Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.16.253.207-20160614045347/@comment-27376148-20161020154044

You speak like romantic love is needed to pass as an adult thats the most unrealistic statement for me here. Also Kaneki has had a romantic love interest and that is Rize. Idk if youve read the first chapter  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ He had a crush on her, she thought of him as interesting, they share similar interests the only problem was that she (similar to shuu) wanted to eat him. but as a love interest she definitly has more potential from the set up. oh and since were at it: did he seem any more mature to you when he was obv very interested in havin a relationship with rize?

When Touka told him he has no place to belong to being neither ghoul nor human kaneki was able to cheer up bc he had hide as "His place to belong to" (home so to speak) which was never corrected to touka or anteiku being it, maybe his ccg family in his haise persona. so touka being the person "waiting for him at home" doesnt rly make sense either.

what im saying is theres just a poor set up for touka even though shes going to be it - thats why i cant see her future - romantic relationship with kaneki as sth crucial for his developement or the plot  rather sth that will be shown in the epilog or implied. the big turning points of his were his hallucinations with rize, chibishiro and hide (which are also the ppl he opened up to in his hallucinations - for rize talking abt his mother, chibishiro admitting how cruel his mother was and for hide stating how lonely he is without him additionally in the chapter afterwards he was honest to himself and to arima which is sth).

id like to add that these last mentioned are all made up in his mind meaning these are all things hes telling himself. which means he encouraged himself to live and search for sth worth living for

-sth that makes him feeling happy and fufilled - which has been discussed a few chapters beforehead with yomos story whos living for serving coffee and seeing hikaris children grow up *gasp* no love interest DOES THAT MEAN YOMO IS NOT MATURE??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- so practically he already has overcome the obstacle that is himself and at the end of the day what bigger obstacle is there honstly. so no need for a romance as a plot enforcing point still.