Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-27875002-20160227014227/@comment-25047329-20160227235002

I'm about 99.9% certain he's alive in the manga if only because I think Ishida can get more suffering mileage that way, but the anime is a different ball game. There's a lot less wiggle room for him to still be alive and I feel it would just hinder the impact the ending had if he were miraculously so. Hide dying was a big "I fucked up!" moment for Kaneki. He joined Aogiri to protect his friends in the first place and the tragic irony was that it was his own actions that ultimately led to Hide going through the lengths he did. Kaneki then became to mournful that he, presumably, marched up to Arima to commit Suicide by Cop. Taking that back would drain the ending of its emotion quite a bit imo.