Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26316510-20150425160036/@comment-24494906-20150425231227

^ Ishida never officially stated that he's referencing the tarot cards, but there are many hints that he's doing that. There are even two chapter titles that directly reference tarot cards - "The Hanged Man" (chapter 109) and "Temperance" (chapter 140 - the kanjis don't say that explicitly, but they are read the same way as the word Temperance in Japanese). Or in the shot of Kaneki in chapter 126 - he's standing before the 109 MEN'S building. A 12 appears on his collar - and the 109 is a back-reference to chapter 109's title, "The Hanged Man".

But I do think that some people are finding sometimes where I have serious doubts that they're really meant to be there.