Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-3173617-20151008194053/@comment-25047329-20151008231235

Thematically, I also feel that it makes more sense to keep Hide a human. Since very early on, Ishida has had a thing about human/ghoul duos (Kaneki/Hide, Touka/Yoriko, Yoshimura/Ukina, Nishiki/Kimi, Shuu/Chie, etc) and a big part of it is to show that these bridges can be built and the human characters often serve to anchor their ghoul counterparts to their humanity. Hide is extremely important to Kaneki's character because he is that anchor, being the only thing Kaneki truly has connected to his life pre-ghoul. The day that anchor is severed, I think it'd be a very big turning point imo.

I'm all up for Hide helping Amon and the other "floppies" though. I don't think he has to be a ghoul to do it, he's always been the brains. He's good at tracking, gathering intel, and critical thinking.