Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-157.48.195.219-20161113141224/@comment-76.5.87.165-20161114182202

Well, it's up to you whether or not to believe Kaneki's memories, but try not to get too disappointed when the series ends and there's no more info on his past than there is now. Also, I don't really understand your line about Hide, so if you want to reword it I'll try and answer, but gonna skip it for the moment.

Kaneki and Mutsuki have several parallels to their characters, but they aren't the same, so that's not much of a comparison here. As I said above, Kaneki just happening to stumble into the steel beam incident and just happening to be a successful OEG adds a great deal of realism to the series. The others failed because the success rate was 99.99999% failure. I don't think it's a plothole at all - in fact, I think that, if Kaneki were to be related to ghouls somehow through his parents, it would leave massive plotholes in the story. What about his aunt's family? What would their connection to the ghouls be? And, if it was his father that was a ghoul, why was Kaneki's mother abusive, when she would have had to have done the unthinkable and eat human flesh to carry Kaneki to term? That's an act of pure love, not something someone who would later abuse the child would do.

I can understand the desire to see more of Kaneki's past, but really, we have all we need for the story. Anything else would make the story just your regular action shonen manga with a little more sadness thrown in.