Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-27247962-20160428091820

This might be a stretch, but I like the reverse view of it.

We see Arima caging the butterfly, a bug. What you can interprete of that is that Arima is used to be surrounded by bugs (=humans). Everyone around him is a bug to him.

But Kaneki is different. The fact that he talks so much with Kaneki, proves we can't throw Kaneki in the same category as all those other people.

Now the interesting thing is, that Kaneki might be the only one Arima sees as an equal, instead of a bug. Funny thing is that Kaneki compared himself with Kafka's huge bug, human turning into an ugly bug and everyone sees him that way. Everyone that Arima looks at as bugs, see Kaneki as a bug, while Arima doesn't look at Kaneki like a bug.

Does this indicate we can compare Arima with Kafka's bug too?

They're both monsters, but see each other as persons.