Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-90.220.119.101-20150602172412/@comment-10733658-20150602174311

I am honestly leery of anyone that claims to have "insider info", honestly.

As for the wiki, there has been discussion back and forth about this matter. Here's my two cents concerning that matter:


 * The Japanese are culturally very leery of doing anything related to death. This means taboos concerning any practice associated with funerals (covering someone head-to-toe in a white sheet, passing anything chopstick to chopstick, sticking chopsticks into rice, folding the kimono right over left) and even the Number 4, which sounds like the word for Death. It's not uncommon for the 4th floor of a building to be labeled the 5th floor, due to the taboos around death-related things. Ergo, to a Japanese audience (the intended audience), the covering of someone with a sheet is an automatic indication of death.
 * Ishida's original draft included a more explicit death scene for both Hide and Kaneki.
 * Kaneki walks slowly for several minutes, passing emergency/medical staff. No effort to do anything for Hide, which makes zero sense if he could still be saved.

Since the anime has concluded, as for now that is what we have to go on based on that non-canon alternate universe.