Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-146.135.126.195-20170511234718/@comment-25047329-20170512001749

I didn't watch the second video because that's 40~ minutes long, but the first one provided the same evidence that's been used for the past three years. The "Hide smiled so he's alive" bit has always been a primary argument, but the potential of him dying somewhere between Kaneki finding a blanket and spending ten minutes walking to Arima gets brushed under the rug.

I personally interpret Root A as having been intended as being more of a tragedy than its manga counterpart. Kaneki's actions I think were of someone who completely lost it and just wanted to see his friend again in the afterlife (let's go home, Hide). If Hide had any shred of life left while Kaneki was walking towards Arima, I don't think the former was intending to get him help. Kaneki didn't even have the mental fortitude to help him before when Hide had a higher chance of surviving. If Kaneki was trying to get help it was...one of the most ineffectual methods I've ever seen to say the least.

With that said, I think both Kaneki and Hide are "dead unless there's a season 3". I don't think their survival was the primary intention, but they left things slightly open just in case. In which case, I'd think of it as more of a retcon.