Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.16.253.207-20160614045347/@comment-27376148-20161020135944

A fail to see the necessity for romantical love tho.

Love and comfort is sth you can gain from a platonic relationship just as well - your family, friends etc.

Also if you say "romantic love adds realism" to the story sounds for me the same as "the story lacks realism without a romance" wich is first of all BS second the story does have romantic relationships (nishikimi, yooshimura and ukina)

However coming back to "love" and kaneki lacking love thats something a family/ his friends CAN provide he doesnt need to be in a romantic relationship to love or be loved in a fufilling way just like eto didnt turn out this way bc she didnt have a romantic relationship but bc (amongst other reasons) there was a lack of love in her childhood/ it was overshadowed by violence and in that sense Kaneki and Eto are actually similar. Kaneki was loved in his early childhood but not in a healthy way. They both didnt rly learn how to love and be loved.

Referring to the quote from the start (i think it was from the setting sun) "ppl are born for love and revolution" i also dont see it rly necessary plotwise bc touka and kaneki could just be together without problems - bc the main conflict is between humans and ghouls and that their are not allowed to live together by the system enforced by v/washuus even if they wanted to.

for example a relationship like nishikis and kimis - a ghoul and a human - which endangers both of them would be plot relevant as it has revolutional potential (like ukina and kuzen i mean look at that it created eto one of the major players)

i dont want to say touken is not going to happen bc it probably will since ishida seems to be aiming for the heteronormative ending - its just irrelevant for the plot and not a necessary focus point.