Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-100.11.163.161-20160630012351/@comment-26231946-20160630022510

No?

Furuta said that the higher up would wipe him out if they knew about his kagune, meaning he doesn't consider himself to be the strongest. He is a character that doesn't fight to kill, he fights for various reasons: from self-defense to achieving his goal, very different from Arima who kills because he was ordered to. And why would you concern yourself so much about power level when this manga is obviously not about it? It's about how characters do whatever they need to with their intelligence and perception of the world, not a fighting pit where everyone comes to there to fight and calls it a night.

On the other hand, it seems like you don't have a grasp of Furuta and his relationship with Kaneki. He is a significant figure in Kaneki's life, from being the one who triggered half ghoul experimentation, a clown who have observed him for more than 3 years, his partner for 6 months as Furuta, and now seeing how he overjoyed because he shared the same kagune with Kaneki and Rize, we can say Kaneki is someone significant to him as well. I don't know what you have been reading, either ignoring Furuta existence up until now as Furuta and Souta, but you are missing something very importance. Sure you can say Furuta is Kaneki's antagonist, but he is not Arima, who plays a father role, he is Kaneki's foil - two sides of the same coin and you should be looking at that way instead of making him like some power freak to replace Arima. They are very similar and yet, they behave differently to the world, where Kaneki takes the damage and hurts himself, when Furuta expresses his anger and self-consciousness as laughter and madness.

In conclusion, I think it's quite disrespectful to view both characters like Arima and Furuta only as power freaks, not someone who have affected and will continue to influence Kaneki's life.