Take a breath and enjoy the character backgrounds; Tokyo Ghoul episode 9

The episode gave the character background for Kureo Mado and Amon regarding to their first assignment dealing with Ghoul. I knew Mado was gone for good in the last episode and the past event was told to reaffirm the connection between the two inspectors. The first part dealt with Amon's idealism against Mado's experiences. Being a green horn member of GCC, Amon questioned Mado about his instinct for accusing a kind old woman as a disguising Ghoul. Due to his lack of experience regarding to the ghoul predatory nature, he taught that his superior only accused someone without solid proof. His goody-two shoes nature bite him when he decided to help the lady carrying his bag. In the secluded area, she attacked and showed him her real color until Mado came and finished of the Ghoul. This event purposefully gave the real connection from the episode when Amon decided to keep fighting Tohka when he did not bring his quinques.

Ah back when he was such a lovely idealist

As for the episode itself, it definitely a breather episode to give characters information as well as building the foundation for the possibility of the next episodes encounter. After losing her parents from the inspector, Hinami lived together with Tohka and they formed a sister like bond. Due to her identity already exposed to the dove, she also had to disguise herself if she had to go outside. Because of the trauma of losing both of her parents, sometimes Hinami kept feeling sad every time he came across the gang where her mother died and she desperately cried when her pet parrot sick.

You kept mentioning Devil Ape again and again. Are you really that great ;)

I have nothing much to say about this episode as some parts of the scene were more or less only fill the empty slot for the air time such like when the Amon caught the glimpse of Mado's wife or confrontation between Tohka and Nishiki. I found these scene less important to show for us; the audience. So what's the point of showing Mado's wife if we never knew she even existed before. It did not give the impact of losing a person like what this show normally capable of showing before. If the wife appeared in the previous episodes, at least we would feel bitter when Hinami stabbed and killed Mado in the last episode.

Cat vs Dog part 2

Nevertheless, there were interesting development regarding a mysterious character that pick-pocketed Kaneki's wallet. It was not known whether he was a foe or an ally and apart from his white hair and stitched arms, we were left with guessing whether he had a good or bad motives. The only thing that we knew was he had a sudden interest to Kaneki and from my opinion, his curiosity more or less related to the Ghoul that lived inside Kaneki's body; Rize.

They must enjoy playing gender bender in the real life XD

The best part of the episode was when Tohka past was revealed to us. She had a younger brother who seems more timid compared to her boyish personality. Then, the last screen confirmed that his brother was the one responsible to create disturbance in the 11 district , which make me keep guessing what kind of event that changed his behavior and compassion.

I smelt a hidden advertisement here lol

Another interesting points from this episode also came from Hyde curiosity regarding ghoul. While he said that he only interested in ghouls due to the book that he read. I smell his curiosity came from his realization that his best friend was also a ghoul. Hyde might not mention it directly but if you watch the second episode of the Tokyo Ghoul, you will realize that he only pretended to sleep when Kaneki was talking to Mr Yoshimura about his half ghoul condition. Then when he overheard Jason talked about Rize, his reaction definitely told us that he knew about Anteiku's secret.

Anime rule number 101: Loli solve all problems XD

The last part of the episode introduced three mysterious ghouls who went to 20 district with Anteiku as their destination and it seems that they also have relation to the binge eater A.K.A Rize. What is their story? What is the intention of Tohka's brother? Who was the white haired person that pick-pocketed Kaneki? So many questions lingering in my head and we will see what kind of story Tokyo Ghouls intended to told us later.