Talk:Akihiro Kanou/@comment-27247962-20160323204925/@comment-10733658-20160323210759

I'm not sure how either one of those things is weird.

Ghouls are an oppressed species that is actively hunted and lives on the fringe of human society most of the time. Blending in is a very risky venture that makes them more likely to be caught, and access to education requires them to have legal documentation and a stable environment. Many are poor and orphaned young, living in abandoned buildings or the underground tunnels or otherwise on the streets.

In Japan, you've got to have a Family Registry to do pretty much anything legally. Most ghouls obviously don't have one, unless they are lucky enough to get their hands on a fake one. So they've got no identity documents, no citizenship, and therefore no ability to rent an apartment, go to school, or access a ton of other public services.

Education is also kind of a luxury, if you think about it. It's something that you require spare time to do, and ghouls are usually too busy just trying to survive. Japan also has a pretty complicated education system, which is infamously cut-throat and high-pressure. Their writing system has three different types of characters, which is typically used depending on the intended audience. So if you don't have the time to study all three systems, you're going to be unable to read anything not written for children.

Plus, becoming a /doctor/ when you're a ghoul would be crazy-difficult unless you had connections like the Tsukiyama Group. Medical school is EXPENSIVE, and takes many years to even get to the point where you could do a Specialty like surgery.

We dunno what Kanou's goals are for this moment, but he clearly stumbled upon V and he thinks his experiments are vital to defeating them.