Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-150.135.211.242-20151018002939/@comment-25047329-20151018013209

I take it he died shortly after that. If the intention was for Hide to just be unconscious or for it to be ambiguous, the wrong implications were given out. Kaneki crying for Hide in the first place, walking slowly with a wounded Hide passing by everyone and anyone who could help, the somber version of Unravel playing, the white sheet, Kaneki making no attempt to cover Hide's wound, and placing Hide in the snow in front of Arima. Everything about the situation implies that he's dead.

Thematically, it'd also make more sense for Hide to have died. Root A is even more somber than the manga, having Kaneki so traumatized and detached that he's practically a zombie who can barely hold a conversation. He sacrificed everything, even his friendships, and by extension, his emotional health to try and protect them. Despite that, he ended up losing the person he considered the most important to him and it wouldn't have happened if Kaneki hadn't ran off to join Aogiri. In contrast to the manga where by meeting Hide, Kaneki was given hope to keep fighting and push even though he knew that defeating Arima was almost impossible, Kaneki didn't receive that support in Root A. Rather than being overcome with despair then giving it his all anyway, he walked right up to the "God of Death" without any hesitance. He was ready to die because Hide died.

Between the story framing and the way Root A was thematically set up in contrast to the manga, I think it's apparent that he died.