1. #1Ken Kaneki

   Keys: Ken Kaneki

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ken Kaneki Haise Sasaki JAPANESE NAME 金木 研 （カネキ ケン） 佐々木 琲世 （ササキ ハイセ） ROMAJI Kaneki Ken Sasaki Haise ALIAS Eyepatch Centipede Black Reaper Number 240 One-Eyed King[1] HS Nameless King[2] Miracle Human K-eater[3] Dragon[4] SPECIES

   Artificial One-eyed ghoul Human (Formerly) STATUS Alive AGE As Ken Kaneki: 18

   BORN December 20, 19 BSBI[6][7] April 2, 19 BSBI (as Haise Sasaki)[5][8][9] HEIGHT 169 cm / 5'6" (Vol. 1)[6] 169.5 cm / 5'6" (Vol. 14) 170 cm / 5'7" (Tokyo Ghoul:re)[5] WEIGHT 55 kg / 121 lbs (Vol. 1)[6] 58 kg / 127 lbs (Vol. 14; Tokyo Ghoul:re)[5] BLOOD TYPE AB[7] AFFILIATIONS Kamii University (Formerly) Anteiku (Formerly) Anti-Aogiri (Formerly) Kaneki's group - Leader (Formerly) Aogiri Tree - Executive (Anime only; Defected) CCG (Defected) Mado Squad (Formerly) Quinx Squad - Mentor (Formerly) S3 Squad - Secretary (Formerly) Arima Squad (Formerly) :re - Associates (Formerly) Goat - Leader (Formerly) United Front - Member TSC OCCUPATION College Student (Formerly) Part-Time Waiter (Formerly) Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) Ghoul's King (Formerly) Peacekeeper RELATIVES Ken Kaneki's father † Ken Kaneki's mother † Ken Kaneki's aunt (Maternal Aunt) Ken Kaneki's uncle (Maternal Uncle) Yuuichi Asaoka (Maternal Cousin) Touka Kirishima (Wife) Ayato Kirishima (Brother-in-law) Hikari Kirishima (Mother-in-law) † Arata Kirishima (Father-in-law) Renji Yomo (Uncle-in-law)

   WARD 20th ward (Formerly) 6th ward (Formerly) 23rd ward (Imprisoned, Formerly) 1st ward (Formerly) 24th ward (Currently) RC TYPE Rinkaku RC LEVEL 170 977 2753 UNIQUE STATES Kakuja RATING SS QUINQUE Yukimura 1/3 (Koukaku, Rate B) CLASS 75th DIVISION I (Formerly RANK Rank 3 ) Rank 1 First Class Associate Special Class HONORS Single White Wing Medal Golden Osmanthus Medal

   Ken Kaneki (金カネ木キ 研ケン, Kaneki Ken) is the main protagonist of the Tokyo Ghoul series. He is currently Touka Kirishima's husband, and the father of Ichika Kaneki. Previously, he was a student who studied Japanese literature at Kamii University, living a relatively normal life. However, this quickly changed after Rize Kamishiro's kakuhou was transplanted into him and transformed him into a one-eyed ghoul. Kaneki is the first known artificial one-eyed ghoul. His unique half ghoul state is what later inspires the idea of the Quinx. After joining Anteiku as a part-time waiter, he learns how to live as a ghoul and eventually becomes known as Eyepatch (眼帯, Gantai).

   After being captured by Aogiri Tree, he underwent a drastic personality change and after escaping, formed a group with the goal of protecting those precious to him and exterminating individuals threatening his place of belonging. His kagune form's distinct appearance earned him the alias Centipede (ムカデ, Mukade).[14]

   Two years following his defeat against Kishou Arima, he lived under the identity of Haise Sasaki (佐々木ササキ 琲ハイ世セ, Sasaki Haise), a Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator who served as the mentor of the CCG's Quinx Squad. His memories were initially lost to him, but regained during the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation. Six months after the operation, ghouls came to know him by the moniker of the Black Reaper (黒い死神, Kuroi Shinigami).

   After defeating Arima and Eto, having unveiled their joint plan to raise a one-eyed ghoul who could stand as the hope for all ghouls, he calls himself the One-Eyed King (隻眼の王, Sekigan no Ō). Kaneki has since then formed the organization he named Goat.

   As a result of a plan carried out by Kichimura Washuu, Kaneki morphed into the Dragon (竜, Ryū), a huge, uncontrollable kakuja that destroyed large portions of Tokyo. He was later extracted from the monstrous appendage by a collaboration between the remaining members of Goat and the CCG. When the remnants of Dragon began releasing a toxin that threatened humans and ghouls alike, Kaneki ventured down into the depths of the oviduct and nullified the threat after a fierce battle with Kichimura Washuu and Dragon.

   After the Defense of Tokyo, Kaneki and Touka currently live happily married, with a daughter and another child coming, with humans and ghouls finally united together.

   ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

   As a child, Kaneki had all the same features he has now as an adult with black hair. As a normal university student, Kaneki was a somewhat short and scrawny young man with little to no athletic background and preferred to read books. After the steel beam incident, Kaneki bears a scar from the transplant operation on the right side of his abdomen not far from his navel.[15][16] In his free time, he wore casual clothes.

   His casual outfit consists of a turquoise hoodie, light black pants, running shoes with a yellow toe and blue outlines reaching the middle of the black base of the soles.

   At work, he wore the standard Anteiku waiter uniform, consisting of black trousers and a gray waistcoat over a white dress shirt and a black necktie (brown cravat in the anime). Because he could not yet properly control his single kakugan that manifests in his left eye, he wore a medical eye patch to cover it.

   His ghoul mask resembles a leather gimp mask with an eye patch. It bears a lipless mouth with large, gnashing teeth, much like a restrained asylum monster. The bolts sticking out of his neck and the fact that he is an artificial ghoul invoke a Frankenstein-like theme.

   After being tortured by Yamori, his appearance changed drastically. His hair became completely white, his nails were blackened, and he developed a more muscular physique. He began to favor monochrome clothing and wore a form-fitting black bodysuit with cutouts when going into battle. His attitude changed as well. He became more cold, and left his innocence behind as he fully embraced his inner ghoul.

   Personality

   Pre-Aogiri

   Kaneki was a shy and reserved person, with Hide being his only close friend. He usually spent most of his time reading books, mostly novels. He was extremely gentle and appeared to be optimistic most of the time. Influenced by his mother and a true testament of modesty, he willingly took blame and punishment from others so that he can be someone who does not hurt people, but rather absorb the torment. However, this lack of assertiveness normally got him bullied and taken advantage of.[18][19]

   However, beneath his altruistic and gentle nature was an underlying fear of being alone that was aggravated by his mother's death. He despised the idea of solitude, hence he tried to protect those dear to him so he would not have to face his fear of being alone in the world.

   This was perhaps his greatest weakness. Since Kaneki was always trying to protect others, he was essentially trying to protect himself from ever being alone again. Therefore, to escape that scenario, he would shoulder the task of protecting others onto himself, without relying on anyone else. This was also why Kaneki rejected the notion of "living," because watching others die reminded him of those lonely days without anyone beside him.

   After he was turned into a half-ghoul, he clung to his human side. To keep living in the human world, he began to work at Anteiku and established relationships with the ghouls there. He started to develop an interest in becoming stronger and began reading martial art books so he could protect those closest to him. However, he was still troubled with the fact that he was a half-ghoul and wanted to search for a place where he could belong. As much as he treasured his life, if people close to him were threatened, he would not hesitate to put his life on the line.

   Post-Aogiri

   After being held captive and undergoing intense torture at the hands of Yamori, Kaneki's personality changed drastically. He trashed his previous ideology of "being hurt rather than hurting others," pledging to crush those who dared threaten his place of belonging. He adopted the habit of cracking his knuckles from his torturer, Yamori. In his subconscious, Kaneki ate "Rize," the image of his ghoul self. This displayed that he accepted the "ghoul" within him; instead of being influenced by it, he appeared to have become the one to surpass it. Kaneki became ruthless, cruel, and brutal in order to protect his friends, yet he managed to maintain complete composure. He no longer feared his ghoul side and was more violent during battles, such as when he cannibalized Yamori's kagune in order to strengthen himself, and mercilessly broke 103 of Ayato's bones.[20] By embracing his ghoul nature wholeheartedly, Kaneki gave up on being "human."

   Kaneki was still capable of showing his gentle nature in front of people he cared about, but instantly turned merciless against his enemies. He yearned for strength and power, therefore becoming more power-hungry and superficially arrogant. His new creed—that as "the strong" he had the right to "devour the weak"—was originally an ideology held by Yamori. Banjou assumed that Kaneki developed some form of mental instability during his torture in the 11th ward, and that this would gradually wear him down.

   Whenever he was near starvation and losing control of his kagune (or half-kakuja), he behaved in a way that emulated another's, such as Rize or Yamori. He would speak in a crazed disorganized manner, further implying his mental instability during these periods.

   After raiding Kanou's lab and attacking Banjou, Kaneki entered a period of soul-searching. He wished to reclaim his lost "human" side and became uncertain about the path he had taken to become stronger. He started to question and seek answers from individuals such as Uta, Yomo, and Yoshimura in order to understand the incidents that have happened around him since he turned into a ghoul.

   Psychological Issues

   Kaneki's mental state undergoes extreme changes over the course of the series. Before his torture, Kaneki would at times refer to his actions as "we" or "us," albeit mostly while in a stressed state. Kaneki personifies his feelings to an extent that they take the form of people existing within his mind. When meeting these mental constructs, Kaneki enters a limbo-like state where he converses with them. Kaneki initially only entered this state when he was under extreme duress or near-death and later included during calm settings for conversation.

   During his torture at the hands of Yamori, this construct takes the form of Rize Kamishiro. She taunts him for his weakness and shows memories from his past with his mother, forcing out his anger towards her for not being able to refuse her sister. Through these memories, she gradually convinces Kaneki to abandon his previous ideology of being the one who gets hurt instead of others. By accepting "Rize," Kaneki embraces a more brutal view of the world and accepts his ghoul powers.

   The next time he encounters this alternate self is at V14, after being mortally wounded by Arima. Within his mind, he encounters a child version of himself that he feels the desire to protect. As he comes to accept his failings and similarities to his mother, this self transforms into a version of Kaneki as he existed at the beginning of the series. This more innocent Kaneki accepts him and thanks him for all that he has done to protect them. The two vanish together, resolving to "sleep" for a while.

   Relationships

   Hideyoshi Nagachika

   Kaneki's best friend, who he calls by his nickname, Hide, has been Kaneki's closest friend since childhood. Although Kaneki would lack the assertiveness to speak to others, Hide would often speak in his place as his "voice." Kaneki is willing to fight for his friend, and Hide is able to perceive Kaneki's emotions. The strong connection between Kaneki and Hide earns Kaneki the capability to refrain from human meat even when driven by ghoul instincts. He cares for Kaneki immensely and did not hesitate to help him even after finding out about Kaneki's transformation into a ghoul.

   Before his first fight with Arima, Hide encouraged Kaneki to eat him for strength, showing how selfless he can be for his best friend. During his time as Scarecrow, he saved Sasaki's life by activating a microphone which broadcasted Sasaki's near death at the hands of Takizawa, so that aid could be sent to him.

   Upon revealing himself to the CCG, Hide worked closely with Investigator Marude in order to try and free Kaneki from his Dragon form. After Kaneki was rescued from the body of Dragon, Hide and Kaneki reunited and expressed their thankfulness to each other and remained best friends for the rest of their lives.

   Touka Kirishima

   Initially, the two maintained a neutral relationship between that of waitress and customer until his transformation into a ghoul. Kaneki had at first gone to her for help when his hunger was becoming increasingly worse, but Touka harshly rejected him after he stated he was different from "monsters" like her. She refused to show any compassion and beat him up, telling him to go and die on his own. She thought of him as a fool for his refusal to eat human meat despite being aware he was formerly human. When Kaneki joined Anteiku, Touka had little patience for his mistakes and lack of knowledge of ghoul-related affairs, much to his dismay, causing him to think of her as scary. Despite her constant annoyance with him, Touka agreed to teach him more of what living as a ghoul meant. Later, Uta told Kaneki how hard a worker Touka was and he began to think of her as less frightening.

   The two then found middle ground in their care for Hinami after her mother's death. The event had triggered a desire in Kaneki to become stronger. Thereafter, she agreed to train and instruct him on how to use his kagune, slowly becoming one of the closest people to him. During this time, Kaneki developed his concern for her due to her impulsiveness and a fear that she would die without his knowing. After assisting her in avenging Ryouko's death, their relationship improved and the two began to care for Hinami together. Although Touka maintained her tough attitude towards him, she became friendlier towards him, and often worried for his safety due to his inexperience and on more than one occasion risked her own life to save him. Kaneki in turn viewed her as someone important to him and tried to put her out of harm's way. He responded aggressively to anyone who had hurt her, shown when he broke half of Ayato's bones for hurting Touka and held back from killing him as it would only hurt her more.

   Upon leaving Anteiku, Kaneki stayed true to his intent to preserve her safety and protect her, shown when he refused to allow her to come with him and avoided her during the months he was away. This caused Touka to often wonder of his whereabouts and wanted to meet him again, as observed by Hinami. Their first reunion when he returned to the 20th ward concluded in an argument and Touka beating him up.

   Years later as Sasaki, he visited :re and experienced a sense of déjà vu. He subconsciously remembered her, the taste of her coffee had brought him to tears and he thought she was very beautiful. From then, Sasaki developed an infatuation for Touka — he often thought of her and visited :re on multiple occasions. She noted that at the time, he looked at her with the same gaze he looked at Rize with in the past. Nonetheless, Touka believed it was best for Sasaki to not remember who he was, but she agreed that if his memories returned, he was welcome in :re.

   After regaining his memories, Kaneki met Touka in Cochlea during the Kirishima's fight with Arima. He originally planned to die at the hands of Arima, however he was brought to tears once again when she told him she would see him later, a cruel act in his mind. After the Cochlea raid, Kaneki initially reverted back to his post-Aogiri treatment towards her, continuing his distance from her. After a month, they finally conversed in a friendly manner in :re, though not ending well, they agreed to have the same ideals towards ghouls and humans' interactions. After Goat was formed, he repeatedly excluded her from combat and operations of the organization, much to her disappointment and confusion. Following the Clown Siege, during another private talk, she asked about this and his virginity — causing him some obvious nervousness and discomfort. Together, they discovered their fears of losing the other were mutual. And in the conversation she mentioned the look he gave her as Sasaki, a look that embarrassed Kaneki but one that Touka admitted made her happy, indicating her romantic feelings for him. Afterward, he acknowledged her by asking her to go with him to a Goat meeting.

   Successfully escaping an ambush, Kaneki and Touka took shelter in an abandoned building and consummated their relationship after a kiss, officially becoming lovers. As a memento of her, he received her parent's ring, one that served as a source of strength for her during difficult times. Realizing he truly loved Touka the two became more and more intimate.

   Yoshimura

   Kaneki looks up to Yoshimura, and is grateful to him helping him survive being a ghoul. Yoshimura acts as a mentor to Kaneki. He would often provide Kaneki with information regarding the ghoul world and assists in his development. In turn, Kaneki diligently serves and runs errands for him at Anteiku. He provides advice to Kaneki when the latter faces a crisis, and told Kaneki the truth about the One-Eyed Owl when Kaneki inquired him about it. He believes in Kaneki to the extent that he entrusted Kaneki with saving his daughter. When Kaneki heard that the CCG was going to attack Anteiku he immediately decided to go despite the overwhelming number of CCG forces. Even while he was critically wounded by Amon, Kaneki forced himself to go save the manager.

2. #2Kaneki’s abilities

   Keys: Kaneki’s abilities

   Powers and Abilities

   Ghoul Physiology: After inheriting Rize Kamishiro's kakuhou, Kaneki has displayed a unique healing factor, as well as a rinkaku kagune consisting of tentacles and increased physical power. Due to the hybrid vigor, Kaneki's abilities are said to be more potent than those of a natural-born ghoul.

   Superhuman Strength: As Banjou paid a visit to Anteiku, Kaneki accidentally knocked him unconscious with an elbow strike[28] (an inadvertent headbutt in the anime).[29] Kaneki was able to rip a lamp post from asphalt and strike one of the Bin brothers with it.[30] When fighting Ayato Kirishima, Kaneki forcibly smashed Ayato through multiple floors of the 11th ward building.[31] During his sparring sessions with Banjou, Kaneki threw the ghoul around without much effort.[16] Superhuman Speed: Kaneki was capable of evading Narukami's condensed projectiles, while assaulting Arima.[32] While he engaged Yukinori Shinohara in a fight, Kaneki was traveling at immense speed, quick enough for Shinohara not being able to track his location. In his fight with Karren, Sasaki was able to maneuver and dodge her rapid kagune attacks, swiftly approaching her from behind towards the end of the motion.[33] Sasaki has also shown the ability to parry Arima's numerous Owl attacks while facing him in Cochlea.[34][35] On his way to meet with Takizawa, Ayato, and Kurona for their infiltration of the CCG laboratory, Kaneki was pursued by V agents and he managed to dodge their attacks while making his escape at the same time. In his conflict with Naki, Kaneki effortlessly dodged Naki's attempts to assault him. Superhuman Endurance: During his second encounter with Nishiki, Kaneki was able to endure multiple blows from the ghoul in his weakened, starving state.[36] When he was fighting Shachi, Kaneki maintained consciousness after being smashed through the floor and walls of Kanou's Underground Laboratory.[37] After being pierced through the abdomen by Amon, Kaneki was still able to survive and recover from his injuries, albeit through consuming parts of Hide.[38] During his encounter with Arima at V14, Kaneki continued fighting despite his critical head injures, which would be fatal even to a ghoul.[32] As Sasaki, he survived being pierced by Serpent's kagune, and eventually overpowered the ghoul despite being grievously wounded.[12] Sasaki overpowered Karren von Rosewald and Eto with a severed hand, gradually using his kagune as replacement. He seemed unfazed when Kishou Arima stabbed him multiple times through the abdomen, as he also took countless severe cuts to his body in his fight with Owl and was still able to keep fighting.[39][40] Even after prolonged fight against Suzuya and Abara which saw Kaneki taking critical damage, getting dismembered and losing his healing factor, he was still able to manifest his kagune and killing Hajime Hazuki and after that, slaughter the rest of the Oggai squad. Later on, Kaneki was able to withstand the onslaught of Furuta and Rize in two consecutive fights. Immense Pain Tolerance: Kaneki has always shown strong tolerance to pain, being able to continue fighting after withstanding multiple blows from Nishiki. This was heightened tremendously after Kaneki's torture at the hands of Yamori, where he managed to withstand twisting and breaking his own leg in order to land a blow on him. He later demonstrated this again against Naki, his only reaction being a faint smile.[41] He is even able to power on through losing all of his limbs and devour the Oggai. When fighting Dragon, despite his prior battle to the death with Furuta, as well as being overwhelmed by Dragon's defenses and nearly dying, Kaneki was able to push through the pain and end the threat of Dragon. Superhuman Regeneration: During his torture at the hands of Yakumo Oomori, he continously regenerated his fingers and toes for ten days.[18] He easily recuperated from the injuries inflicted by Shachi,[37] and recovered from a hole he received upon fighting Amon through consuming the flesh of Hide. He survives his fight with Arima, and heals his injuries, albeit with the cost of losing his memory.[8] In :re, he recovers from being consecutively pierced by Nishiki's kagune,[9] as well as surviving an attack from Takizawa.[42] In his final battle with Arima, he had rapidly regenerated his many fatal wounds whilst fighting the investigator. By the end of the Dragon Arc, Kaneki was able to regenerate wounds from Furuta's kakuja, and later on heal his wounds from Dragon in rapid succession, allowing him to continue on fighting. Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Kaneki is extremely skilled in close combat. With his four-tailed Kagune, he can easily match Yamori's attacks but soon overpowers them. This is also proven when Kaneki twists and breaks his own left leg after Yamori grabbed it to land a hard right knee strike from his right leg to knock him back. As Haise Sasaki, he was able to fight the entire Quinx squad with the exception of Urie at once during a sparring session, and later during a sparring session with Urie he proved to be heavily superior.

   Swordsmanship: Using his quinque, Sasaki has been described to have movements as swift as water, being able slice through a ghoul's kagune and also use it efficiently with his own kagune.[12][43] He was also able to keep up with Kichimura Washuu at the end of the dragon arc through the use of a quinque formed from his Kagune.

   Yukimura 1/3: A B-rate koukaku quinque passed down from Arima to Sasaki, having a considerably long blade which can easily slice through objects. It was shown to be able to damage Seidou Takizawa despite him being an SS+ rate ghoul. Keen Intellect: When facing adversaries, Kaneki often used his intellect and careful planning to quickly and efficiently take out his foe. Kaneki comprehends Takatsuki's in-depth work, and also understands martial arts moves and styles just by reading about them in a book, to the point where he is able to implement them in his fights not long afterwards. Kagune

   Rinkaku Kagune: Kaneki's kagune is portrayed in the anime as bright red, becoming a darker shade as it neared the tips. In the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime, it has changed to a red-violet color. Kaneki initially displayed his kagune in his fight against Nishiki Nishio, possessing three tails which repeatedly impaled Nishiki before throwing him, saving him and Hide while having little control over them.[44] After his torture, Kaneki was able to produce four tentacles in his battle with Yamori, which were capable of pinning down and overwhelming an incomplete kakuja.[44] During the raid on Kanou's lab, Kaneki's kagune further developed into six tentacles, albeit in an unstable mental state,[14] and while he fought Kishou Arima, Kaneki was able to manifest eight tentacles which are able to be shaped into small hands, which have an enormous range and destructive force enough to damage V14's pillars.[32] As Haise Sasaki, he is able to control and manipulate the shape of his kagune at will, and command the tentacles to process different tasks at once.[12] He is also noted to have a better control over his kagune than natural-born ghouls.[45] In his fight with Karren von Rosewald and Eto Yoshimura, Sasaki was able to shape his kagune into more intricate forms,[33] and his kagune is greatly larger, with the potency of neutralizing Owl's kakuja.[40] After devouring Eto's kakuja, his kagune is able to form multiple eyes and mouths. Even while exhausted, he was able to manifest it fast enough that Hajime and the rest of the Oggai could not react, and was able to quickly devastate the vast majority of them. By the time of his final confrontation with Furuta, Kaneki's kagune had grown to a massive size, it's thickness dwarfing that of a human being, in addition to it's length growing as well.

   Kagune Manipulation: After his confrontation with Eto, Sasaki is able to manifest his kagune as the form of his hand, controlling it willingly.[46] During his fight with Arima, Kaneki was using his kagune as replacements for his arms and legs in order to recover more quickly to counter the investigator. He also can create complex structures involving traps and nets. He was also able to command his kagune to speak, using it to great effect against Arima as a distraction which then allowed him to shatter his quinque. He was also able to form a quinque from his kagune and use it to fight against Kichimura Washuu .[47] In addition to forming a Rinkaku kagune, he has also been seen using his kagune to mimic the characteristics and abilities of an ukaku, bikaku, and koukaku in his fight against Dragon.

3. #3Eto Yoshimura

   Keys: Eto Yoshimura

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Eto Yoshimura Sen Takatsuki JAPANESE NAME 芳村 愛支 (エト) 高槻 泉 ROMAJI Yoshimura Eto Takatsuki Sen ALIAS X[1] One-Eyed Owl Taxidermied Owl SPECIES One-eyed ghoul STATUS Alive (Manga) AGE 24[2] (Tokyo Ghoul) GENDER Female HEIGHT 151 cm / 4'11"[4] WEIGHT 44 kg / 97 lbs[4] AFFILIATIONS Aogiri Tree - Founder/Leader Shoeisha Kishou Arima OCCUPATION Novelist RELATIVES Yoshimura (Father) † Ukina (Mother) † Noro (Foster Father) † WARD 24th Ward (Formerly) 23rd Ward (Imprisoned, Formerly) RC TYPE Ukaku UNIQUE STATES Kakuja RATING SSS (as One-Eyed Owl) S (as Eto)[5] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 54 (as Eto) Chapter 108 (as Takatsuki) Chapter 136 (as The One-Eyed Owl) ANIME DEBUT Episode 10 (as Eto) Episode 15 (as Takatsuki) Episode 23 (as The One-Eyed Owl) NOVEL DEBUT quest: Chapter 2 (as Eto) SEIYUU Maaya Sakamoto ENGLISH VA Lindsay Seidel Image Gallery LESS This article is about the leader of Aogiri Tree, the One-Eyed Owl. For other uses, see Owl (disambiguation). That time, so that no one (not even Father) would notice, I secretly rewrote the summary.

   What cannot change can only be broken.

   This is so to me, who left behind everything necessary inside the womb.

