Talk:Re: Chapter 172/@comment-5522921-20180514212126/@comment-27247962-20180516190827

Such an 'open-minded' guy though. He basically leaves space for his fans to fill in the blanks. Now every fan can create it's own little imagined progression of the battle ending in the given result.

Might be Ishida's way to try and keep the 'power curve problem' at bay. What I don't show, I can't be criticized and the rest is a leap of faith. The results after an off-screened fight are questionable, but difficult to debate.

Take the current Furuta/Kaneki collision about to take place. Clearly the gap in our knowledge when it comes to Furuta's performance against Eto is paying off now. The limits Furuta's overall power have been carefully concealed, no point in estimating them. Eto's circumstances leave open a lot of questions making her overall power at the time hard to gauge. In short there is not enough solid evidence to work with, which leaves Ishida a universe of room to work with when it comes to officially revealing Furuta's capacities. And the same can be said of Kaneki. 1. It's easy to assume his berserking mode changed something in him 2. Furuta underlines the suprise of Kaneki surviving, which puts Kaneki in a position of mystique as to why he did survive 3. He is showing subtle signs of growth and 4. immunity to the biggest threatening issue. In conclusion even though we've known both characters for awhile, circumstances made it so that the premise of this battle is practically a blank slate that could go anywhere. There is nothing decisive from the past to predict the outcome on, except ofcourse the knowledge that in general the final brawl ends up being won by the protagonist. Which is a rule that also essentially undermines the effort of creating an incalculable face-off, leading to complaints and the question: If you know the most probably outcome is that the protagonist will be victorious, why then is the tactical choice of off-screening necessary? Why not entertain us with the off-screened battles, since it isn't the conclusion of a story that makes reading it worthwhile, but everything that happened between start & finish, hence the dislike for missing vital encounters & confrontations between characters that lead up to the most likely end?!