Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-50.152.150.233-20151109200233/@comment-25047329-20151109202907

I think he's a very compartmentalized person as a whole. Sadistic merciless on the job Arima is different from casual and around the office and peers Arima. He's so far been shown as being very passive about his job, doing it because he's told to, so perhaps the enjoyment of killing is either conditioned or a way to cope. He is very different from others in the series that can be labeled as sadists since up till now, he's been very composed. I guess unlike the others who revel in death and pain, it's more of just something of interest.

I do compare him to Kaneki to in this regard, someone who finds beauty in death. I think Arima does as well, so he's less a person about high passion and excitement, and more about admiration and catharsis.