Stuff the anime fucked up:Kaneki Ken did some bad things edition

I find it funny that although the anime made Kaneki join the bad guys, they completely removed anything morally ambiguous he did.

Manga Kaneki did some…questionable things, to say the least. Such as…

Calmly thinking about interrogating someone by cutting their limbs off.

The massacre at the ghoul restaurant - look at all those bloody limbs just strewn all over the place

These ghouls aren’t even trying to fight him, they’re running away scared

Threatening Madam A with the same torture he was subjected to.

Threatening Madam A again - look at her, she’s terrified of him.

Even in :re, she’s still scarred by the experience.

Torturing Ayato, who is about 14 here, while Kaneki is an adult.

Planning to eat Shachi - and you’ve got to admit he looks pretty downright villainous doing it. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this is the one just prior to his kakuja transformation either.

This stuff is pretty damn important - it’s a vital part of his character development, and shows him going further and further down dark paths to fulfil his goals, and shows just how much he’s really changed.

Not showing it makes things like his centipede kakuja lose its impact - in the manga it was in the culmination of his six month rampage of revenge, and was the point he finally realised just how far gone he really was. In the anime, it happened seemingly out of nowhere (not to mention had no satisfying conclusion due to missing the Banjou stabbing/cooldown scene). It’s not a little thing that can be ignored, like the anime did, and one of the many, many reasons I’m hoping there’s no season 3 (by pierrot that is).

Oh shit they actually brought up a white persons criminal history

Widespread, systematic and institutionalised abuse of Palestinian minors detained by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including night-time arrests and long periods of solitary confinement CONTINUES UNABATED. ISRAEL FURIOUS AT UN REPORT DETAILING TORTURE OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN (21 Jun 2013) Israel’s security forces have been accused by a United Nations monitoring group of torturing and tormenting Palestinian children. “[Palestinian children are] systematically subject to physical and verbal violence, humiliation, painful restraints, hooding of the head and face in a sack, threatened with death, physical violence, and sexual assault against themselves or members of their family, restricted access to toilet, food and water. “These crimes are perpetrated from the time of arrest, during transfer and interrogation, to obtain a confession but also on an arbitrary basis as testified by several Israeli soldiers as well as during pretrial detention.”

Yes, I’m sure they’re furious. I’m sure I would also be furious if someone went and publicly explained about how I was systematically torturing children.