Quote (mortwatcher @ Apr 4 2018 01:56am)
We'll we have heard the Arima opening his case and then it went to black at the end of s2, and since Arima chased off the Owl, I personally did assume that Kaneki is toast at that point
The manga made it pretty clear he got fucking wrecked, and the anime gave a nod to the people who are familiar with both the manga+anime by having the sword standing in the snow at the end of the anime, the same way it did in the manga after Kaneki got his fucking eyes gouged out.
Hard to say what exactly is going on. An amnesia type thing where the doves turned him into a weapon for their own benefit seems logical, but based off that first episode, it looks like the mad fucking dog Kaneki is right there beneath the surface and that it can come to the surface at any point. I'm personally just glad any part of him is alive.