

Yoshimura is supposed to be this wise good old man, who was evil in the past.
But he has a kakuja and it's mentioned in the Tokyo Ghoul wikia he had to
cannibalize to obtain it. If I recall correctly, in the flashbacks when he was
an evil ghoul it's never shown he having a kakuja. Did Yoshimura cannibalize
after becoming "a good guy"?


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Did Yoshimura cannibalize after becoming "a good guy"?


This was not specifically discussed nor explained in the manga. But, in
**Chapter 119** ,

> it was mentioned that when Kuzen heard of the One-Oyed Owl, he took the One-
> Eyed Owl's place for fear that the organization, V, would find out that the
> Owl was his child.

Also, if you notice while Yoshimura was telling Kaneki his past, he talks
about it in a third-person point-of-view

> (by using 'Kuzen' instead of 'I').

While this might be just a style of telling a story, I interpreted it as his
dissociation of his current self from his past self. He does not want to be
seen as what he was in the past. Furthermore, notice how Yoshimura mentions
this in **Chapter 119** :

> _'And so, Kuzen took the place of the One-Eyed Owl.'_ Not _'Yoshimura took
> the place of the One-Eyed Owl.'_

Assuming that Anteiku was established and he assumed the identity Yoshimura
afterwards, this means that he cannibalized before becoming Yoshimura. While
the [wiki](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Yoshimura) mentions that

> he was already going by the name Yoshimura when he found out about his
> child, this was not directly stated nor explained in the manga as far as I
> know so I have no idea where the wiki gets its information. It was only
> mentioned that time passed.


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