Talk:Kaya Irimi/@comment-26746952-20150727152712/@comment-10733658-20150814172119

The general rule of thumb here is: "Did we see a body?"

We saw Anime! Hide's body. We have never seen whether any of the bodies at V14 were Koma or Irimi, as all were masked. Ergo, we cannot be 100% certain and Ghouls can survive some crazy stuff. So while it's very likely they're dead, we aren't completely certain thanks to stuff like Tsukiyama surviving losing part of his head, Kaneki getting holes punched through his skull, and Yoshimura pretty much being a Ghoul pincushion that got swallowed whole.

As for arguing about Hide's fate in the anime, this really isn't the appropriate page for that.