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Tokyo Ghoul vs Literature: Dear Kafka’s Inspiration

The novel ‘Kafka on the Shore’ is another of Haruki Murakami’s works that share a connection to Tokyo Ghoul. The premiere work of novelist Takatsuki Sen, thought to be a homage to Murakami, is a short story named ‘Dear Kafka’. One possible reasoning for this titling in both works is that german author Franz Kafka was thought to have a strained relationship with his father, inspiring in some part the misery in his works. Author Takatsuki Sen definitely has deep running issues with her father, and the protagonist of Kafka on the Shore, a boy who calls himself Kafka Tamura as a pseudonym hates his father enough to run away due to previous abuse. 

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