Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-169.139.8.30-20160426105917/@comment-10733658-20160426222226

The 645 times thing isn't the number of times Arima has hurt Kaneki. He was pointing out how many times he COULD HAVE killed Kaneki, but didn't act. He was pointing out how Kaneki was leaving himself wide open, and not fighting seriously.

Arima is a complicated character, because we don't know his true thoughts. The only thing we do know is he isn't like Furuta or Eto, he doesn't relish hurting people. He does what he's told, but does it mechanically.

I do find it interesting thst he invests so much into Kaneki, pushing him to keep going and to overcome the things holding him back. He also has seemed interested in Kaneki making his own choices, in contradt to Jack!Arima who talked about having no choices.