Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-25742728-20150422021838/@comment-25047329-20150422023723

It cuts off at first but Arima continues on another panel referring to Kaneki by name. I doubt Hide is dead in the manga but I'm unsure of what to make of the "Hide made a deal with Arima" theory. Arima knows who Kaneki is, but he only figured it out after Kaneki recited poetry. It seems more like Arima had studied the Kanou case and was aware of his victims. Kaneki was a college student majoring in Japanese Literature so reciting poetry was a tipoff.