   SEN TAKATSUKI

   Eto Yoshimura (芳村 愛支エト, Yoshimura Eto) is the founding leader of Aogiri Tree, having formed the organization in the decade between her original rampage and the beginning of the series. While speculated by many to be the One-Eyed King, she claims that this is not the case.[3]

   Instead, she is the One-Eyed Owl (隻眼の梟, Sekigan no Fukurō), the half-human and half-ghoul daughter of Yoshimura and Ukina. Her human identity is Sen Takatsuki (高槻 泉, Takatsuki Sen), a best-selling horror novelist mentioned throughout the series.

   After the Third Cochlea Raid and her defeat by Kichimura Washuu, she was captured and used as the main body for the Taxidermied Owl (詰めの梟, Tsume no Fukurō). She managed to retrieve herself from the body and returned to life.

   Appearance

   Eto is a petite woman in her mid-twenties with a typically sleepy or curious expression. Her long green hair is usually messy or on top of her head in a bun, complementing her modest or sloppy fashion. Though she is typically unkempt, she is noted to be an incredible beauty with many admirers and greatly resembles her mother, Ukina, this resemblance deepens when she later cuts her hair into a short bob.

   While active in Aogiri, she wraps her entire body in bandages, doubling as a concealment to keep her identity secretive. Over it she wears a maroon hooded cloak with droopy ears and a floral scarf around her neck. Her right eye is a kakugan, while the other eye is a tone of light green.

   Personality

   Eto has a sadistic personality, often expressing joy at the expense of others' suffering. She has no qualms about remorselessly slaughtering humans and ghouls alike, and shows happiness when inflicting pain on others. Like her mother, Eto has a very sharp intuition about the feelings and desires of people, which she exploits to the fullest when dealing with her victims and manipulating others to do her bidding. Her twisted personality is possibly the result of fighting to stay alive during her early years in the 24th ward.

   Like many ghouls, she is able to compartmentalize her ghoul and human alter egos with relative ease. As Sen Takatsuki, she is quite playful and scatterbrained at times, oversleeping on the day she was supposed to be signing books and taking photos with admirers when it was prohibited by her manager.

   According to the profile Haise Sasaki constructs through his analysis of her works, the author is a woman filled with despair and hatred towards the world, having completely abandoned hope long ago.[7] While mostly true, she strongly believes in creating a society where ghouls will not be persecuted for existing and will do anything to fulfill this ambition, regardless of what she has to sacrifice. ADVERTISEMENT Plot

   Background

   Yoshimuraukinaeto Kuzen and Ukina, with Eto. Eto was born to Ukina and Yoshimura as a hybrid being. Because her mother had secretly been investigating the organization V, they forced Yoshimura to kill his lover as punishment for "betraying" them. In order to protect his infant daughter, Yoshimura entrusted her to the care of a ghoul known as Noroi in the 24th ward with her mother's diary. It is unknown what took place in the following decade or so, but she would emerge from the 24th ward as a kakuja and begin a bloody rampage.

   During a routine Whack-a-mole operation, a team lead by Itsuki Marude encountered Eto deep within the 24th ward and was quickly overwhelmed. Associate Special Class Kasuka Mado stayed behind so the others could retreat, sacrificing her life to protect her husband Kureo Mado and their comrades. A later investigation found that Eto had torn the investigator to pieces and scattered her partially-devoured remains everywhere for them to find. In response, Kureo Mado began a quest for vengeance that would later consume him.

   One day, Eto appeared for the first time and single-handedly killed a Special Class Investigator affiliated with the 3rd ward. She was assigned an S-rating and given the nickname "X."

   One month later, Eto executed a large-scale attack on the CCG's 2nd Ward Branch Office. The office was heavily damaged and the CCG suffered numerous casualties. Eto's rating was increased to SS, and her nickname was changed to "Owl," due to her plumage-like kagune. After a report of Eto only having one kakugan, her nickname was again changed to "One-Eyed Owl."

   Afterwards, Eto and other ghouls attacked the ghoul detention center, Cochlea in the 23rd ward. Eto's rating was upgraded to SSS.

   Kuroiwa against One-eyed Owl Eto against Kuroiwa. During the course of her various attacks, the S3 Squad led by Special Class Mikito Urie faced Eto. He ordered a retreat and died fighting her alone to ensure his comrades' survival. Iwao Kuroiwa and the other survivors later reported this news to a young Kuki Urie, who swore to one day avenge his father.

   Later, Eto's faction attacked the 2nd ward for a second time. First Class Investigator Kuroiwa dealt heavy damage to Eto's kakuhou with his quinque. However, Kuroiwa himself was seriously injured and could not participate in later operations. Subsequently, Yoshimura, acting alone in his daughter's place, attacked the 2nd ward for a third time to divert the attention of the CCG and V from his daughter Eto, and was defeated and seriously injured by Kishou Arima.

   Eto and Arima's confrontation Young Eto and Arima's confrontation. During one confrontation, Eto revealed her hatred for the world, criticizing its state, and saying the ghoul who killed Arima would be the hope for her entire race, while the latter smiled at her. They formed a plan to groom someone who would be competent enough to bear the title of the One-Eyed King, Kaneki was later chosen for the task.

   Sometime after this, Eto tried to become an author, showing her manuscript to Shunji Shiono. Though initially rejected, she was finally accepted and adopted the pseudonym "Sen Takatsuki," beginning her career as a novelist, at the same time planning for her next move. Her first work, titled Dear Kafka, would go on to be a best-seller and help establish a strong following as an author. She published five other works before publishing The Black Goat's Egg — the novel that served as the catalyst for Kaneki's attraction to Rize.

   Around two years after her debut, Eto was already aware of her father's identity, though the sight of him visibly angered her. One night, Shiono dropped by her apartment and accidentally found human body parts inside her fridge. Despite Shiono finding out about her ghoul nature, she spared him and the two continued working together.

   Aogiri Arc

   Eto with Tatara Eto talking with Tatara. Eto attended the meeting where Kaneki was brought before Tatara. At the end of the meeting, Tatara left the Aogiri hideout's affairs to Noro. Tatara predicted that the Doves would come soon and ordered Noro to follow their plan. Then, Tatara left with Eto to meet comrades that were waiting for them.[8] While the 11th Ward Battle was taking place, Tatara and Eto led many of Aogiri's strongest members in an attack on Cochlea, freeing multiple dangerous ghouls.

   Raid of Kanou's Lab

   Eto was among the members of Aogiri gathered while Tatara interrogated Dr. Kanou's assistant about his location. She briefly chatted with Naki about Yamori's death, suggesting that Tatara should have killed Kaneki when he had the chance. Once the group had their information, she joined Tatara to discuss making their move before the Doves could.[9]

   She was among those sent to raid Kanou's lab, and used the chaos to sneak deeper into the facility alone. There, she encountered the twins Kurona and Nashiro Yasuhisa, and taunted them about their past. Displaying incredible speed, she was able to seemingly teleport around the room while asking them painful questions. Once her psychological tactics overwhelmed them, she appeared behind Kazuichi Banjou and ripped out several of his ribs.[10]

   Later on, she joins Kanou in his control room and watches the confrontation between Koutarou Amon and a deranged Kaneki. She expresses interest in Amon, before leaving the facility along with Kanou.[11]

   Owl Suppression Operation

   In the aftermath of the battle at Dr. Kanou's laboratory, she makes her first appearance as Sen Takatsuki at a book signing event. She arrives late to the event, and apologizes to the large gathering of fans for having overslept.[12] While her manager protests, she cheerfully ignores the rules of the event and mingles with her fans taking photographs and chatting happily about the books. Kaneki and Hinami Fueguchi attend the event, and immediately catch her interest. She is pleased that Kaneki notices so many hidden details in her novels, while she quickly forms a connection with Hinami. After they leave, Hideyoshi Nagachika arrives at the event and briefly chats with the author. She hints at her interest in writing a novel about a ghoul.[13]

   Takatsuki praises Hinami Eto befriends Hinami. Some time later, she observes Hinami having coffee with Shuu Tsukiyama and waits until the girl is alone before approaching her. She shares her notice of Hinami's habit of clutching her hands when lying and offers the girl honest advice about her inability to help Kaneki. Takatsuki claims to have gone through difficult times in the past, and gives her business card to Hinami, offering her assistance should the girl ever need it.[2]

   Later that day, she pays a visit to the CCG and claims to have information.[2] Amon meets with her, answering her questions about the Rc scan gates — which she passes through without incident due to her father having previous ties to V. Once seated in an interview area, she questions him about personal things such as his lunch, stating that she wants an interview with an investigator in exchange for the information she has. Amon is initially frustrated with her teasing behavior, but once he cooperates she reveals to him a conspiracy involving CCG and a trading company called Sphinx. The company had sold the CCG a large amount of fluid made from ghoul corpses, and that Dr. Kanou's mansion was in fact property of the CCG. Furthermore, the president of Sphinx, Nanao Yasuhisa, was murdered by a ghoul. Having provided Amon with enough information to make him question CCG, she leaves.[14]

   Arima vs Owl Eto vs. Arima. She next appears during the battle in the 20th ward, ambushing the team sent to kill Yoshimura in her full kakuja form.[15] Exhausted from the previous battle against her father, Iwao Kuroiwa, Yukinori Shinohara, Kousuke Houji, Koori Ui, and Juuzou Suzuya are quickly overwhelmed.[16] She tortures and fatally wounds Shinohara, taunting a wounded Juuzou and batting him around until the remaining Special and Associate Special Classes arrive.[17][18]

   Eto unmasked The Owl's identity is revealed. They are barely able to hold her off, until the arrival of Squad 0 that was led by Kishou Arima.[18] Arima fights her in single combat, inflicting numerous serious injuries and forcing her to retreat. Before she flees, she swallows her father whole and leaps from the rooftop with him — mocking the CCG as she makes her escape. Later on, she regurgitates her father unharmed and emerges naked from her kakuja armor. She greets her father with a deranged expression, revealing that Sen Takatsuki, Eto, and the One-Eyed Owl are all the same person.[19]

   Post-Owl Suppression Operation

   She is later seen talking with Tatara and Dr. Kanou, suggesting that they will simply have to replace Kaneki with a new one — one created from her father and kidnapped investigators.[20]

   In the aftermath of the battle, Tsuneyoshi Washuu theorizes that the One-Eyed Owl and the One-Eyed King of Aogiri Tree are the same person. He reaffirms that she must be defeated at any cost.[20]

   At some unknown time Eto and Kanou have a conversation about Koutarou Amon while observing him unconscious in a chamber. The surgeon mused about his status as a prodigy for the next generation of ghoul investigators and his numerous achievements during his career. Eto is dismissive noting that is in the past due to his ghoulification.[21]

   Root A (Anime)

   Eto follows Kaneki Eto follows Kaneki after the 11th Ward Battle. Eto watched the 11th Ward Battle from afar with Tatara and noted that Kaneki had gotten stronger. She asked Tatara if the others would not come as many of their allies had died. She asked him about how many had died and Tatara replies about two hundred or so. Eto says that for the sake of those two hundred, they have to do their killing too. After the Aogiri hideout was crushed, Eto follows Kaneki, smiling. Some time later, Eto welcomes Kaneki along with the other Aogiri executives as their new recruit.[22]

   Eto waited as a mission was about to begin and appeared excited when she saw Kaneki arrive. She later sneaked off to a private room to undress. Still looking excited, she called Kaneki's name.[23]

   Eto makes her debut as Sen Takatsuki Takatsuki arrives late to her autograph session. Eto made her appearance as Sen Takatsuki, and showed up late to an autograph session at a bookstore. She meet Hinami and quickly showed interest in her. Eto asked for Hinami's name assuming the autograph was for her, but Hinami stopped Eto from signing the book because it was a present. Eto paused when Hinami said the book was for Ken Kaneki then asked how to spell his name. Eto asked if Kaneki was her boyfriend, but flustered, Hinami said that he was like a big brother. Eto thought it cute and gave Hinami her book back before saying goodbye. After Hinami left, Eto thought about Kaneki. Later at the Aogiri hideout, Eto watched Kaneki from afar as he helped Naki and laughed.[24]

   The One-Eyed Owl decends into Cochlea Eto descends into Cochlea. Prior to the Cochlea raid, Eto watched the facility from afar, eager to attack it. During the infiltration, she accompanied the other Aogiri ghouls in the attack to free Shachi and the other prisoners. Eto intervened in Shachi's fight with Kaneki and asked him if he wanted to see Rize.[25] Later, after Eto danced around the bodies of dead investigators, she looked into the depths of Cochlea, planning something. She finally appeared in her full kakuja form, angering an injured Akira and bewildered Amon. She grabbed Ayato and Kaneki and fled.[26]

   Takatsuki interviews Shinohara and Juuzou Takatsuki interviews Shinohara and Suzuya. After the Cochlea invasion, Eto watched over Kaneki while he tried to recuperate. Since he used his kakuja for the first time, he had been unable to control it and was plagued by nightmares. While he suffered, Eto stood back smiling, interested in his progress. She later met Hinami again at her favorite café and they sat down for coffee and to talk about Kaneki. Hinami told Takatsuki about her problems and Takatsuki told her the hard truth. She and Kaneki were too different and Hinami would not be able to help him with the way she was. Hinami was saddened, but agreed. Before she left for an interview, Takatsuki gave Hinami her business card. She sympathized with Hinami and advised her to call if she needed help. Takatsuki’s went to the CCG to try and get an interview with an investigator. She was able to speak with Shinohara and Juuzou and asked them questions about the possibility of creating artificial ghouls for her next book. Shinohara did not think something like that was possible, nor was there a purpose to create more dangerous ghouls. Before she left, she gave Shinohara a tip about a coffee shop in the 20th ward that served delicious coffee and an interesting rumor about it.[27]

   Yoshimura holds Ukina and Eto Infant Eto and her family being hunted. Yoshimura explained his past to Kaneki and how Eto was born. A hybrid between a human and ghoul, when Ukina became pregnant, Yoshimura had expected Eto not to survive. After he said it would take a miracle, Ukina insured that happened. Eto was born healthy and her parents were happy to have her. However, the organization Yoshimura worked for targeted them and killed Ukina. Yoshimura hid Eto in a secluded location while he fought the organization members. When he returned, Eto was gone.[28]

   Prior to CCG’s attack on Anteiku, Eto spent time with Tatara, admiring the snow.[28]

   Eto later appeared after her father was defeated, at first assuming her original kakuja guise before it morphed into a bestial like form and grinned at the investigators sinisterly. Shinohara and Iwao's suspicions about there being two Owls were confirmed with her appearance.[29]

   Tokyo One-Eyed Owl Mask24 Suzuya vs. The Owl. Eto made quick work of the investigators, looming over them with a crazed grin before she turned her attention to Suzuya. Eto was about to attack him until Shinohara took the blow instead. Angered, and desperate to save his father figure, Suzuya repeatedly tried to defeat her, but his attacks did no damage at all. Eto continuously mocked him, and even stabbed Shinohara just to see him suffer. However, shortly afterwards, Suzuya's wounds caught up to him, and he fell, only to be caught by Arima. Eto quickly recognized him, saying he is finally here before attacking him. However she was unable to land so much as a hit on him, and was forced onto the defensive as she tried to dodge his attacks. When it seemed like she finally had the upper hand, Arima sliced off her arm, which forced her to flee after eating Yoshimura. She later regurgitated Yoshimura, who recognized her while she called him father in a singing tone, smiling cruelly down at him.[30]

   Auction

   Eto appears at the Aogiri hideout, speaking to Ayato. She requests him to act as an escort and guard for Madam at an upcoming auction, since Aogiri earns lots of money through working for Madam. She also mentions that Ayato should "tidy up" if a floppy comes to the Auction.[31]

   During the Auction, Dr. Kanou and Eto observe the unfolding events from a control room at an undisclosed location. Kanou is pleased with how things are going, and asks permission to release "Owl" — she agrees with this idea and contacts the new Owl over the radio. It is revealed to be former Investigator Seidou Takizawa, transformed into an one-eyed ghoul by Aogiri. He complains to Eto about being hungry.

   Later on, while facing Sasaki and realizing who he actually is, Takizawa states this must have been her real reason for sending him.

   Rose Extermination

   Eto is seen first observing Haise Sasaki and the Quinx fight off the members of Aogiri, hired by Kanae von Rosewald. As they ward off the members of the Yamori clan, she laughs and says that they are good.

   Some time later, Eto approached Kanae as he hid beneath an overpass and raged over his defeat. She taunted him with the mystery of her true nature, offering him an apple and biting into it in front of him. When he launched an attack, she effortlessly dodged and quickly overwhelmed him with her massive, abnormal kagune. She explained that while quantity and quality of one's Rc cells determines the potential size of a kagune, it is one's intelligence and imagination that determines the potential shape. When he recognized her as a one-eyed ghoul, she readily agreed with him.

   Eto taunts Kanae about his true feelings re anime Eto taunts Kanae about his true feelings. Eto began to wax philosophical, questioning whether Kanae has ever read the Book of Genesis. She discussed the story of Eve and the Fruit of Knowledge, stating that this was her favorite from the book. The idea of God telling humans not to eat the Fruit seemed malignant to her, because putting the Tree there was like its purpose was to tempt humans to eat the fruit. She asked Kanae about his religious beliefs, and what he imagined God to be like. In her own mind, she explained, God was probably a child with incredible power — explaining the many problems in the world. She goes on to offer an example of such a problem, namely, Kanae's own situation. She told him that should he fulfil his master's wishes, he could not have what he truly wanted.

   Seeing that her words were having an effect, Eto pressed on. She explained to him that what he truly wanted was to make Haise Sasaki suffer and that his actions had never been for the sake of his beloved master. Ruthlessly, she lectured Kanae about how his feelings of loyalty were actually possessiveness and jealousy, and reminded him that Tsukiyama would never look at him. She told him he owed nothing to someone that would not return his love, and suggested that they be destroyed instead. As Kanae broke down, she continued to mentally torture him.

   Eto tortures Kanae anime Eto torturing Kanae. Later on, Eto was keeping Kanae in captivity and subjected him to various amounts of torture. She told him if he wanted to be treasured, he had to take away what mattered most to Shuu Tsukiyama while she gave him one of her detached kagune.

   When the CCG started their operation against the Tsukiyama family, she was looking over the Luna Eclipse building assessing the situation and giving instructions to Noro.

4. #4Eto’s Abilities

   Keys: Eto’s Abilities

   Powers and Abilities

   Ghoul Physiology: As a half-ghoul, Eto gained an enhanced prowess due to hybrid vigor and inherited the abilities of her ghoul father.

   Ukaku Kagune: Eto's skill with her kagune is far more advanced than most ghouls. After the timeskip, her kagune takes the form of multiple grotesque appendages attached to her back. These appendages can be shaped into eyes, mouths, arms, and legs in order to suit Eto's purposes. Her kagune appears to be an extension of her consciousness as the mouths often speak incoherent sentences, possibly her thoughts at the moment. Ukaku Kakuja: While her ukaku kagune covers middle to far distances, her kakuja cuts down those in front. Her ukaku kagune fires projectiles large enough to overwhelm most seasoned CCG investigators, including Yukinori Shinohara and Iwao Kuroiwa while both were equipped with Arata Proto. Unlike most kakuja, she is able to maintain her consciousness. Much like her kagune, she is able to change the physical form of her kakuja, spawning extra appendages like limbs, mouths and eyes at will. It also has the potency of obliterating a huge disposal machinery at Cochlea. Kagune Detachment: Eto demonstrates the ability to detach pieces of her kagune, using them to manipulate and restrain targets. She may be able to "implant" her kagune into others and significantly alter their physiology by transmitting Rc patterns to them, as she did with Kanae (and possibly Noro). Superhuman Durability: Eto was completely unfazed from getting severed below her abdomen by Kaneki,[33] and could endure being defeated and smashed into a wall by Furuta.[45] Superhuman Regeneration: After her clash with Kaneki, Eto regenerated her entire lower half during the timeskip. Eto also exhibited inhumane healing prowess after regenerating her decapitated head when her "corpse" was released from Donato's control.[34] Superhuman Speed: Eto has reached a high level of speed on numerous occasions. Notably, she moved so swiftly that Kurona and Nashiro were unable to visually track her movements. Shortly afterwards, she demonstrated speed sufficient to remove several of Banjou's ribs without him noticing the injuries.

   Relationships

   Yoshimura

   Having been separated from her father as an infant, Eto did not share a close bond with him. She had an intense hatred for her father for running away. She sees her father only as a way to further her own goals. As such, she has no qualms about using him for experiments.

   Ukina

   As Ukina died shortly after Eto was born, Eto only knows her through her diary. Even so, Eto holds her in high regard. She respects Ukina for her courage and assures her mother she will not run away like her father. This seems to be the reason behind many of her actions as Ukina was intent in pursuing V at the time of her death. However, Eto also holds doubt about Ukina's love for her interpreting her own birth as just a byproduct of trying to get close to V.

   Tatara

   Tatara was one of the closest Aogiri members to her, and she was almost always seen in his presence. The two often conversed together, whether about Aogiri or more trivial matters. Their dynamic seemed to be that of an older and younger sibling, though it was unclear whether this is more intentional misdirection, considering Eto's true age. In his final moments, he called out "Eto", implying a deeper relationship between the two.

   Noro

   Eto was entrusted to Noro, back then known as Noroi, when she was a child. Not much is known about them in the years between. As Noro, he was her direct subordinate and often seen by her side. In his final moments, he said goodbye to Eto, stating he'll see "her on the other side".

   Ken Kaneki

   In her human identity as Sen Takatsuki, she is one of his favorite authors and someone he admires greatly. She is pleased with his ability to pick up on hidden details in her books, and they enjoy a brief discussion of her works. Their meeting renews his energy, while she claims to have found something hopeful in talking to him.

   Kaneki is one of the few aware of her true origins. This brings him some uncertainty, even though he considers her a deadly enemy to be destroyed. While chiding Tatara for sparing Kaneki's life in the beginning, Eto seems to consider him interesting after witnessing his mutation into a partial kakuja. She refers to him as "Kakuja's Egg", and while he seeks to destroy Aogiri, she seems to have some unknown plans for him.

   In :re, Eto reveals that her feelings for Kaneki run deep. She states that she has grown fond of Kaneki, and believe they are similar, referring to their personalities and their nature as one-eyed ghouls. Eto has stated that she "loves" Kaneki, albeit in her own twisted view of it. After her capture, Eto develops an uneasy but friendly relationship with Kaneki. She relays crucial information to him regarding V, her past, and the incidents that have happened. She entrusts Kaneki with her wish, though Kaneki states he does not know what she meant.

5. #5Kishou Arima

   Keys: Kishou Arima

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Kishou Arima JAPANESE NAME 有馬 貴将 （ありま きしょう） ROMAJI Arima Kishō ALIAS CCG's Reaper Undefeated Ghoul Investigator White Reaper Jack One-Eyed King[3] SPECIES Half-human[4] STATUS Deceased AGE 16 (Tokyo Ghoul: Jack) 29 (Tokyo Ghoul) 30 (after Ch. 64) GENDER Male BORN December 20, 30 BSBI[5] i DIED December 19 - 20, 4 ASBI[6][7] HEIGHT 172 cm / 5'8" (15 years old)[8] 180 cm / 5'11"[5] WEIGHT 60 kg / 132 lbs (15 years old) 82 kg / 180 lbs BLOOD TYPE ? AFFILIATIONS Washuu Clan Sunlit Garden V CCG Arima Squad S3 Squad - Leader Eto Yoshimura Aogiri Tree OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RELATIVES Yoshiu Washuu (Paternal Grandfather) † Tsuneyoshi Washuu (Father) † Kishou Arima's mother Kichimura Washuu (Paternal Half-brother) † Rize Kamishiro (Paternal Half-sister) † Hairu Ihei (Paternal Half-sister) † Yoshitoki Washuu (Paternal Half-brother) † Matsuri Washuu (Nephew) Iyo Washuu (Niece-in-law) Numerous Half-siblings Yusa Arima (Distant relative) Washuu Clan (Branch Family) WARD 1st Ward QUINQUE Yukimura 1/3 (Koukaku, Rate B) IXA (Koukaku, Rate S+) Narukami (Ukaku, Rate S+) Owl (Ukaku, Rate SSS) CLASS 61st RANK Rank 3 (Tokyo Ghoul: Jack) Special Class TRAINING Sunlit Garden Christopher Wehkamp (:re (anime)) Image Gallery LESS "I... I've... always... hated it. I hated myself, who only ever stole from others... I feel like I was finally... able to leave something behind..."

   KISHOU ARIMA

   Kishou Arima (有馬 貴将, Arima Kishō) was a Special Class Ghoul Investigator famously known as the CCG's Reaper (CCGの死神, Shīshījī no Shinigami). He was a prominent figure within the organization and was widely regarded as a genius. In the prequel spin-off Tokyo Ghoul: Jack, he is featured alongside Taishi Fura as a teen.

   He garnered an impressive list of achievements during his eighteen years as an investigator, from leading the prestigious S3 Squad to single-handedly turning the tides of large operations. His lethal battle prowess earned him many names, including the White Reaper (白い死神, Shiroi Shinigami), among others.

