Talk:Kaneki Ken/@comment-26959834-20150916013052/@comment-25047329-20150916054603

I once saw someone write that "Kaneki needed to 'die' to progress" and I feel that this is true. The first series was a tragedy. Our main hero fell to hamartia and was "killed" at the end and "died" sad and full of regret. Even though he got a second chance and was given a new identity, even though he can recover his lost past and re-apply his old memories to his new being, he can never be that person again, and it's for the better. The Kaneki Ken at the end of the original series metaphorically "died" and his story ended.

I think Shuu made a good observation when he said that Sasaki was "a continuation of how he was before". He's an alternate, more positive, path that Kaneki probably would've taken had Aogiri not happened. Sasaki is a far more stable and mature person than Kaneki ever was and is probably the person he was "meant" to grow up into. Granted, the Catch-22 is that he has to get to know his old self to not tred the same path again. History repeating itself and all that.