Hello, everyone! It's been four years since I started writing this story, three years since I updated it, two years since I even logged onto this website at all… and now I'm back! If you're reading these words, then I want to give a massive thank you to you for coming back here too!

To my old readers, I'm really sorry. I completely took the story offline for at least two years, left you with placeholder texts and nothing to read. The reason why I removed the text of the story from this website—or from anywhere, actually—is because someone in real life who I really didn't want reading anything by me found this account. It wasn't someone I should have been talking to at all, honestly. It wasn't a great time in my life. But now things are a little bit better.

In the meantime, I actually stopped reading Tokyo Ghoul, as in, the actual, official manga updates that were coming out every week. I was in college, my life got busy and awful, and I just stopped with manga and anime altogether, honestly. And then a few weeks ago, I had a sudden urge to look up how this series was doing, so I did. And discovered that Tokyo Ghoul had ended.

So then I binge-read the 100+ chapters of Tokyo Ghoul:re that I hadn't kept up with and mourned the fact that, in my idiocy, I'd missed the ending of the favorite manga series. But at least I'm up to date with the official story now, so I have some questions for you who actually witnessed and lived through its real-time completion. Like, is the fandom for this series still a thing? I'm down to keep writing this story, to finish it, but is anyone still around to read it? What are the opinions you all have about how the series ended? What did you want to see happen? Who did you want to see? I have my own favorite characters (Mutsuki! Koori! Uta!) but from the comments I'm looking up that were posted alongside all the chapters I missed, my favorites aren't really lining up with who's popular… and I don't want to write about characters who you guys hate.

Sorry this isn't an actual update, by the way. I just finished reading the official series (for like the third time in the last few weeks) and it's past midnight here and I just had a burning need to say something and post something here and force myself to commit to this story afresh even though I don't have anything actually written.

But anyways, let me know what you all are thinking, and I'll see what I can do for this story. I definitely intend to finish it. Even through all the years that I was absent, I promise you all that I never stopped thinking about this story. I always knew that I had made a promise to my readers that I would come back and finish it, and I will. I'm not sure when my next update will be exactly—I have years worth of new canon material to fit into whatever storyline I initially had going four years ago—but it's coming. I promise. I'll see you all soon.