By now we all should know that Ishidas writing is well thought out - it seems like he never puts in a new element without a connection of some kind. The same goes for the name of our newest known building, the “lunar eclipse”.

The lunar eclipse & The Tsukiyamas



A lunar eclipse is an eclipse where the moon is colored. During a solar eclipse one can’t see the sun, but during a lunar eclipse the moon is tainted red. Now, my japanese isn’t the best but as far as I now “tsuki” means “moon” in Japanese and isn’t it coincidental that the character who is fleeing there right now, bears the word tsuki in his name? - No. Ishida gave thought to it. During the manga Shuu was always associated with the moon giving that his name and mask resemble a moon. And let’s give a thought to the lunar eclipse. As mentioned before, during a lunar eclipse the moon is colored completly red, which is why some call it “blood moon”. In our case the Tsukiyamas are the moon, about to be killed by the CCG and the red may stand for the deaths and spilled blood during this operation.



The Blood Moon Prophecy

Within the last few chapters we had a lot of biblic references (Eto) and this may be another one. The Blood Moon Prophecy is an apocalyptic scenario, as explains this Wikipedia Quote:

But how should this be connected to the ongoing arc in Tokyo Ghoul? It’s easy. As some of you might know, our spoilers and english scanlations are a few days ahead of the japanese release. While we get the first spoilers usually on a Friday/Saturday, the japanese ones are published on the following Thursday. So we got our chapter today (Sunday 27/09/15) whereas japanese people get to read it on the first of October (Thursday). Now if you take the japanese release into account, the publication of the chapter and the last total lunar eclipse of the blood moon prophecy are in fact happening within the same week.



Thinking about Tokyo Ghoul, it may not symbolise the start of the apocalypse but rather the end of the Tsukiyama family.

If you like to see the total lunar eclipse tomorrow, then search on Google when and where you’ll be able to see it, for me that would be 4:11 am x__x I hope you like this little theory/interpretation ^^ It’s been really long since I’ve written something like this in English so please don’t mind mistakes <3

