Very emotional for a character background story; Tokyo Ghoul episode 5

This episode have a very strong emotional impact on me. The character development today focused in Nishiki; a character that I thought have met his end in the second episode of Tokyo Ghoul. I love an anime that develop their character because it made me feel their emotion and this episode truly made me feel Nishiki's struggle and how he perceived the world that turned him down.

A good luck sign; Toka minds "NOOOOOO"

Just like usual, the episode started with a slow pacing event involving Kaneki visiting Touka's room complete with Touka's friend misunderstanding toward her relationship to Kaneki. The scene changed to Shu whose obsession toward Kaneki turned to the climax. The scary purpled haired ghoul formed another plan to lure Kaneki out. The scene continued to Kaneki who saved Nishiki from Ghouls who planned to cannibalize him. After sending Nishiki to his apartment, Kaneki met Nishiki girlfriend, Kimi who later explained to him the reason why she still loved Nishiki even knowing that he was a ghoul.

Everyone keep defending themselves not even an anime character

If you think Nishiki (the glasses ghoul who wanted to ate Kaneki's friend) as a side character without emotional development, this episode would prove it wrong. It truly made him a star in character's background story. As we watch the episode, we were given his past along with his older sister as orphan. The younger Nishiki was a kind and idealist soul who never enjoyed eating human and his older sister was the one who provided human meat to him. I knew if a kind person pushed beyond his or her limit, s/he might went ashtray and this condition happened to him. The sister that he loved so much was betrayed by her own lover. The human manager who find out about his sister Identity as a ghoul reported the authority and made her sister killed, leaving Nishiki alone. The anger for losing his sister made him threw his hope for humanity and he ended up become a blood thirsty ghoul.

No pervert XD, it will not end like what you think

The episode turned more heated as Shu kidnapped Nishiki's girlfriend; Kimi as a bait to lure Kaneki to his place. Just as Shu beat Kaneki and Nishiki to pulp, Touka entered the scene and assisted them in order to defeat Shu. Again, Nishiki background story about his relationship to Kimi was revealed to us. After the dead of his sister, he accidentally met Kimi while buying a can of coffee. Their meeting developed into a mutual attraction and after a brief moment, Kimi revealed that she had no parents and the only person that she had now was Nishiki. The strongest moment of their relationship was when Nishiki intended to devour Kimi, just after he was mortally wounded by Kaneki, He lost his strengths while attacking Kimi and with the revelation as his ghoulish nature, he feared that she would contact the authority after knowing his secret. Surprisingly, she let him eat a part of her shoulder while explaining that he was the person who saved her from killing herself. I could not stop myself from feeling very emotional after this part and wanted to cried my eyes out.

"Ikiru" T-T so sad I don't think I could love someone like Kimi do

Even with the combined power from two and a half ghouls, Shu still proved too strong for Kaneki and his companion. Just as the episode turned to the climax, Touka and Kaneki combined their power by letting Touka bit him and let his half ghoul power to merge with Touka's full ghoul blood. Too bad the episode was ended in such cliffhanger but I have to admit that the episode was very strong emotionally and I really, really wanted to see the continuation of this episode. Now where is my tissue I needed to swipe the tears of my sullen eyes T_T