Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27247962-20160424020148/@comment-27247962-20160424105101

Never encountered a 'dragonling' in strips, manga or games?

It's mostly the facial features, scales & horns, that's linked with dragonlike features. Although dragons have a wingfeature, they're originally created thanks to the knowledge of dinosaurs. They were the living dragons on earth once, but we tend to hype that up a bit with imagination.

As far as I know, there weren't many dinosaurreptiles that could fly. And 'dragon' sounds more symbolic then 'dinosaur'.

I can call him 'lizardman' Kaneki, if you like that better, it's more appropriate for what Ishida showed us in that panel.

But a musquito or birdlike beak, is not really what I see in that Kakuja. It most definitily is a reptile like manifestation. That other panel where he's fully shown just gives the wrong impression imo.