Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-76.122.135.250-20151006230948/@comment-10733658-20151006231824

You're misunderstanding things, Anon. It wasn't that he didn't love his mother, because clearly he loved her very much.

People tend to oversimplify Kaneki's habit as simply meaning, "He's lying". But it's more complicated than that, because more than once he's used it when telling a half-truth or when he's uncomfortable with what he's saying. It shows that he's isn't being completely honest or is hiding something, not necessarily that he's LYING. There's a subtle difference.

Back to that scene, it isn't that Kaneki didn't love his mother. Notice what else he says there:

"Mom is great. She always gives it her best until night time....When I become an adult, too..."

There's the lie. He's praising her for something we already know deeply bothered him.