Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-179.96.156.90-20161106153113/@comment-76.5.87.165-20161106161216

I'm guessing you read all of TG in one go after it was all released? It was just as plodding and took just as long to get anywhere, if anything re: sped the process up in the last arc. I mean, we were getting kakuja reveals, out-of-nowhere appearances, and big shakeups in the chain every week. TG took forever to show off anything.

As for Kaneki, I grant you we've been light on him for the past couple of months, but even so his presence is strong across the board - even when he's not present, his influence is constantly shown in the other characters (without whom this would be a boring af story - Happy Funtime Tragedy Hour with Kaneki sounds terrible). His current character is a melding of his two previous ones - the innocence, caring, and warmth of early Kaneki/Sasaki, and the strength, ruthlessness, and conviction of post-torture Kaneki/post-awakening Sasaki. We haven't seen much of the latter yet, but there are big hints towards it, namely Kaneki's implied beatdown on Mougan and Kiyoko.

If you wanna take some time off the manga, then by all means, do so. Not everyone is cut out for slowburn stories, and you may find more enjoyment in reading it all after the fact.