Ishida tends to choose punny chapter titles for Tokyo Ghoul. These hidden puns are sometimes more important to understand the title than what the chapter title literally means, but they are usually lost in translation. So I thought I should compile a list of these puns here.
I do not claim that this list is complete or without mistakes. I didn't look for puns in chapter titles before chapter 100, and I only superficially searched for puns in the chapter titles before chapter 125. Furthermore, please keep in mind that the search for puns is inherently subjective: For each title, I had to decide what I consider a pun and what not. If someone else would compile such a list, the resulting list would probably look different.
In the list below, I also included translations for each of the chapter titles. You should keep in mind that translating Ishida's chapter titles (even while ignoring the puns) is an art and highly subjective. Basically, Ishida often creates new words that you can't find in any dictionary, and so the translator has no choice but to translate the title according to his intuition. For example, chapter 103's title "刺剃" is basically "stabbing and shaving", however, "stabbing and shaving" doesn't really work well as a chapter title. But since the chapter title is clearly about Sasori, I decided to translate it below as "Piercing Razor". In the list, I sometimes adopted the chapter title translations from the scans, sometimes I deviated a little from the translations in the scans to show a different perspective of how the title could be understood.
As for :re's punny chapter titles, see here: http://vatoto.com/forums/topic/22738-punny-chapter-titles/ .
If you have some corrections, additions or suggestions, please post them here!
Now let's get to the list of puns.
Chapters until 99:
Chapters 100-119:
Chapters 120-129:
Chapters 130-139:
Chapters 140-143:
Edited by Old McDonald, 14 August 2017 - 09:47 PM.