Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-66.212.65.6-20151112225655/@comment-26967758-20151113190807

To be honest, I rather there be people who can actually understand things that go on in the story than people who would review it for the hype and just say things people want to hear.

That being said, when it comes to manga or anime, you don't get people who can usually keep their cool about a story they're reviewing because A). They're just into it for the hype, B). They don't understand it completely and thus confuses the other fans, C). Too emotionally invested in characters to not be biased or D). Would rather make a video about reviewing it but end up being unsure about anything they're saying or jumping to ridiculous theories.

That's generally what it's like with the "bad reviewers". The good ones are rare, and they're mostly blogs or just a single post on a page or something, but they go into details with things such as the Fool's Journey, Jungian Psychology, Spiritual context, Dialouge Analysis, Symbolisms, Parralels/Similarities and deeper meaning about things. <-- see, these are the guys whose theories work out, because they've taken into consideration the things that Ishida tries to imply or use in the series. But because it takes time to actually sum up a lot in a post that is as concise as possibly, we end up getting people who only end up being the "bad reviewers", just because it's too much of investment on their time to spend thinking about these things and also, most likely, if you get too deep into it, you can end up loosing the joy of it's entertainment value. Some people take it too far and praised TG like it's a bible or something. It is what it is, and I feel like staying this way is for the best.

Should TG become more popular, attracting more shallow or half-focused readers into, they'll diminish the core value it has, which is that it's not a mainstream manga, but gets by being the opposite of what a mainstream commercial manga tries to do every now and then. And that's the best thing about it. Ishida seems to be very aware of the common tropes in manga, almost as if he studied intensively about how a story is typically structured when presented in a manga. I assume he went to university and studied this area directly, or he just had a real knack of reading, much like our protagonist Kaneki does.