Talk:Re: Chapter 86/@comment-26074716-20160723051428/@comment-25047329-20160723072322

The clues have been there for a while, it's just that as Harostar said, there have been misdirections, and some things are more obvious in retrospect. Like Jack!Arima was connected to the character Chirin in Chirin no Suzu, a story about a lamb who was raised by the One-Eyed Wolf King in order to become a wolf him self. It looks like somewhere along the way, Arima became the "One-Eyed Wolf King" and the role of Chirin was transfered to Kaneki. The chess symbolism has also been more noticeable this arc with Arima and Kaneki being black and white respectively and last chapter, Kaneki symbolically "conquered the board". There's also a secret message in their birthdays to boot. I forgot how it's read though, but it does reference a king.