Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-121.96.57.139-20160205130145/@comment-86.217.103.188-20160207153145

Funny, I rather see Tokyo Ghoul as a fable about finding the meaning of life. Human beings would embody the naive "children" who believe that life has a very simple meaning, while ghouls would be the ones who know how dark existence can be, and who consequently don't believe there is any meaning at all. And the characters who float between those two worlds (Touka and the Anteiku members, Kaneki) are the one who believe there must be a truth, but who can't find it.

The fact that some characters, like Amon or Takiwaza (who used to be sort of dreamers and who believed in a simple ideal) are turned into ghoul after a traumatic experience would symbolize the evolution of their way of thinking, the end of their illusions.

And the main character, who regularly navigates from an identity to another, is caught in a perpetual quest for true meaning of life ("living normally" for Kaneki, "defending my friends" for Shiro-Neki, "constituting a family" for Sasaki...)

But Tokyo Ghoul is such rich work, there are a lot of possible interpretations.