Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-89.114.169.171-20151215192648/@comment-27143318-20151216023235

'''First off, I'll start by saying that I completely hate the way Ishida's decided to develop Touka's character in :re. The second part of TG was alright, since it had lots of impact on the reader by seeing her slowly become irrelevant. This, as a fan, caused me lots of emotional pain, which was probably Ishida's aim as it was a tragedy after all. In :re, however, there are no excuses to keep her irrelevant.'''

That out of the way, if you really don't see that Kaneki loves her, you're not paying much attention. Kaneki literally allowed a little child to accompany him on a life-or-death mission, but forbid Touka to follow him. Why do you think that is? Whenever he would start losing control or start panicking about saving everyone, Touka would be one of the first to be listed. In the novels, Hinami basically stated several times that Touka and Kaneki are meant to be together and that they are very sad when they are apart. There's also the bridge scene - I am pretty sure that Kaneki wouldn't have allowed anyone else to treat him the way Touka did and get away with it. Finally, in :re when he walked into her coffee shop and saw her, he teared up thinking "I probably also had someone beautiful like that in my life". I think those are some very strong hints towards their relationship.

All things considered, I am still disappointed with the way Touka was degraded from a major, powerful, independent character into a timid useless personage that has had about 10 panels of screentime doing nothing and remaining in the sidelines. Either way, '''precisely because we've seen so little, we know nothing about her. I still hold hope that Ishida will actually take the right and natural way to continue her character development.'''