Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26464844-20150907185054/@comment-25047329-20150907210421

@   Dalaios

I think the parallels between :re and the original series are there, they're just not as quite "on the nose" as often interpreted. It's mostly to show how the characters have changed since they were first introduced since a lot of them are in very different places now then they were when the series started. e.g., Kaneki blamed himself for Mrs. Fueguchi's death because he wasn't strong enough, which later fed into his desire to become stonger. As Sasaki, he has a position of power that allowed him to buy Hinami some time when she was about to be offed by another investigator as a sort of callback. He now has some level of power to try and protect his friends, it's just very different than what he was originally going for.

As for Hide being alive or dead...I just think he's too important (to Kaneki as a character) to have been killed off. The CCG listed him as MIA suggesting that they never found a body or had substantial enough evidence to consider him most likely dead like Amon or Takizawa. From a story perspective, the only reason to keep Hide's death a "secret" is for shock value as it would surely hit Kaneki hard if it turns out he ate him or something. Could he be dead? Sure. It's always possible. Do I think so? Personally, I'm pretty skeptical.