Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27143318-20151031170043/@comment-27143318-20151102032712

@Harostar

TBH I find it kind of strange how everyone is saying that he's living a new life now, so he shouldn't be told of his past one. He is living a new life yes. A good life too. Is it a better one though? Only Kaneki can say... or could say, if he had all of his memories. That's why I don't think her inaction is justified - because if she told Kaneki, he would be able to truly make a choice. Either way, no point dwelling on that - I do agree with you that from her point of view maybe it looks different, but that's why I expected at least an "I'll think about it." on her part. Still, I guess we'll just have to wait and see how things turn out.

As to her character, yes indeed, the core elements where there before the end of the first scene, but they were just starting to blossom - she was just starting what I would suppose would be a very slow and gradual change - people don't just become someone else overnight. Yet in just what, three years, and she's nothing like her past self? It seems kind of weird. You mentioned Touka realising her mistakes, but TBH I don't think she made a lot of mistakes, when compared to other characters at least. She seeked vengence for what was unrightfully taken from her, but I don't entirely view this as a "mistake" as it seems like something natural that a human would do. I also don't agree with the theory that she caused the downfall of Anteiku, since all she really did was kill a lone First Class investigator and now that we got to see the story from the CCG side, it appears that these guys drop like flies every day, so it couldn't have possibly been this big of a deal. My bet is that they reinforced the ward because of Rize, Aogiri's movements and due to Hide's rambling. So she really doesn't have so that many reasons to blame herself which would somewhat excuse such a radical change. Besides, as I said, Ishida could've just introduced her in :re instead of going through the trouble of developing her character in one direction only to have the character experience a change of heart and then skipping the actual development and process in which the character changes. It seems like a waste and it doesn't really look like how a story would naturally flow IMHO. It feels incomplete. I guess if Touka turns out to resemble her past self slightly more in some way, at least in her mannerisms, it could be more believeable than now where it just looks like a different character IMHO, but indeed, we've seen too little so far to truly judge her new personality. Hopefully the future will tell.