Talk:One-Eyed King/@comment-26495834-20151202201323/@comment-10733658-20151204182612

My point stands in terms of the unequal burdens of proof.

Think about it this way:

The wiki combined the articles of Sasaki and Kaneki based on the word of a third party. We accepted Nishiki's word on the situation, rather than requiring that the narration (Ishida) or Sasaki himself state he was Kaneki.

With Eto being the King, we have multiple third parties stating the same thing. We have repeated confirmation of this information, which has gone from people theorizing/hinting to explicit statements (Tsuneyoshi Washuu).

If we applied the Eto = OEK standard elsewhere, we could not have combined the Sasaki and Kaneki articles until during the Auction Arc when he finally confirms in his own mind that he is Kaneki.

But as already stated, we accepted the allusions in the story and the word of a third party. Likely this is simply because we did not have the same fierce debate, as we do with Eto = OEK.

That said, at the moment the canon material has been using the Eto = OEK narrative since Chapter 142. The same information has been repeated multiple times to us -- Repetition is an important storytelling technique. Ishida has not even made any efforts to present another possibility, but simply told us the same thing again and again.

Like you said, we DO have some major figures not yet revealed. That seems like a much better investment of Ishida's time, as opposed to revealing Eto as a Red Herring.