to reread this again.
I'd love to see you do more of this analyzation content. Bleach would be so good.
Someone need to remake this masterpiece fr, it's just peak
U came in clutch gang i was just about to eat
Arima was the Shit. He had conviction and he backed it up. Honestly all the characters in Tokyo ghoul were deeply complex and all had their strengths from beginning to end.
Add it to the list. As always thank you for the videos.
amazing video, your analysis is great, you illustrate your sayings with nice images and the overall rhythm is impeccable, you gained a new subscriber I'm gonna watch your other videos, thanks for your work !
This was a great video on Arima nice to see this did numbers. He was one of my favourites from TG I was always excited whenever he showed up. He really was just built different the true white Reaper of the CCG.
I need more Tokyo Ghoul content, please man make some more videos about it
This video introduced me to your channel
Him taking the place of kaneki's missing father figure is my favorite aspect of the character
Amazing analysis, I loved the series and the character
One of he's best moments is when he arrives to stop eto, like at the start of the series it felt like no one could stop eto, she was slicing through arata armors and made juzo change personality
To me Arima is what i what i wanted Gojo to end up as.
Which props to Gege for fully steering away from it.
But with a question such as
"Are you the strongest because you're Gojo, or are you Gojo because you're the strongest."
I feel like gege watsed a huge potential storytelling.
He wasted a lot of storylines
Gege just isn't that good of a writer. He should focus on smaller stories
Gege fumbled the jjkverse
Trully a very interesting character. Wish Tokyo Ghoul Anime and Games got more love they deserved.
I have to leave for spoiler reasons but I've this saved to a playlist for watching later. You also get a 👍 from me
I saw Arima from Tokyo Ghoul. I click. Anything about Tokyo Ghoul. I click
arima is what suguru geto was referring to in the "are you the strongest because youre satoru gojo or are you satoru gojo because you are the strongest?" scene. In the sense that geto could make the impossible possible and mold the world (and story) to his liking if he had as much power as "the strongest"
He wasnt no Yujiro Hanma tho that could literally do whatever he wanted in his respective verse...truly earning the title of "The Strongest"
@@vanixiii5657 Yujiro Hanma isn't as strong, if people decided to jump him he'd be killed, especially if one of them is Baki. He's like Sukuna.
Especially considering thats a mixed question of genetics/destiny and identity/sense of being
Arima was a half-human who maximized his immense potential in spite of his shortened lifespan and aging.
He was ALWAYS bodily nerfed yet bec of that, in JJK terms, heavenly restriction, like Toji, Arima was ridiculously strong but he was diff from the other half humans like V and, thematically, Furuta
Yea Furuta was strong in his own right but he dwelled in his nihilism and misery and that despair did not make him grow in strength or as a person
He was indeed a clown and that childlike being (I am Six Years Old poem) is what makes him Kaneki's dark half
Tokyo Ghoul out here like THIS? I need to pick that manga up.
Absolutely its peak
Manga was a 10/10 for me. Would recommend.
What ive been preaching for years - the tokyo ghoul manga is a timeless masterpiece, and it's very unfortunate the series gets horrible rep from the horrendous anime adaptation. The mediocre animation aside, the studio went as far as to change entire plot points from the original source. What is actually a mature, gruesome and tragic story filled with interesting characters and concepts ends up being an edgy show that almost everyone dismisses because it's cringe, and it's sad because if the entirety of tokyo ghoul was reanimated today by a competent studio, it would be easily as popular as the likes of attack on titan. Very unfortunate, but please give the manga a shot, nothing to regret
You won’t regret reading the manga. Trust me. I thought the manga won’t be as good as I’ve heard back then, but it proved me otherwise. It truly is peak
Read it.
Because of anime i thought TG just edgy, but manga was totally different because of how Sui/Author potrait the scene and emotion.
Liked, subscribed, added to Favourites
Good job OP
Keep up the good stuff dude! These videos are goated, especially the way you present the manga panels.
Him and Amon were f*cking swag
Benimaru from fire force is the definition of "the strongest" for me. Bro one shot the realized idea of hype
Arima was like the itachi of the story.
