Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-3173617-20151008194053/@comment-10733658-20151009041405

Hide actually is a fairly mysterious guy, if you pay attention and especially if you've read the summaries for his story in the first novel. One thing to remember is that characters in-series note that Hide is an unusual person and this makes the more cautious types very leery of him.

Nishiki noted he was unusually keen for a human, and warned Kaneki about it.

Marude has misgivings about Hide, and so makes him an assistant to keep an eye on him.

In the novels, Cain states that Hide reacts strangely for a human that's about to be killed by a Ghoul. In that story, Hide purchased snacks for the sole purpose of later using them as a weapon against Cain -- having already figured out he was a Ghoul.

There's also the fact Hide is the only major character without a backstory of any kind. That's fairly unusual in the series.

He's one of the four Aces in the Tokyo Ghoul Trump, as well as The Magician.

I doubt his story is over, because there's a lot about him that we haven't learned and it seems unlikely that Ishida will have wasted all the indications/hints of people expressing that there's something strange about him for all his HAHA I'm just a random bystander normal human, guys!