Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-24.74.64.155-20160720193659/@comment-25047329-20160721004226

I've seen so many questions pertaining to Touka's relationships with others lately, especially Kaneki, that it's starting to feel surreal.

The short of it is that Touka is Kaneki's friend. Any good friendship has a layer of devotion to it. I think the level of devotion Touka has for Kaneki is a bit over estimated by the fandom at times, but it's there to a degree. All of Kaneki's friends have show it to him and vice versa, it's really nothing exclusive or unique to Touka.

Yes, :re has books. Since I can already figure the trajectory of this question, yeah, they probably are there for Kaneki. Sasaki noticed them and Touka said he could take some. I don't think :re was solely made for Kaneki, but the hope of him returning was probably one of the motivations. The idea of "home" is a concept very important to both Touka and Kaneki and Touka considered Anteiku as "their place". They both saw it as a home on some level, so Touka tried to recreate that.

It's also based on a real cafè called museum that has books.