   However, beneath the surface, Arima was sided with ghouls as the mysterious One-Eyed King (隻眼の王, Sekigan no Ō).[3] Conspiring with Eto Yoshimura, he gained the ownership rights of Ken Kaneki after the Owl Suppression Operation and mentored him in preparation to bestow the title to him after his death.

   Appearance

   Arima was a tall, well-built man with snow white hair and gray eyes. He always wore a pair of thin-framed glasses and a calm apathetic expression. He always dressed in a professional suit and tie, adding the pure white coat that acted as the S3 Squad uniform during operations.

   During his youth, Arima had dark blue hair and was much shorter in height. While attending Seishin High School, he wore the standard school uniform. He carried a guitar case with him at all times to conceal his quinque, Yukimura 1/3, as opposed to the standard quinque case.

   Personality

   Arima was shown to have a very calm personality, he remained unperturbed and composed even when surrounded by several ghouls or facing the monstrous One-Eyed Owl. He was also an overly strict mentor, as seen when he reprimanded Hirako for being off on his attack by one decisecond. As a teenager, Arima exerted the same personality, and also noted his main hobby to be ghoul extermination. He had a very cold and calculating approach to exterminating ghouls as shown when he was about to finish off Renji Yomo, and Yoshimura appeared suddenly; instead of panicking or attacking he merely greeted the ghoul. Arima was shown to respect the dead as he reprimanded Itsuki Marude when he talked ill about Mado after his death.

   Despite his stoic demeanor, he was capable of forming friendships, he often borrowed books from Haise Sasaki, and Akira Mado described his feelings towards Sasaki as "parental love." Arima was also the type of person who complimented his ghoul opponents, an example being when he did so when Kaneki damaged his quinque, IXA. Surprisingly while dying he reveals he despised himself for killing ghouls. He admits how happy he is to have done something good by imparting his mission to depose V and become a symbol of hope for ghouls.

   Plot

   Jack

   Arima saying goodbye to Fura "Well then, Fura-kun, see you tomorrow at school." Arima was hailed as a genius within the CCG, stemming from his affiliation with the organization since his teens. He was personally selected by CCG's chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu to be promoted to a 3rd class investigator. Taking advantage of his youth, he took on assignments that regular investigators could not handle. One such assignment saw him working undercover as a transfer student in the 13th Ward, where he became the classmate of Taishi Fura. Sent to eliminate the ghoul Lantern, he rescued Taishi and the two formed a partnership to hunt the ghoul down. Their activities soon caught the attention of several ghouls in the ward, as two high school students killing ghouls was unheard of before.

   The pair rescued Uruka Minami from Sumiharu Katou, a ghoul posing as a hairdresser and agreed to let her aid them in their investigations. Though Taishi believed Minami to be in love with Arima, in truth she was simply trying to manipulate them. At an abandoned house, Minami revealed herself to be Lantern and tried to kill Arima — who had already suspected her. Though he fatally wounded her, Taishi was forced to deliver the final blow in self-defense. Afterward, Arima left to take on his next assignment.

   Past Exploits

   When Arima was 16 years old, Investigator Daisuke Atou witnessed Arima killing more than thirty ghouls single-handed.[9] Furthermore, Arima killed Hikari Kirishima at that age.[10]

   Arima vs Fake Owl Arima vs. Owl. Due to his outstanding talent, he was promoted to Rank 2 in less than a year. During the rampage of the One-Eyed Owl, he took part in the defense of the 2nd ward — used numerous quinques to challenge and defeated a disguised Yoshimura in battle.[11] From this battle, he obtained a kakuhou that would be used to create the SSS-rated quinque Owl.[12]

   Eto and Arima's confrontation Young Arima and Eto. At an unspecified point, he found and defeated Eto Yoshimura at her shrine hide-out. Rather than simply kill the infamous One-Eyed Owl, he questioned her about her motivations and learned of her desire to change the world. Interested in her ideals, Arima spared her life and allegedly began to conspire in secret with her.

   In the passing years, he partnered with Take Hirako.[13] The pair took part in the extermination of the Clowns in the 4th ward, coming into conflict with Uta's gang. There, he was confronted by the younger brother of Hikari Kirishima, Renji Yomo. Before he could deliver the finishing blow, Yoshimura interrupted and rescued the young ghoul from him.[14]

   Doves' Emergence

   Arima attended Kureo Mado's funeral and after Itsuki Marude had expressed his aversion to Mado's work ethic and fixation on quinques at his funeral service, Arima reprimanded him.[15]

   Aogiri Arc

   Marude contacted him to inform him about their victory in raiding Aogiri base only for Arima to tell him Aogiri Tree used that as distraction and raided the ghoul detention center, Cochlea.[16]

   Owl Suppression Operation

   Arima defeats Kaneki Arima defeats Kaneki. After being given the mission to ambush any fleeing ghouls and neutralize the One-Eyed Owl, Arima was stationed within the underground Route V14, where he encountered and single-handedly killed dozens of ghouls. Upon having his gaze fall on Ken Kaneki, he quickly approached him with the intention of completing his mission and, without warning, dealt an attack towards Kaneki that tore a large chunk out of his abdomen. Before Kaneki could recover and fight, Arima lunged his quinque IXA through the back of Kaneki's skull, which pierced his brain and destroyed his left eye.[17] He easily dodged Kaneki's rapid kagune strikes and witnessed a sudden emotional outburst from Kaneki, during which Kaneki recited a Hakushū poem. Apparently moved by the poem, Arima made note of Kaneki's identity, then offhandedly mentioned that he could tell it was raining outside from the sound of water pouring in from above. He stated that his sense of time got dulled when he was underground.

   Arima vs Owl Arima vs. One-Eyed Owl. Arima then brought out his other quinque, Narukami, and activated it. He declared that his objective was to ensure no ghouls would pass through Route V14, and released bolts of Rc projectiles towards Kaneki. After Kaneki dodged those attacks, Arima commanded his quinque to go into remote activation and continued to strike at Kaneki, keeping the manic ghoul at bay. He blocked a desperate attack from Kaneki's kagune using IXA's defensive barrier, but was surprised that Kaneki's blow managed to break the barrier, and so complimented his opponent. Arima went on to impale Kaneki through the abdomen with IXA, lifted him high into the air briefly before he threw him back to the ground. Arima stated that he had not expected Kaneki to damage his quinque and finished Kaneki off with a stab through the other eye and mentioned that he needed a new quinque.[18] Arima noticed a bleeding scratch on his right cheek.[19] Later on, he confronted the One-Eyed Owl alone and managed to sever its arm, forcing it to escape and mirrored his battle with the first Owl years ago.[20][21] Later it was revealed that their battle was only a performance and in reality Arima let Eto escape with Yoshimura as a part of their plan.

   Years later, Tatara recalled Arima dragging a half-dead Kaneki by the hair after the latter's defeat. Tatara bowed as he passed.[22]

   Post-Owl Suppression Operation

   After the CCG imprisoned Kaneki in Cochlea, Arima visited Kaneki in order to observe him. During one such visit, Arima witnessed an emotional outburst by Kaneki, now called Prisoner #240. As Kaneki frantically begged to be let out to save his friends, Arima calmly told Kaneki that he had killed all of them. He inquired about the amnesiac Prisoner #240's state with the Warden Shinme Haisaki. Haisaki told him that Prisoner #240 was refusing food, was apparently tormented by nightmares that made him cry worse than a baby during the night, and picked at his eyes so much they were festering; thus, the Warden expected the prisoner to die soon due to starvation. Thereafter, Arima started to bring Prisoner #240 books to read, and Prisoner #240's health improved substantially.[23]

   Alongside Yoshitoki Washuu, he discussed the results of the operation with Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu. The chairman turned to Arima and asked him what he would do about the name as the 'ownership rights' were his. Arima replied that he would entrust this to 'him'.[24]

   During another visit, Arima told Prisoner #240 that he would need a name, as it was planned for Prisoner #240 to be appointed an investigator during his rehabilitation. He asked Prisoner #240 to pick his new name, and by using Prisoner #240's two favorite kanji from the words "coffee" and "world", they formed the name 'Haise'.[23]

   Torso Investigation

   Arima and Sasaki-Kaneki on a table Arima sparring with Sasaki. Some time after the Owl Suppression Operation, Arima along with Akira Mado were in charge of supervising Haise Sasaki and his Quinx members.[25] Following the failed operation to capture Torso and Serpent, Arima summoned Haise to an S3 meeting.[26] He did a minor spar with Haise, subsequently returned the book he borrowed from Haise to him. When Sasaki apologized for using his kagune to fight Serpent, Arima dismissed this apology, and listened attentively as Haise compared him, Akira and the rest of the Quinx Squad to a somewhat dysfunctional family.[27]

   Auction

   Arima entered Yoshitoki's office while the latter was speaking with Urie. After Yoshitoki asked of his opinion, Arima gave his approval for Urie's frame release surgery.[28]

   After the second operation during the Auction Raid, Arima arrived at the auction location near the end of the raid with his Squad and members of S3 Squad. He, along with the rest of his squad confronted Hinami Fueguchi, who after her fight with Takizawa, was in no fit state to put up a fight. He approached her and was stopped by Haise Sasaki, which made him tighten the grip on his quinque. Haise asked him for ownership rights over Hinami, which he granted before ordering his squad to call for the medical team to deal with Haise's wounds.[29]

   Post Auction

   A month had passed since the Auction mopping-up operation and he attended a Christmas party at The Chateau, arriving with Akira. He enjoyed himself in the company of everyone and talked about the bizarre stories that surrounded him, like the time he fought a ghoul with an umbrella, fell asleep during a fight, and how ghouls were so afraid of him that they fainted on the spot and were taken straight to prison. These stories turned out to be true. He received a tie-pin with a decorative horse as a present from Sasaki.[30]

   Rose Extermination

   Koori was visited by Arima, who had heard of his operation commander position from Marude earlier, and expressed ease as his former superior was the only one he could feel relaxed around after being promoted to Special Class. Koori attempted to tell Arima something, but his former superior was then called on by a fellow employee and left before anything else could be said.[31]

   A vision of him later appeared before Sasaki in what appeared to be a training session, Arima acted cold towards him and told Sasaki to kill like him. This vision of Arima then held IXA to Sasaki's eye and asked if he wanted to die again

   Powers and Abilities

   Master Swordsman: Having extraordinary skill with his quinque, Arima can quickly block projectiles and easily slice through a ghoul's kakuja.

   Half-Human Physiology: Being a failed half-ghoul, Arima was granted increased physical abilities at the cost of a shortened life span.

   Superhuman Agility: Arima was capable of dodging Kaneki's enormously destructive and rapid attacks, suffering a small cheek wound after the blow, after slaughtering a large amount of fleeing ghouls underground.[18] During his life, he repelled both Yoshimura and Eto. His reflexes are sufficient enough to deflect a barrage of ukaku shards shot by Ayato Kirishima, block Touka's projectiles and parry Yomo's attacks at close-range.[36] He was also able to easily outmaneuver Shachi's attacks, and counter the martial artist's movements.[34] His speed is fast enough that he is able to keep up with Kaneki at his Half kakuja state at Cochlea arc and is able to dodge all of Kaneki's attacks. Keen Intellect: Arima is shown to be very deductive throughout the series. As a teenager, he easily memorized all the formulas in the math textbook and managed to deduce Uruka Minami as a ghoul with a single piece of evidence. As an adult, Arima secretly uncovered the identity of the "One-Eyed Owl" as Eto Yoshimura and deduced the identity of Ken Kaneki when the two first battle at the end of the original series.

   Yukimura 1/3: A koukaku-type quinque that takes the form of a sword consisting of a long, thin blade without a guard. This quinque was used during Arima's early days as an investigator.

   IXA: A koukaku-type quinque that takes the form of a lance attached to a gun-sword handle with a spiked pommel. It is able to change form into a shield that is capable of blocking potent attacks coming towards Arima. It is also capable of changing into a secondary offensive form that changes the shape of the quinque into several tentacles which can home and pierce any enemy of Arima's choosing.

   Narukami: An ukaku-type quinque that takes the form of four satellite panels attached to a rapier handle. The quinque can shoot condensed Rc cells like lightning that can home towards a target of Arima's choosing. It also has the ability to combine the panels into a single rapier blade sharp enough to slice through the One-Eyed Owl.[21]

   Owl: Ripped out of the One-eyed Owl (later revealed to be the Non-Killing Owl Yoshimura) thirteen years ago, this quinque is an SSS-rated ukaku-type that takes the form of an elongated large blade with a long hilt. Being an ukaku quinque, Owl can shoot out concentrated Rc cell projectiles of various sizes.[40] Furthermore, Owl's blade can be released and materialized remotely to launch an attack on a target from an unexpected location

6. #6Rize Kamishiro

   Keys: Rize Kamishiro

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Rize Kamishiro JAPANESE NAME 神代 利世 （かみしろ りぜ） ROMAJI Kamishiro Rize ALIAS Binge Eater Dragon

   SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased AGE 18[1] 23 (Tokyo Ghoul:re) GENDER Female BORN October 8, 19 BSBI[2] HEIGHT 164 cm / 5'5"[2] WEIGHT 55 kg / 121 lbs[2] BLOOD TYPE AB[1][2] AFFILIATIONS Washuu Clan Sunlit Garden (Defected) V (Defected)[3] RELATIVES Matasaka Kamishiro (Foster Father) † Kamishiro (Foster Grandfather) † Yoshiu Washuu (Paternal Grandfather) † Tsuneyoshi Washuu (Biological Father) † Rize Kamishiro's mother Kichimura Washuu (Paternal Half-brother) † Kishou Arima (Paternal Half-brother) † Hairu Ihei (Paternal Half-sister) † Yoshitoki Washuu (Paternal Half-brother) † Numerous Half-siblings Matsuri Washuu (Nephew) Iyo Washuu (Niece-in-law) Washuu Clan (Branch Family) WARD 6th Ward (Formerly) 18th Ward (Formerly)[citation needed] 17th Ward (Formerly) 11th Ward (Formerly) 20th Ward (Formerly) RC TYPE Rinkaku[4] UNIQUE STATES Kakuja[5] RATING S[6] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Episode 1 NOVEL DEBUT Days: Chapter 1 (Mentioned) Past: Chapter 3 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: carnaval SEIYUU Kana Hanazawa ENGLISH VA Monica Rial STAGE PLAY Yuri Hamada FILM ACTOR Yū Aoi Image Gallery LESS "Those cowardly lions have confined themselves in a cage of their own free will. Even though the lion is supposed to be the 'king of all beasts.'"

   RIZE KAMISHIRO

   Rize Kamishiro (神代 利世, Kamishiro Rize) was a ghoul and the foster daughter of Matasaka Kamishiro.

   Born into the Washuu Clan, Rize was the illegitimate daughter of former CCG chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu, where, as a child, she escaped from her clan and organization V.

   She was known under her nickname Binge Eater (大喰い Ōkui, "Binge Eater" or "Gluttony", literally "Big Eater"). Due to her eating habits, Rize was a threat to most ghouls in various wards in Tokyo before her death in the Steel Beam Incident where her kakuhou was used in the kakuhou transplant surgery to transform Ken Kaneki into a one-eyed ghoul.

   Rize later was discovered alive and captured by Dr. Akihiro Kanou where her kakuhou was farmed to transform Kurona and Nashiro Yasuhisa, and Souta Washuu-Furuta into one-eyed ghouls.

   Eventually, she was used as the host for the body of Dragon (竜, Ryū), indirectly responsible for the ghoulification of Tokyo, before she was finally put out of her misery at the hands of Ken Kaneki.

   Appearance

   Rize appeared to be a slender girl of average height with an hourglass figure. She has chest-length purple hair that has bangs swept to the left side, purple eyes, thin eyebrows and full lips.

   As a ghoul blending into human society, she wore normal attire fit for a young woman, showing a bigger preference for dresses. After she had moved to the 20th ward, she was seen wearing a pair of red frame glasses (the frames being only at the lower half of the lens), even though she did not seem to have any eyesight problems. Her attire revealed some cleavage, possibly to seduce and allure males as her prey. Rize was very attractive and is aware of this fact, often manipulating it to her advantage.

   After her transformation into Dragon, Rize had long white hair with decorative marks around a paled face near her eyelids and across her forehead.

   In her younger days, she had shorter hair.

   Personality

   Rize was a voracious, independent ghoul who acted as a femme fatale to those who fell victim to her charms. She was an enigmatic female with many acquaintances who were left with a mysterious impression of her, and those who came into conflict with her rarely came out alive, with the exception of Kazuichi Banjou, who found her self-dependence and strength attractive. She was extremely selfish who thought little to none of the hardship her binge eating habit caused to other ghouls. She had no ambitions and wandered the wards aimlessly to appease her boredom.

   After she was rescued by Renji Yomo, it was shown that the effects of captivity and starvation had reduced her to a near-mindless state as she was unable to recognize her surroundings and had to be kept in restraints. This also brought out a vulnerable side of Rize as she cried out to her foster father in fear. Plot

   Past

   Born in the Sunlit Garden, Rize was one of Tsuneyoshi Washuu’s illegitimate children and was to eventually become a “womb” to preserve the Washuu Clan bloodline. Disregarded by her family and disgusted at her fate, she escaped with the help of Souta Washuu-Furuta,[7] which left her exhausted and hungry. She was found by Shachi, who decided to take her in his care. She grew close to Shachi, seeing him as her surrogate father. However, as Rize grew, so did her appetite. She began overeating, and despite Shachi's protests, continued doing so. Her actions eventually resulted in a CCG raid in the 6th ward and Shachi's capture.[8]

   Rize would then begin living nomadically, drifting through the different wards while continuing her binge-eating habit. Six months before the Steel Beam Incident, Rize lived in the 11th ward. Her activities attracted the attention of the ghoul investigators and made them move into that ward. She decided to leave when the ghoul investigators started to act. Before she left, she killed Hagi, the leader of the ghouls in the 11th ward, and two others.[9]

   Prologue

   Steel beams fall on Rize Rize's "accident." Rize targeted Ken Kaneki, who noticed that he had a crush on her, engaging a conversation with him after frequenting Anteiku for a while. Using their mutual love of books to her advantage, they planned a date soon after meeting. After a harmless day spent together, Rize tricked Kaneki into escorting her back home down a deserted area where she revealed herself to be a ghoul as she took a bite of Kaneki's shoulder.

   Kaneki struggled against her, but Rize was too strong and easily pierced him in the abdomen with her Kagune. Before Rize could finish him off, multiple steel beams from the construction area above fell onto Rize, crushing her. The disturbance was heard by a passerby, who then called for help, and both were sent to Kanou General Hospital. There, Professor Akihiro Kanou pronounced Rize too far gone and decided to transplant her organs into Kaneki without contacting their relatives, given the urgency of the situation.[1] However, he secretly kept her alive to use for his experiments.

   In the anime, a hallucination of "Rize" haunted Kaneki when he was hungry and trying to fight his ghoul instincts.

   Aogiri Arc

   During Yamori's torture sessions, Kaneki began seeing a hallucination of "Rize," who helped him embrace his ghoul side and eventually beat Yamori. It was in this period of time when Kaneki had a flashback about his mother and how she eventually died from over-exhaustion. They conversed about what the "right" thing to do was, until Kaneki denounced his mother's way of life and "devoured" "Rize's" strength.[10][11][12]

   Raid of Kanou's Lab

   Rize being farmed for kakuhou Rize's kakuhou being farmed. Since the accident, Kanou kept Rize alive in a tank to harvest her kakuhou for his research.[13] Kaneki and Shachi eventually met her during their battle. As Kanou tried to persuade Kaneki to join Aogiri Tree, her tank was destroyed and she was rescued by Renji Yomo, per the agreement made between Yoshimura and Shachi to keep her safe.

   Owl Suppression Operation

   After the incident at the lab, Rize was kept in a container inside Renji's living quarters.[14] She was restrained by chains and kept in a constant starving state, only fed enough to survive and not enough to regain her strength. This made her mentally unstable and unable to recognize her surroundings. Kaneki eventually found her in this state, which prompted him to reevaluate his decisions.[15]

   During the Owl Suppression Operation, Rize appeared as another hallucination to Kaneki in the sewers, but unlike before where she was coherent and humanized, she became a deformed and monstrous entity who tried to eat him.[16]

   Post-Owl Suppression Operation

   At some unknown time, Rize's foster father Shachi visited Nishiki Nishio and Renji Yomo, who had been taking care of Rize per his agreement with Yoshimura. Shachi told them that since Yoshimura's capture by his daughter, he could no longer be saved, and urged them to be rid of Rize, as keeping her would be too dangerous for them. As he left, Nishiki asked him why he still cared for Rize. Shachi remarked that it was a stupid question and stated that it was his duty as a parent.[17]

   Rize was in the process of her recovery just after Sen Takatsuki announced she was a ghoul.[17]

   Clown Siege

   She is mentioned by Kaiko to have a connection with the CCG Laboratory Division and that it is a classified issue that has not been made public.[18]

   Post-Clown Siege

   Rize reappears later being shown to have been captured and kept in a tank by Kichimura Washuu who uses her as a donor to farm her kakuhou for making Oggai.[19]

   Dragon Arc

   Rize later appeared to Kaneki as a hallucination while in his dragon form, calling him a "murderer." She showed him the destroyed Goat base and the people who he killed while he was in his dragon form. Rize also questioned Kaneki's decisions, such as wanting to attack the CCG in order to create peace among ghouls and humans but would result in putting his friends in danger. Kaneki admitted that he only wished to be wanted by someone, which Rize deemed them both selfish. Reminiscing on their first encounter, Rize regrets ever meeting Kaneki but despite her feelings, he bears no hatred.[20]

   After Kaneki was freed from the dragon Kakuja, V agents were seen in the 19th Ward accompanied by Nimura Furuta. Underground a flesh-like egg structure from the dragon kakuja burst and revealed a white-haired Rize which Furuta refers to as his "precious dragon.”[21]

   DragonRizedead Dragon Rize after being killed by Kaneki. After Kaneki defeated Furuta, he climbed the body of Dragon until he reached the core, fighting off huge mouthed kagune's which have hair that resembles Rize's. As Rize herself appears merged with Dragon, Kaneki tells her he will kill her to end the rampage. As a tear rolls down his cheek, he strikes killing her instantly. However, as a result of Rize's demise, the remains of Dragon started to collapse like a landslide. The remains swallowed Kaneki before he could ever escape. Before he was dragged into the darkness, Kaneki heard Rize speaking to him in his apparent hallucination, saying that she was always watching over him.

   Relationships

   Ken Kaneki

   Rize was attracted to Kaneki because of his delicious appearance and himself. Both of them shared many interests. After their date, Rize tried to hunt him down, but failed. At the end, Kaneki, heavily injured, went to a hospital, where Dr. Akihiro Kanou decided to transplant Rize's organs into him.

   A hallucination of Rize appears to Kaneki earlier in the anime, representing the subconsciousness of Kaneki's half ghoul. "Rize" usually haunts Kaneki when he is hungry and needs to eat human meat.

   Matasaka Kamishiro

   As a child, Rize looked up to Shachi, whom she saw as a father. However, as Rize reached adulthood, her binge-eating habit earned her Shachi's rage, and further strained their relationship, and resulted in arguments between the two.[22] She is implied to have caused her foster father's capture, showing she no longer cares for him. However, in her half-crazed starving state, she apologized to her father. On his side, he still considers her as his daughter.

   Kichimura Washuu

   Furuta and Rize knew each other as children. Furuta helped her escape in order to save her; however, Rize appears to not hold much value about his aid, enjoying the freedom she had gained, and hanging out with other men. Because of this, Furuta punished her by dropping the steel beams on her. It is unknown what she thinks of him at the current time.

   Akihiro Kanou

   Rize was pursued by Kanou to become a donor in his experiments to create artificial one-eyed ghouls. He took an interest in her because her kagune was unusually vigorous, though their history prior to Kanou kidnapping her is unknown. Kanou treated her incredibly inhumanely, imprisoning her and starving her.

   Kazuichi Banjou

   Banjou had one-sided romantic feelings for Rize, whom did not care for him at all. He searched for Rize in the 20th ward soon after learning she had supposedly died.

   Powers and Abilities

   Ghoul Physiology: Living as a ghoul, Rize possessed high physical capabilities along with a rinkaku kagune. Rize was considered strong even among powerful ghouls, and her kagune was well capable of taking down multiple opponents in one go.

