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Hello! Thanks for the ask :)There is no doubt in my mind that Hide is alive. I’m 100% sure he’s alive in the manga, and 90% sure he’s alive in the anime.

Manga: As many others have mentioned, very few important characters remain dead. They’re either brought back as half-ghouls (Amon, Seidou) or it’s revealed that they weren’t dead after all (ie. Rize). Hide has had next to no character development and we know very little about his past, which is incredibly unusual for a character that is the protagonist’s best friend. Ishida is obviously doing this to prevent fans from piecing anything together about the overall plot, which indicates that Hide plays a very large role in it and how the story will progress later on. With Rize’s “death” we were shown her apparently lifeless body, crushed underneath steel beams. Later, it was revealed that she was actually alive. In Hide’s case, we were never even explicitly shown his supposed “death” scene - the only indication is the taste of human blood in Kaneki’s mouth once he regains consciousness, but that is so ambiguous it can’t even be counted as soft evidence imo.

Anime: Okay, a lot of people seem to have no doubt that Hide is dead in the anime. Even the TG wiki lists him as deceased. Personally, I found that Root A, despite the unfocused plot and spotty animation, incorporated quite a bit of symbolism throughout. Yoshimura’s tea cups, Kaneki’s hair colour changes, the colour of the sky, well-placed scene cuts… they all hint at hidden meanings, things that would usually be dismissed or cause confusion among younger, less mature viewers.

In the scene with Kaneki holding a “dying” Hide in his arms while Anteiku burns down around them, Kaneki’s ghoul eye actually sheds a tear (symbolizing how his ghoul side could become humanized just like how his human side could become infected with typical ghoul philosophy) which proceeds to drip onto Hide’s face. At this point Hide looks dead, but once the tear lands on his cheek, he stirs and smiles - smiles that his best friend is crying. Maybe he thinks it’s silly that Kaneki is crying, since he ISN’T EVEN DEAD.

Later we’re shown Kaneki carrying Hide’s body under a white sheet, and then the sheet is off his body in the next bit, and then back on him. A lot of people dismissed this as a continuity error, but I doubt such a glaring mistake would have made it past editing stages unless it was intentional and perhaps symbolic. Symbolic of what, I’m not entirely sure. Maybe Hide’s precarious balance between life and death. Maybe it flew off to show the other CCG investigators that a ghoul was trying to save one of their own.

In the last scene, Kaneki places Hide on the ground, and it looks a bit like an offering to me. The fight has gone out of him, he just wants his best friend to be saved. I personally believe it was a silent plea and an agreement - save Hide’s life and I’ll go down without much of a fight. Kaneki was offering his life, body, and kagune (he probably assumed they were gonna throw him in Cochlea and use him to harvest his kagune/kakuja for quinques and armor) in exchange for Hide’s survival.

I’m guessing that Kaneki, even while battered and emotionally broken, proved himself to Arima in that unseen battle scene, and that is what will lead into him becoming an investigator in the next season.

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