Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25787298-20170117230439/@comment-10733658-20170117234013

First and foremost, I think your tone during the entire discussion was kind of......condescending? Even here, you're calling it "made-up reasons". It really isn't that good to start things off in that manner. Please dial it down a little bit, because it's coming across in a fairly rude manner. ^_^;

Mod hat completely removed now, promise!

In terms of my own thoughts, I am doubtful that Amon is really gone. My primary reason is simply that....I have serious trust issues when it comes to Ishida and dead characters. The man has yanked on our heart strings SO MANY TIMES over the course of the series, so I am prone to being doubtful about things. He seems to enjoy yanking our chains, making us think someone has died.....only for them to emerge later on in the series, having survived their brush with death.

Amon's last scene fits neatly into that category, in terms of how Ishida does things. We are left without anyone directly commenting on the fate of the character, no explicitly-shown body, no Quinque made from them, and an enormous cliffhanger with numerous unresolved story threads.

Based on Ishida's past writing patterns, that makes me suspicious. I'm not certain how he would explain it later on, and it could very easily be another case of questionable writing on his part. But...it wouldn't be the first time he's done it and probably not the last time. I know a lot of people were unhappy with him bringing back Koma and Irimi, who seemed to have a good resolution to their stories. But then we get a hand-waving of how "Kaneki fighting Arima saved them".

In comparison to them, Amon's story has numerous unresolved elements.....some of which Ishida just dropped into our lap. Looking at how Ishida writes things, these aren't simply going to be abandoned. I don't believe they will simply be picked up by other people, as some really do require Amon himself to resolve.

Here's the elements I think are left to deal with:
 * What the hell has he been doing the last 3 years?
 * His "friends" are.....:Re? Someone else?
 * The whole "Yasuhisa" mystery that Eto started him on.
 * Resolution with Kaneki.
 * Labeled a failure because he's too powerful, Kanou musing about if he could learn to control his kakuja.
 * Donato Porpora.
 * His connection/shared past with Urie, the one that wanted him dead.
 * Resolution with Akira and Takizawa.

Again, I'm not going to argue whether it's good writing or bad writing. I think we've all kind of had our fair share of complaints about :Re, and some of the decisions Ishida has made.

I simply think it's important to pay attention to Ishida, and the patterns in his writing. He tends to "kill" characters like this, and then bring them back later. Hopefully, he won't drag things out this time around. But we won't know until the issue actually gets addressed.