Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26232562-20150613193928/@comment-25047329-20150613200306

Partly I think it's to mimic the original series. In TG we got a six month time skip after the Aogiri Arc and soon after, the CCG held their promotion ceremony. In :re we got a six month (I think?) time skip after the Auction Arc, where Aogiri was one of the main enemies, and soon after the CCG held another promotion ceremony. I have to compare them after the English translation is released, but this being Ishida, I'm 99.9% positive that there's some sort of relavent parallel hidden in there somewhere.

Plot wise, I think it's to fast forward the MCs to a state where they feel relatively at ease before everything goes down the crap shute again. From what I can tell, things have gone really smoothly, maybe a little too smoothly, over the past six months. I think in this case, the purpose is to make them feel secure until something shakes them again because it's been a long time since something really big happened.