Talk:Uta/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150224105829/@comment-5513888-20150225024042

"He just did what he thought was right for the sake of amusement and isn´t some malicious monster like we want him to be..."

fucking up someone's life for amusement is called sadism, and can be described as malicious. Did he intend to do harm? If so, he was acting maliciously, and it's highly implied that the end of Kaneki, regardless to what specifically happens, was their intent (and the dialogue suggests that they were steering Kaneki towards a tragedy all along).

He was leader of the clowns before, why wouldn't he be now? No greater force has overwhelmed him, their had never been any qualms about his leadership, the revelation in which it was revealed he was still INVOLVED with the clowns  suggested he was in some position of influence. And don't bullshit me with some counter-arguement among the lines of "just because he had a big panel doesn't mean he was in charge". You clearly have no idea of composition in art or literature. Let me educate you: a lot of thought, believe it or not, is put in painting or writing a story. In a painting, the selling point should be the distinct, typically the largest thing, as it is made to attract attention. In literature dialogue or syntax can greatly affect the tone of a passage or even hint at themes within the book. My point? The way a peace of art is structured is not by coincidence. If Uta was given a big panel, very distinctive attention-grabbing text, then Ishida  certainly wanted this revelation of Uta's allegiance to be very distinct and VERY heavy. While I can't directly prove that Uta is the leader of the clown's the you CANNOT deny that Uta's panel was made for shit's n' giggles; there is a reason it is set up that way. And you know what? Seeing it, it resonated memories of Uta's behavior in the past, as well as the behavior of the clowns. Seeing it, I concluded he was still, as he always had been, leader of the clowns. This is the interpretation I, as well as many others, have made based off of the structure of the panel.