Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-121.214.183.110-20150306081454/@comment-24494906-20150307002644

^ No, it was Ishida's idea for the anime to go an alternate route of Kaneki joining Aogiri. He was pretty clear on that.

He made a draft, and the story in the draft made sense. That story diverged more from the manga, though I think it converged into the manga's route again at the end.

But the anime staff threw Ishida's draft away. Like, the only things from Ishida's draft making it into the anime are the story progression in episode 1 and two scenes from episode 2 or so. Afterwards, it's just the staff doing their own thing, there's no relation to Ishida's draft at all. And the scriptwriter is really bad at writing the staff's route.