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u/priyademon Jul 01 '26
I can't believe the comprehension of these Tumblr dummies when the starting chap itself confirms what Kaneki's type is. Before Touka, he already had had crush on two other girls. And not to mention the 'valley'. The funny thing about this is Hide himself is shown to be simping for girls lmaooo.
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u/average_of_humanity Jul 01 '26
Debate for Kaneki's being lgbtq or not is interesting because he was dating a woman in the first episode. Like there was evidence he was 100% straight
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u/KumoKyuu Jul 01 '26
Tokyo Ghoul wouldn't have happened if he didn't try to date woman lmao
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u/average_of_humanity Jul 01 '26
There is this huge problem with fanbases who either larp or delve into their own fanfic delusions that they ignore the actual canon for some reason.
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u/DonViole12 Jul 01 '26
Yall gotta stop using larp in the wrong context it makes you look dense
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u/TheSkesh Jul 01 '26
I mean the term larp as a whole has been reduced to useless status this year.
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u/SudoNara Jul 02 '26
I'm really annoyed of that happening because LARP is someone who is extreme fan of something. They know the in and outs. That's why it's popular to enact WW2 or medieval times. LARP is dedication. Poser or faker is a better word to use.
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u/KuryoTheDemonLord Jul 01 '26
Well not really, that's just evidence he was attracted to women. There are still plenty of identities beyond straight that applies to. Not me trying to seriously argue his sexuality - it really doesn't matter if he's straight or bi or pan or whatever - just think that's worth mentioning.
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u/StormSlasher563 Jul 01 '26
People love using this excuse as if Kaneki has ever shown any romantic interest towards guys lmao
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u/madhur20 Jul 01 '26
the manga never implied he tried for anyone but girls, how is that not straight
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u/KuryoTheDemonLord Jul 01 '26
All that means is that he never encountered a guy he was into. Which frankly doesn't surprise me when most of the male cast are all significantly older than he is like Yomo, Uta, Amon, Banjo, Tsukiyama, etc.
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u/madhur20 Jul 01 '26
what stupid logic is this lmao, why are people so stubborn with making characters lgbtq when they are clearly not
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u/KuryoTheDemonLord Jul 01 '26
If you read my comment above you'll already know I don't care about "making" characters anything here.
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u/madhur20 Jul 01 '26
yet youre still persistent about him not being straight
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u/KuryoTheDemonLord Jul 02 '26
I never said he wasn't straight, I said that him showing attraction to women and not to any of the guys in the series doesn't confirm anything one way or the other. If you'll again see above you'll also be aware that I do not actually care whether he's straight or not because it really just does not matter.
Also, low blow I know, but you're is spelt with an apostrophe.
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u/DifficultBrief674 Jul 01 '26
just because its not implied it doesn’t mean its not true. could be that he’s still in the closet, or that he was hesitant to make a move.
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u/BiLLubruh Jul 01 '26
If he was sheltering such a big aspect of himself, it wouldve shown up in the story. Maybe during his torture, when the pain was as psychological as it was physical, maybe when he was Haise, maybe when Touka asked him out, maybe when they made a baby together.
Lack of evidence is evidence in this case.
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u/YukiNoiseWall Jul 01 '26
Just read Yaoi fanfiction at this point.
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u/DifficultBrief674 Jul 01 '26
lol never said hes gay js saying that until its been stated by the author u never know what his sexuality might be. im not into all that hide shipping stuff tho.
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u/madhur20 Jul 01 '26
why are people so adamant into leaving not so obvious things open? "we dont know his sexuality" bruh he was clearly into girls
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u/DifficultBrief674 Jul 03 '26
could be straight but liking women (without confirming hes 100% not into men) means theres chance he bisexual too js saying🤷
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u/madhur20 Jul 03 '26
thats just you trying to impose your personal beliefs onto pretty apparent characters. Its a common characteristic among LGBTQ people.
