Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26464844-20150907185054/@comment-26967758-20150907211641

Andy here! Eh, got tired of saying it's Andy, so I made an account.

@Blue Luna

I agree, Hide is being kept as shock value. And yes, I also agree that the parallels aren't as you phrase it, "on the nose" as we interpret or expect it to be. The themes to me, have been on reversal, and as you posted, Kaneki didn't have the power, so that lead him to a path to attain power. In :re, he has the power, albeit in a different way, but the Qs don't have as much, so their storyline will be much closer to Part 1 Kaneki. For Sasaki, it's more like anything that happened will be reversed. He won't necessarily become the torturer like Jason (he's already somewhat taken that on by breaking half of Ayato's bones and cannibalising), but he could put a stop to Kijima's methods. Kaneki felt like a character with a lot of potential to grow both physically and mentally, but he grew in the wrong path due to being afraid of losing his future, or had already thought he'd lost it by becoming half-ghoul. Sasaki on the other hand, already has his experiences and is able to distinguish whether something is moral or not, but he's not entirely utilising the potential that he already developed to the full extent, and even when he does, he looses control or is haunted by fear of his own past too much. Sasaki's also doesn't have any memories of ever being human before hand, so to him, he can't exactly feel like he's lost his future, since that's all he can move towards now.