   Rinkaku Kagune: Her kagune was special because it had an abnormal regenerating factor even among the rinkaku types.[10] She was able to summon up to six tentacle claws, portrayed as bright red in the anime.[9][23] While slim, each claw could cut deeply enough to fatally injure anyone effortlessly, human or ghoul. Yoshimura explained, despite having a superior cellular regeneration, if sufficient damage harmed her vitals then even with a fast recovering body it would not regenerate from fatal wounds; like the steel beam that crushed her waist and ultimately led to her "accident." Dragon Form: As Dragon, Rize's appearance was drastically altered. She had long white hair and a pale face with numerous decorative marks around her eyelids and forehead, and her body was attached to the core of Dragon. She was able to wield numerous massive tentacles similar to the heads of a hydra, each having a mouth with sharp teeth at their edges, and long hair akin to Rize's. Through Dragon, she released a ghoulification toxin into the entirety of Tokyo, turning countless humans into ghouls in the process.

7. #7Juuzou Suzuya

   Keys: Juuzou Suzuya

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Juuzou Suzuya JAPANESE NAME 鈴屋 什造 （すずや じゅうぞう） ROMAJI Suzuya Jūzō ALIAS Rei Suzuya CCG's Jason The Next Arima The Reaper Dragon General SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 19 (Tokyo Ghoul)[1][2] i 22 (Tokyo Ghoul:re)[3] i 23 (after :re Ch. 59) i 29 - 30 (after:re Ch. 179) GENDER Male BORN June 8, 19 BSBI[4][5] [1] i HEIGHT 160 cm / 5'3"[2][4][5] WEIGHT 47 kg / 103 lbs (Tokyo Ghoul)[4][2] 48 kg / 105 lbs (Tokyo Ghoul:re)[5] BLOOD TYPE AB[2][4][5] AFFILIATIONS Ghoul Restaurant (Defected) CCG (Formerly) Suzuya Squad - Squad Leader S3 Squad - Squad Leader TSC - Dragon General OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) Peacekeeper RELATIVES Big Madam (Ex-surrogate parent) † WARD 13th Ward (Currently) 20th Ward (Formerly) QUINQUE Scorpion 1/56 (Bikaku, Rate B)[4] 13's Jason (Rinkaku, Rate S+)[4] Arata Joker (Koukaku) CLASS 72nd[5] DIVISION I[2] RANK Rank 3 (debut) Rank 2 (after Ch. 80)[4] First Class (Joker) Associate Special Class (Tokyo Ghoul:re) Special Class (after :re Ch. 32) TRAINING 2nd Academy Junior[5] HONORS Double White Wing Medal[5] Golden Osmanthus Medal[5] Ryuukitsu Medal[5] Excellent Squad Award[5] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 47 ANIME DEBUT Episode 9 NOVEL DEBUT Void: Chapter 5 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jail SEIYUU Rie Kugimiya ENGLISH VA Maxey Whitehead Image Gallery LESS

   "You shouldn't turn your back on the enemy."

   JUUZOU SUZUYA

   Juuzou Suzuya (鈴屋 什造, Suzuya Jūzō) is a Special Class Ghoul Investigator. In the past, he went by the name Rei Suzuya (鈴屋 玲, Suzuya Rei). He was first partnered with Yukinori Shinohara, and is now currently the leader of Suzuya Squad.

   He was first assigned to the 20th ward and was responsible for the investigation of the Binge Eater. Later, he was assigned to the 13th ward and was investigating the ghoul Nutcracker, along with his squad.

   After Kishou Arima's passing, he was declared by Furuta as The Next Arima (次のアリマ, Tsugi no Arima), the new strongest investigator of the CCG, assuming control of the S3 Squad.

   Appearance

   Suzuya is a young man with an androgynous appearance, characterized by fair skin and pristine shoulder-length white hair. Adorning his hair are red hairpins arranged in the shape of the Roman numeral XIII (13), neatly taming his bangs. His eyes, a deep shade of red, are marked by noticeable bags underneath.

   He self-stitches his own body, explaining it to be a form of body modification. A miniature set of red threads that appeared to be two x's are stitched on below his right eye. One below his bottom lip and a line of several stitching threads from his upper neck downward, and several more around his right arm and hand. His attire consisted of a white suit with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, left halfway buttoned and polka-dotted red suspenders that supported his black pants and a pair of red slippers. He frequently wore a black suit above all this, with rolled up sleeves.

   In the Joker side story and at the start of Tokyo Ghoul:re, Suzuya's appearance changes drastically. His hair is now dyed black and reaches only chin-length. And, his stitches are in a different pattern. His attire consists of a black suit with black dress pant and red suspenders with yellow triangle pattern. He has a prosthetic leg as replacement for his leg that was maimed in the Owl Suppression Operation years ago.

   Later on in Tokyo Ghoul:re, Suzuya's hair has now reached passed shoulder-length once more. He either keeps it tied in a bun above his head or in a ponytail, or without, as was shown in the promotion ceremony. He has also changed the stitch markings below his right eye, returning it to the original two x's. He has removed all stitch markings from below his right lip. He also changed the Roman numeral in his hair, now making it the Roman numeral XX (20), the "Judgement" tarot.

   Personality

   As a child, Suzuya's personality was somewhat normal, albeit a tad twisted, but as a result of Big Madam's treatment, he no longer felt fear, pain, nor did he have any morals. Yukinori Shinohara, his mentor, described him as a "problem child". Despite his childish and playful demeanor, he was also extremely violent and highly disturbed. He usually described his killing methods to be clean, without needless movements, which is a skill he seemed to take pride in. He shows no hesitation to kill someone. He even goes as far as to consider it a part of daily life, and lacks awareness of death's weight.

   Due to his past, he was blamed for the killings of multiple animals done by Goumasa Tokage and Tooru Mutsuki during his time being trained by the CCG, even though he was innocent. Suzuya was used as the scapegoat since nobody doubted he had committed the killings, which averted suspicions from the culprits who were truly responsible. Suzuya is generally distrusting of people who write him off as a problem child - he notices and hates people looking at him with certain "eyes," judging him.

   Because of his lack of emotional understanding, he was willing to confront any opponent head-on, no matter how dangerous they were. This had proven to be disastrous when he decided to take on the Owl alone when cooperation was necessary. Originally, he showed no signs of empathy whatsoever and did not understand the emotions of others. However, when he realized how important Shinohara was to him, he let out a cry of anguish. This demonstrated Suzuya's capability to love and care for individuals close to him. After Shinohara was comatose, Suzuya expressed guilt and remorse for not being able to protect him, deeply bowing and apologizing to his wife, and he also kisses Shinohara on the forehead.

   After the timeskip, Suzuya has matured considerably, becoming more calm and warm towards others. Although he still retains some of his childish traits such as bringing candy into serious meetings, he has become a capable mentor and leader, commanding his own team of investigators. He is now somewhat capable of understanding the predicaments and emotions of others, giving sound advice to Tooru Mutsuki after the latter expressed his fear of fighting. Juuzou has become much more dedicated to the CCG, which is evident when he told Big Madam that he was going to kill her, not because of a personal grudge, but rather it was simply his job to exterminate ghouls. Despite his slight change of character, he is still quite ruthless to ghouls. Plot

   Background

   Juuzou in action Suzuya killing for the first time. Rei Suzuya was kidnapped at a young age and raised as the pet of a powerful and influential ghoul known as Big Madam. He was trained to perform circus acts for ghoul customers, and earned "Good Boy Points" — Big Madam's deceitful system she used to torture him. Eventually, he began working in the Ghoul Restaurant as a Scrapper named "Juuzou." When he killed for the first time, he was sick for several days afterward but eventually his sense of morality faded. Big Madam, who he considered his mother, sometimes dressed him as a girl, and began to worry that he would become ugly as he matured into an adult. To prevent this, she performed a crude castration with a hammer and forced him to live as a girl.[6]

   On the day of the Auction, Suzuya and Mutsuki met Nutcracker disguised as girls. They are drugged during the car ride, taken to the location of the event, and separated from each other. Later during the auction, Uta announced a special item for sale, a beautiful young woman who turned out to be Suzuya. The audience was awed by him, but he took the opportunity to interrupt the auction and revealed the knives hidden inside his prosthetic leg. He stabbed Uta repeatedly in the face, before turning his attention to the ghouls in the audience and the members of Aogiri who rushed onto the stage. Meanwhile, Big Madam recognized him as her former pet.

   Relationships

   Big Madam

   As one of Big Madam's former executioners, Suzuya was trained to become a proficient killer. During his youth, Suzuya would try to satisfy Big Madam as much as possible and always done with a smile, as Big Madam sought for perfection and would torture Suzuya depending on the "scores" he received from her. It was Big Madam who destroyed a part of his genitals in order to make him a doll-like girl, hoping for him to live on as "Rei."

   Eventually, the CCG raided her estate and forced her to flee. Rei was rescued and taken into custody, but his violent behavior caused great concern. Yukinori Shinohara spoke up in his favor, reminding the other officials that Rei was a victim and deserved a second chance. He attended the Academy Junior School at 16, where he was a classmate of Kurona and Nashiro Yasuhisa. There, he gained a reputation for strange and violent behavior — when a former interrogator employed as an instructor named Goumasa Tokage and later Tooru Mutsuki, began killing animals around the Academy, he was made a scapegoat to avoid scandal. As such, he was shunned by his peers and treated as an outcast.[7]

   When he turned 19, Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu personally appointed him a Rank 3 Investigator. To complete his transition into his new life, he was given a new family registry and allowed to choose his own name. He decided on "Juuzou Suzuya," using the alias he had been given as a Scrapper. He was then assigned as the partner of Yukinori Shinohara and sent to the 20th ward.

   Aogiri Arc

   Juuzou steals Ken's wallet Suzuya steals Kaneki's wallet. In his first appearance, Suzuya stole Ken Kaneki's wallet and began to scrutinize the latter's student ID, license, and money, saying that he could not get any sort of food with the three thousand yen he found. He later killed a gang of ghouls that had attacked him because he smelled delicious.[1] After a police officer had arrested him for being suspicious, he was picked up by Shinohara and Koutarou Amon. Because the police officer did not apologize enough for accusing Suzuya, he sucked out his ear bone.[8] Suzuya was later seen at the CCG's 20th Ward Headquarters, where he attended a meeting and explained his "body stitches" to Amon. He also came to a decision to work on the 20th ward, regarding the Binge Eater case alongside Shinohara. He and Shinohara later visited a crime scene, where the bodies of three ghouls were cut into two hundred parts. Shinohara accused Suzuya of the murder, subsequently explaining to him the three main clauses of the Ghoul Countermeasures Law. Suzuya became disappointed when Shinohara refused to give him a quinque, but also listened as Shinohara explained the concepts of ghoul combat — Rc cells, kagune and kakuhou.

   Juuzou breaking the defense with Marude's bike Suzuya infiltrates the Aogiri building. Suzuya participated in the attack on the Aogiri hideout as a member of the 11th Ward Special Countermeasures Unit.[9] First, using Itsuki Marude's motorcycle to enter the building - destroying the bike in the process. He then began killing the members of Aogiri Tree's assault team , which allowed the CCG to enter the hideout. Afterward, he moved separately from the CCG's teams and tracked down Yamori in his hobby room. Suzuya finished Yamori off after he had already been severely injured by Kaneki.[10]

   Afterwards, he went to the CCG Laboratory Division with Shinohara, greeting Kouitsu Chigyou before he received his quinque he named 13's (Juuzou's) Jason which was created from Yamori's kakuhou.

   Raid of Kanou's Lab

   Suzuya was part of the team that assaulted Kanou's underground laboratory. There, he found Nashiro and Kurona, old friends from his time at the Academy. After a brief conversation, they started fighting. Suzuya was injured in his belly but he withstood the pain and injured the overconfident Kurona, stabbing her several times with all the Scorpion quinques he had stolen. When Nashiro came to help her sister he gave her an almost lethal blow with 13's Jason, saying that he knew how to fight ghouls and what hurt them the most. Kurona rescued her sister and left, hoping Dr. Akihiro Kanou could save Nashiro's life. When they left, Suzuya sutured his wounds.[11]

   Later on, he joined Amon in his fight with Kaneki, threw even more Scorpions at the half-ghoul, and attacked him with 13's Jason while criticizing the other doves' performance. After Kaneki escaped he tried to follow him but was stopped by Amon, who told him Shinohara's injuries were more important than the one-eyed ghoul.

   Owl Suppression Operation

   Sitting alone in the zoo, Suzuya recalled his past with Big Madam. He did whatever she said to be praised, even killed people as a Scrapper to appeal to her tastes, but doing this left him mentally scarred while doing so. At a certain point, the CCG raided the ghouls' hideout, freeing and recruiting Suzuya in the process. Walking alone, he came across Goumasa Tokage who had just finished slaughtering a cat. Surprised by the sight, Suzuya lifted his hand towards the dead animal ahead of him. After being seen, he was blamed and shunned by his classmates for the animal killings. In the chairman's office later on, Suzuya was allowed into the Bureau under Special Class Shinohara's care.[citation needed]

   While Suzuya continued to draw animals in the zoo, Shinohara approached him and gave him information for their next operation. Shinohara told Suzuya it was about suppressing the SSS-rated ghoul called the Non-Killing Owl, making Suzuya excited.

   Suzuya vs. Owl Suzuya vs. the One-Eyed Owl. During the Owl's suppression, Suzuya joined in on the attack while being able to land consecutive hits against him. The fight continued, as the Owl began to flee, Suzuya confronted him alone and managed to slash the Owl's left arm off, but he ended up losing his right leg in the process. Congratulating Shinohara on defeating the SSS-rated ghoul, the real One-Eyed Owl appeared in its full kakuja form and attacked the investigators. Suzuya watched as the One-Eyed Owl chopped off Shinohara's leg, making Suzuya remember the times he spent with Shinohara and the things he had learned from him. Suzuya rushed towards the One-Eyed Owl but fell down multiple times on the way. After failing to save Shinohara from the ghoul, Suzuya screamed out because of the sight before him. As the Owl started mixing Shinohara's insides, Suzuya threw multiple knives towards it, he charged towards it trying to injure the one-eyed in some way but failed to do so. He later fainted after getting flicked off to the side.

   Post-Owl Suppression Operation

   Juuzou saying good night to Shinohara "Good Night." In the aftermath of the Owl Suppression Operation, he matured and became more composed, expressing gratitude towards Shinohara and regretted that he was unable to save him when speaking with his wife. In his last scene, Suzuya told the comatose Shinohara he would continue working hard for the both of them and kissed his forehead telling him good night.

   One-shot JOKER

   Suzuya appeared as a First Class Investigator, introduced by one of his subordinates, Hanbee Abara, who admired him.

   At an investigation meeting, Suzuya's team was currently investigating a group of ghouls called the Skull Masks. Akira Mado mentioned that the Skull Masks had managed to acquire more members, and their range for food had expanded as well. They came to a decision to eliminate the Skull Masks' leader.

   On Kurashiki Street, Suzuya and his team begin investigating, whereby Suzuya mentioned that his killing method must be done without unnecessary movements, which was a skill that only he wielded within the entire team. The group decided to split up, looking for traces of the Skull Masks' leader.

   When Abara tried to muster up the courage to save a young woman from sexual molestation; Suzuya intervened, dealing with the matter instead. Suzuya suggested that they follow the man off the train, saying that he had a foul, suspicious scent. He pointed out Abara's uselessness since he did not have the courage to do anything earlier. Suzuya inquired why Abara even wanted to be an investigator, to which he responded that he was attacked by a ghoul as a child, and his father tried to protect him; losing both legs in the process. Abara had wanted to save his father, but never had the courage.

   13's Jason - Joker Suzuya killing the members of the Skull Masks. Upon hearing screams, they raced to the underground section of the train station, where they saw the bespectacled molester from earlier — with his hand chopped off by a member of the Skull Masks. He was believed to be the leader of the group, and as Suzuya prepared to fight him, they are surrounded by a horde of ghouls. However, since Abara lacked courage once again, Suzuya decided to fight on his own. He dashed through, slashing all the ghouls with his blade. The leader countered with his kagune, but Suzuya retrieved his quinque from a briefcase, only to be damaged in a short time span. Abara at this point finally mustered up the bravery, and impaled the leader with his katana, making Suzuya proud.

   As everything went back to normal with the investigation solved, Suzuya suggested they go to a doughnut shop.

   Later on, Suzuya remarked that another character was fortunate in keeping his legs after being attacked by a ghoul — a reference to the loss of his own leg.

8. #8Juuzou weapons

   Keys: Juuzou’s weapons

   Powers and Abilities

   Suzuya possesses amazing physical abilities, allowing him to easily match most ghouls in combat. His physical abilities are so impressive that CCG personal claimed that he doesn't even need to attend the Academy and can enter active duty immediately, even though he was just a teenager.[6]

   Superhuman Strength: Suzuya's strength substentially belies his slight build; he is strong enough to easily handle the large 13's (Juuzou's) Jason quinque, even while also carrying the entire Scorpion 1/56 set.[34]

   Superhuman Speed: Suzuya is incredibly fast and nimble, able to move literally faster than the eye can see; in fact, even most ghouls can't keep up with him in combat. During CCG operations, he was often shown swiftly slaughtering multiple ghouls.[9][11]

   Superhuman Agility: Similarly to ghouls, Suzuya can easily jump very high and manouver on narrow surfaces. During combat, he often employs flips and other impressive acrobatic feats.[9][34]

   Pain Tolerance: Due to Big Madam's treatment, Suzuya became practically numb to pain. During his time with Big Madam, Suzuya could handle hooks going through the back of his body.[6] After getting his stomach cut open, Suzuya could still fight and beat Kurona and Nashiro without any difficulties.[34][11] Suzuya was still able to consistently fight the One-Eyed Owl after he had lost a leg.[35]

   Swordsmanship: Being able to use his quinque to destructive abilities, Suzuya can use the strength of his attacks to efficiently subdue ghouls and even slice off one of the Owl's arms.[36]

   Scorpion 1/56: A bikaku quinque that takes the form of a flat-headed switchblade. Having great skill with the blade, Suzuya can quickly pinpoint a throwing knife and easily execute ghouls. These quinques are simple yet effective.[37] 13's (Juuzou's) Jason: A rinkaku quinque that takes the form of a scythe with a jagged and squared blade. When using this blade, Suzuya can easily slice through multiple ghouls and use the gimmick to pierce a half-kakuja ghoul.[38] The quinque had been damaged by Kurona's kakuja but later repaired and used to defend the 19th Ward Branch Office against the ghoul attack. Arata Joker: A koukaku kakuja quinque that is capable of attaching itself to the user and be used as an armor. It enhances the user's speed and allowed Suzuya to ambush his targets so quickly, his target could not keep up with his movements. This armor also has a claw function that was capable of bisecting an SS-rated ghoul with relative ease. Like the previous Arata quinque, it consumes the user, as it caused Suzuya to bleed heavily.[17]

   Submachine gun: During the 11th Ward Battle, Suzuya was armed with a submachine gun that resembled a MAC-11. When charging the base, he used the weapon to slaughter every ghoul inside.[9]

   Prosthesis: Since losing his right leg below the knee in the battle against the Owl, Suzuya has been fitted with an advanced prosthetic leg. He can detach his prosthetic leg and attack non-expecting ghouls with the blades hidden inside

   Yukinori Shinohara

   The relationship between Shinohara and Suzuya is similar to that of father and son; Shinohara usually treated Suzuya to donuts, but did not hesitate to lecture him after he had brutally murdered three ghouls without practicing the clauses of the Ghoul Countermeasure Laws. Shinohara is proven to be very important to Suzuya, as seen when he let out a cry of anguish when Shinohara received a fatal blow, and expressed regret over being unable to save him. Shinohara now remains at the hospital, living the rest of his days in a vegetative state until he eventually recovered, much to Suzuya's joy.

9. #9Kichimura Washuu

   Keys: Kichimura Washuu

   CHARACTERISTICS NAME Kichimura Washuu JAPANESE NAME 和修 吉福 旧多 二福 和修旧多 宗太 ROMAJI Washū Kichimura Furuta Nimura Washū-Furuta Sōta ALIAS Souta PG Washuu King[1] SPECIES Artificial One-eyed ghoul[2] Half-human[3] (Formerly)[4] STATUS Deceased AGE ~20 (until Ch. 79) ~21 (from Ch. 80) ~23 (Tokyo Ghoul:re) ~24 (from :re Ch. 32)[6] ~25 GENDER Male BORN February 29[5] HEIGHT 175 cm / 5'9"[5] WEIGHT 66 kg / 146 lbs[5] BLOOD TYPE AB[5] AFFILIATIONS CCG (Resigned) Washuu Clan V Sunlit Garden Akihiro Kanou (Formerly) Clowns Ghoul Restaurant (Formerly) OCCUPATION Bureau Director (Formerly) Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) RELATIVES Yoshiu Washuu (Paternal Grandfather) † Tsuneyoshi Washuu (Father) †[1] Kichimura Washuu's mother Yoshitoki Washuu (Paternal Half-brother) †[1] Kishou Arima (Paternal Half-brother) † Rize Kamishiro (Paternal Half-sister) † Hairu Ihei (Paternal Half-sister) † Numerous Half-siblings Matsuri Washuu (Nephew)[1] Iyo Washuu (Niece-in-law) Washuu Clan (Branch Family) RC TYPE Rinkaku[4] UNIQUE STATES Kakuja[8] QUINQUE Tsunagi (Bikaku, Rate C) Rotten Follow (Rinkaku, Rate S) RANK Bureau Director (Formerly)[7] Rank 1 (until Ch. 117) MANGA DEBUT Chapter 37 (as Souta) Chapter 92 (as Akihiro Kanou's bodyguard) Chapter 117 (unnamed cameo as Furuta) :re Chapter 33 (as Furuta) ANIME DEBUT Episode 4 (as Souta) :re Episode 2 (as Furuta) SEIYUU Ōki Sugiyama (Souta) Daisuke Kishio (Furuta) ENGLISH VA Dave Trosko Image Gallery LESS

   "At Aogiri's hideout, when you tried to protect yourself from an overwhelmingly powerful foe... When you tried to protect that café in the 20th Ward... When you tried to protect your false family as Haise Sasaki... When you tried to protect the nation of ghoulkind as the One-Eyed King... You failed every single time! Man, it really was exhilarating to watch! No matter how you writhe and wriggle, there are things in this world you simply cannot change! And yes! Today, too, you will fall! Everything will have been for naught!"

   KICHIMURA WASHUU, TO KEN KANEKI

   Kichimura Washuu (和修 吉福, Washū Kichimura) was the primary antagonist of the Tokyo Ghoul series and the former Bureau Director of the CCG. He was involved in numerous organizations and responsible for several major events of the series.

   He was originally Souta Washuu-Furuta (和修旧多 宗太, Washū-Furuta Sōta), the illegitimate son of former CCG Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu and an agent of V raised in the Sunlit Garden. While working as a Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator, he used the alias of Nimura Furuta (旧多 二福, Furuta Nimura).

   To further his own agenda, he has used various identities to infiltrate organizations or build personal alliances. As a member of the Clowns, he goes by the name Souta (宗太, Sōta) and was responsible for the Steel Beam Incident. He also joined the Ghoul Restaurant as PG, and has been a partner in Akihiro Kanou's ghoulification experiments. Like Ken Kaneki, he is an artificial one-eyed ghoul who possesses Rize Kamishiro's kagune.

   While posing as a seemingly unremarkable investigator, he was partnered with Shiki Kijima. After his superior's death, he became the partner of Haise Sasaki in order to monitor him for his superiors in V. During the Third Cochlea Raid, he used the chaos to stage a coup d'etat of the Washuu Clan with the assistance of members of the Clowns and V. He then declares himself the Washuu King (和修の王, Washū no Ō), in contrast to Kaneki claiming the title of the One-Eyed King.

   Using the Clown Siege as a front, he successfully established himself as head of the CCG and removed Matsuri Washuu from the succession. Following the emergence of Dragon from the 24th Ward, Kichimura had resigned from his position.

   ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

   1/2

   Furuta was fairly tall and had dark, medium-length black hair that was parted on his right. A mole laid near the bottom right corner of his right eye. He wore a black overcoat on top of his suit with a bow tie, like Kijima did. He occasionally wore a trench coat with dark-colored gloves.[9]

   After the Clown Siege and as Bureau Director, he wore black robes with light-colored detailing.[10] He gained a large scar on the left side of his face as a result of his brief encounter with Dragon, which is covered by his hair.

   As the Clown Souta, he always hid his face by wearing his clown mask. He also wore a brown wig and wore a heavily padded business suit to make himself look fat and bulky to truly hide his identity, though his voice remained the same.

   Personality

   At first, Furuta appeared to have a normal and quiet personality. He seemed very polite and soft-spoken, respecting of his superiors, and acted horrified when they were in danger. He was praised and highly regarded by Kijima as a talented associate, enough that he was trusted to act as bait during an ambush of Rose's hunting party.

   However, that was a facade used to mask his true motivations and allegiances. In truth, Furuta cared little for other investigators and would manipulate and kill them or even use them as human shields. In contrast to his previous demeanor, Furuta delighted in mocking others and often giving somewhat flippant remarks to his superiors or those he disliked. He could be quite gruesome at times as he made Shunji Shiono into a pâté and fed it to Eto as a meal. Repeatedly, Furuta had displayed a very duplicitous nature, capable of even infiltrating the Clowns and disguising his intentions in order to further his plans.

