Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-121.96.57.139-20160110011906/@comment-25047329-20160110015527

It's been a while since I've seen the anime, but from what I remember off the top of my head, I'll try and bring up somethings that I recall as iffy.

-Kaneki marched to Arima out in the open in front of a bunch of Investigators. In the manga Kaneki and Arima met in a secluded area where no one could see them. There are a very few hand full of people who know what happened between them and this fight was extremely important because it's what led to Kaneki becoming Sasaki. Sasaki's history is kept tightly under wraps to the point that he's records as Kaneki were deleted, but this doesn't really work in Root A where a whole bunch of people saw and even identified him as Kaneki.

-Kanou's motivations weren't established. Kanou's entire motivation and whereabouts were almost entirely scrapped from the anime so would seem to come from nowhere in :re. It wasn't established that he kidnapped Rize, "created" Kuro and Shiro, joined Aogiri, and sees One-Eyes as superior beings and wants to create more to boost evolution.

-It was never established that Aogiri wanted to kidnap Investigators for experiments and that Eto had an eye on Amon. This goes somewhat with the last one one, but Kanou joined Aogiri to gain more resources and Eto was helping him. They decided to target Investigators because they're already trained and strong so it was thought that they might make good materials. It's strongly hinted that Amon was one of the people kidnapped for experiments.

-Again sort of following the last one, it was never established that Amon was wearing Arata Proto when he was kidnapped. Since Amon hasn't been fully revealed it can't be said what the full significance of it is, but "The Robed Giant" seems to be wearing an Arata. It seems like an important plot point to come up later.

-The details of this one admittedly I can't remember too well, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong. From what I recall, I think it was Kaneki who was accused of Mado's death and is one of the reasons why CCG had made him top priority in Root A. This one would certainly throw a wrench in things since Mado was Akira's father and a mentor to Arima. In :re, both Akira and Arima become parental figures to Kaneki.

-Hide may not be dead??? While it was pretty apparent in the anime that Hide died, his fate in the manga has been left ambiguous. If he turns out to be alive and pops up somewhere in the future, that might be a bit confusing to those who jumped in from the anime.

-Kaneki worked for Aogiri in the anime but not the manga. One of the reasons that Kaneki was admitted into the CCG was probably because there was little evidence that he harmed humans. As an Aogiri member, he attacked the CCG several times and was assumed to be a human murderer. In the manga it was overtly clear that he prioritized killing ghouls and the CCG didn't have much evidence that he was a direct enemy to them outside of the Anteiku Raid. Like with the Arima fight, chances of the CCG admitting him go down because of this.

The post is getting long, so I'll leave it at that. I'm sure someone who has the anime fresh in mind can probably elaborate better.