Talk:Rize Kamishiro/@comment-26416389-20150520002931/@comment-26231946-20150522055856

You were right about the obnoxious Rize hate but she wasn't the one encouraging Kaneki to accept his ghoul's side, it's actually his personification of Rize - the ghoul voice of Kaneki - telling him to accept himself. If you read the part where Kaneki came to Yomo, the guy told him that Rize's voice, Yamori's strength, all are Kaneki's delusion and it was actually Kaneki's own strength helping himself. Kaneki is an unsecured guy so he hadn't believed in his own strength, which repeats again in Re.

If you want an actual independence of Rize, the oneshot talking about her and how Banjou admired her is the right evidence.