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Well dont you think romance is the power of romance is a little bit overrated for a seinen, ErnstJung. Also what abt the power of friendship it if its believeable? The only clear "power of friendship" motive you could bring up in TG would be Kanekis reasolve coming from his hallucination with hide and were talking abt a decade friendship where both are highly dependent of each other. So of course such a bond has an immense power over kaneki its pretty much the only one that can conter his bad relatioship with his own mother.

I also dont see how romance is supposed to add maturity to a story, romance itself is a fragile and overrated concept in society most of the time - mostly bc falling in love etc is mostly based on chemical reactions in your body for the simple reason of reproduction and therefore not lasting a lifetime. Even 12-14 year olds can fall in love - does that make them mature? Mostly romantic feelings make you act even ridiculous and unreasonable. So rly at this point for kaneki to fall in love would rather be contraproductive if hes supposed to inherit a participating role in a revolution.