Not even close
@@clivir8809 wrong and duck pilled
looks like nobody understands arima nowdays
@@Nate_Rever itachi understands arima
That doesn't even make sense
Peak mentioned 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I always saw Arima as the grim reaper, he felt like a force of nature. (I've never read or watched :re)
Running into this guy in the Tokyo Ghoul verse as a ghoul was the equivalent of a death sentence
Thank you for your amazing videos 💜💜💜👏👏👏
I really hope they remake tokyo ghouls anime, the manga was so good just for them to skip over everything and rush through it
BRO GOT DONE SO DIRTY IN THE ANIME
Tokyo ghoul really needs a brotherhood
I still think the ending of tokyoghoul part 1 was so masterful and I want to see the whole series adapted properly. Amazing video,.
Really enjoyed the video! It has been so long since I’ve read or watched anything related to Tokyo ghoul. It was refreshing to watch thank you for your work, expecting for more Tokyo ghoul content in future
I've been wondering for a while as to why not a lot of people were making videos on Arima. This is awesome, keep it up!
great use of the Tsukihime Remake OST man
8:08 I felt bad for bro ngl. Even Sachi was thinking "damn he good "
9:08 facts ,you put this perfectly
Arima is a GOAT (no pun intended) that is not talked about enough.
This video is incredible the song choice editing just keep up with this quality and youll go far well done
Ah, Arima. Yet another reason for me to reread this masterpiece
Could you make a video about the lore of Tokyo Ghoul? Like maybe just a general overview of the series cause I thought re kinda dropped the ball by having all the context and shit be explained at the end rather than slowly explaining it over the series
YESSSSS IVE BEEN PREACHING THIS FOR YEARS
Finally some respect for the GOAT
great video man, personally i don't like Tokyo Ghoul: Re since i really like the painful and hopeless ending of Tokyo Ghoul, but Arima is so mystery that he makes me keep reading Re, but i think i will re-read Re again after this
Ayy nice vid man
Arima arrives
-Objective: Survive and Escape
-Bonus Objective: Don't Die
Arima was one of the few characters that whenever I saw them pop up in a panel, I felt genuine fear for every ghoul in the vicinity.
the thing i've seen with other characters who are the "strongest" is that they either actively make sure they are or don't really care about the title but still act as the role, arima doesn't do either and from what i can tell he actively hates the title
I absolutely agree. I remember seeing the first panel with arima in the original Tokyo ghoul series. That double spread page of kaneki coming into a "valley of flowers" where one man is waiting. Just chills
This universe owes every Tokyo Ghoul fan a proper anime based on the manga.
I'm not saying this to look cool or anything cus that's based but... I was never afraid of Arima, whenever I saw him I was actually hyped instead idk why
He's not scary
It's just that if u care about any ghouls
Then u don't want to see them together cus arima is unmatched
I wasn't scared, he looked more like a force of nature than a person, you don't get angry towards the heavy rain or the huricane, you just accept
I think mine was due to the fact that I watched the anime rather than reading the manga, and now, I understand why people complain so much about it, I haven't seen more than half of the illustrations I saw in this vid before and most of the dialogue just goes unspoken.
Read the manga. He's not scary unless your favorite characters that are ghouls are in his general vicinity because he kills everything in his path. Which is why it was so hype and frightening when Kaneki stumbled onto him at the end of Tokyo Ghoul
Arima is one of my fav tokyo ghoul characters of all time. Manga characters of all time, i love Arima and Tokyo ghoul sm
I instantly recognized Arima in the thumbnail. I click.
11:44 Strongest bakery
"The one who saught death more than anyone.. was the reaper himself" easily one of the if not the hardest lines in anime and manga
man I need to re read tokyo ghoul now
Arima Kishou doesn't remind me Kishibe not needing contracts to kick ass. Kishibe not needing contracts to kick ass reminds me of Arime Kishou not needing Quinque to kick ass.
LESSSS GOOOO MORE TGG
I watched the anime and was enthralled but when I read the manga, I was lost in the bliss that despair brought.
gojo before gojo
@@ZeroLiveLong gojo city level also gojo aint the strongest in his verse
@@tajaemartin2251 and arima is city block level and gojo was still the strongest of the modern era he can def is a portrayal of the strongest
@@tajaemartin2251 Yes gojo is.
@@ZeroLiveLong except Arima isnt trying to play the role of the strongest
@@tajaemartin2251 a huge part of Gojo's character and role in the story was his title as "the strongest", it's extremely disingenuous to say he's not supposed to be a The Strongest character
I love tokyo ghoul its top 3 for me I love it from that art to the story. Arima is probably the best written strong character
nah fr this guy was the reason I was able to keep watching Tokyo Ghoul at the part where everyone starts dropping it
Thank you for putting respect on this man's name.
Arima is sooo well written