Thread:Harostar/@comment-27247962-20160627162659/@comment-10733658-20160628064803

Interesting work, though I would tweak your estimate for the beginning of the series. It definitely isn't summer, though our only strict date to go off is that the first scene of Rize's kill takes place on the "28th" of something.

It is most likely August or September, because Touka and Yoriko are wearing the Fall/Winter version of their uniforms. If it were June or July, they would have been wearing the short-sleeve blouses they are wearing near the end of the series.

Kaneki was definitely the original prototype, though. There's several reasons we know this, primarily the simple fact there wouldn't have been time for Kanou to have done Furuta's surgery. Kaneki and Rize were picked up by ambulance from the scene, and rushed into emergency surgery right away. There simply wouldn't have been time for Kanou to do anything else, with a "dead" patient and another in critical condition. Besides that, it makes no sense to have tested the procedure on Furuta when he's clearly more valuable to Kanou. Kaneki was completely expendable, and him dying could have easily been written off as complications from his injuries or the emergency transplant.

Furuta also likely wouldn't have risked being the first patient, when he could have waited to see what would come of the experiment. Kanou used an expendable nobody, that he could easily monitor as the primary doctor, and then further test it on the Twins prior to giving it to Furuta.

Of course, this whole thing raises so many questions about Furuta's movements within ghoul society. He fooled so many into believing him to be a ghoul, in comparison to how everyone and their uncle realized Kaneki was "special". Likely, he uses some of the same tricks that allowed Eto to go unnoticed by the likes of Hinami.