3 years living with Haise turns Arima from a cold-hearted, sadistic, massive and calculating Reaper into a funky, fatherly and dork Arima :3 I find that this is good for both Arima and Haise :3 (really adore this) Looking forward to your reply :3
I don’t see how he can remain a cold-hearted, sadistic, massive and calculating Reaper especially when he is dealing with this cutie.
Joke aside, my opinion on this is going to be long since this is something that I sorta hold back talking, but with the recent Omake that came out, it’s probably a good time to talk about this.
I’ve seen so many people wanting Sasaki to just return back to being Kaneki (even though I don’t know which Kaneki you want him to be, the black-haired one? the white-haired? the confused one at the end of TG?), and somehow a bunch of people thinking that CCG brainwashed him, CCG treats him like a disposable lap dog, Sasaki is pathetic to allow himself to live in a lie, etc, etc.
I know what many people are gauging this from.
It’s this. The infamous lie that Sasaki made. Personally I think many people take this out of context. This does not necessarily mean that he hates his current life, nor that CCG treats him awfully.
I personally see this in three ways.
1) Sasaki actually treasures so much what he has right now, but he knows that it’s not a long lasting one. His past is catching up with him and he constantly lives in fear that everything he has now will disappear.
2) He subconsciously knows that by choosing his current life, he abandons what he used to have. His guilt from abandoning his past will always haunt him, therefore he will never truly be happy with his current life.
3) No matter what, Sasaki is a half ghoul. This problem will never disappear. It’s obvious that Sasaki has complex about being different from others around him.
CCG thus far has treated Sasaki really well. He is given lots of freedom, good place to live, money to enjoy things he likes (books, coffee, banana poster and… er some funky pants XD;;;), promoted him in a short period of time, gives him awards (Kinmokusei Award and White Wing Award). If this is some other ghouls, he would probably either be dead, harvested for Quinque, or chilling in Kokuria just like Donato.
Basically, Sasaki is given an incredible amount of privileges despite being a half ghoul. Certainly one could argue that they did this with ulterior motives such as Qs experiment and hoping for him to create investigators stronger than Arima. But I think the bad apples in CCG are the higher up. Not everyone in CCG is evil.
I’ve read that many people seemed to think that Arima and Akira aren’t genuinely treating Sasaki well, and they will all turn against him in a blink of eye. And yet for the past 10 chapters + Omake, I can only see them being concerned and nice to Sasaki.
And there’s this one. I also think this is another one that many people take it out of context. The problem here isn’t Arima or Akira. It’s Sasaki himself.
In fact this is the recurring problem of Kaneki as a character, he is simply someone with very low self confidence. This is not strange considering what happened to him as a child. He tried to become the son her mother wanted, but she died leaving him alone. He tried to study hard to get praise, yet all he got was colder treatment from his aunt.
When he was white-haired Kaneki, he believed he was strong because he “ate” Rize. Kaneki doesn’t see himself as someone who is capable of becoming strong on his own. He needs others “support” to mentally convince himself of what he can do.
Kaneki’s action from start to end has always been consistent in that he’s afraid of becoming alone. It can also be explained that he believes that if he doesn’t do certain things he will lose the people around him. He does not have the confidence that people will love him for who he is, and that he has to learn how to love himself more. (That’s why Touka punched him in the face for unable to treasure himself.)
Sasaki kept saying that he wanted to do more, to help people surrounding him, to meet expectation, because he thinks that’s all what he amounts to. He’s scared that if he fails to do so, they all will abandon him, CCG will “throw” him away. CCG higher up might do so, but I don’t believe the people who he personally bonded thus far (Arima, Akira) can cut off ties with him so easily. 2 years is a long time for people to get attached to each other.
tl;dr I honestly think that Sasaki being in CCG is a positive thing and is necessary for him to get an actual happy ending.
I can’t be the only person who thinks most characters in CCG are cute. ;u;