   In spite of this, when looking past Furuta's many masks and faces, he's in fact a broken man who knew he was destined to live a short life. From a very early age, Furuta knew that humans like him would die early deaths as a result of his predecessor's actions, so he decided he'd "destroy" everything since then. His world view is a nihilistic one; everything will end, so it's not wrong to take advantage of the "toy box" and have fun.

   In his final moments, he revealed that he truly wanted to live a normal life, rather than living one fated to be short and painful.

   Powers and Abilities

   Half-Human Physiology: Born as a failed half-ghoul, Furuta had increased physical capabilities as well as a shortened life span.[3]

   Ghoul Physiology: After gaining Rize's kakuhou, Furuta had an increased healing factor along with a rinkaku kagune.[4]

   Rinkaku Kagune: Furuta displayed his kagune in his fight against Eto, possessing one to two tentacles that could easily slice through Eto’s kakuja while she was in a weakened state.[2] During his fight with Marude, he could produce three tentacles with spikes, each resembling Kaneki's first centipede-like incomplete kakuja. One of the tentacles were able to produce a wide mouth with teeth. During the defense of Tokyo, Furuta brandished four massive and thorned tentacles similar to the ones developed by Dragon, easily shredding into an unprepared Kaneki. During his duel with Kaneki, Furuta's kagune became a large black mass with multiple eyes that worked in the manner of tentacles, able to expand through large distances and form into numerous spikes. Rinkaku Kakuja: Furuta possessed a Rinkaku Kakuja that covered over him as a body armour with a flesh pattern. In his Kakuja form, Furuta was capable of developing a pair of centipede-like tentacles with spikes at their sides and large eyes surrounding their length. His face was covered in flesh with a set of large sharp teeth and a single flaring eye. Superhuman Strength: When he provoked an investigator, he ripped off Matsumae’s kagune without any problems and proceeded to throw it with a force strong enough to crack the wall behind the dead investigator.[20] Superhuman Regeneration: Furuta displayed a high capability of regeneration, being able to survive getting impaled through the stomach, bombarded by countless firearms, exploded by a launcher, and torn apart by a berserk Kaneki in Kakuja. He was capable of regenerating his body nearly immediately, reattaching severed limbs, and even recreating the clothes he wore. Swordsmanship: When wielding his quinque, Furuta used it in a destructive manner and sliced up the things around him.[30]

   Tsunagi : A bikaku-type mass-produced sword quinque. He seemed to have temporarily abandoned it during his fight with Matsumae in favor of Rotten Follow. Rotten Follow: A chainsaw quinque powered by a rinkaku-type kakuhou. Furuta inherited this quinque from his deceased former superior Kijima, and used it for the first time to attack and finish off Matsumae during the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation. Katana: The same Katana blade brandished by V, Furuta wielded this weapon with masterful precision, and seemed to often rely on it after becoming the Bureau Chief. It is unknown whether this Katana is a quinque, however it seems to possess the ability to slice into even the strongest of ghouls.

   Plot

   Prologue

   In the past, Furuta was a ghoul investigator raised in the Sunlit Garden as the youngest of the Furuta Branch Family. Kishou Arima took interest in him for his remarkable abilities. One day, when reading the records of the Washuu family tree, he discovered that everyone in the branch family had died around the age of 30. Upon being discovered by Tsuneyoshi, he replied that he'd live life to it's fullest. As children, Furuta was in love with Rize Kamishiro, his half-sister, and helped her escape the Washuu. At some point, he came up to Uta under the disguise of Souta, expressing his wish to join the Clowns. He claimed to be a ghoul investigator, showing his badge, which amused Uta. He orchestrated the steel beam incident that gravely injured Rize Kamishiro and incidentally saved Ken Kaneki.[11] Heavily injured, they were transported to Kanou General Hospital, where Rize's kakuhou was transplanted into Kaneki's body.[12]

   Gourmet Arc

   As Souta, he lured Ami to the Ghoul Restaurant by pretending to be in a relationship with her and promising to marry her. In reality, he offered her as one of the three courses of the meal, to the members of the restaurant.[13] He watched alongside Madam A as the ghoul Taro killed Ami and Kobachi, expressing wonder when the final course, Kaneki, was revealed to be a one-eyed ghoul.

   Aogiri Arc

   Souta and Nico Souta and Nico conversate outside the Aogiri Hideout. After the invasion of the Aogiri hideout, Furuta accompanied Nico under the identity of Souta and asked him if the One-Eyed King really did exist. However, Nico denied the King's existence, then whispered more details into his ear. He later complained about Nico ignoring him but was happy with Nico's last decision to be more active with him and the other Clowns.[14]

   Prelude to Owl Suppression Operation

   When Touka Kirishima visited Kamii University, she mistook Furuta for Ken Kaneki.[15]

   Owl Suppression Operation

   After Kaneki's defeat by Arima, Kaneki recalled his last moments before the steel beams fell on Rize. He remembered Souta stood above them holding up a peace sign before fading out of consciousness. Rize's last words to Souta began as a question she was not able to finish.[11] After the raid, he celebrated with the other Clowns.[16]

   Rose Extermination

   After Haise Sasaki had a meeting with Hinami in Cochlea, Furuta alongside Kijima greeted the First Class and continued on their way afterwards.[17]

   Later, Furuta acted as a drunk businessman loitering around possible Rose hunting grounds, complaining about his superior. He then successfully lured a Rose hunting group to attack him, falling into the CCG's ambush.[9]

   Both Kijima and Furuta greeted Sasaki again at the S1 meeting. He was in favor of Sasaki's Mask Operation and was one of six that voted for it.[18]

   He later joined in the assault on the Luna Eclipse, and was on standby when Kijima and Hairu Ihei fought Matsumae and other Tsukiyama family servants. When Kijima's quinque dug into its owner's head, Furuta looked at the scene with horror. He contacted Koori Ui to inquire about when reinforcements will arrive, and proceeded to use Okahira, a fellow investigator, as a human shield against Matsumae. When asked what he was doing, Furuta calmly replied he was doing as he was told and standing behind him. He then proceeded to destroy Matsumae's eyes barehanded before he stepped over Kijima's body to kill Matsumae with Rotten Follow, apologizing to Mr. MM.[19]

   Furuta using Okahira as a meat shield re anime Furuta using Okahira as a meat shield. Some time later, Koori Ui and his squad arrived to discover a scene of carnage. Furuta was collapsed against a pillar appearing to be badly beaten, as the only survivor of the battle. He reported that two of Tsukiyama's bodyguards managed to kill everyone, but Furuta actually tore Matsumae's kagune free and used it to kill the other surviving investigator to cover his tracks. While a vehicle was called to transport the bodies, he appeared to break down in tears over the death of his partner, but was actually hysterically laughing.[20]

   After the battle was over and the CCG transported the bodies of the killed investigators, several members of Aogiri Tree attacked the transport vehicles and stole Ginshi Shirazu's corpse. Furuta watched the scene, holding his smartphone in his hands, while smiling and singing "Donna Donna."[21]

   Post-Rose Extermination

   Sasaki and Furuta approaching Shiono Sasaki and Furuta approach Shiono. Six months after the Tsukiyama Operation, he was partnered with Haise Sasaki, who he accompanied in visiting Shunji Shiono, Sen Takatsuki's editor.[22] After Sasaki interrogated Shiono, Sasaki told him via phone that the interrogation had not produced results yet. In turn, Furuta reported they still needed time to search Takatsuki's room. Sasaki instructed Furuta to continue to search the room, and expressed his trust in Furuta's abilities since Kijima told him Furuta was quite talented with arranging documents, to which Furuta retorted that it is the only thing he was good at. Sasaki then ordered him to play the "good cop" with Shiono. Some time later, he offered katsudon to the man.[23]

   After investigating Takatsuki's room he reported to Sasaki that he found nothing of interest and tried to put everything back as best he could. Furuta was concerned about investigating a private residence without a warrant, but Sasaki said he did not care about the consequences so long as he got results. Furuta laughed and teased him for being a subpar employee. He brought up the Quinx Squad hearing that they have been doing well. Furuta briefly informed Sasaki of the status of each Quinx, but Sasaki showed little interest in the new members.

   At some later point in time, he was approached by Kishou Arima and informed that V had summoned them.[24]

   Answering the summon, Arima and Furuta were greeted by Kaiko in a massive chamber that appeared to belong to the organization. Kaiko questioned whether they believed that Takatsuki was the One-Eyed King. Furuta gave a flippant response and was chided for his lack of manners, and mentally noted that Kaiko's manners were not any better. The two men were given orders by their apparent superior, with Arima assigned to take care of "that" related to Rize, while Furuta continued to observe Kaneki and Eto for the organization.[25]

   Furuta Briefing Sasaki Furuta speaks with Sasaki about the uproar caused by Eto. Furuta spoke with Sasaki about the fiasco Eto started at the press conference. The response that Eto was a ghoul and CCG had taken her into custody was big enough that they were overwhelmed with phone calls that gave various opinions. He asked Sasaki if he had a chance to read her new novel, King Bileygr. Sasaki gave him a brief explanation of what the book was about; how on the surface it looked like a regular work of fiction. However, since Eto had dedicated the book to her ghoul comrades, the book took on a different meaning if one recognized the clues.[26]

   Afterwards, Furuta visited Eto in her cell, complimenting her new haircut and telling her it suited her, to which she replied with a smile, demanding him silence and calling him Kanou's Clown.[27] Furuta was amused by Eto's extensive knowledge and flaunts his own about Aogiri. Eto went over the mischievous things he had done over the years since working for Kanou, like collecting samples for ghoulification experiments, alerting Aogiri to the transport of a Quinx body, and the steel beam incident. Eto expressed confusion over how his actions related to V, but Furuta denied revealing his motives. He diverted the conversation towards Eto's own goals, confused himself about why she would not rather stay on Rushima, but Eto claimed that she had nothing left to do. Furuta found her attitude attractive and began to flirt, stating his desire to dominate her until Eto expressed her curiosity about what he wanted with her. He wanted to know about the One-Eyed King and was willing to make a trade: reveal the King's identity and Eto would be allowed to live in the VIP rooms of Cochlea until she died.[28]

   Furuta reveals that he's Souta Furuta reveals he is Souta. Furuta talked a bit about his predecessors, about how they have long learned how to control the masses if they diverted their attention to a common enemy. As long as they upheld the status quo, they could get away with whatever they liked. However, Eto and the One-Eyed King were irregular enemies and made things difficult. Eto expressed relief that they did not know anything about the One-Eyed King and Furuta went over his efforts to uncover information, from sneaking into the Ghoul Restaurant to joining the Clowns. His efforts were fruitless, however, as even those in the know knew nothing and even one source claimed the One-Eyed King did not exist. Eto affirmed that the King did indeed exist and was "in their bellies." Furuta tried to enforce that the current sense equilibrium was ideal and that Eto's attempt at revolution would only harbor pain and sadness, but Eto called out the hypocrisy as ghouls got the short end of the stick. Seeing as Eto did not provide the information he sought, Furuta ended the meeting, begun to walk away and grinned at the prospect of her execution and the spectacle he would make when it happened. Eto referred to him as "Washuu" and taunted him for not being able address his own father as "father" while tossing other insults. He lost his composure and repeatedly told her to die, but Eto only mocked him.[28]

   The event triggered a memory from his youth where he encountered a young Rize and inquired if she was also "bred," which she affirmed. To himself, Furuta muttered he would punish Eto hard for that. Sasaki approached him and commented on his pallor and Furuta quickly tried to compose himself, claimed illness, and took his leave.[28]

   Third Cochlea Raid

   Some time later, he paid another visit to Eto. He feigned hurt feelings in response to her cold attitude, and revealed that he was there to serve her meal made from the corpse of Shunji Shiono. Furuta praised the man's efforts to see Eto's final work published, but confirmed that he was killed as punishment for his involvement in releasing King Bileygr. He showed off the patě he had prepared, and slid the container into Eto's cell. Any further interaction was interrupted by alarms going off in the prison, and he rushed off to meet with Warden Shinme Haisaki. Assuming his meek and clumsy persona, Furuta checked on the situation and learned that Sasaki had begun freeing prisoners.[29]

   Hinami pierces Furuta with her kagune Hinami impales Furuta with her kagune. He managed to intercept Sasaki and Hinami Fueguchi as they sought to escape through an alternate route, and questioned what his boss was doing. Furuta took on a comical demeanor, stated that he was going to miss his "kid boss" and attacked with Rotten Follow. His seemingly-wild swings with the chainsaw missed, but he managed to catch Sasaki's leg before being tossed into a wall. One of his front teeth got knocked out by the impact, and Furuta rolled around on the ground in an exaggerated fashion before he retrieved his tooth. He shoved the tooth back into place, and went for Sasaki's eyes in a "thumb attack." However, Hinami impaled him from behind with her kagune and threw him aside. The two exited the area and left him for dead.[30]

   Nimura revealing that he's a Ghoul Furuta reveals himself as a one-eyed ghoul. As Ayato's group proceeded through the compactor to escape Cochlea, Furuta reactivated the pressing machine and crushed the ghouls inside while numerous members of V stood behind him.[31] However, the group was ambushed by an enraged Eto who obliterated the machines and killed several V members. Furuta observed Eto's gigantic kakuja in fear, while the latter stated that she would kill him.[32] Furuta was further pursued by Eto in her kakuja form, who effortlessly killed the rest of the V members in the group while she mocked him in order to coax him into fighting as Furuta tried to "reason" with her. As Eto cornered him to a wall, Furuta unleashed his kagune to cut Eto's kakuja to pieces, which revealed the kakugan in his right eye.[2] Furuta defeated Eto in combat and noticed that the Owl quinque had been destroyed. He claimed he was glad for having Kanou's operation done, and affirmed Eto's inquiring about the nature of his kagune being Rize's. He confidently said he would accomplish his goals and kill the One-Eyed King. When Eto asked what his true intentions were, he responded that he wanted "super peace", and danced away.

10. #10Yoshimura

    Keys: Yoshimura

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Kuzen Yoshimura JAPANESE NAME 芳村 （よしむら） ROMAJI Yoshimura ALIAS Kuzen Manager (店長 Tenchō) Non-Killing Owl SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Male BLOOD TYPE A AFFILIATIONS V (Defected) Anteiku (Formerly) OCCUPATION Cleaner (Formerly) Cafe Owner (Formerly) RELATIVES Ukina (Lover) † Eto Yoshimura (Daughter) WARD 20th ward RC TYPE Ukaku UNIQUE STATES Kakuja RATING SSS[1] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Episode 1 NOVEL DEBUT Days: Chapter 1 (Mentioned) Days: Chapter 2 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jail SEIYUU Takayuki Sugō Taiten Kusunoki (Kuzen) ENGLISH VA Sean Hennigan Jason Douglas (Kuzen) STAGE PLAY Tadayoshi Katō FILM ACTOR Kunio Murai Image Gallery LESS This article is about the Non-Killing Owl. For other uses, see Owl (disambiguation). "Acts of taking are equally evil. We, from the moment of birth, continue to take: food, people that got involved with us, even our own flesh and blood. For as long as we live, we continue to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself. I am aware of it, I am evil... and so are you all."

    YOSHIMURA

    Yoshimura (芳村, Yoshimura) is an SSS-rated ghoul and was the manager of the Anteiku café. He tries to help ghouls who cannot hunt or kill human beings for themselves due to his love of both species. He, at one point, takes in Ken Kaneki, a human-ghoul hybrid, and shows him the way of living as a ghoul.

    Before, under the moniker of the One-Eyed Owl (隻眼の梟, Sekigan no Fukurō), he repeatedly tried to cover up for the real Owl's behavior, who was really his daughter Eto who he had with a human named Ukina when he went by the name Kuzen (功善, Kuzen). Later, when the CCG realizes there are two Owls, the ghoul investigators begin to call him the Non-Killing Owl (不殺の梟, Fusatsu no Fukurō). Following the Owl Suppression Operation he is captured for his kakuhou to be used to create the Owl-series of artificial one-eyed ghouls.

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    Yoshimura has swept back white hair and his eyes are usually closed. A tall, powerful man who is commonly in a formal waiter uniform. When traveling he dons a black cloak and hat. He frequently smiles with his head held high and arms behind the back. With a tranquilizing composure and a discreet nature, Yoshimura is both an enigma and a gentleman. While he was younger, he had black hair.

    Yoshimura's ghoul mask covers half of his face with a hooked beak that resembles an owl. In his kakuja form, Yoshimura's kagune creates a mask that resembles the One-Eyed Owl's mask, with minor differences in the mouth lines' length and eye holes' curve.

    Young Kuzen before joining V. Young Kuzen before joining V. Kuzen when he brought Eto to the 24th ward. Kuzen when he brought Eto to the 24th ward. Yoshimura's mask. Yoshimura's mask. ADVERTISEMENT

    Personality

    A kind and generous old man, the manager shows that he is both wise and reasonable even among the ghouls. People like Nishiki Nishio often question his motives on how and why it is that he has come to be a solemn peacemaker in the 20th ward, but he is nonetheless reliable and great for those who serve him. As head of his organization Anteiku, he is not afraid to assert his authority, but his demands are mostly agreeable to Anteiku's members. Although rare among the ghouls, Yoshimura holds equal regard to both ghouls and humans.

    His kind and fair nature is a stark contrast to what Yoshimura was in the past. During his early years as Kuzen, Yoshimura had a loner's mentality. He was too strong and his strength isolated him from others. He avoided others and closed his heart to anyone he came across. He resented his existence as a ghoul, seeing himself as a curse that killed others in order to stay alive.

    After meeting Ukina, his personality took a change for the better. He began to slowly open up to her and eventually came to love her immensely. It is through his relationship with Ukina that Yoshimura decided to create Anteiku and develop his goal to help those like his past self and other ghouls or humans in need. This is best represented with the birth of his child, a bridge between ghouls and humans.

    Yoshimura feels strong paternal love for his child and will do anything in his might to protect her: He seeked to hide his child in the 24th ward from V's eyes and became a substitute for the One-Eyed Owl in the 2nd ward attack on the CCG HQ to divert V's attention from his child.

    Yoshimura values life and shuns people and ghouls alike if they kill. Because of his ideology, in the third attack by "Owl" on the 2nd Ward Branch Office, and even in the CCG raid on Aogiri's 11th Ward Base, he did not kill anyone, only injuring those he attacked.

    Although he has forsaken killing since leaving V, Yoshimura is clearly aware of how his past actions have caused irreversible damage to others. As a result, Yoshimura sees himself as "evil" and is willing to accept death at the hands of his enemies should it ever happen. Despite this sense of self-loathing, he is still willing to kill in extremely desperate situations to protect those that are precious to him, such as his subordinates. ADVERTISEMENT

    Plot

    Past

    The man who eventually became Yoshimura was known as Kuzen. Kuzen was a ghoul who lived a bleak and resentful existence. As a ghoul, he ate humans to survive but took it further by eating other ghouls as well. Although Kuzen cursed his existence as a ghoul, he continued down upon it nonetheless. As his strength and abilities increased, Kuzen's name and reputation spread far and wide and came to the knowledge of an organization known as V. V offered Kuzen a position as a "cleaner" within their organization. Kuzen decided to accept their proposition. As one of V's "cleaners," he satisfied his hunger and expenses by wiping out rival human and ghoul organizations. Although Kuzen did not need to worry about basic needs such as hunger, he did not see the organization as his home but rather an employer. As a result, Kuzen continued to live a lonely solitary life. However one day while ordering a coffee in a café he often frequented, he met the human waitress named Ukina. Despite being a solitary person, Kuzen gradually grew closer to Ukina as he frequented the café, opening himself to her that he otherwise would not with other people.

    Yoshimuraukinaeto Kuzen and Ukina, with Eto. At some point, Ukina was able to find out Kuzen's true identity. Kuzen contemplated killing her but Ukina embraced him and saw how lonely his life had been. This event deepened Kuzen's love for Ukina and the two became lovers and she was eventually pregnant with Kuzen's child. Kuzen wanted to have the child, but he knew that the odds of a human-ghoul hybrid surviving pregnancy was extremely low because the child would starve to death within the womb. Kuzen frankly informed Ukina about this and that a "miracle" was needed in order for their child to survive. Throughout Ukina's pregnancy, Kuzen observed her eating human meat. This helped increase the child's survival rate and eventually lived to survive birth.

    As Kuzen and Ukina lived together raising their child they named Eto, Kuzen noticed Ukina's diary and discovered Ukina was not a waitress but a journalist who was chasing V and discovered many of their secrets. Both Kuzen and Ukina were not aware of each other's affiliations and met by chance. V eventually discovered their relationship and ordered Kuzen to kill Ukina in order to protect themselves. Since the organization was too strong to oppose, Kuzen sadly killed Ukina. After her death, Kuzen left V and left his child to Noroi, an acquaintance in the 24th ward, knowing the area was far enough to escape from V's grasp.

    Arima vs Fake Owl Yoshimura vs. Arima. As time passed, Kuzen, now going by the name of Yoshimura, heard of the appearance of the One-Eyed Owl, a ghoul that hated the world. He became convinced this ghoul was his child. Yoshimura had heard his child had been heavily wounded in a battle against the CCG. Fearing the organization V might find out about his child and target her, Yoshimura attacked the 2nd ward for a third time alone in his child's place.[2] The CCG's team was unable to exterminate Yoshimura. However, the genius Rank 2 Investigator Kishou Arima used the Special Class investigators' quinques as he went up against Owl. Finally, he defeated Owl, leading to the CCG's victory. Owl, fatally wounded, vanished after this day ten years before.[1]

    Differences in the anime

    In the anime, Ukina was killed by the organization while she and Kuzen were running away from them.[3]

    Prologue

    At the time Kaneki went to Anteiku asking help from Touka Kirishima, Yoshimura offered him human meat to satisfy his hunger after Touka's refusal.[4]

    After treating Hideyoshi Nagachika and the incident between Nishiki Nishio and Kaneki, he listened to Kaneki's regret of almost hurting his friend and his inability to live as a human nor a ghoul. Yoshimura assured him that he was wrong in that thinking, and he in fact was the only one who has two worlds in which to belong. He then offered Kaneki to join Anteiku as a part-time waiter in order to learn how a ghoul lived in the human world.[5]

    Doves' Emergence

    Yoshimura had afterwards used a lie about a car accident to cover up what had really happened to Kaneki and Hide in the incident with Nishiki and explained it to Kaneki.

    Yoshimura later observed Kaneki's first attempts at making coffee and ensured his awareness of the occasional mix of human and ghoul customers. Before leaving, Yoshimura mentions the humans with large handbags or briefcases and he adds that he must be discreetly told if one were to enter the shop. Near the end of the day, Yoshimura showed Kaneki how to eat sandwiches like a human. He then gave Kaneki "sugar cubes" to curb his hunger after giving him tips to practice eating human food.

    Some time after, when Ryouko Fueguchi and Hinami visited Anteiku, Yoshimura gave packages of meat to them.[6]

    As the news spread in the 20th ward about the ghoul investigators, Yoshimura asked Touka to guide Kaneki to the mask shop HySy ArtMask Studio in the 4th ward.[7]

    On another day, the manager asked Kaneki to obtain "food supplies" with Renji Yomo, i.e., they looked for humans who committed suicide.[8]

    During the time Touka willed to avenge Ryouko Fueguchi, he refused to get involved with the Doves. However, Yoshimura was present at the place where Kaneki, Touka, and Hinami Fueguchi clashed with Koutarou Amon and Kureo Mado. And after the incident, he was glad the "human self" of Kaneki sided with the ghouls.

    Gourmet Arc

    Yoshimura made a speech about the ghouls who killed their emotions and forgot the value of life, after Kaneki escaped from the Ghoul Restaurant. Later he and Yomo discussed Shuu Tsukiyama's danger that was approaching Kaneki, it ended with Yoshimura's decision to leave Kaneki dealing with the danger by himself so he could grow up more.

    Aogiri Arc

    Kaneki was abducted while Yoshimura was away on business, possibly gathering information as to the condition of the 11th ward. After learning about his abduction, Yoshimura returned to Anteiku and told the ghouls gathered there that they would probably no longer have any contact with Kaneki, due to the situation.

    Touka, Hinami Fueguchi, and Nishiki told Yoshimura that they would save Kaneki even if he would not, at which point he stated he wanted to confirm if they were willing to throw away their lives.

    During the invasion of the CCG into Aogiri Tree's base consisting of several buildings, Yoshimura told Kaya Irimi and Hinami that he would buy time after the two had pinpointed the Special Class ghoul investigators carrying quinque.

