Talk:Re: Chapter 42/@comment-79.207.25.177-20150829163512/@comment-25047329-20150830202535

Hmm, then perhaps the confusion is on my part.

When I said that Kaneki knew that he was losing his memories, I meant during. The whole of chapter 140 is Kaneki going through the fragments of his already melting memories as Arima lobotomized him and coming to terms with a few things, like his weaknesses and self-perception.

http://twistedhelscans.com/content/comics/tokyo_ghoul_524064544031a/140_0_sharp_voice_55703f5890892/10-11.png http://twistedhelscans.com/content/comics/tokyo_ghoul_524064544031a/140_0_sharp_voice_55703f5890892/14-15.png At this point he knew that he was slipping away because of what Arima was doing to him, but rather than fight it, he simply had a moment of peace. For some reason, he doesn't even expect to die, he keeps talking about sleep and even mentions waking up. http://twistedhelscans.com/content/comics/tokyo_ghoul_524064544031a/143_0__epilogue_ken_end_55717e7abdbb1/12.png Then in the final chapter, we get a narration (the rectangular boxes) from Kaneki. The following pages show the narration suddenly cut off as it continues to ponder "salvation" when it gets to the part with Arima "getting the rights" then the name "Haise" is shown. Since these are fan translations there's the total possibility that they're not accurat, but this is what I have to work from. I probably should have made it more clear, but "sleep" is metaphoric which is why I kept putting it parenthases. Of course Kaneki isn't going to magically "wake up" one day, but "sleep" seems to be a metaphore for Kaneki's amnesiac state. http://imperialscans.com/manga/tokyo-ghoul-re/32/49841_12.png http://imperialscans.com/manga/tokyo-ghoul-re/32/23363_13.png The more Sasaki remembers, the less he becomes an "amnesiac Kaneki". The memories are slowly starting to trickle on their own. It's not clear what Kaneki exactly thought or expected to happen when he was defeated by Arima, but it doesn't seem like he expected to die and knew that "something" would happen when he woke up.