Talk:Rize Kamishiro/@comment-27473235-20160415214503/@comment-25047329-20160415224706

If the timing and my math is right, Kaneki had been crushing on her for some months before Rize made her move. In Side Story: Rize, there's a calendar that shows it's December then by the end there's a time skip of six months. It's around June and that's when it's implied that Kaneki and Rize saw each other for the first time while Kaneki was on his way to Anteiku. Shinohara said that the "Steel-Beam Incident" happened in October, so Kaneki was admiring Rize from afar for about four months.

In that time, it seems that Kaneki never talked to her because he was too shy, but he became attracted to her because of her appearance and he had enough time to observe what kind of books she liked.