Thread:Harostar/@comment-24494906-20150108181514/@comment-24494906-20150228111931

OK, I think I know what's up with the anime. I no longer expect a Kanou arc to happen - even if it is in Ishida's draft. The scriptwriter is totally incompetent. It's beyond me how that guy was able to script the first season so well.

So, what that guy did: He probably read Ishida's draft. Then he started to turn that draft into episodes. But since this was only based on a draft, he had more narrative freedom than in the first season, so he began to make it better™. He started to rearrange scenes so that the individual episodes roughly follow themes. Because of this, he had to cut scenes, add scenes, change the people in the scenes (in most cases, Kaneki was cut out). At some point, he also decided to "merge" the Kanou and Cochlea arcs in Ishida's draft. Because of this, he had to throw away basically all the fights Ishida drafted and completely redrafted the Cochlea arc for the anime. For this redraft, he badly copy-pasted the fights from the manga's Kanou arc. And after he had gotten rid of the Kanou arc, he forgot to fix up the character development for Kaneki, Banjou and Tsukiyama by making Banjou and Tsukiyama participate in the Cochlea arc and making them meet up with Kaneki before the Cochlea arc starts.

On the way, he killed the story. But in the end, the episodes nicely follow themes, so that guy is probably satisfied with his work.