Azuma is Evil Ken Kaneki! Choujin X Chapter 59.2 Spoilers!!

In the previous Choujin X chapter, Azuma Chaosifies along with Vlad Bador as they battle out of sheer madness. Inside his mind, Azuma learns from his Choujin ego that he is not human.

On Twitter, Sui Ishida posted a preview of this chapter yesterday, where he states:

“You’re not human.”

What is Azuma’s “true identity”?

Choujin X Chapter 59.2 is titled, “Empty”

This chapter has 36 pages.

Empty is the official translation of the Chapter 59 title.

We continue the chapter with Azuma’s ego explaining that he was a “Copy” made by the power of a “certain Choujin”

Azuma is shocked that he was being manufactured by someone.

Now we may not know who else besides Zora and her cult who are particularly religious but perhaps Azuma holds the idea of being created by a God to be beyond him.

We cut to the real world where Azuma’s body changes more, with eyes all over his body and even on his cloak.

Back in his mind, the headless ego tells Azuma that no Choujin has the power to bring about “life itself” but asks Azuma who he thinks would be able to do that, since both of them know Azuma has an inkling of who it could be.

We then see that in Azuma’s mind, there is a memory of Queem McMann, the former Choujin X and Fuhrer of Great Guelta, leading an army of Choujin with his high-end armors and weapons.

We have seen these arms around the sea before and it is within the current arc

In Chapter 54-3: “Zora’s Elimination -Outpost-, Part 3”, I.C. Ice’s flashback featured him on a sinking ship due to those arms, identified as abandoned warheads from the Great Choujin War decades ago, appearing in the middle of the sea.

In the previous part, we saw Azuma remark that the arms were nostalgic.

In Chapter 21: “A Cloaker”, Azuma considered planes and weapons cool as a child but perhaps he saw Queem’s weapons in his memories.

So yes, Azuma is a copy of Queem, the former Choujin X and archnemesis of Sora Siruha 70 years ago.

🚨Choujin X by Sui Ishida will be launching a new 6-chapter spin-off next week in Tonari no Young Jump.

The new work will be titled Sensou no Choujin「戦争の超人」 and revolve around Queem McMann’s past.

“This is the story of a man who despised God”

More:… pic.twitter.com/Yg3TmVdLkI

— Choujin X Artwork Retweet (@ChoujinXArtRT) March 31, 2024

This April Fools’ joke from April 2024 is funny in retrospect now that the story gives more focus to Queem via Azuma.

Azuma continues to deny what the headless ego says since he has a family.

However, the ego tells Azuma that only he existed in that house.

He was alone all this time.

So, if Azuma was alone, as depicted in Chapter 58.3: “Demand/Cue”, how exactly was Azuma nourished?

Yes, Choujin are essentially immortal but he has organs and needs nutrition to sustain himself.

Did Queem give Azuma the knowledge to cook and look after himself even as far back as he was able to walk?

Or perhaps Azuma was able to emerge as a child and walked among people with memories of a different life made by Queem?

We might even see Queem’s childhood through Azuma or perhaps the hints of Queem’s persona were in characters such as Azuma’s dad, a rather rigid man who had a one-track sense of justice

Maybe Sato could have planted these for all we know?

And since Azuma is a Queem clone, how long was Batista aware of or interesting in him?

We then see flashes of Azuma being alone in a corner of his house.

When the ego clarifies who Azuma’s sister, mother, and father are, we see them all as headless people.

His memories of his family all inform us of what their function is in Azuma’s life.

His sister exists to be rescued, to enable him to act heroic (the victim Azuma must protect).

His mother rewards and nourishes him (the home that Azuma returns to)

And as Azuma says, his father is his ideal.

Azuma continues to deny all of this, grabbing the unfeeling headless ego and insisting this is a side-effect of Chaosification.

However, we see one of the most unnerving panels: a pregnant Queem (who is a man by the way) with an umbilical cord network that resembles chains containing multiple infants/

This is Queem McMann’s Choujin ability: “Super Create: Human”.

Azuma is the Iron Choujin, with the ability of Creation.

