Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26093284-20150223221144/@comment-24494906-20150223225408

In the first referenced post, there are a few errors.

First, the flowers appearing in chapter 139 aren't daffodils; they are bletilla striata. I know that with certainty because the title of chapter 139 reads "shiran", and that's the Japanese word for the flower bletilla striata. That flower is hinting at Kaneki's memory loss.

Second, AFAIK, Kaneki was only associated with the numbers 7 and 12 (and 14 in some sense, but I think the number 14 was mostly referencing the events in chapter 140). The last page of chapter 140 is actually a summary of the fight against Arima written in Kaneki's blood (which is a bit creepy): https://i.imgur.com/ZRGUpzw.png "The Chariot (7) meets Death (13) in battle (IXA; ikusa means "fight", "battle" in Japanese), resulting in Temperance (14)." A lot of people seem to have interpreted IXA's "IX" as the numeral 9; however, I'm quite certain that Ishida actually wrote "IXA" there. That's because Ishida didn't write "IXA" just once, he wrote it thrice: In Latin letters (blue), Katakana (red) and Greek letters (orange; you have no idea how much time it took me to figure out these are Greek letters; I knew that Ishida wrote some symbols there, since the placement of the blood splatters in that corner was quite unnatural, but they didn't look like Latin letters or Japanese characters, so I was a bit lost at first).

However, there seems to be one character associated with the tarot card "The Hermit". Chapter 119's title (also the title of Root A's episode 8) is "Old Nine" - and it tells Yoshimura's backstory. Thus, this chapter title implies that Yoshimura is "The Old Hermit" - how fitting.