Talk:One-Eyed King/@comment-26495834-20151202201323/@comment-10733658-20151204175834

Eh, I disagree about the whole "more exciting" thing. I've said many times that I really cannot see how Ishida could pull off such a reveal, having invested so much time into Eto. She has been present in the series literally from the first chapter, with her existence tied into and influencing so many things. Ishida has drawn so many parallels between her and Kaneki, and had so many important parties either theorize or explicitly state she is Aogiri's true leader.

So at this point, either introducing a completely new character as the OEK or revealing some other character as that person just.....feels to me like it would be Ishida throwing away so much. It would be telling the audience that several arcs of build-up was a Red Herring, and that Eto is just one more Female Villain playing second-fiddle to someone else. Rather than, as has been consistent throughout the series, revealing the villain to be a woman all along (Minami in Jack, the Skulls leader in Joker, Eto as the OEO).

I mean, it feels like there's this REALLY INCONSISTENT requirement for evidence going on. People pretty much agree that the Robed dude is Amon, but with Eto being the King the burden of proof is raised to an extreme degree. No matter how many times Ishida has characters tell us, nothing short of a declaration by Ishida himself seems to suffice. Why are people so keen on making Eto less important and downplaying her in all ways possible?