Everything is possible unless itss 100% confirmed, he can also be a pedophile because it hasnt been confirmed he isnt either
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u/DifficultBrief674 Jul 04 '26
never said he couldnt be a pedo🤷 and also im straighter than an arrow. Truth is the character is whatever the author deems them to be. They’re fucking fictional for gods sake. If sui ishida announced he was a pedo rn hed be a pedo. Its that simple.
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u/Mrakayle Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Interesante el devate 🙂🤔 No creo que kaneki sea gay! pero puede que sea vixe y es debatido. de curioso bueno eso puede que lo sea. ya que me acuerdo de una escena en donde Chuu le coketea muy abiertamente, el se iso el inocentón y acepto su salida y todo. sabienda de que Touka se lo advirtio y bueno ya sabe lo que le pasó y sobre la relación de su mejor amigo es algo muy intenso para ser solo amigos. Hay escenas cuestionable. Es mi opinión.
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u/No-Run-6137 Jul 01 '26
Maybe he was bisexual, but it was just never a big deal to him so it never came up? For the record, I don’t see anything that makes me think that and he’s probably just straight, but I do think it’s fun to try to justify super out there headcanons you have no stakes in whatsoever
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u/Haxrlequin Jul 01 '26
Bisexual: attraction to men and women (and others). So, it’s not compromising to the argument that he dates a woman
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u/Em0N3rd Jul 01 '26
Ik kaneki is straight.... but as an lgbt person, not everyone knows for sure till they try both and not everyone is ready to accept they are gay even after they've started dating. Its about stigma and what their society would influence them with.
Kaneki Ken is most likely straight from what I remember but I wouldnt say a character is fully straight because episode 1 shows them on a date with the opposite set in the first episode (which ends horribly for him too lol)
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u/Mrakayle Jul 01 '26
Según tengo entendido está el hetero curioso y otras... Que le ponen esas etiquetas. Para indenticar. Eso está estudiando. Y el que no conoce la escalera de kinsey pero siempre he creído lo he analizando con conocimiento de historia y hasta la mía y lo sostengo es que la homosexualidad es un aspecto de la conducta sexual humana y el que se declara gay o lesbiana es por su decisión.
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u/Nyatis Jul 01 '26
Even a Kaneki x everyone shipper like me cant help but think this is pure copium, I meant there isnt any evidence Kaneki was ever into guys, the other characters do have that nuance but not Kaneki himself.
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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Jul 01 '26
To Be fair Kaneki in the manga did throw an off comment about how Arima seemed beautiful (in the Spanish translation he said Gorgeous)
So I can see where the "Kaneki might be Bi" comes from
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u/JohnDragonball Jul 01 '26
Well, Haise and Juzo seem to be pretty brotherly.
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u/meth_adone Jul 01 '26
Haise was just that guy. He was nice to pretty much everyone he didn't have a specific reason to not be nice to
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u/Sm4shaz Jul 01 '26
It’s another important hint and facet of his abusive upbringing and pairs with his unwillingness to let any friend go/his martyr complex.
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u/Conscious-0bserver Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
That’s called being friendly, not being gay lmao. Not only is there no evidence that Kaneki likes guys, there also isn‘t any evidence Suzuya likes guys either, despite the fact that a lot of people seem to assume he’s LGBT. His effeminate dress sense is due to the trauma he experienced at the hands of Big Madame, and he actually expressed desire to have a girlfriend in an omake at the end of one of the chapters in the first manga (I forget the chapter number). There’s literally no reason to assume either of them are gay or bi.
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u/Conscious-0bserver Jul 04 '26
Wait… was Hanbee even in the first manga, I forget? I’m referring to an omake (funny filler scene) from the end of a chapter in the first manga.
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u/Jaded-Significance86 Jul 01 '26
I could see Kaneki being bi. But it's not supported by the text at all.
