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V’s contact person on Kaneki is clearly Arima, not Furuta, right? I mean, it doesn’t make any sense for them to call Arima if they want to talk to Furuta. Furuta has a cell phone, one that he seems to have no problem using to call Aogiri. So despite the fact that Furuta uses a more familiar form of address for Arima than Arima does for Furuta (still not over Kishou-san), it seems like Arima is V’s contact on this.

Which I suppose makes sense – Arima was certainly attached to any projects involving Kaneki long before Furuta was actively involved.

But I still think it’s weird that Arima approaches him, rather than Furuta being called himself.

I’m probably just being paranoid about things. This is certainly a much more visually interesting way to reveal the information.

But I have this tiny little flicker of doubt still, which will probably be crushed with the next chapter, that maybe Arima and Furuta aren’t with V, but rather looking into V. I mean, what with Furuta clearly leaking details to Aogiri and being ambiguously a Clown and such. 

Arima, as high as he is in the CCG probably has access to information about V if anyone outside of the Washuus do, and it’d be really interesting if he were informing on them to Furuta, either from within the organization or from outside of it. 

(Everyone just assumes he’s uninterested in the politics enough not to be as secretive as they should be – Arima who skips out on meetings and is super blunt about things, and doesn’t get tangled up in that sort of thing.)

I don’t know. If you had asked me before :Re, I wouldn’t have thought so, but wouldn’t it be interesting…

V is set up as pretty unambiguously an antagonist, even if they are a kind of enemy of our enemy sort of thing with Eto. They are upholding a status quo that Ishida makes very clear is no good for anyone, and they make Yoshimura kill Ukina. They are not good guys.

Arima, on the other hand, is set up way, way more ambiguously. And while Tokyo Ghoul has its fair share of ambiguous morality, there is a little too much there for me to be comfortable slating Arima into the “villain” role. Even if there are parts of the manga that push for that. In fact, the extent to which some parts of the manga seem to make it so clear that Arima is just a mindless killing machine of the CCG seem all the more suspicious when contrasted with the parts that cast that into doubt. Like all of Jack. 

And honestly, if he is part of V, that doesn’t negate this fact. In the end, Arima is set up as a foil to Kaneki, but that still allows a whole range of possibilities.

And like I said, in all likelihood, Arima and Furuta are both part of V.

I’m just stuck on the fact that they didn’t call Furuta directly. And that Furuta is associated already with at least one rival group in a way that doesn’t directly either A) integrate him into the ranks of Aogiri or B) provide him information on Aogiri in exchange, all while giving Aogiri the exact technology it would seem V would be most fearful of them getting.