Kishou Arima - Ghoul?

[Ghoul]

OK, I know that the title itself may make it look as if I'm a crazy. But I'd really like to hear your opinions on the matter.

I think that by this time every manga reader realized that Arima Kishou is not just a gifted Ghoul investigator. A man who's able to make the strongest known Ghoul in the series flee the battlefield and who can literally stomp an SS rated Kakuja is beyond any kind of human limitation. So what makes me incline to think that Arima is a ghoul?

Two reasons:
- his hair color changed to white, although he's still young. I won't develop more on this as it is a very obvious fact.

- the 2nd point I'd like to address. I don't know, this may have been noticed before but, Arima's right eye is rarely shown, and when it is it has a black color as seen in the image below:

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But there is one instance, during the Owl battle when his right eye is shown:

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As you can see, his right eye is not black anymore, and the pupil seems to me at least to take some sort of elliptical shape. That might be just my own interpretation though.

Anyways, I'd love to hear what you guys think. Is Arima the God of Humans, or is he a Ghoul/Half-Ghoul who works in the service of humanity for some reason? I'll add a poll.

 

[Kingu]

Arima is human, I'll hate TG if he is a ghoul.

 

[DroGGz0r]

I don't think he is.
His change of hair colour could just be due to the stress. And the thing with the eye, I just don't see it, lol...

 

[Ghoul]

I don't think he is.
His change of hair colour could just be due to the stress. And the thing with the eye, I just don't see it, lol...

He's not really the person to get stressed, if you've read Jack you surely know what I mean.

 

[ANiMUS]

Human science experiment:| his hair used to be black and dude is still young so I think they experimented on him to take his godly skills even further

 

[DroGGz0r]

He's not really the person to get stressed, if you've read Jack you surely know what I mean.

Holy moly, I completely forgot to read Jack :|
In this case maybe he just dyed it. Afterall, I could see him as the type of style carring person, haha =D

 

[Ghoul]

Human science experiment:| his hair used to be black and dude is still young so I think they experimented on him to take his godly skills even further

I agree with you. Although it makes me wonder how did he wound Owl back in his youth. Could it be that experiments already started at the time?

 

[Ghoul]

Holy moly, I completely forgot to read Jack :|
In this case maybe he just dyed it. Afterall, I could ses him as the type of style carring person, haha =D

No matter how hard I'd try I can't disagree with that haha. He's stylish all right? XD

 

[ANiMUS]

I agree with you. Although it makes me wonder how did he wound Owl back in his youth. Could it be that experiments already started at the time?

CCG raises kids so it wouldn't surprise me

 

[To Whatever]

I think he's just reforming Ghouls..

 

[-Punk-]

The most I could see is him being an experiment but like someone said above the CCG raises children so experiment or just outed ability I wouldn't be surprise, just look at Suzuya as well.

 

[TurrinB]

I would be very disappointed if that was the case. Arima is such a great characters because he is human and as the God of Death represents a more tangible threat to Ghouls than any Ghoul does to humans. That's a great dynamic that would be diminished if Arima was a Ghoul; and it would of course make his skills seem less impressive. Even still I can certainly see it as a possibility, especially if he was a reverse Eto, I.E. Eto as a half Ghoul was the result of a human women becoming pregnant with a Ghoul. So maybe Arima is the reverse a Ghoul becoming pregnant with a Human, and somehow the Ghoul prevented their body from eating that human. That's the only way I could see Arima having any familial ties to a Ghoul and it being almost as interesting of a story as if he was just human.

With that said I don't think the evidence provided here is enough to assert that Arima is a Ghoul. Him having white hair is interesting, but I imagine that a more likely cause for his hair going white is simply due to him over using top grade Quinques or something like that. It's also possible that Arima could eat Ghouls and therefore his RC levels raised.