Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27671024-20160301120409

I Have Also Found a Theory based on Hide which is written by voxanimus(translator) the following contain's his speculation of the story

"I believe the ghoul with the numbered mask (86) in chapter 65 is Hide. I know a lot of people have been suspecting this for some time, but here's some added evidence, specifically regarding the way he speaks in Japanese.

Apologies if you can't read Japanese; I'll try my best to explain what I've found. Here is the raw text of the numbered ghoul's dialogue. We can see that he has this habit of ending his sentences not with desu or da (the most common sentence-enders in Japanese) but instead with ssu, a shortening of "desu." In addition, this "su" is not written in hiragana, like the rest of his line, but katakana. If we go back to the original TG, we see that Hide had the same speaking pattern. (i've linked to a Japanese page that discusses his speech pattern) No other character in the series that I know of has this speech pattern. Verbal quirks (called kuchiguse in Japanese) are used by tons of mangaka to lend personality and uniqueness to their characters. This is a big hint from Ishida, imo.

The sad thing is that this isn't really translatable. desu, da, and any variations thereof don't actually have English equivalents. In particular, this "ssu" thing is more of an accent than anything; anyone that's tried to translate before can tell you (I sure can) how difficult it is to translate accents."    P.S. I found this comment by chance on kissmanga.