Thank you for your answer! Yeah, I agree that theory is all, but confirmed and it is mainly born from the latest chapter depressing feeling. When I thought abt a common enemy unifying people I mainly thought abt the Dark Knight and how Batman decides to play the villain in the end. However, even there the third film is all abt how this illusion couldn't work forever and had negative effects on the long run. People may unify to save K? But even in that case he wouldn't get any agency. When :re co
started I thought Kaneki’s arc would have been completed when he stopped trying to fill the role of a hero and would have started to fight for his personal happiness. In this moment he is doing this in a half-assed way in the sense he wants to live with Touka, bu he still fills the role of OEK. In the beginning I thought Kaneki would have been more than a catalyst for the union of humans and ghouls than a leader and that his arc would have found its meaning in somehow helping Hide: I thought con
that would have been a good ending because in TG we are shown how it’s mainly Hide who keeps doing things for Kaneki while he avoids him and is shown probably not to know much abt Hide’s situation despite him being his best friend. So I imagined Hide being in somehow some kund of predictment and that this time Kaneki would have been the one to help him. Well, no idea about all this will turn out. Sorry for all these asks, I am having fun discussing possible endings.
No need to be sorry; I enjoy answering them! Theorizing is always fun. XD
So… uh, here’s the point where I probably lose a ton of credibility with everyone and state my highly unpopular opinion: I didn’t like the Dark Knight as a film :P I know, I know, everyone loves it, I’m sorry (I don’t tend to like Christopher Nolan’s films in general, with the exception of Dunkirk). So I never saw the third film as a result. Hence I can’t comment on the similarities there, but what you describe certainly sounds possible, and like it fits with the things we know about Fruit’s plots.
Yeah, I agree with you about thinking Kaneki should develop more agency. That’s my preferred direction for the story to go, but at this point, he really has very few options left and that’s a fact. He’s going to have to eat the dead Oggai and probably take a bite out of Hajime first (run and leave the dead, Hajime, run for your life, my son; you’re currently grounded for probably forever but I still love you). I don’t see room for him to develop agency right now; however, once he heals, he may still do so if we ever get a Sun Arc (though with Juuzou’s association with XX or Judgment I wonder if the arcs are kind of overlapping rather than being strictly linear?)
As for Hide, yeah. He was super important the first half of the first TG and then marginally important and then vanished, and now appears to be coming back. I really love chiastic structures in literature, so I’m hoping that their relationship will get a focus as TG:re (or God forbid a third series) spins towards its conclusion. And there is a ton about Hide that we don’t know. He’s very mysterious. Like we don’t even know if he’s a ghoul or not (I think he is, but the question is when that happened). From what we do know, as Scarecrow, he’s been pulling the strings a bit, helping Kaneki at the auction arc, etc. I do think he has a very important role to play going forward… and he’s been associated with dragon imagery before. So whatever role he’s going to play moving forward, I do think it will be significant.
Crack theory: maybe Hide is Dragon and has Washuu roots and will appear to help Kaneki survive and then Kaneki will have to save his friend from himself. I don’t really think that’s terribly likely, but ya never know.
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts! I love hearing other peoples’ thoughts/theories.