The timing of Azuma repeating the word “fabrication” with this panel shows that Azuma now realizes that he himself is a fabrication, a creation of Queem, rather than his own individual person.

Either Azuma was the lone survivor among the Queem clones, there are still, or, if we go even further, that this is only a visual representation of how many versions of Azuma have existed throughout history.

The panel of Azuma’s face with bleeding eyes (that bear Zora’s cross pattern, representing X), repeating the words “fabrication”, is a less horrific, less symbol or tarot card-heavy reference to the “I am a Ghoul” scene in Tokyo Ghoul Chapter 63: “Ghoul”.

Like Kaneki in a way, Azuma is a new type of being, with Azuma having gained sentience even though that was not the original intent of a clone.

Azuma’s cross-pattern eyes could signify that he has the latent potential to become Choujin X without receiving Zora’s mark, unless Zora needed to receive it from the defeated Queem in order to become X.

This is some Madara Uchiha-level planning but with Jujutsu Kaisen’s Kenjaku body horror (with Queem being pregnant like a male seahorse)

After the Great Choujin War, where he was defeated by Antitise and Sora Siruha, Queen created a clone in preparation for his revival.

However, the headless fabrication tells Azuma that just as humans grow old and their memories deteriorate, the clone (Azuma) will reset into a smaller form, that of a child without memories, and restart the whole process of “living” through fabricated memories.

Azuma still refuses to accept this outcome, succumbing more to the madness by these revelations.

However, the headless one warns Azuma that it is too late as the body is beginning to break away and preparing for reset.

Since Azuma Chaosified, his body and mind are about to separate, which is why Azuma’s mind is in this separate realm of consciousness that is unable to escape or retake the body.

The next “Azuma” will not be the same person at all and will have no memories or attachments to Azuma’s life.

This will very well be Azuma Higashi’s death and he might not have even been the first in the 70 years since Queem’s fall from power.

The physical body is still active but it is fighting because of its primitive fear of “imminent formatting”, meaning the fear of death is driving Azuma’s body on autopilot and this makes Azuma attack everything around him indiscriminately.

A single blast from Azuma’s eye was enough to split an entire section of the Tower of Mourning in half.

For context, the Omega Tower is 1394 meters in height, even taller than the real-life Burj Khalifa (828 m) and a single floor in the tower is enough to house a small city.

Azuma now resembles Queem in terms of having a single massive eye on his head.

Back in his head, Azuma asks where Queem’s soul went but even the headless ego, the program designated to inform Azuma of the truth, is not all-knowing.

The headless one hypothesizes that the soul took on a different form or that Queem was unable to create a soul and thus truly died.

“You may approach God but not achieve godhood”, the limits of Choujin X and likely why Queem hates God.

In Chapter 22: “Arm Wrestling”, Queem’s tagline is: “In actuality, God has provisioned man with but one emotion: the ability to sense when another may be a threat. That is to say, fear.”

Fear drives Azuma’s body to destroy everything, holding nothing sacred.

And if fear is the one emotion that God programs into all life, then for Queem, Choujin who have surpassed the fear of madness, have the means to usurp God.

Yet Queem’s hatred of God and fear of death still make him enslaved to the perceived design of God, so he chooses to defy mortality and Choujin realism by creating a human, even if there was a chance his soul would not return.

Ironically, this faith that Queem will be revived is shared even by the empty, logical headless ego.

Azuma refuses to wait, not wanting to be erased without knowing the meaning of his existence.

The world darkens as a massive eye hovers over this fabricated world.

Chains cover the landscape as Azuma and the headless ego witness the death of Azuma Higashi.

This chapter reminds me of the climax of the original Tokyo Ghoul manga, specifically Chapter 140: “Moderation”, where Ken Kaneki’s main personality sleeps to be replaced by Haise Sasaki for the new story: Tokyo Ghoul:re

This chapter is filled with some of the most messed up panels ever made in Sui Ishida’s entire career and we might not even be done with the horrific development of Azuma into, quite possibly, the calamity of Choujin X.

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