Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-27376148-20160818114636/@comment-25047329-20160818131805

Partly I'm holding out for that scene to be explained more. Kaneki is a notorious unreliable narrator so I'm not not sure I trust Kaneki 100% tbh. Especially because he has the tendency to put his most impacfull people in a pedestal.

If we're taking the scene at face value, perhaps he just wanted to get to Kaneki as soon as possible and didn't have time to bring meat. He noted that Kaneki's wound was really bad, so he probably wasn't expecting him to be so hurt. Even without knowing that Kaneki's regeneration was exceptional, he probably knew enough that Kaneki was a rinkaku, so a de facto healer. Amon using Arata and a bikaku based quinque was also a huge surprise. Or perhaps he just couldn't get meat between the CCG an ghouls stalking the place. There are a lot of factors that can be taken into consideration.

Then there's always just good 'ol fashioned symbolism. It could also just be one of those things where Ishida wasn't so much worried about the little details than paralleling him with characters like Ukina and Kimi. Two characters who loved their ghouls beyond logic.