Talk:Karren von Rosewald/@comment-10733658-20151107220052/@comment-167.60.58.82-20151107234425

That's not how it works centipede.

The reader is pretty much always supposed to know more than the characters if the story is presented like it is here, that doesn't mean we the readers need to act like things don't happen because other characters don't know those things. We know Haise Sasaki is Kaneki Ken, the characters in TG exceptions aside don't know this, that doesn't mean we need to pretend Haise Sasaki is not Kaneki Ken.

The reader is not supposed to pretend "I don't know this", that's not how it works. Another situation would be your typical romcom manga with a girl being in love with the MC or the MC being in love with a girl. None of them confess their feelings but we as the readers know what those feelings are.

Now here, we know Kanae is a woman and we know why she was trying to pretend she wasn't one. In fact Tsukiyama is the one that doesn't know that because he's kinda retarded and was probably too busy sniffing someone's blood, we saw her talking with Matsumae and Matsumae knew. Kanae didn't seem to have a problem with those close to her knowing she is a woman, she just didn't want other people to know because of the issues with her family that we saw in this chapter.

So the whole story goes back to Kanae accepting or not being a woman and she already did that, in fact we saw she never though of herself as a man but just did what she needed to keep appearence. Other characters knowing of this fact or not does not inflict in real life because we as the readers have already seen her inner thoughts and feelings.