Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-90.219.64.133-20141010193701/@comment-190.80.8.7-20141010225158

Both are actually canon; the manga and the novels. They're connected. The novels are basically backstories of the characters. Like, one novel is about Kaneki's life spent with his aunt after his mom died, where she used to throw away his books just because he did better in school than her own son, and used all his money to buy fancy refrigerators and large chair sets- she basically had things which Ken and his mother could not afford. Then there's one about Ayato and Touka life when they were kids after their parents disappeared (some people think Ayato disappeared later on too lol, but that's not the case...Ayato had actually abandoned Touka to go to Aogiri). Then we have Tsukiyama, where he used to go to college, and spent most his time aroung the girls there lol.