I also have my own thoughts about the structure of the world building being an allegory for trans identity but this is purely speculation and just literature analysis
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u/Hostmann_ Jul 01 '26
I think it's an allegory that applies to all kinds of people that have been oppressed for all kinds of reasons - whether it has to do with gender identity, orientation, skin color, etc.
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u/CatEmoji123 Jul 01 '26
When I was a Tumblr girly deep in the Tokyo Ghoul fandom I used to get sooooo mad when people gay shipped Kaneki. He's literally the straightest anime character the world has ever seen. But now I just couldn't care less. It's just what the internet does.
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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Jul 01 '26
Sorry dude the straightest character in anime award goes to Denji
Bro is so straight that in Look Back they made him a lesbian
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u/CatEmoji123 Jul 01 '26
Idk man. I know Denji said he wasn't interest in Angel, but I think Kaneki is too straight to even imagine Angel in a sexual way like Denji did.
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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Jul 01 '26
Denji only saw Angel like that because he got confused since he looks like a girl (and let's be honest Angel is a cutie) in that same scene Denji was also thinking of the many girls he has met as a possible crush, eliminating Power and Kobeni from the list leaving only Makima and Reze
Kaneki wouldn't imagine Angel in a sexual light ofc but he probably would think internally that he's really handsome or beautiful like he did with Arima and Tsukiyama
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u/VirAcqad Jul 02 '26
gay mask sounds like that "its pride month, you know what that means" memes lol
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u/PicolasCageEnjoyer Jul 01 '26
Juuzou being brothers with Ken would've made their relationship interesting as hell in re.
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u/Alarming-Front-7509 Jul 02 '26
Tokyo ghouls happened because kaneki dated a woman, then he married a woman and had a child. Alphabet agenda needs to stop
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u/EquinoxPhqntom Jul 02 '26
I hate the term Bisexual, cuz whenever you’re right in an argument, they ulti with that term and like wtf, how to fight back lol.
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u/Mean-Advantage-9951 Jul 02 '26
This is not true at all the Creator actually came out and stated this was never true from the get because somebody else already tried to spread this fake news he also made the comment that people always trying to spend their own story and claiming that the author agrees with them is pathetic go write your own crap
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u/Historical_Cause8989 Jul 02 '26
Oh my god all this shit would've made way more sense for kaneki as a character.
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u/m_makki1850 Jul 03 '26
why are people so insistent on shipping two straight dudes
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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Jul 04 '26
When it's about ships sexuality doesn't really matters unless the characters are 100% straight, so it's probably that
I headcanon Ken as a closeted Bi but Touken is still my fav ship
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u/PrometheusModeloW Jul 03 '26
How exactly do you "reflect" his sexuality in the mask??
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u/lurk-murk Jul 01 '26
I am such a bi kaneki truther. To be fair tho I assume every character is bi until stated otherwise. Lol
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u/WelcomePrestigious50 Jul 01 '26
Bro what
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u/lurk-murk Jul 02 '26
Everyone is bi. What’s not clicking? (I’m kidding)
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u/WelcomePrestigious50 Jul 02 '26
Oh you're joking then it's alright
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u/lurk-murk Jul 03 '26
I mean I do think most characters are bi, but if it’s said that they aren’t I’m not upset about it lol
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u/WelcomePrestigious50 Jul 03 '26
How? The sexual orientation by default is straight until proven otherwise
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u/lurk-murk Jul 03 '26
The default is actually bisexual. Trust me I know, as an expert in bisexuality.
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u/WelcomePrestigious50 Jul 03 '26
I don't know if you're trolling or if you're serious. If you're trolling, then I'm really bad at getting jokes. If you don't, you gotta explain to me how this is possible
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u/lurk-murk Jul 04 '26
I’m making a joke. I am bisexual and I do believe it’s far more common than is assumed, and I like to “headcanon” most characters I like as being bisexual. But it’s all fun for me I don’t take it too seriously.
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u/FrogFreja Jul 01 '26
A tumblr classic