Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-104.131.98.29-20160730214907/@comment-25047329-20160731061841

Hide and Touka are both important to him, just for different reasons. Touka was the first other real friend Kaneki made other than Hide, which probably means a lot to him, even if she may not be on par with Hide. If we were to Look at things seperatly, Hide is Kaneki's best friend on the human side and Touka is his best friend on the ghoul side. In the future I don't think such divisions will be necissary, but Kaneki is a person who still struggles with his identity and place of belonging, so seperates this two things.

Hide and Touka are also represented by the Magician and High Priestess in Tarot respectively, so they might also might be depicted together with near equal importance sometimes out of symbolism. The Magician and High Priestess are the number one and number two card so they're right next to each other, and they're the first to figures the Fool meets in The Fool's Journey.

TL;DR Hide and Touka are both Kaneki's most immportant people imo, but for dfferent reasons. Also, symbolism junk.