Thread:Dalaios/@comment-26544002-20180713133740/@comment-26940038-20180717005528

Oh no worries, I totally agree. Touka has always been my favourit character in Tokyo Ghoul but even though she was still important in :re she was basically just Kaneki's lover and nothing else. Her emotional, impulsive and stubborn personality with her trying her hardest to live a normal life next to humans were what made her a likeable character. But in :re we saw basically nothing of that.

And that's what happened to many characters. Tsukiyama once was a very interesting character as well with his twisted affection towards Kaneki. In :re he just became just another one of Kaneki's minions in goat. Same with Nishiki and Banjo.

Amon was once basically the second protagonist of the story. In :re he was nothing but a minor character who hardly appeared at all. His plot of being the only investigator who cares about ghouls at all just disappeared.

Kurona and Takizawa were both great characters as well, since they were mostly neutral. Ishida just forgot about them.

And as you said, all those characters that got hyped up as some super strong antagonists just got one-shotted or even offscreened. It feels like Ishida just didn't know what to do with them so he just killed them off as fast as possible.

But that's basically what I think was Ishida's biggest problem with the entire series. He started so many great character developments and plot lines but he had no idea how to conclude them in a clever way. So he just rushed to a totally simplyfied end to avoid that problem.