Talk:Tokyo Ghoul:re (anime)/@comment-24549565-20180606235605/@comment-5550598-20180607035028

Yeah, I definitely understand what you mean. I guess we'll see what happens and how they go about this but just retconning like that is odd when there was already a path. Not all of Root A is retconned, only the parts that were changed from the manga.

This kind of puts it on a similar path to Black Butler's anime adaptation too. The first season adapted the first couple of arcs and then went off on its own story, which was then retconned two seasons later by the studio adapting the Circus arc. This was probably because they started the adaptation too early. But the thing with this was that the alternate storyline was completely different and didn't lead up to the other arcs. So it pretty much did what FMA did.

With TG's case, the manga was pretty far ahead from the Aogiri arc, already onto :re. So the second season having some different paths wasn't a capitalising thing or anything. I view it as simply a "what if?" story that still led up to :re very much the same way as the manga did. Nothing bad, but it still had some different points in it that could still work in the :re adaptation, and what was skipped can easily be explained in :re as well. I'm still enjoying the :re adaptation very much despite this though. As long as you're wary of what happens in both the manga and anime, it's nothing to fret over. That's just my opinion though :)