Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-203.145.79.20-20150306093533/@comment-10733658-20150306093945

Overall, there was a lot of really good things. But the decision to join Aogiri really didn't......go anywhere, or change things to any significant degree. As such, it was wasted and it seems like going with the original story would have created a more coherent product. Everyone in Kaneki's group save for Hinami lost their development and screentime, while we really didn't get anything new from Aogiri or the prison raid.

The Kanou raid was important for establishing so much about the series, and Kaneki's team made for some great development for all involved. Instead, we ended up with a lot of really good material marred by some incredibly awkward stuff like Kaneki being a blank slate we rarely saw and copy/pasted stuff from the manga like fighting Shachi and Tsukiyama's breakdown that made zero sense with the anime.