    Shortly after Yoshimura left, he took out his kagune and fought with the ghoul investigators including the two Special Classes, Yukinori Shinohara, and Iwao Kuroiwa, as the One-Eyed Owl.[1]

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Special Class Ghoul Investigators vs. Yoshimura Yoshimura fights the Special Class ghoul investigators. After the assault on Anteiku began, he appeared in the area and turned his focus on the CCG troops who flocked around. After transforming into his kakuja form he began monologuing about how evil the world was before slaughtering the nearby CCG forces, glaring at Yoshitoki Washuu. Soon after killing numerous investigators he begins to intimidate them greatly, he was then confronted by Shinohara and Kuroiwa with a combination attack before being shot at by Kousuke Houji's quinque. Continuously parrying the relentless attack they dealt towards him, Yoshimura began to feel annoyed with the way they were fighting. Later joining this battle came Juuzou Suzuya and Koori Ui who joined in on the consecutive attacks towards Yoshimura. As the battle went on, Ui was able to land a strike to his torso. Fleeing from their consecutive attacks, Suzuya confronted Yoshimura alone and managed to slash off his left arm, but lost his right leg in the process. Wounded, he made his last stand on a rooftop confronted by his previous pursuers and was finally taken down with Houji's last attack. Shortly after his body fell to the floor, the real One-Eyed Owl appeared in its full kakuja form, attacking the investigators. Shortly after, it handled all of the investigators present with ease until Kishou Arima arrived. Suffering blows from him alone, the One-Eyed Owl swallowed the wounded Yoshimura and escaped with him to another building. After regurgitating him, the One-Eyed Owl referred to him as her father.

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    Yoshimura captured Yoshimura captured. Yoshimura was kept inside a liquid tank, much like Rize Kamishiro in Dr. Akihiro Kanou's old lab. His kakuhou had been farmed for the kakuhou transplant surgery to be done on humans. It is unknown how many subjects died during the experiments using Yoshimura, though only one successful "Owl" and a single "Floppy" had been produced among sixty-three kidnapped ghoul investigators during nearly three years of experiments.

    Rose Extermination

    Yoshimura was mentioned by Dr. Kanou. He continued to be used as a donor for the surgeon's ghoulification experiments.[9]

    End

    It was later mentioned offhand that after all the kakuhou samples extracted from him over the years, nothing could have possibly been left of him or too little to allow for a full regeneration, thus implying that he was dead. His fate was never further discussed afterwards, corroborating that implication.

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    Relationships

    Ukina

    Yoshimura first met Ukina in a coffee café. Despite initially not caring for her, he was moved when she accepted his true nature. He loved her dearly and was shattered when he was forced to kill her under V's orders. Ukina was the catalyst for Yoshimura's change in personality as well as his inspiration to create Anteiku.

    Eto

    Although never seeing each other, Yoshimura loved Eto greatly and would do anything to protect her. Yoshimura stated that after Ukina's death, his child was the only thing that gave him hope. Even after knowing of the child's role as the leader of Aogiri, he still wants her happiness. However, Eto does not seem to hold the same feelings towards her father, since she captured her father to use him as the kakuhou donor for the creation of one-eyed ghouls.

    Noro

    Yoshimura knew Noro, back then known as Noroi, from when he was still Kuzen. While not much is known about their past, he trusted Noroi enough to leave Eto in his care.

    Renji Yomo

    Yoshimura first met Yomo when he saved him after he was almost killed by Kishou Arima. Sometime after their meeting, Yomo's personality tranquilized and his hot-blooded vengefulness subsided. Yoshimura trusts Yomo deeply, asking him to deal with meat collection and monitoring both Kaneki and Touka when they were fighting Koutarou Amon and Mado Kureo.

    Ken Kaneki

    Yoshimura cares for Kaneki. He is understanding to Kaneki's circumstances, and is the first person to offer assistance to him. He helps Kaneki accept his new nature, stating that he belongs to two different worlds, both human and ghoul, instead of not belonging to either. Yoshimura guided Kaneki in adapting to the world of ghouls and played a critical part in his development. When Kaneki returns to Anteiku, Yoshimura convinces him to return. He trusts Kaneki enough to tell him the truth about his daughter and entrusts him to save her.

    Touka Kirishima

    Yoshimura cared much about Touka's safety even before her employment at the café. During her visits to Anteiku for coffee, he would incessantly lecture her to be careful, despite the annoyance it would cause her. Later, he wishes Touka to live the life of a regular human girl, and pays for her tuition after enrolling her in a school. He is seen as a father-like figure to Touka.

    Enji Koma

    Enji is very loyal to him after he offered him a new life in Anteiku.

    Kaya Irimi

    Like Enji, she possesses a deep-set loyalty towards him.

    Nishiki Nishio

    He offers Nishiki a second chance to live without killing, but requires him to work at Anteiku as payment. Later on, Nishiki complains that Yoshimura is always the type to clean up others' messes if allowed to—his way of showing affection for the shop's manager.

    Roma Hoito

    Their relationship was cordial, with Yoshimura often gently teasing her with wordplay or jokes. He had endless patience for her mistakes, but it does not seem he was fully aware of her true nature.

    Seidou Takizawa

    Though never having interacted, Yoshimura is the one indirectly responsible for saving Takizawa's life. His kakuhou was transplanted into the young human, transforming him into a one-eyed ghoul.

    Koutarou Amon

    Though never having interacted, Yoshimura is the one indirectly responsible for saving Amon's life. His kakuhou was transplanted into the young human, transforming him into a one-eyed ghoul.

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    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Yoshimura is a ghoul, possessing an ukaku kagune and a kakuja obtained from continuous cannibalization. His unique trait is shooting ukaku shards through his entire body.

    Superhuman Speed: Yoshimura possesses immense skill as Kuzen and maintains some of that speed as he grows older. As Kuzen he was able to dodge multiple Special-Class Investigators and was able to attack them simultaneously. His speed matches that of the CCG's Reaper. His immense speed would allow him to dodge the all swift attacks without being fazed at all, which includes Narukami and T-Human's bolts. Superhuman Regeneration: After several feats and clashes with the CCG, Kuzen developed a severe level of regeneration after fighting mobs and levels of investigators. This allows him to regenerate at a pace higher than any, regenerating any damage done to him in less than half a second. He was shown to have the greatest regeneration among all pure ghouls. Superhuman Durability: Kuzen was able to take many hits from the CCG before developing his regeneration. He was able to take waves of hits from S and higher ranked quinques before taking even a subtle injury. Pain Tolerance: Yoshimura was able to take multiple hits and enduring them while being unfazed by any of them, possessing an extremely high pain tolerance that is even extraordinary for Ghouls. Kakuja

    Ukaku Kakuja: Having cannibalized many ghouls as a cleaner for V, Yoshimura has developed an extremely powerful all-round kakuja that features six to eight kakuho. In his kakuja form, he can cover long to short range attacks, making for an incredibly difficult and formidable opponent to face. That coupled with his kakuja's insurmountable firepower makes Yoshimura worthy of his SSS rating. The most prominent feature of his kakuja is the two large scimitar-like blades mounted on both shoulders and the plethora of kagune surrounding his upper back. Yoshimura's kakuja kagune also forms a mask similar to the One-Eyed Owl's, with minor differences in the eye hole size and line curves. His kakuja form is potent enough to endure and counter multiple Special Class investigators' attacks and enhances his physical capabilities to where a lot effort from the aforementioned required in order to subdue him, as Yoshimura is also skilled enough to fight an army of investigators simultaneously without much trouble.

    RC Cell Projection - Presumably an extension of his ukaku kagune, Yoshimura can unleash an endless long-range barrage of sharp and large spikes capable of pushing back Yukinori Shinohara and Iwao Kuroiwa while they were wearing Arata. The spikes unleashed can also easily decapitate and slice through the armor of CCG operatives. Unique to Yoshimura, he has shown the ability to shoot Rc projectiles out of his entire body, not just his kagune. Black Pellet Projection - Yoshimura also possesses a kagune near his shoulders capable of producing a "black smoke" that releases mid-range black shotgun-like pellets that have incredible destructive capacity, blowing holes in cement and the bodies of CCG operatives alike. Shoulder-Mounted Blades - Unlike most ukaku ghouls that are vulnerable at close range, Yoshimura's kakuja form prominently features two extremely large should-mounted scimitar-like blades which he can extend and contort at will.

11. #11Touka Kirishima

    Keys: Touka Kirishima

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Touka Kirishima JAPANESE NAME 霧嶋 董香 （きりしま とうか） ROMAJI Kirishima Tōka ALIAS Rabbit Manager SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive AGE 17 (Tokyo Ghoul) i 18 (Ch. 89) i GENDER Female BORN July 1, 17 BSBI[1] i HEIGHT 156 cm / 5'1"[1] WEIGHT 45 kg / 99 lbs[1] BLOOD TYPE O[1] AFFILIATIONS Anteiku (Formerly) Kiyomi High School (Formerly) :re (Formerly) Gas Masks (Formerly) Goat (Formerly) OCCUPATION Part-Time Waitress (Formerly) High School Student (Formerly) Manager / Waitress (Formerly) RELATIVES Ayato Kirishima (Younger Brother) Arata Kirishima (Father) Hikari Kirishima (Mother) † Renji Yomo (Maternal Uncle) Unnamed Maternal Grandparents † Unnamed Maternal Uncle † Ken Kaneki (Husband) Ken Kaneki's mother (Mother-in-law) † Ken Kaneki's father (Father-in-law) † Ken Kaneki's aunt (Aunt-in-law) Ken Kaneki's uncle (Uncle-in-law) Yuuichi Asaoka (Cousin-in-law) WARD 20th Ward (Formerly) 24th Ward (Currently) RC TYPE Ukaku[2] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Episode 1 NOVEL DEBUT Days: Chapter 1 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jail SEIYUU Sora Amamiya ENGLISH VA Brina Palencia STAGE PLAY Aya Tabata FILM ACTOR Fumika Shimizu (2017) Maika Yamamoto (2019) Image Gallery LESS "What the hell do you know?! It's all because I can't eat, because I could be a target at any time, all because I'm a ghoul! No matter how much I try, there's a wall I can never jump over, and there's happiness that I can never have. But I'm still hanging on to life. Despite it all."

    TOUKA KIRISHIMA

    Touka Kirishima (霧嶋 董香 Kirishima Touka) is a ghoul who is an ex-waitress at Anteiku. She is the daughter of Arata Kirishima and Hikari Kirishima, the older sister of Ayato Kirishima, the wife of Ken Kaneki and the mother of Ichika Kaneki.

    Touka wears a rabbit mask while hunting, earning her the alias Rabbit (ラビット, Rabitto). In Tokyo Ghoul, she was a second-year student at Kiyomi High School and later a third-year after the post-Aogiri timeskip.

    Two years after the Owl Suppression Operation, she returns as the Manager (店長, Tenchō) of the coffee shop :re. Following its destruction she joins the newly formed organization Goat, thus relocating to the 24th ward along with its other members. After the Defense of Tokyo, Kaneki and Touka currently live happily married (which now makes her Touka Kaneki) with a daughter and another child coming, with humans and ghouls finally united together.

    Appearance

    Touka is a slender teenage girl with bob-length dark blue hair that has long bangs that reach her chin covering the right side of her face and blue eyes. She appears to be a cute, normal girl that one would not suspect to be a ghoul. Her facial features and hairstyle bear a strong resemblance to Hikari Kirishima (Touka's mother) and Ayato Kirishima (Touka's younger brother). She wears her waitress or high school uniform for work and school respectively, whereas her casual clothes are tomboyish streetwear.

    Her waitress uniform is a white shirt rolled up to her elbows, a black vest, a red tie, and a black skirt down to her lower thighs. On top of that skirt, she also wears a brown skirt that reaches her upper thighs. She also wears tight red leggings.

    As "Rabbit", she wears a long coat jacket, rabbit mask, and a blonde, or sometimes a pink, wig to conceal her identity. After the Aogiri arc, her hair reaches her shoulders, but her signature bangs remain the same. As a child, she wore dresses and bunny hair-clip on the left side of her bangs, and her hairstyle was much the same. However, her bangs at first were brushed to the side revealing her whole face.

    After the timeskip, Touka became a beautiful woman that many characters including Ken Kaneki have been left speechless by her attractive appearance. During a negotiation between the CCG and Goat, a ghoul investigator was stunned by Touka’s beauty. She has reverted back to her short bob cut. Her bangs are shorter as it reaches her nose instead of her chin and it is considerably bouncier than her previous bob haircut, in addition, she has dyed her hair a much lighter shade of blue. Touka switched to a more feminine style of clothing. She wears a white wide neck blouse with a black apron over the top for her waitress outfit. When Touka's moving around as a "ghoul", she wears a trench coat, pants and boots.

    After the Clown Siege, Touka dyed her hair back to its original dark blue color.

    Tokyo Ghoul

    Touka, and her brother Ayato, as children. Touka, and her brother Ayato, as children. Touka's appearance in the :re anime. Touka's appearance in the :re anime. Touka at age 14. Touka at age 14. Touka's mask. Touka's mask. Personality

    Touka's personality is initially defined by her duality between rage and kindness, with her character arc centred around that rage fading as well as her kindness coming to the fore. She is inherently kind, but this was repressed due to her losing her father and thus having to survive in the ghoul world from an early age, which required her to be ruthless. As Shuu Tsukiyama notes, she had previously looked more dangerous and cold but has somewhat softened up because of her human life, and continued to do so due to Ken Kaneki's influence, who allowed her to be the kind person she is deep down.

    She is also rash and reckless mainly due to her abandonment issues, causing her to lose control of her emotions when losing someone close to her, and her insecurities over her ghoulhood, given the dangers associated over simply existing as a ghoul, as well as the necessity to eat humans to survive. She longs to be human and desires to integrate into their society, as shown by her strong connection with the human world. This comes from her father, who taught her to reject her ghoulhood and to live with humans in order to survive, as well as a desire to simply live happily and in peace with her loved ones. She hates her ghoulhood and has low esteem as a result, as shown by her reaction when called beautiful by Kimi Nishino, despite seeing her as a ghoul with a kagune. However these insecurities also cause her to lash out at the world when there's injustice done towards ghouls, particularly when it's done to ghouls close to her.

    This low self esteem is further diminished due to her abandonment issues, saying herself she felt "useless" for being unable to stop her father from getting killed, which she viewed as him prioritizing revenge for her mother over taking care of her and Ayato Kirishima. These issues become worse when Ayato and then Kaneki abandon her, creating and reinforcing a mentality that she's not good enough for the people she loves to stay with her. This low self esteem as well as her abandonment issues results her willing to recklessly throw her life away multiple times before the timeskip, such as during the Anteiku Raid, when she cannot bear the pain of losing someone close to her.

    Due to her fathers teachings she attempts to conform to the world, having been compared to a bird trapped in a cage within the story itself, but she also cannot accept injustice done towards ghouls due to her insecurities, nor can she bear the pain of losing someone close to her due to her abandonment issues, and lashes out when she cannot suppress this anger, such as during the Doves Emergence arc. She is full of hatred for ghoul investigators, stemming from the fact that her family was torn apart by the CCG and she had to live life as a fugitive. This hatred and rage subsides over time, especially after she kills Kureo Mado out of revenge, realizing he was married afterwards. This lead to her realizing she was only contributing to the cycle of hate and revenge, having likely inflicted the same trauma on someone as the ghoul investigators did on her.

    After the timeskip, Touka is more openly gentle and warm, following on from her development from before. She has matured during this time, as a consequence of the Anteiku Raid. This can be seen by her being able to better accept loss, due to Renji Yomo teaching her before the timeskip to live while losing things. After continually experiencing loss she adopts a more healthy "live while losing" mentality, in order to come to terms with such a harsh and dangerous world for ghouls, which results in her being far less reckless. She is also less confrontational, having lost Kaneki for years following their confrontation and her losing control of her emotions in the way that she did, which she later regretted. This has also lead to her being more repressive of her emotions, in order to process potential losses in a healthier way, as evident in the 24th Ward where she had to ignore Yoriko Kuroiwa's execution letter, as well the potential deaths of Yomo and Hinami Fueguchi.

    She has also become accepting of the fact that she loves Kaneki, unlike before where she denies it in embarrassment, which led to her being happy when he gave her the look he used to give Rize Kamishiro and over time after Kaneki regained his memories and lead Goat, she became outright bold and openly professed her feelings for him by revealing how she felt over him isolating her and even going as far as to ask if he was a virgin and in fact even noting she wants to do the deed with him, with her indeed making the move that caused them to consummate their relationship and showing an openly soft and tender side with him. It is her relationship and marriage to Kaneki that provides her with the happiness she always yearned for and helped show that her belief that she wasn't good enough for her loved ones to stay and confide in her was wrong. Plot

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    Ken Kaneki

    Touka initially had a neutral relationship with Kaneki being that of waitress and customer until he transformed into a ghoul. Touka was confused to see a half-ghoul and became hateful to Kaneki, especially after he stated that he is different from "monsters" like her and other ghouls. She refused to show any compassion to him as he is a former human. During his early days at Anteiku, Touka would often boss him around and chide him for the slightest mistakes. She considered many of the things he did irritating and bothersome. However, she still agrees to train Kaneki when he wants to become stronger and learn how to use his kagune. After he helps her avenge Ryouko, Touka's attitude towards Kaneki improves and she treats him in a more friendly manner, though she maintains her rough attitude. Touka is one of the closest people to Kaneki in Anteiku, helping him adapt to ghoul life. According to herself, she had fell for Kaneki when he confessed he would be sad if she died. She often worried for his safety due to his inexperience in the ghoul world and in more than one occasion risked her own life to save him. After Kaneki's rescue and departure from Anteiku, which Touka was willing to follow him into, even giving up her collageship just for him, only to be rejected by Kaneki, which caused her to run away in dismay, Touka would often wonder of his whereabouts and wanted to meet him again. However, she hated the person he had become after the torture and when they finally met, Touka found Kaneki's reasons to be inadequate and violently lashed out, yelling at and beating Kaneki and even saying he should never return to Anteiku before leaving him beaten on the ground after questioning why he became so different, which left Kaneki remorseful and with the realization what he was doing was wrong. She felt regret over this and this intensified after Kaneki was declared dead, crying, but she still believed he was alive.

    She later met Kaneki as he visits :re as Sasaki and she identified him. He seems to somewhat remember her, as he tears up when he smells her coffee and thinks it reminds him of someone and he developed an infatuation for Touka, often visiting and looking at her the same way he did with Rize, showing romantic interest, which Touka recognized and made her happy due to how it was a sign of Kaneki returning her feelings. Nevertheless, she appeared to be resigned to the fact that at that point, they couldn't be together as Kaneki was now a Ghoul Investigator and put her feelings aside in favor for him being happy in his new life, which made her reject Tsukiyama's desire to make Kaneki regain his memories, as she believed it would be best if Sasaki does not remember who he was, but she agreed that if his memories come back, he would be welcome in :re.

    Touka later met Kaneki after he fully regained his memories in Cochlea when he shields them from Arima's onslaught and, knowing Kaneki may intend to "die" again, inspired him to leave, sadly smiling and asking to see him later, which he deemed a cruel thing to the point of crying. They converse in a friendly manner in :re after the Third Cochlea Raid, before smacking Kaneki onto the tabletop counter. Later, in a private conversation with him, Touka asks if he is a virgin and in the anime, even says she wouldn't mind doing the deed with him, much to his embarrassment. She reveals how she feels; how their roles have been reversed and that Kaneki repeatedly leaves her out of danger, the first time being four years ago when he left Anteiku. She then told him that he often visited :re as Sasaki and looked at her the same way he used to look at Rize. She confesses that she liked it, thus finally admitting to her romantic feelings for him.

    After escaping from the ambush by Mutsuki, Aura and one of the Oggai Squads, Touka and Kaneki take shelter in an abandoned building and when Kaneki couldn't offer any comfort to her on Yoriko and asked they sleep instead, Touka pins down Kaneki and kisses him, which results in them both consummating their relationship and officially becoming lovers, Arata Kirishima

    Touka, as a child, greatly looked up to her father and was supportive of his ideals. For her father's sake, she and her brother would usually eat human food when offered by neighbors, despite knowing it made ghouls sick. After Arata went missing, she believed in her heart that he would return back. Though, it is unknown if she still continues that belief. As proof Arata's ideals passed on to his daughter, Touka always ate the food Yoriko prepared for her, even though it made her sick because of her ghoul heritage. She would react in anger whenever Ayato would speak ill of him.

    Despite his absence, she notes every thing that reminds her of her father. Shown during the numerous times others have made her nostalgic, including Kaneki's silhouette while he cooked like her father did in the past[3] and the age of Shouta's father was close to Arata's.[4]

    Ayato Kirishima

    As the last surviving member of her family, Touka is responsible for her younger sibling's well being. After Arata went missing she took the burden of raising him in order to follow in her father's footsteps. However, Ayato is devastated and bitter towards humans for how their prejudice against ghouls had torn apart his family. In turn, he has taken a different stance from his father and sister's view on them. Prior to his separation from Touka, he was her constant companion, they would hunt together and fight as a team. That is before he began to act on his own and go where he pleased without her, causing her to incessantly worry about him. Whether something would happen to him or why he was keeping himself separated from her, both bothered her.[4] Following her enrollment into school, he left and Touka would receive word about his rampages in other wards, affecting her deeply and developed her fear of losing those she loves. However, she believed her own character and mistakes were what drove him away.[3]

    While he disagrees with her ideas on humanity, he still cares for her safety even despite joining Aogiri shown when he refused to let Yamori and Nico to take her as well as Kaneki. Remembering the emotional hurt Touka felt when he turned against his only family, during their first reunion she was anger at him, both with opposite views and what the right thing was. When they reunite again.

    Yoshimura

    During her early teen years, Yoshimura would keep tabs on Touka and her brother. When she would visit Anteiku he would lecture her about being careful and to keep herself aware due to her and Ayato's nightly slaughtering. To this she would often silently drink her coffee and half-ignore him. Occasionally he would irritate her.[4] However some time before Ayato left, he offered her a chance to live in the human society and live a relatively stable life as a student with the condition she works for him. Reacting in surprise at first as if she did not see the point, she still attended school that Yoshimura paid for, and came to cherish and enjoy it, despite the hard work that accompanied it. She agreed to the condition, as she worked as a part-time waitress at Anteiku and completed errands for him regularly, such as getting coffee beans and collecting "food." Yoshimura would tease her occasionally, and is not bothered by her quick outbursts of anger. She does respect him, learning much of her morals from him alongside those learned from her father, in this he became a father figure to her.

    Renji Yomo

    Before Touka's employment at Anteiku, Yomo would clean up her and Ayato's messy kills to prevent the CCG from tracking down the two of them. When seeing each other during this time they were silent.[4] However this changed after joining Anteiku, the two formed a good relationship as they worked, unknown to her and Ayato, Yomo is her maternal uncle, the younger brother to their mother, Hikari. In the past, he trained her in combat and knows the majority of her strengths, noticing instantly that she was not in the best condition when they trained along with Kaneki, since she was eating human food prepared by Yoriko. Together, they would be the ones restocking the "food" that Anteiku would offer to the ghouls who were unable to hunt. He speaks to Touka honestly, and did not sugar-coat his words when she attempted to join the others during the Owl Suppression Operation.

    Yoriko Kosaka

    Despite Yoriko being a human, she is Touka's best friend in high school. An aspiring chef, she would give food to Touka, who always accepted the food even though it made her sick. Even after it affected her in a fight. They promised to "always play together" even after they finished school. Years following the Owl Suppression Operation, Yoriko spoke of Touka, as they have not seen each other since. When Tooru Mutsuki attempted to rally Touka up by claiming Yoriko had been arrested under the suspicion of harboring ghouls, she claims to have never heard of Yoriko in an attempt to protect her.

    Hinami Fueguchi

    Hinami sees her like an elder sister and loves her, so the two of them have a close relationship. Seeing that Hinami has also lost her parents to doves, Touka becomes fiercely protective of Hinami, risking her life to protect her and avenging her mother so her life would not be threatened. She is willing to kill for her, shown when a group of human boys attempted to take her, Touka was seconds from killing them in public, despite the risks of her ghoul nature being discovered by the surrounding crowd.

    Nishiki Nishio

    Originally, he and Touka did not get along very well due to territory disputes. After becoming an employee at Anteiku, they continue to butt heads, but the animosity eventually became friendly reffing. After the timeskip, Nishiki is seen at :re, where he and Touka continue to speak with each other in jabs, though it is apparent it is done in a friendly manner.

    Hideyoshi Nagachika

    Being a regular customer at Anteiku, Hideyoshi is on good terms with her. He always tries to hit on her which usually leads to comical situations. During Kaneki's employment at Anteiku, Hide would often jokingly lie about his reasons for his frequent visits and would look for her in the shop. This would often startle her and occasionally annoy her, however she was always gracious when handling his orders. After Kaneki had left, their interactions during their conversation were polite, lacking the previous comic relief and Touka was surprised that Kaneki did not even contact Hide and acknowledges him as Kaneki's best friend.

