Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-79.54.22.141-20151029214217/@comment-26967758-20151030092935

I actually quite understand where you are coming from OP, but I also have something to add. I feel like this "distinguishing" between "Kuroneki", "Shironeki", and "Sasaki" personalities thing is going on for too long. If you take out the factor that he lost his memories and had a mental breakdown out of the story, then what do you have?

It's pretty simple, you have a once socially awkward teenager going through a rebellion phase, and then coming to terms with himself as he grew older.

See, differentiating between personalities is going to cause people to come out and say which part they liked more, which defeats the overall message that the story has been trying to tell us. People change, for better or for worse, due to circumstances in their lives, and that change might not be the best, but what's neccessary for that given time. It's trying to tell us to not live in regret like Kaneki does.

I'd rather view it all as one character going through a change. The reason you might find Sasaki as boring is because there is no drama occuring with him, just around him. But that's as you said, your guilty pleasure, which happens to be mine too. I enjoy tragedies, if anything, I'm addicted to them. But that also means we look for problems where there isn't any, and get disappointed when we don't find one. So the reason you might not appreciate Sasaki as much as I do might be because you haven't found a reason to, or something like an event in your life that you can relate to (if you've ever had a mental breakdown or something extremely traumatic happen in your life, and those emotions were reflected back by "Shironeki" and you've overcome them, then you'd understand why "Sasaki"'s personality is needed more now than ever).