Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-26429365-20150731103310/@comment-10733658-20150819045523

I'm always baffled by the kneejerk "this isn't a shojo" response, whenever romance is mentioned. Seinen as a genre frequently includes romantic relationships, because the genre is aimed at adults and therefore deals with a type of interaction and relationship that adults have.

One of the major themes of Tokyo Ghoul is interpersonal relationships, and how they change or impact people. This includes romantic ones, as we've seen with Yoshimura, Nishiki, Tsukiyama, and Akira. To think Kaneki might not potentially have a romantic relationship at some point in the series isn't unusual, since he's an adult in a mature series that deals with personal relationships.