Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-58.10.221.97-20150906164349

Andy here!

Seems like there's something fans need to be made aware of. Feels like eversince I mentioned about how :re was a role reversal, yet parrallel story arc in some of my posts (don't know if people actually read them, but I'm taking it as a yes due to the fact that no one mentioned it until after I posted it up on other pages), people have mistakenly assumed that things are going to happen exactly as they did in the order they did in the original TG. That's not the case people. Parrallel doesn't mean Kaneki is going to fight someone at a certain chapter. It means that something to do with someone but in a total different approach, similar to how Tsukiyama wanted to eat Kaneki and kidnapped Kimi, in :re Kanae tried to kidnap the Qs or kill them with the assistance of Aogiri members. Tsukiyama on the other hand, is trying to selfishly bring Kaneki's memories back for his own gain. See, in the first part, it was a tragedy, that's why Tsukiyama succeeded in bringing Kaneki to the church, the villains had an upper hand, but the story has transitioned into an epic instead now, so as we've seen with Sasaki and Q's battle with Kanae and his hired henchmen, they were able to fend them off, without anyone having to go through too much of a trauma.

In fact, parralleling the old story doesn't even have to take what happened in certain chapter numbers and replicate it. What Ishida does is reuse the theme of those chapters, although a different meaning comes along, similiar to how Kaneki loved and adored Sen Takatsuki books but Sasaki finds them too dark. It's the theme of a boy who loves books, but they have a total different viewpoint, and the story takes a different route each time a new view point is introduced. If anything, it's more like taking the previous story, and branching off other possibilities with a new set of characters and a new tone.