Talk:Akihiro Kanou/@comment-27347196-20171112133250/@comment-27247962-20171112172335

^We've been exposed too much to these motives in all sorts of entertainment, so you'll have to forgive that it's rather underwhelmingly received by a certain amount of people.

Originality is what we are looking for, an unsuspected motive, not something that closely follows a cult-classic. It'll probably be more well received by me, even if it was some absurd desire or thinking that set him on that track.

TG however is littered with characters that follow this pattern that shapes them as individuals, either driving them forward or obstructing their path towards growth. To have something that similar revealed in Kanou's case after such a long time, didn't exactly blow the roof of. On the contrary even. Abuse & love turned perverse are Ishida's favorite driving forces.