    Shuu Tsukiyama

    Touka held negative feeling towards Tsukiyama, having had many confrontations with him when she and Ayato were younger. She described him to Kaneki as a "nasty one" during the Gourmet Arc.

    Shouta

    When Touka first found Shouta, she first approached him since he reminded her of Ayato when he was younger, therefore she decides to help him. He was content and calmed down around her while she maintained her normal brusque personality. However, after their first meeting and his denial of telling her about his mother, she angrily thought of him as a spoiled child. This changed when Shouta's father told her about the boy's deceased mother, she sympathized with him and understood why he acted the way he did. This connection with him later made her help his father since she did not want Shouta to lose both of his parents like she had lost hers. Later, unsure if Shouta's father had lived or died, she assumed Shouta would hate her if it was the latter, and she found herself unconsciously looking for him. Soon after finding out Shouta's father lived, she joined Anteiku as a part of their staff.

    Tooru Mutsuki

    Before their confrontation after Kaneki regained his memory, Touka had only a very limited waitress-to-customer interaction with Mutsuki, while the latter harbors a grudge against her. This was mainly due to Mutsuki's secret obsession toward her mentor Haise Sasaki.[8]

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Touka is an ukaku ghoul possessing one wing with the ability to harden and dis-harden it at will.

    Ukaku Kagune: During the time of Touka's fight with Shuu Tsukiyama, she formed a single ukaku wing and control her kagune with ease. As time passed, Touka gained a second wing with projectiles of a much larger size. Additionally, her kagune stopped the projectiles of Kiyoko's Zebizu and Mougan's Higher Mind, upon emerging, even canceling the attack for a brief moment of time.[9] Pseudo-Electrokinesis: Touka's kagune while in use is surrounded by a lightning-like aura, capable of generating electricity that can be utilized in an offensive and destructive manner. Superhuman Speed: When engaging Tsukiyama in battle, she traveled at a speed fast enough to make Tsukiyama lose track of her location for a short amount of time. Superhuman Endurance: When fighting Ayato Kirishima during the 11th Ward Battle, Touka maintained consciousness after getting her kagune devoured by her brother.

12. #12Akashi Kobayashi

    Keys: Akashi Kobayashi

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Akashi Kobayashi JAPANESE NAME 小林 昭 （こばやし あかし） ROMAJI Kobayashi Akashi SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive/Captured GENDER Male OCCUPATION Taxi Driver WARD 23rd Ward (Imprisoned) RC TYPE Bikaku RATING B+ MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 1 SEIYUU Takaaki Uchino Image Gallery LESS Akashi Kobayashi (小林 昭, Kobayashi Akashi) is a ghoul that resided in the 1st ward, working as a taxi driver.

    Appearance

    Kobayashi is a short, stout man, with plump cheeks and appears to be in his fifties. As a taxi driver, he wore a formal suit and tie. Personality

    As a way to blend in with the human society, Kobayashi often portrays himself to be quite a cheerful, friendly man. While his occupation is associated with transport, his main hobby is making confections; something he finds comfortable, but is flustered about admitting. As a ghoul, Kobayashi seems proud of the extraordinary sense of smell his nose possesses. Plot

    Torso Investigation

    Akashi Kobayashi arrested Akashi imprisoned. Suspecting Torso, his target, to be a taxi driver, Kuki Urie boards Kobayashi's taxi in an effort to capture Torso. Urie perceives Akashi's friendly facade to be fake, and orders him to halt and confronts him. Urie then battles, and eventually incapacitates Akashi. As Urie is about to kill him, he is stopped by Haise Sasaki.[1] Later on Akashi is revealed not to be Torso. He is imprisoned in Cochlea.[2]

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: As Akashi is a ghoul, he posseses a kagune and quick reflexes.

    Bikaku Kagune: Akashi has shown that he is a capable bikaku user and uses it by enhancing his strength, speed, and reflexes

13. #13Aki Sasada

    Keys: Aki Sasada

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Aki Sasada JAPANESE NAME 笹田 アキ ROMAJI Sasada Aki SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 16-17 (Jack) 32 (Tokyo Ghoul:re) GENDER Female OCCUPATION High School Student (Formerly) RELATIVES Taishi Fura (Husband) Natsu Fura (Daughter) Ryou (former lover)

    WARD 13th Ward (Formerly) 7th Ward (Currently) MANGA DEBUT Jack: Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jack (OVA) SEIYUU Rumi Ōkubo Image Gallery LESS Aki Sasada (笹田 アキ, Sasada Aki) is the childhood friend of Taishi Fura and Ryou who lost her right eye when she was attacked by Lantern. In the same attack, Ryou was killed.

    She eventually married Taishi where she takes his family name Fura in the process and the two currently have one daughter together named Natsu Fura.

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    Aki is a petite teenage girl with short light-colored hair that has square bangs covering her forehead and dark-colored eyes. Personality

    Aki has an outgoing personality who always indulging in fun and frolic. However, she put these things ahead of her academics, as she rarely attended school, and was on the streets with a gang of bikers in a police pursuit. After Aki lost her right eye, she expressed great regret for all the times she gallivanted and played around; implying that her injury and Ryou's death were her punishment for her carefree attitude.

    As an adult, her personality seems far more settled. Taishi Fura mentions that she disapproves of him smoking at home, because of their daughter. Plot

    JACK

    Aki is a childhood friend of Taishi Fura and Ryou where the three grew up together and became delinquents in high school. During a night out riding motorcycles and eluding police, the group was attacked by the Ghoul Lantern. Two unnamed friends were killed, and Lantern ambushed the survivors before attacking Aki. Her right eye was slashed out during the attack and her boyfriend, Ryou, sacrificed his life to save Fura.

    In the hospital, Aki underwent a change of heart and tells Fura that she was being punished for her crimes. She resolved to make amends for her delinquent past, though Fura told her what killed their friends was not a demon but merely a Ghoul.

    In the years following the incident, Aki eventually married Fura and moved to the 7th Ward after he was given command there. A year prior to the events of Tokyo Ghoul, Aki gave birth their first and only daughter, Natsu Fura.

    Rose Extermination

    Taishi Fura explains to Koori Ui that his wife disapproves of him smoking at home, so he likes to do it at the office instead. He later relates to Ginshi Shirazu how Kishou Arima saved Aki and him from a Ghoul.

14. #14Akihiro Kanou

    Keys: Akihiro Kanou

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Akihiro Kanou JAPANESE NAME 嘉納 明博 （かのう あきひろ） ROMAJI Kanō Akihiro SPECIES Human STATUS Deceased GENDER Male DIED 21 April, 5 ASBI HEIGHT 176 cm / 5'9" WEIGHT 72 kg / 159 lbs BLOOD TYPE A AFFILIATIONS Teihou University (Formerly) Kanou General Hospital (Formerly) GFG (Formerly) CCG Aogiri Tree (Formerly) Kichimura Washuu Clowns[1] (Associates) OCCUPATION College Student (Formerly) Coroner (Formerly) Surgeon Researcher RELATIVES Akihiro Kanou's mother † Unnamed father † WARD 5th Ward (Formerly) 20th Ward (Formerly) 1st Ward (Formerly) MANGA DEBUT Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Episode 1 SEIYUU Kenji Nomura ENGLISH VA Mark Stoddard FILM ACTOR Ryō Iwamatsu Image Gallery LESS "This distorted bird cage is arresting our world. I want to destroy that."

    AKIHIRO KANOU

    Akihiro Kanou (嘉納 明博, Kanō Akihiro), often referred to as Professor Kanou (嘉納教授, Kanō-kyōju), was a physician responsible for Ken Kaneki's transformation into an artificial one-eyed ghoul, using him as a prototype for his ghoulification surgery. In the past he was employed by the GFG, the CCG, and was later a physician at Kanou General Hospital before joining the ghoul terrorist organization Aogiri Tree. He has also been referred to as a "good friend" by members of the Clowns.

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    Kanou was an elderly, grey-haired man who wore the typical attire of a physician: white coat, white shirt, and black necktie. In :re, he also appears in a Hawaiian shirt and carries a fan. Kanou is often seen with two or three loose strands of hair falling over his forehead.

    Kanou as a child. Kanou as a child. Kanou's profile in :re Volume 14. Kanou's profile in :re Volume 14. Kanou as a university student. Kanou as a university student. Personality

    Kanou appeared as a benevolent physician whose purpose is to ensure the health of his patients. He disregarded regulations if it allowed him to save the life of his patient. However, behind this façade lies the mind of a disturbed mad scientist. Kanou considered ghouls, or more specifically one-eyed ghouls, as a way for humans to evolve in order to escape the "birdcage" that is encasing the "world." He was a misanthrope who perceived humans as weak and believed they possess no potential for the future. He stated that he had lost all hope in living in a world with humans. He showed no remorse for the test subjects of his ghoulification experiments, dismissing them as stepping stones for his ambitions. Kanou exploited the loneliness of naïve people, manipulating them for the progress of his clinical research.

    Surprisingly despite Kanou's loathing of the human race, he admitted there are individuals among them whom he respected for their abilities. This is seen when he compliments Dr. Kouitsu Chigyou on his modification and refinement of the kakuhou transplant surgery to create the Quinx. ADVERTISEMENT

    Plot

    Background

    As a child, Kanou was said to be a cheerful individual who liked to tell jokes and make others laugh. He had a sickly mother who his classmates said he would visit everyday in the hospital. She died shortly before Kanou entered university, causing a change in him.[2]

    Kanou graduated from Teihou University's School of Medicine at the top of the class and traveled to Germany to become a researcher with the GFG. After spending three years in the GFG's lower ranks, he joined the CCG for four years.[3] There, he was involved in research on integrating the bodily capabilities of ghouls into the human body. His research, however, received a large amount of criticism out of ethical concerns. Due to this, his project was forcibly terminated,[4] and he was driven out of the CCG and resigned.[5]

    Prologue

    After Ken Kaneki was mortally wounded by Rize Kamishiro, Kanou performed the kakuhou transplant surgery on Kaneki using Rize's kakuhou, turning Kaneki into a one-eyed ghoul. This caused an organ transplant scandal since Kanou did not ask Rize's family for permission.[6][7]

    Doves' Emergence

    After Kaneki was released, Kanou continued performing Kaneki's regular medical examinations. Kaneki questioned if Kanou figured out what had happened to his body because he should have an elevated Rc factor. Kanou instead told Kaneki there was nothing unusual.[8]

    Aogiri Arc

    Tatara revealed that Kanou was aware and responsible for Kaneki's transformation into a half-ghoul. Supposedly, Kanou transplanted a kidney into Kaneki, but in actuality, had transplanted a kakuhou. Kanou escaped from Aogiri Tree's clutches.[9] Yamori later brought him up when torturing Kaneki, stating that it was because of Kanou that Kaneki had remarkable regenerative abilities and part of Rize in him before mentioning that there are others that the doctor has worked on.

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Kanou is taken away by Shachi Kanou is taken away by Shachi. Kaneki and his group begin searching for Kanou after Kaneki is attacked by Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa, who reveal themselves to be One-Eyed Ghouls. An investigation into Kanou is also undertaken by the CCG, who discover that he had apparently gone missing after the organ transplant. It was also found that Kanou was a former worker for them before going off on his own. A manhunt for the doctor soon began, with both groups and even Aogiri Tree on the search, eventually reaching his mansion.

    Kaneki finally discovered Kanou at the very core of his lab. He called Kaneki his "ultimate creation" and explained his reason for turning him into a ghoul. Kanou felt that the world was trapped in a "cage" and decided to create artificial one-eyed ghouls to become that "ray of hope" to finally break free from that cage. Kanou nearly persuaded Kaneki to join him and Aogiri Tree so he could show Kaneki the "true form" of the world, then shared that Yoshimura was responsible for creating Aogiri Tree. Kaneki struggled to decide on what to do when Yomo suddenly appeared and rescued Rize. Yomo told Kaneki to follow his own path and warned him of the approaching Doves. Kanou escaped with Shachi, not before releasing all of his failed experimental subjects after Kaneki, adding that he would look forward to seeing him again.[10]

    Afterward, Kanou watched events unfold from a monitoring room alongside Eto. When Kurona arrived, he noted her poor condition but advised her to abandon Nashiro as a lost cause, reassuring her that she would make plenty of new friends at Aogiri and later departed through a back entrance to the facility.[11]

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    Kanou appeared in a new laboratory, accompanied by Tatara and Eto. He discussed how investigators had stronger bodies than normal people and was pleased that Aogiri had provided him new materials for his experiments. The doctor admitted Kaneki was only ever intended to be a test of his procedure, but turned out to be far more than he had ever imagined. Eto suggested that, since Kaneki was gone, they should make a "new Kaneki" using the captured investigators and Yoshimura as the new donor.[12]

    Root A (Anime)

    As the 11th Ward battle comes to an end, with Aogiri's base collapsing, Kanou watches the destruction from afar at the hospital with Kurona and Nashiro, commenting that it's now over and proceeds to tell the twins to leave with him.

    Later, Kuro and Shiro state to each other that their "papa" had told them about Kaneki's strength as they briefly battle him, revealing that they are one-eyed ghouls who were also experimented on, and that they have Rize's kagune like Kaneki. An investigation into Kanou is carried out by Kousuke Houji, who discovers that since Kaneki's organ transplant, the doctor had disappeared.

    After the raid on Cochlea, Eto under the guise of Sen Takatsuki interviews Shinohara and Juuzou, and questions them upon whether it is possible to artificially create ghouls. Shinohara responds that he does not think it likely, wondering why someone would want to make more ghouls. Eto shows a hint of interest in his answer, implying that she knows of Kanou's goals.

    Experimentation

    Of the sixty-three investigators Kanou subjected to the ghoulification process, Seidou Takizawa was the only one considered a successful product being given the designation "T-OWL." Kanou's research data noted that Koutarou Amon being transformed with the ghoulification surgery eventually caused an unusual Rc cell level increase of over 10,000. Amon was designated as A-OWL and a floppy. Kanou mused how much of a disappointment Amon's conversion was and the possibility of him developing a kakuja.[13] Some time after Takizawa's surgery, he was imprisoned in a cell and visited by Kanou. Rather than answer his questions, Kanou removed his clothing and showed Takizawa his regenerating left arm. Horrified by the deformed limb, Takizawa panicked while Kanou explained the stages of the transformation to him. As Takizawa vomited, Kanou was fascinated by the beginning stage of ghoul transformation occurring in Takizawa's body. He informed him further testing would be conducted later before he left Takizawa alone in his cell.

    Kanou torturing Takizawa Kanou torturing Takizawa. In the time following his initial transformation, Takizawa was repeatedly subjected to extensive torture at the hands of Dr. Kanou. Kanou explained it was a part of the process intended to force the development of new Rc pathways in order to strengthen Takizawa's body and remove any lingering human weaknesses. Kanou's repeated torture eventually shattered Takizawa's mind and diminished his life span.[14]

    Auction

    Dr. Kanou remained a member of Aogiri, and observed the battle at Zeum hall from a room filled with monitors. He advised Eto it was time to send the "Owl." The first of his new artificial ghouls to be debuted was Seidou Takizawa.[15]

    Rose Extermination

    Kanou was discussing Gagi and Guge with Naki, hoping to gain his consent to use the twins' kakuhou for experiments. He simplified his words to Naki due to the latter's lack of proper education, telling him that he would definitely revive the twins. Naki thanked him and shared his joy with other fellow White Suits. Kanou expressed his interest in the Quinx, describing Dr. Chigyou as a genius and hoped to have a conversation with him. Kanou then wondered what his "beloved prototype" — Ken Kaneki — was doing at that moment.[16]

    Kanou was given the body of the former Quinx Squad Leader, Ginshi Shirazu, after Aogiri Tree attacked a vehicle containing it. Kanou examined Shirazu's body and was impressed by the CCG's ingenuity of gradually accustoming a ghoul's kakuhou into a human body through frame technology. He was certain that by implementing Quinx technology into his ghoulification experiments, he could increase the success rate and decrease any adverse side effects. Kanou later asked Tatara for a new body to use for his experiments and expressed his wish to speak to Eto, only for Tatara to inform him that she was "busy."[17]

    Rushima Landing Operation

    Kanou managed a hidden lab on Rushima when suddenly an injured Kurona arrived at the lab, greeting him.[14] Kurona revealed a deformed figure on her abdomen and requested Kanou to help Nashiro, to which he replied that he was not Dr. Frankenstein and could not raise the dead. Kurona argued that Nashiro was alive because she could breathe, eat, and speak. Kanou pondered and concluded that the sounds produced from the deformed figure on Kurona's stomach were actually gas escaping from the body, not speech. He also stated the reason she saw Nashiro's face was because she was imagining it, explaining it as the phenomenon known as Pareidolia. Kurona then decided that she wanted to kill Kanou, so the latter immediately introduced a product of his Quinx surgery, Okahira.[18]

    Kanou releases another batch of Quinx Kanou releases another batch of Quinx. Kanou commanded Okahira to attack Kurona but she managed to break a pipe which released a blistering steam that wounded Okahira. Kurona mentioned there was once a tragic accident in which the pipes malfunctioned and incinerated various researchers, boldly saying it would happen again. Kanou released another batch of Quinx while asking them what they thought.[19] After Kurona escaped Okahira, who tried to snap her neck, she told Kanou she knew what he was, declaring him a crazy mad scientist, which Kanou was only relieved to hear. Unexpectedly, Nishiki Nishio arrived, and held Kanou in midair with his kagune, telling him he had been looking for Kanou, who commanded his Quinx to kill Nishiki. At the arrival of Shikorae and Roma Hoito as a request from Furuta, he was freed and taken away by Okahira.[20] Afterwards, he was seen escaping the island with Okahira and his assistants, one being Kimi Nishino who had brought him research material.[21]

    Post-Clown Siege

    Kanou eventually returned to the CCG and continued his research alongside his partner, Nimuru Furuta, who had also been made into a One-Eyed Ghoul by him much earlier. Kanou began working a new batch of Quinx called the Oggai. Furuta introduced Koori Ui to the doctor, who was impressed with the swift success of the Oggai children and hoped to use them more.

    Dragon

    As Dragon rampaged throughout Tokyo, Kanou spent his final moments at the graveyard visiting his mother, musing that the completion of his task of "destroying the birdcage" was his only saving grace. Kurona watched from behind and approached him. Kanou explained to her that Dragon would finally be able to push humanity forward when it came to ghoul research and expressed satisfaction that the Washuu's goals were now met. He revealed that he chose Rize as his donor out of a desire for the power the Washuu's held.

    Kurona angrily argued that Dragon would destroy the city, rendering all of Kanou's goals hopeless, to which Kanou simply stated that it did not matter to him if it occurred. Before Kurona could kill him, the doctor instead pulled a gun on himself and apologized for not holding a grudge against her, before committing suicide.

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    Relationships

    Mother

    Ogura's research into Kanou's past uncovers that he had a sickly mother. Kanou was supposedly close to his mother, visiting her in the hospital everyday until she died. Reportedly, her death affected Kanou greatly. Ogura hypothesizes that she is the reason he became a doctor.[2]

    Ken Kaneki

    Their initial relationship is that of a kindly doctor and his patient, though the truth complicates things greatly. Kanou never intended for his patient to become anything more than a test of the procedure, but is extremely pleased to witness his growth. He attempts to persuade Kaneki to join him and is disappointed at the harsh rejection. After news of Kaneki's apparent death reaches him, he expresses derision for his "ultimate creation", dismissing him as an unusual prototype. However, after discovering that he had survived and was able to battle his Owl upgrade equally, he changed his mind, designating him as his beloved prototype.

    Nashiro and Kurona Yasuhisa

    Kanou approached the twins and convinced them to become his allies by revealing the truth about their parents' deaths. He used them in his experiments to ensure the success of the procedure he had initially tested on Kaneki. They are his second and third successful experiments and fiercely loyal servants, as well as Madam A's bodyguards. He manipulates them both to the extent that the girls refer to him as their father, but when Shiro is fatally wounded, he refuses to do anything further to help her. During the Rose investigation, Kanou states that they are failures, labeling them as "floppies." During the Landing Operation, Kurona tells Juuzou that she is confident that Kanou can restore Nashiro, who has been absorbed by Kurona.

    Hisashi Ogura

    The first meeting between the two was during their medical study. Ogura immediately noted that Kanou stared at him and the rest of the students as if he were looking at bugs.

    Maiko Abe

    She lived in poverty, wishing for money, quality meat and things only upper-class ghouls received and became indebted to Kanou when he gives her a better life after she attempted to kill and eat him. She is a valuable ally to Kanou and cares for his less-successful experiments, yet she is merely a pawn who he throws aside without even a second thought.

    Eto

    The two see each other as important allies with similar goals and believe in the same concept of the "twisted birdcage". He frequently interacts with her the most out of all the members of Aogiri and respects her.

    Tatara

    Kanou expresses his gratitude to the ghoul for providing him with excellent facilities and materials for his experiments. Though only a human, he seems to be useful enough to be treated decently by the second-in-command of Aogiri.

    Rize Kamishiro

    Rize is a victim of his experiments, a donor had captured and farmed to create his artificial half-ghouls. He considers her a valuable resource but allows her to suffer both incredibly mentally and physically while being used. He does not seem to care about her in the slightest, keeping her restrained and naked in a glass tank whilst starving her, driving her progressively insane.

    Nimura Furuta

    Before the events of the story, Furata was hired by Kanou as a bodyguard and to collect people for his experiment for unknown personal reasons. They still maintain contact, as it was how Aogiri came to know about the corpse transportation after the Rose Extermination.

    Koutarou Amon

    During the raid of his lab, Kanou knew plenty about Amon, including his upbringing as a ghoul's foster son and his reputation as an excellent investigator. He immediately deemed him as a good subject. Later after Aogiri captured him, he performed the kakuhou transplant surgery on Amon with Yoshimura's kakuhou. How long the two may have been in each others' company is unknown. Seidou Takizawa notes that Kanou dismissed him as a failure after the experiments on the captured investigators were completed.

    Seidou Takizawa

    Takizawa is one of the many investigators captured by Aogiri given to him for use in his experiments. He seems pleased with the results of the experiments, and eagerly unleashes his creation.

    Yoshimura

    Yoshimura is the second ghoul to become his donor, farmed for kakuhou for the next stage of his experiments.

    Powers and Abilities

    Keen Intellect: Kanou had proven himself to be a highly charismatic and intelligent man from being able to convince loyal CCG cadets, such as Kurona and Nashiro, into joining his cause and permitting him to perform ghoul experiments on them.

    Medical Expertise: Despite his disregard for human life, Kanou was a surgeon whose medical skills and knowledge of the body are astonishing, allowing him to perform operations capable of converting a human into a one-eyed ghoul or Quinx. Proof of his knowledge is in his ghoulification research. He has created several successful artificial one-eyed subjects, such as Kaneki, Furuta, Kurona, Nashiro, Takizawa, and Amon. He also has much knowledge in ghoul anatomy and how to create Rc pathways, as shown when torturing Takizawa. Nico has mentioned his knowledge of humans equates to his extensive knowledge of ghoul biology.

15. #15Akira Mado

    Keys: Akira Mado

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Akira Mado JAPANESE NAME 真戸 暁 （まど アキラ） ROMAJI Mado Akira ALIAS Spine User SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 21-22 (Tokyo Ghoul) 24 (Tokyo Ghoul:re) 25 (after :re Ch. 59) 31 (after:re Ch. 179) GENDER Female BORN June 6, 21 BSBI[1][2] HEIGHT 164 cm / 5'5"[1] WEIGHT 49 kg / 108 lbs[1] BLOOD TYPE A[1] AFFILIATIONS CCG (Defected) Mado Squad (Defected) Goat (Formerly) OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) RELATIVES Kasuka Mado (Mother) † Kureo Mado (Father) † Maris Stella (Pet) WARD 20th Ward (Formerly) 1st Ward (Formerly) QUINQUE Amatsu (Koukaku/Bikaku) Fueguchi One (Rinkaku) Fueguchi Two (Koukaku) CLASS 72nd[3][4][5] RANK Rank 2 (Tokyo Ghoul) Rank 1 (Tokyo Ghoul Epilogue) First Class (until :re Ch. 32) Associate Special Class (after :re Ch. 32) HONORS Academy Valedictorian MANGA DEBUT Chapter 80 ANIME DEBUT Episode 9 NOVEL DEBUT Past: Chapter 4 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jail SEIYUU Asami Seto ENGLISH VA Morgan Garrett Beth Lipton (Re: Ep.17) Image Gallery LESS

    "It is painful... to lose the ones you have spent time together with."

    AKIRA MADO

    Akira Mado (真戸 暁, Mado Akira) is a former Associate Special Class Ghoul Investigator, the mentor of Haise Sasaki and the daughter of Kureo Mado and Kasuka Mado who was previously partnered with Koutarou Amon.

    Appearance

    Akira is an exceptionally beautiful young woman with neck-length pale blonde hair that hangs on the right side and purple eyes (they are portrayed as pale grey-green in Tokyo Ghoul √A).

