Talk:Koutarou Amon/@comment-27704373-20161023140120/@comment-10733658-20161023151923

There's a few options, in my opinion.

For example, a prevailing theory in both the Japanese and Western fandom is that Saiko spared him. It's quite telling that we don't see anything indicating a body got squished. Deaths in this series tend to be very gory. People seem to think she either pinned him down, or encased him in the kagune to make it look like he died. It would explain her doing a Detachment, which is....odd to do.

Right now, the Quinx aren't really in the shape to be double-checking on his condition. They have enough to worry about, and other people seem to be in charge of gathering up the bodies/cleaning up the mess afterwards. So as long as they think he's dead, they'd probably limp off to regroup with the rest of the survivors.

We've also previously seen that simply being smashed isn't a certain kill for a ghoul. It seems like the rule is "Kakuhou intact = survival".