Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26316510-20150425160036/@comment-24494906-20150425163640

You're probably talking about what I mentioned?

The current arc has a number of problems:
 * There's too much stuff going on at once. Currently, there are fights going on at 5 different places. In previous arcs, 3 different places was the upper limit.
 * As a consequence of this, there are too many scene changes.
 * As another consequence, the arc feels convoluted.
 * Most of the fights are between people that were newly introduced in :re or were side characters in the original work. The only main character having some screen time is Sasaki, and he didn't have that much until now. For this reason, people don't feel invested in the current developments, and nothing really seems to be at stake.
 * Everyone knows that the investigators from the ghoul investigator recruitment campaign are just there to be killed off. Because of this, there's no suspense in their fights. (I do wonder, though, if Ishida plans to keep 2 or 3 of them around. Naoto Hayashimura is currently the most likely candidate.)
 * This focus mostly on side characters creates the impression that Ishida is just stalling. (People at 2ch suspect that Ishida's stalling so that he can end the third volume with a wham shot of Floppy - ahem, Amon.)

Other mangas sometimes do this focus on side characters, too, even highly acclaimed ones like One Piece, but Ishida was able to avoid this until now.

I think all of the criticisms are valid, but I think just as well that they're currently blowing them out of proportion in 2ch's spoiler thread. All the haters are currently coming out of the woodwork and have to say how terrible :re is, and they're shitting on every little thing in :re. (The criticism that made me facepalm the most was that putting Touka on the cover of the second volume was a scam - it's somehow funny, since Ishida already put Arima on the cover of volume 13, despite him appearing in exactly one frame and not having a single line, and I have never seen any criticism like that about this volume cover, even though it's much more extreme than the Touka one.) Some anons are even going so far to as to call for a boycott of the third volume.

Let's see how Ishida intends to continue this arc. I expect Sasaki to regain (most of) his memories at some point in this arc - the way this will happen will decide if the Auction arc is a good or bad arc.