Talk:Re: Chapter 126/@comment-190.153.81.210-20170528054745/@comment-26940038-20170530204545

^^ Yeah, as I said you don't have any experience with the romance genre.

Those two moments I mentioned aren't romance between Kaneki and Touka but they are moments where Ishida did adress the topic of their relationship to each other. The point behind showing akward moments where two friends get mistaken for a romantic couple is quite obvious, isn't it?

And yes, the original series had TouKen moments. You might not have realised it but even small moments like when Kaneki said that he would be sad about Touka dying and her reacting surprised are part of the buildup that lead to their current relationship.

Like Old McDonald said it got really obvious after the Aogiri arc. Touka lying in her bed being sad about how Kaneki didn't take her with him while holding the ring of her parents. Or when she wanted to see him really badly after he gave her that keychain as a birthday present. Or when she was was mad at him for staying away from her even though it was for her sake. Each time she got very emotional more than any of his other friends did.

You might shrug that off as normal scenes because in your opinion it doesn't have anything to do with romance if it doesn't involve a kiss or a love confession but those are scenes that made it very clear that Touka had romantic feelings for him.

The main point of romance is to show how two people become a couple. Showing how their relationship evolves. I have seen a lot of romance animes and I can tell you that it's the case in the great majority of them that the boy and the girl get together at the end of the story, not at the beginning. Especially with Tsundere characters it takes a lot of time.