Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-26544002-20160529184259/@comment-27247962-20160530193143

^Right, they were practically bonus to the cochlea arc, maybe as a way to extent it a bit or increase the impact. It just feels as if he put them there to give the readers the impression this is a place with high stakes for Kaneki. Because not only does he need to focus on getting Hinami and himself out of here save, he also needs to see to it that Re:Crew gets out of this safely.

It might also be to give this new spin to Eto's character. She saves them. This particular action of Eto, made a lot of readers wonder why. And I feel like Re:Crew is just used as a convenient plot device to make a few things clear about certain characters.

Re:crew made Eto look heroic, but also made us think about what she could be scheming. It instigated Furuta revealing himself as a V member to them. It instigated Kaneki having to fight Arima. It just seems like Ishida wanted these things to happen, but couldn't let Kaneki and Hinami instigate all these reveals, while fleeing. He needed a 5th wheel, basically.