This is Kaneki’s final metamorphosis
Haise’s appearance in this chapter was never coincidental. Even the clothes he’s wearing should remind you of something else. It’s actually very simliar to what Kaneki was wearing when he became Shironeki. That only confirms that we’re finally witnessing his final form.
And again…
[Tsukiyama: Is it… you?]
…the change is sudden and shocking to those around him.
It’s been a long tough road and certainly, his growth is not over yet. But the changes in his apperance only show that he had to become someone else, die and then be reborn, only to become similiar to who he once was. Similiar, yet not the same.
I can’t say what Ishida-sensei plans for Kaneki. But whoever he becomes, he’s already smarter, more mature and stronger than he’d ever been. Haise is not gone, just like Kaneki was never gone. That’s why I can’t say “Kaneki’s back.”
But I’m more than happy to say that Kaneki changed again.