Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-24.74.64.155-20160720193659/@comment-26074716-20160723032852

I dont know why is that Touka's devotion, caring nature towards others especially Kaneki need to be questioned and argued.

Btw Dayne to answer your question, this is my personal view. It's a mix everything of things you said. I believe relationship cannot to be pinpointed to one reason only. Kaneki and Touka had gone through many things during their short time together and they get to know close enough to care and love(take it however you want) each other. And both(and everybody else in the manga) have their own way to show how much they care for each other. It's kinda a pointless question actually since the line between romance and friendship of Kaneki/Touka is blurred and Ishida can take their relationship in both directions, not necessarily they have to be romance or anything. This question can be asked for any Kaneki/others dynamic eg Arima, like why Haise/Kaneki is attached to Arima despite what happened between them. Also why brought up Touken's shippers, the anon was just giving his piece of opinion to you, they can always ask or not to ask the shippers as they like if that's really a necessity for them.

I can say more but it's too tiring arguing with you, @furutasmole. Hide got nothing to do with this discussion. If you want to talk about what Hide had offered or done for Kaneki, just do it in Kaneki or Hide page. Bringing up another character for comparison will just end up in ugly conclusion. It's unfair to say that Anteiku and Touka didnt acknowledge Kaneki's human side since in the beginning Kaneki's struggle had been about him clinging to his human side despite being a half ghoul and he just settled down at Anteiku just fine. Anteiku welcomes both humans and ghouls alike, them helping ghouls because lol they need more help/support more than any human visiting Anteiku obviously.

Moreover, I believe Touka was attracted by Kuroneki's gentle nature and she didn't really fond of Shironeki changes where he completely delved himself into ghoul world. Also Touka is more involved in human world more than anyone else in this manga. She can accept Kaneki as Haise, a ghoul investigator, and do you think she cannot handle Kaneki as human and ghoul? You underestimate her (and every other character aside from Hide) importance towards Kaneki too much. Ishida spent hundreds of chapters to illustrate how Kaneki's interactions and involvement had gone beyond he only has Hide for his pillar of support.

In short, Kaneki was given choices and places for him while others (eg Touka, the CCG, Tsukiyama, Hide, Arima heck even Eto) provides the opportunities but in the end it's all up to Kaneki.