Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-5513888-20151220051643

something I don't get about his mental state

Reading the original manga, He never struck me as mentally ill aside from when he would use his Kakuja. Even after Yamori, he always struck me as colder or more aggressive and calculating, but still relatively intact mentally. Seeing him revert to his older identity in ;re isn't exactly synonymous to "His old self" because he never really struck me as this cold blooded to this degree, certainly not 24/7

Had his fight with Arima cause permanent, psychological damage? If so, has Kaneki really "returned?"

His relationship with his mother is drastically different from our understanding of it in re, and it has also been revealed that he secretly desired to "die in style" for attention. Do we then read Tokyo Ghoul entirely as a farce, and possibly a disortion of Haise Sasaki's true past?