Talk:Karao Saeki/@comment-121.96.57.139-20160210121655/@comment-10733658-20160210140110

I'd disagree with your assessment a bit, Orfika.

While I agree that a lot of the things he did in the past were Grade A awful, we do need to keep in mind what we've learned about wealthy Ghoul society. While Touka and other regular Ghouls found him strange, we've seen that a lot of the stuff he did was typical of wealthy Ghouls. He's very much a product of his environment, in a society where Auctions and Dinner Shows were absolutely normal. We've got multiple omakes that indicate he learned his Gourmet hunting behaviors from his household. He took it up to a fairly vicious degree, of course. But he's also undergone a change, as a result of getting exposure to people outside his household.

The thing to keep in mind with Torso is that it isn't about food. We're explicitly told he didn't eat much, and that his house was filled with the torsos of his victims. His diary in Volume 4 indicates that he's both a violent rapist and a necrophiliac, as well as him acknowledging that he lacks the ability to empathize with others. So the creepy isn't just that he's zeroed in on Mutsuki, but that he's explicitly a sexual predator that sexually assaults victims and brings their mangled bodies home to "keep him warm at night".