Talk:Koutarou Amon/@comment-27788670-20161023130259/@comment-10733658-20161023180035

Number of examples isn't the point, but rather that what will kill a ghoul is.....well...SPECTACULARLY unreliable. What might kill some random fodder will be shrugged off by a more significant one, and we've had some pretty wild stuff in Re concerning ghouls surviving being sliced in half, decapitated, gutted like a fish, brain-stabbed, and pretty much every other horrible thing you can do to a body.

Amon was tough as nails even as a human, and even tougher as a ghoul. He's a damage sponge, which is probably partially due to the factor Yoshimura was stated to possess extreme regeneration. (Shinohara said it was an "8", which I'm guessing is on a standard scale of 1 - 10?)

But the point stands concerning my feelings on the matter. Amon was the deuteragonist of Tokyo Ghoul, serving as one half of the narrative and foil to Kaneki. Their parallel journeys and connection/desire to communicate was a vital piece of the puzzle. His return to the story has been teased since Chapter 12, and his piece of the story has been eagerly awaited by the fandom.

To kill him off at this point would be to reduce him down to a character existing only to give Takizawa and Saiko a speech, then die. It would nullify his personal journey during the original series. It would leave the entire driving theme of his connection to Kaneki pointless and unresolved. It would make bringing Donato back into the narrative in such a major way less significant, without the most important piece (the unresolved conflict of parent and child, which has been a HUGE theme in Re).

Yes, a good send-off is always important. But I think I'm not alone in feeling that Amon, our original voice for the Human side of the story and man with enormous unresolved plot lines, actually deal with those instead of being used as a punching bag for a few chapters and then killed. He's literally the other half of the story.