Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-122.55.28.69-20140919023815/@comment-24494906-20150108112002

It took me a while to solve that puzzle why the anime was made the way it was. But under the assumption that Morita and Ishida didn't lie, this is how it was decided that the anime was to be made this way. Morita said during October's event that Ishida wanted to tell an alternate story and that they decided to follow his wish (according to what I've read, I didn't watch the livestream back then). Ishida wrote in his comment for the second season that he remembers how he made the anime name (i.e., the drawn anime draft) in mid-July. Then he says that he feels that Tokyo Ghoul was blessed with great people and begins to list the people involved in the anime's production to thank them. And there, he writes: "Director Morita, who complies with my unreasonable proposal to the very limit" (in a more thanking tone; it's literally "Director Morita, who gives me the favor of complying [...]").

Morita's first meeting with Ishida was probably in November 2013 because Morita mentioned in an interview that he met Ishida for the first time just when the "prenominations" for the Oscar were made public. I think he's referring to the time when "Possessions" was shortlisted, which was in early November.