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Tokyo Ghoul vs Attack On Titan

Normal teenagers who lived pacific lives until they were involved in a tragedy related to human-eating monsters (Eren lost his home to the Titans' invasion in Shiganshina/Kaneki was lured in by a female Ghoul who tried to eat him but was killed by an accident with steel beams that seriously injured him too), after which they reasonably held a grudge against said creatures, before learning they were turned into human/monster hybrids against their will (Grisha injected Eren with the Titan Serum so the boy could eat him/Kaneki had the Ghoul's organs transplanted into him during an urgent surgery). Both then had to deal with their new sides, and eventually accepted them in order to save humanity.

However, while this is solid enough, their main theme is personifying the "He Who Fights Monsters" trope, leaving their humanity behind in order to take hard choices after learning harsh truths about their worlds (Eren learnt his people, the Eldians, were sealed off from the rest of the world due to their past causing the others to discriminate them and prompting Marley to use them as living weapons/Kaneki discovered the Ghoul-Human War was being perpetuated by the Washuu clan, ran by Ghouls themselves). Both then went on to become leaders with opposite strategies and viewpoints on war (Eren became the leader of the Jaegerists as a persistent man willing to make sacrifices to save his people/Kaneki as the One-Eyed King resorted to running away from the tragedy), and in both cases, this caused them to lose many of their close friends and loved ones, although they always searched for peace, no matter the cost. Both turned into colossal Kaiju creatures (The Founder Titan for Eren/The Dragon Form for Kaneki) who caused massive destruction and murdered lots of people.

There's also a heavy but somewhat contrasting religious undertone for both in their stories (Eren is called a Devil by the Marley Nation/Kaneki often has a "savior" kind of imagery, with his final form having Kagune Wings as a kind of twisted angel). Both are also symbolically ties to animals who appear repeatedly throughout their stories (Eren is usually represented by birds, which are universally significative of freedom and perseverance/Kaneki is connected to centipedes, which in japanese culture are representative of death and tragedy, but later on represent them moving forwards).

Both witnessed their mothers die at a young age, an event that went on to mark their lives and some of the early arcs from their story.

Track Name: Unravel Your Humanity

Still the best for both IMO.

Description
Tokyo Ghoul vs Attack On Titan

Normal teenagers who lived pacific lives until they were involved in a tragedy related to human-eating monsters (Eren lost his home to the Titans' invasion in Shiganshina/Kaneki was lured in by a female Ghoul who tried to eat him but was killed by an accident with steel beams that seriously injured him too), after which they reasonably held a grudge against said creatures, before learning they were turned into human/monster hybrids against their will (Grisha injected Eren with the Titan Serum so the boy could eat him/Kaneki had the Ghoul's organs transplanted into him during an urgent surgery). Both then had to deal with their new sides, and eventually accepted them in order to save humanity.

However, while this is solid enough, their main theme is personifying the "He Who Fights Monsters" trope, leaving their humanity behind in order to take hard choices after learning harsh truths about their worlds (Eren learnt his people, the Eldians, were sealed off from the rest of the world due to their past causing the others to discriminate them and prompting Marley to use them as living weapons/Kaneki discovered the Ghoul-Human War was being perpetuated by the Washuu clan, ran by Ghouls themselves). Both then went on to become leaders with opposite strategies and viewpoints on war (Eren became the leader of the Jaegerists as a persistent man willing to make sacrifices to save his people/Kaneki as the One-Eyed King resorted to running away from the tragedy), and in both cases, this caused them to lose many of their close friends and loved ones, although they always searched for peace, no matter the cost. Both turned into colossal Kaiju creatures (The Founder Titan for Eren/The Dragon Form for Kaneki) who caused massive destruction and murdered lots of people.

There's also a heavy but somewhat contrasting religious undertone for both in their stories (Eren is called a Devil by the Marley Nation/Kaneki often has a "savior" kind of imagery, with his final form having Kagune Wings as a kind of twisted angel). Both are also symbolically ties to animals who appear repeatedly throughout their stories (Eren is usually represented by birds, which are universally significative of freedom and perseverance/Kaneki is connected to centipedes, which in japanese culture are representative of death and tragedy, but later on represent them moving forwards).

Both witnessed their mothers die at a young age, an event that went on to mark their lives and some of the early arcs from their story.

Track Name: Unravel Your Humanity

Still the best for both IMO.