Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-3173617-20151107170437/@comment-26967758-20151107180443

So that explains why you've been coming up with extremely one-demensional theories. I don't think you understand the manga completely enough to see why your own expectations won't match up.

Firstly, let's tackle the whole "Kaneki needs to remember his "old friends". Do you think people at Anteiku were people who, in real life, you could really call friends? Yoshimura acted as a mentor, Touka was cold towards him at the beginning, Nishiki hated him, Tsukiyama wanted to eat him, Yomo just helped him because Yoshimura asked him to, Uta, for whatever reasons, took a simple interest in him. Kaneki had only one TRUE friend: Hide. You can argue it with Hinami's case, but he simply was kind to her and took it out on himself after her mother died. Banjou and the rest was simply him needing a support group after his torture. See, the word "friend" cannot be thrown around easily. To become a friend, you have to have known someone for long enough, to the extent that Hide knows when Kaneki is lying without even thinking twice. Kaneki was just getting to know the people at Anteiku and the ghoul world, in real life, you would call these people acquaintances. Of course, the person's mentality and how they approach a relationship also matters. Take Tsukiyama's approach for example. He thought of Kaneki as food, then as something precious to save up for the last meal, and then as an important person, finally coming to understand he's a friend. How long did it take for Tsukiyama to have this realisation of what a "friend" is? Well, we got that answer in this arc so far.

Secondly, the whole "he doesn't belong in CCG". Surely, he doesn't belong in the ghoul world either if you think about it, he was a normal human being to begin with. His "old friends", as you term it have said this as well the last time we saw them at :re. They tried explaining to Tsukiyama that Kaneki doesn't belong in their world. If anything, CCG is like a rehab centre for Kaneki to learn to be human again. You can't dismiss him as "nothing but a CCG's dog". That's like saying all businessmen from a certain cooperation is evil because they work for a person who is evil. By that logic, Amon, Suzuya, Koori, Arima, Akira, Kureo, Fura, Shinohara and the countless other investigators are also CCG's dog. Heck, that makes the Quinx Squad more or less CCG's dogs, if not lower due to how they've been treated.

You need to understand the narrative of the series first before you make up these theories that don't go anywhere. And I swear, you make them like every week. I'm not being mean by posting this, so if you've taken it as a "negative comment" or "harsh words" again, that's a fault on your part for treating everything like an emotional and mental attack. People on here are trying to help you understand the story better, so that you could actually contribute more to discussions rather than post pointless theories (and it's not that all of us don't appreciate the activeness, there are people who have agreed with your theories, but it's all wishful thinking that is so far removed from the context of the story it's just absurd). Honestly, if you can spend time coming up with all these theories with no basis to rely on, how about re-reading some chapters or information about how Tokyo Ghoul's world works then try to come up with a concrete theory that COULD actually make some sort of sense?