Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-2605:6000:B946:E900:8A6:F4A1:EE97:DBAF-20171006202640/@comment-209.93.52.46-20171007172933

^ I feel like in the case of Death Note, it was more because the story itself had some issues. Near (and L's other heir whose name I forgot) were actually interesting characters, but they were used for a difficult exercice in storytelling: concluding a story that had already an excellent and very satisfying first arc.

I'm not saying it's easy to kill off yout main protagonist and to replace him with another, but I believe it can produce incredible results when it's well done.

A good example of this is the mangaka Sengoky Youko, where the story takes a radically different and arguably more interesting turn after a rather unexpected change of MC happens (the manga is good, but it still suffers from a lot of cliche of shounen, so check it at your own risk).

Anyway, I don't pretend that I could find a way to make a third TG series with a new MC. And even if there were a new MC, I'm sure that Kaneki (dead or alive) would still be one of the major stakes of the story. But I'm confident enough in Ishida's writing to believe that he would be able to pull something interesting out of it.

I do understand why you don't like the idea, though. It's just that your original answer to OP slightly ticked me off ^^