    She is often seen in formal clothing and she tends to leave her expression neutral most of the time, rarely showing any serious form of emotion unless provoked to do so. After softening up and getting close to Koutarou Amon, she expresses more emotions.

    Akira's trademark is a braided hairstyle which she wears in most of her appearances. In her younger days at the Academy, Akira's hair reached past her shoulders but she cut it short when she became an investigator. After the time skip, it has grown out again and she keeps it tied up in a braided bun with bangs swept to the right side.

    In the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime, Akira’s hair has grown out where it is now styled in a similar way to the manga and Akira’s eyes have been changed to their manga eye color. Manga Depiction

    Younger Akira. Younger Akira. Akira as a child in grade school wearing a satchel. Akira as a child in grade school wearing a satchel. Akira during her days in the Academy. Akira during her days in the Academy. Akira in combat gear. Akira in combat gear. Anime Depiction

    Akira's anime appearance. Akira's anime appearance. Akira doing Kureo Mado's signature one bulging eye and one squinting eye. Akira doing Kureo Mado's signature one bulging eye and one squinting eye. Akira in combat gear. Akira in combat gear. Personality

    Akira is an intelligent woman who always serious about work and her daily routine in general. Like Kureo Mado, she has deep insight and intuition that helps her in investigations and determining situations while on the field. She shares her father's "quinque-mania", but not as extreme.

    Akira remains professional in most situations, no matter who she is faced with, and she is not one to admit her own feelings on a subject unless provoked to a certain degree. Seen through her interactions with others, it is most likely that she would prefer to make a quinque rather than to interact with someone else.

    After the timeskip, Akira has become much more open about showing her emotions to others, as she does throughout her conversation with Haise Sasaki. Plot

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Amatsu Koukaku Akira pierces Naki. Akira was assigned as the subordinate to Koutarou Amon,[6] who had participated during the investigation of the Binge Eater. The disappearance of Dr. Akihiro Kanou led Akira and a small team to an abandoned mansion that Dr. Kanou owned. While searching for clues that may lead to Dr. Kanou's whereabouts, Akira and Koutarou found several ghouls fighting each other. Amongst them were Tsukiyama, the Gourmet ghoul, and Naki, a member of Aogiri Tree. Both Akira and Koutarou engaged the ghouls and were able to fend them off. However, Naki injured Akira with a powerful kick and took a bite from her leg.[7]

    Akira later joined Amon and Seidou Takizawa at a bar. She is a weak drinker, getting drunk after a single drink, and getting into an argument with Takizawa before she resorted to wallowing in self-pity over the fact that she was injured.[8] She stated that she blamed Amon for her father's death as well as admitted she hated him for it, though she was drunk at the time.[9] Afterwards, Akira passed out and Amon returned her to her home.

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Akira participated in the raid on Anteiku.[10] After the raid, she was seen keeping a strong front even though her superior Amon and former classmate Takizawa were labelled as deceased. She later broke down in tears saying she liked Amon and Takizawa.[11]

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    Some time later, as Akira was visiting her father's grave to tell him about her promotion to Rank 1 and her assignment to mentor a junior said to be an oddity among investigators. At that moment, that pupil approached her and introduced himself as Rank 3 Investigator Haise Sasaki.[12]

    Torso Investigation

    Akira was first spotted at the curry restaurant, having naan. She reminded Sasaki that Kishou Arima had requested to see him. She then advised Sasaki that he should aim high, for the CCG needed to produce investigators who could surpass Arima.[2]

    A meeting was held between Mado Squad, Shimoguchi Squad and Hirako Squad concerning the Torso investigation. Shimoguchi and Sasaki engaged in a slight altercation, but Akira and Hirako managed to stop the quarrel. She then gave Sasaki a "Mado Punch" in the gut to keep him in check.[13]

    Akira sniper Akira shoots Haise. On the night Torso’s identity was revealed and Sasaki battled Serpent, Akira received a call from Tooru Mutsuki. She later arrived at the scene where Sasaki was going mentally and physically out of control. Using a rifle loaded with Rc suppressant bullets, she shot Sasaki, telling him to rest for a while. She then had an internal monologue; she said Sasaki was to be treated as a human, but should he use his kagune too frequently, he might be treated as a ghoul, which would lead to his extermination.[14]

    Nutcracker Investigation

    Akira’s name was mentioned in a conversation between Sasaki and Arima; where Sasaki referred to her as his “make-believe” mother.

    Later that day when Sasaki visited her in her office, Akira got a report from the Shimoguchi Squad at Torso’s residence; saying they were under attack by the SS-rated Rabbit ghoul of Aogiri Tree.[15]

    Upon hearing Shimoguchi Squad's members were all murdered, Akira visited the hospital, along with Sasaki, to offer her sympathy to Shimoguchi. She asked him to tell her, in detail, everything that happened while they were at Torso’s home. She later explained to Sasaki about Aogiri’s motives, and what it felt like to lose comrades whom you had spent a lot of time with. Sasaki later noted that Akira expressed sadness while speaking about Shimoguchi’s loss.[16]

    When Shimoguchi brushed Sasaki off when congratulated on being released from the hospital, Akira told Sasaki that it was only natural for him to feel that way after having teammates killed. She mentioned Sasaki would feel even worse if it were to happen to him due to his kindness, and that the only way to protect those he loved was to become stronger.

    Auction

    Akira about to face Naki Akira about to face Naki. Akira took part in the Auction Mopping-up Operation, working separately from her partner and the Quinx. Instead, she participated in the battle against Naki, Miza, and the White Suits with her arrival shifting the battle in the CCG's favor. Naki recognized her from their prior encounter at Dr. Kanou's lab, and the two fought.[17]

    She managed to trick Naki, luring him into attacking her and struck him from behind with Fueguchi, her father's quinque. She lectured him about clinging to the past, pointing out how he continued to cling to the memory of Yamori instead of moving forward. Her words shook him, and she left the task of finishing him off to other investigators — beginning a lengthy battle against Miza Kusakari when the other Aogiri executive tried to rescue him.[18]

    The two women were evenly matched, and Akira was unable to intervene when Rabbit appeared and rescued Naki. After some time, she finally managed to wound Miza and cause her to retreat. Akira prepared to regroup with the surviving investigators but was shaken when Sasaki being tortured by an unknown attacker was broadcast throughout the area. Losing her composure, she screamed at Matsuri to tell her who Sasaki was fighting. When she received no answer, she became furious and communication with her was lost.[19]

    Seidou and Akira reunite Akira sees Takizawa, now a ghoul. In the aftermath of the raid, Akira rushed into the auction hall and began to call out to a seriously-wounded Sasaki. But she froze in shock, catching sight of his opponent from a distance — her former classmate and coworker, Seidou Takizawa. The investigator-turned-ghoul greeted her, before retreating from the area.[20]

    Post-Auction

    A month after the Auction Mopping-up Operation, Akira attended a Christmas party held at The Chateau, arriving with Arima. She casually mingled with the guests and had a good time. Sasaki gave her a hair accessory as a gift.[21]

    Rose Extermination

    In the following spring at the promotion ceremony, Akira congratulated her squad on their new ranks and noted it to be rare having First Class investigators at Sasaki's age. She asked Sasaki on the conditions of Hinami Fueguchi, telling him to hurry on the time (to finish getting information and getting rid of her), showing some uneasiness from her part due to Hinami being involved in her father's death.[22]

    Akira calming Haise "Haise. You are... yourself... names are..." Akira found Sasaki searching for files in the file storage room. When asked about her participation in the 20th ward, she told Sasaki about was her former co-worker, Amon Koutarou, who died in the battle to subdue Owl. However, she brushed it off when Sasaki questioned her about the Eyepatch ghoul. Unexpected by her, Sasaki broke down, yelling that he was not "Haise" when she tried calming him down. Akira recalled when Arima asked her to be Sasaki's mentor to fill his yearning of a motherly figure and lack of assertiveness, to which she questioned about herself being able to fill a mother's role. She then embraced Sasaki and assured him that he was himself.[23]

    Post-Rose Extermination

    At Shirazu's grave, Akira stood next to Saiko, comforting her and telling her to "let it all out" as she cried over her friends grave-bed.[24]

    Rushima Landing Operation

    During the operation, Akira was assigned to the Houji Squad as Kousuke Houji's second-in-command. As the squad prepared to confront Tatara, Houji warned her about how powerful Yan was and estimated their current opponent was much stronger. He ordered her to keep fighting no matter what, with the assumption he would be killed during the battle.[25]

    An unknown period of time later, the squad was radioed by Suzuya Squad, who were preparing to join the attack against Tatara.[26]

    Akira shields Takizawa Akira protects Takizawa. After Takizawa interrupted the fight between Houji and Tatara[27], he killed the latter, beheaded Houji, and murdered the rest of the CCG troops, leaving Akira alive. He held Akira up by the neck[26] while expressing his wish to be regarded as a hero for killing Tatara and saving the CCG, but she mentioned that Houji wanted him to be killed by his former superior. This angered Takizawa, so he tightened his grip, further suffocating her. Amon appeared and cut Takizawa's arm off, saving Akira.[28] She watched the two men fight, but was unable to assist a losing Amon.[29] When Takizawa asked her whether she still wants him to die, or now agrees with Amon, she is unable to answer him.[30] The confrontation is interrupted by Mutsuki, who arrives to back Akira up. He recklessly unleashes his kagune, cutting Akira across the cheek in the process and begins to fight against Takizawa.[31] Akira watches the battle, but when Mutsuki goes to strike a decisive blow, she throws herself over Takizawa and is stabbed in various places.[32]

    Insight into Akira and Seidou's history of when the two were in the CCG Academy and their third-year finals scores were posted. Akira ranked first which a classmate attempted to praise for, but she only retorted about his time management. She noticed Seidou, who was ranked second, looking at the scores, and he sent her an angry look and said congratulations that she accepted with a thanks.

    Akira in comatose state Akira in comatose state. Mutsuki reminded her of the crime of aiding a ghoul, which Akira stated she was well aware of. She proceeded to stand but was pierced again by Mutsuki's kagune. Akira fell to the ground, telling Seidou her regrets and cried. Before Mutsuki landed his final attack on Akira, Amon intervened and fought him.[33] While Akira was collapsed on the ground, the Quinx Squad arrived and Amon told Seidou to take Akira and leave. Seidou did, taking Yumitsu Tomoe, and the injured Akira as his hostage, to depart Rushima.[34] As they escaped Rushima, injured Akira was carried by Seidou accompanied with the rest of the Aogiri executives and associates.[35]

    CCG Lab Infiltration

    Akira was still in a comatose state due to injuries she received during the raid on Rushima. She was taken care of by the Goat organization, Kazuichi Banjou healing all her injuries, albeit with a drawback being the Rc cells compromising her body. Kaneki, Ayato, Takizawa, and Kurona went looking for a suppressant in order to reduce the amount of Rc cells injected.

    Post-CCG Lab Infiltration

    Akira regains consciousness Akira regains consciousness. The mission was successful. Akira was subsequently operated by the members of the Great Wheel Act and recovered completely.[36] When she awakened, the first one to greet her was Kazuichi Banjou, who immediately notified Kaneki. Some time after her awakening, she was filled in with what happened during the Third Cochlea Raid, the current state of affairs and where she was by Take Hirako. When Kaneki went to see her, he assured her that nothing changed and in his mind she still remained a mentor and motherly figure. However, she maintained her doubts over his current identity and refused to turn and face him.[37]

    Kaneki visits Akira Kaneki visits Akira. Some time later, she awakened from a sleep, which she noted were becoming more frequent. While thinking about Kaneki, she noticed the Raid should have been barely a month ago. She was filled with anxiety over Maris Stella, but was quickly put down when Amon entered, her pet in his hands.[38]

    Akira hugs Hinami Akira hugs Hinami Fueguchi They had a very brief talk, with Akira stopping him from explaining himself and expressing her confusion. He left her and shortly after she was visited by Touka. She took her on a walk in order to talk, confessing that she was the one who killed her father. They went a bit farther and encountered a playground where ghoul children played. Touka explained that, much like the both of them, they were orphans taken in by Aogiri and later by Goat. Hinami's arrival interrupted them. Touka explained Hinami's own status as an orphan with Akira admitting that her own father was the one who claimed her parents' lives. Retaining a stubborn attitude, she told Touka that in no way could she feel positively towards ghouls, even if they were children. Touka calmly told her the story of her own father and how he lost his mind, soul and eventually his life in his quest to avenge her mother. But she explained she would rather be with him than losing him that way. She then dragged Akira down to meet the children. She was hugged first by them and finally by Hinami. Feeling the girl's heartbeat and warmth she wept, wondering what she should hate from then on.

    Amon attempts to kiss Akira Amon attempts to kiss Akira. After her encounter with Hinami, she went to meet with Kaneki. She expressed her emptiness and lack of will to carry on. She told him that, even though he retained his memories, he could never again be the investigator she raised and grew fond of. However, a small part of Haise Sasaki still remained and Akira gave him a wide smile before leaving. Going to enjoy some curry, she met with Amon. Finally finding the words to convey her feelings, she told him how devoid of any will to carry on she was, having lost her duty and hatred towards the ghouls. Amon encouraged her to accept this nothingness instead of fighting it, as it would show her another way to live in due time. Akira admitted her fear and he drew her close, promising to be by her side always, supporting her.

    Relationships

    Kureo Mado

    After losing her mother at a young age, Akira and her father develop a very close bond. She states she handled much of the housework for their family, while her father was shown to be a devoted and even doting parent. Akira had great admiration for him, viewing his obsession with fighting ghouls as something to aspire towards as an investigator. Though she maintains a stoic front concerning his passing, when intoxicated, she breaks down in tears over the loss.

    Kasuka Mado

    Kasuka and Akira shared a loving mother and daughter relationship. Her death has affected Akira greatly.

    Koutarou Amon

    Initially, Akira harbored a deep-seated resentment towards him over the death of her father and even claimed to hate him while drunk. She often made things difficult for him, teasing him or acting contrary especially towards his gestures of good will. However, over time, she came to care deeply for him and even attempts to kiss him once. His rejection causes her frustration, demanding to know whether he compares her to Harima. After his apparent death, Misato confronts her apparent lack of emotion over the death of her superior Amon and former classmate Takizawa. Akira then breaks down in tears saying that she did deeply care for both of them.

    After meeting with him four years later, she expresses confusion and lacks the courage to face him. Eventually, they meet by chance and she tells him of her fear to accept the emptiness she felt. When he promises to always support her however, they both act out on their romantic feelings for each other and kiss.

    Seidou Takizawa

    Classmates from the Academy, their relationship is primarily defined by a strong rivalry. Akira had always out-performed him on all fronts, causing him to harbor an intense feeling of jealousy towards her. Aware of this, Akira often makes statements to intentionally rile him up and Amon criticizes them both for their inability to interact without bickering. However, after he is reported killed in action, she mourns for him and states that she really cared for both Takizawa and Amon. When she sees Takizawa again, she is shocked at how much he has changed and appears to be sad. However, she shields the killing blow meant for him with her own body.

    Haise Sasaki

    As his mentor, Akira is usually friendly towards him and treats him kindly. When she first heard about him, she felt misgivings concerning rumors of him being different but over the years, they have developed a close bond, even going to club together at some point. However, Akira is not above harshly rebuking him and claims that he is dangerously naïve. After he loses control, she helps to bring him down and later comforts him, establishing his condition and reassuring him. When asked by Arima if he wanted to know about his family, Sasaki would say that Akira is like a mother to him. Later while he is with Akira herself, Sasaki jokingly called her "Mom," something she was not pleased with.

    Yukinori Shinohara

    Shinohara acknowledges Akira's potential and achievements as a ghoul investigator, mentioning that she was first in her academy class and the fact that she was guaranteed by Arima to be really capable. Shinohara was also impressed by Akira's deductions and observations regarding the Gourmet ghoul.

    Kousuke Houji

    Akira and Houji have worked together in the past prior to her assignment to the 20th ward. The two admire, as well as acknowledge, each other's skills and achievements. During the Rushima Landing Operation, Akira backed Houji up in his battle with Tatara.

    Juuzou Suzuya

    The two were friendly towards each other in their first meeting, with Akira commenting that Suzuya's cross-stitches looked nice.

    Kishou Arima

    The two had worked together for years and admired each other as fine investigators. Together they supervised the Quinx project and Sasaki acting as guidance figures. Akira considers him to be CCG's greatest strength.[39]

    Kuki Urie

    Akira mentors and supervises her underling Urie, giving him advice on using quinques and tips on being a ghoul investigator. Urie doesn't appear to have any complications with Akira and cooperates with her, unlike with Sasaki. During the Rushima Landing Operation, Urie showed disbelief at Mutsuki's claim that Akira shielded a ghoul, and reaffirmed that Akira was their superior. Urie then decided that he wanted to listen to Akira's story before judging her and told his squad to attend to her immediately once they were done with Floppy.

    Ginshi Shirazu

    Akira mentors and supervises her underling Shirazu, giving him advice on using quinques and tips on being a ghoul investigator. Shirazu had a crush on his superior, blushing and acting in an unusually cheerful manner when around her. His squad even knew about his feelings toward her. After the Auction Operation, Akira commended Shirazu for his efforts during the operation and taking out Nutcracker, also telling him that she has raised her expectations from him. After Shirazu's death, Akira attended his funeral and was shown to be saddened.

    Tooru Mutsuki

    Akira is caring towards her underling Mutsuki and is shown to be worried when Mutsuki is assigned a tough position to infiltrate enemy lines during the Auction. Akira is relieved when she finds a missing Mutsuki alive during the Rushima Landing Operation, but is evidently disturbed when she has her cheek cut by Mutsuki's kagune unleashing. When Akira shields Takizawa from being killed by Mutsuki, Mutsuki pierces her repeatedly while calling her out for violating the ghoul countermeasures act, showing no qualms in hurting his superior.

    Saiko Yonebayashi

    Akira deeply cares for her underling Saiko and looks after her wellbeing, even telling her not to eat too much. During Shirazu's funeral, Akira comforted a crying Saiko, telling her to let it all out. Akira would often pose as a motherly figure towards Saiko.

    Maris Stella

    Akira is affectionate towards and fond of her pet cat. During the raid of Kanou's lab, Akira tells Amon that Maris Stella is back home waiting for her, seeing her cat as a source of motivation.

    Take Hirako

    Akira and Hirako shared a professional relationship. During their time as First Class investigators, they cooperated in their investigations of the ghouls Torso and Serpent. When Sasaki went berserk, Hirako and his squad held him back long enough for Akira to shoot him with a Rc suppressant bullet. After their defection from the CCG, Hirako tells Kaneki to give Akira time to analyze her current situation and states that they cannot hope to understand her current emotional burden.

    Nobu Shimoguchi

    Akira dislikes Shimoguchi, who discriminates and prejudices her underlings, the Quinx Squad. When Shimoguchi considers the Quinx Squad as inept investigators, Akira takes up the challenge to have the Quinx identify Torso in ten days, something Shimoguchi had been doing for three months, just to prove him wrong. Despite this, Akira was sympathetic towards Shimoguchi when his squadmates were annihilated by Black Rabbit.

    Kiyoko Aura

    Being a classmate of Akira's mother, Kiyoko cares for Akira's wellbeing. She inquires about Akira's whereabouts after her disappearance from Rushima, stating that her parents wouldn't be too pleased if she did indeed shield a ghoul.

    Hinami Fueguchi

    After Hinami's imprisonment in Cochlea, Akira told Sasaki to hurry up on getting information from her as his ownership period of her was limited. As noted by Sasaki, Akira showed uneasiness and tension, and possibly hatred, from her part due to Hinami being involved in her father's death.

    After a turn of events which results in Hinami and Akira being in the same organization, Hinami appears to be not fond of Akira who utilized Hinami's parents as her quinques. Hinami confesses that seeing Akira makes her remember her parents' deaths and breaks down as she cannot bring herself to meet Akira.

    Once Akira met Hinami, Hinami hugged her, having forgiven her father, and Akira cried in her shoulders. She remarked that Hinami was warm and as a result, she let go of her grudge.

    Touka Kirishima

    Being the one who killed Akira's father, Touka admits to Amon that she has been afraid to go and meet her. Touka confesses that she will be too scared to meet Akira at all if Amon does not do it first. Upon meeting Touka, Akira remarked that Touka was as twisted as she thought she was and that she still has a reason to hold her grudge. She let out several outbursts upon Touka's approach in trying to reason with her due to her ideology about Ghouls but was surprised by Touka's attempt to empathize with her. Once Touka introduced her to Hinami, she let go of her grudge.

    Power and Abilities

    Like her father, Akira seems to have her own collection of quinques. Beyond that, she also takes a lot of interest in new quinque designs or experimental weapons. She is also a capable fighter, being strong enough to stand against S-ranked ghouls such as Naki and Miza. She shows expertise with firearms as well, sniping Haise Sasaki from a considerable distance. She has also displayed remarkable durability, being capable of taking numerous shots from Mutsuki's kagune and still being able to converse properly.[33]

    Amatsu: The quinque Akira used during the raid of Kanou's lab, this quinque combines two types of kagune into one lethal weapon. The whip-shaped Bikaku part can distract then drag the enemies into close range, so the dagger-shaped Koukaku part can easily finish them off.[40] Fueguchi: A rinkaku quinque that was created from Asaki Fueguchi's kagune. It looks like a spine that was tied together. It is a high-speed combat quinque with a sharp cut. It was presumably succeeded by Akira from her father, Kureo Mado, as the quinque belonged to him before he was killed. It took her a whole year to master it and she can control it as easily as moving a finger. Fueguchi Two: This is a koukaku quinque that was created from Ryouko Fueguchi's kagune. It has the appearance of flower petals that spread in four directions. It can defend against attacks of any kagune and counter attack with a thrust. This quinque combines both offense and defense. It was presumably succeeded by Akira from her father, Kureo Mado. Control Rc gas grenade: Its full name being Control Rc cells gas grenade, is an experimental weapon that releases gas which can suppress Rc cells activities. Through respiratory system or other mucous membranes, the opponents' kagune will be paralyzed in a short time, giving investigators an edge against disarmed ghouls

16. #16Aliza

    Keys: Aliza

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Aliza JAPANESE NAME アリザ ROMAJI Ariza SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Female DIED around May, 4 ASBI[1][2][3][4] AFFILIATIONS Tsukiyama family OCCUPATION Servant WARD 21st Ward MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 35 ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 8 SEIYUU Nami Miyahara ENGLISH VA Skyler McIntosh Image Gallery LESS Aliza (アリザ, Ariza) was a maid in the service of the Tsukiyama family.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

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    Aliza was a woman with light-colored hair in a bob, held back with a headband. She wore a standard maid's uniform. Personality

    She seemed to be a very emotionally frail person easily becoming distraught when something bad happened. She was brought to tears when her master lost control and went into shock when she learned that Yuuma had been captured. After being interrogated by Shiki Kijima, she very quickly broke under pressure of the interrogation. Plot

    Rose Extermination

    When their master goes out of control, she rushes into the wine cellar to notify Kanae of the trouble.

    During a hunt organized to obtain food for Tsukiyama, Yuuma was captured and the rest of the team returned without him. When Aliza realized what happened, she leaves the room tearing up.

    She is later apologized to by Tsukiyama and reassured to have Yuuma rescued back to her side. Her overflowing emotions cause her to seek out Kijima directly however, resulting in her capture. She leaks information regarding the Tsukiyama family for presumably Yuuma's safety, but she is instead decapitated right after while Kijima calls her a fool to think that Yuuma was even still alive.

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    Relationships

    Shuu Tsukiyama

    As one of his maids, she is deeply concerned for his well being and becomes terrified when he loses control.

    Kanae von Rosewald

    Kanae appears to be her superior, and she rushes to him for help when there is a problem.

    Yuuma

    Aliza has feelings for him, a fellow Tsukiyama servant.

17. #17Arata Kirishima

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    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Arata Kirishima JAPANESE NAME 霧嶋 新 （きりしま あらた） ROMAJI Kirishima Arata ALIAS Corpse Collector SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Unknown GENDER Male BORN January 1[1] HEIGHT 182 cm[1] WEIGHT 65 kg[1] BLOOD TYPE A[1] RELATIVES Hikari Kirishima (Wife) † Touka Kirishima (Daughter) Ayato Kirishima (Son) Renji Yomo (Brother-in-law) Unnamed Parents-in-law † Unnamed Brother-in-law † Ichika Kaneki (Granddaughter) Unborn Grandson Ken Kaneki (Son-in-law) WARD 20th Ward RC TYPE Koukaku UNIQUE STATES Kakuja MANGA DEBUT Chapter 70 ANIME DEBUT Episode 9 SEIYUU Yūya Uchida ENGLISH VA Robert McCollum Image Gallery LESS "It's certainly true... that there are many humans. But we also have our own world. And in order to protect that world we have to keep enduring everything."

    ARATA KIRISHIMA

    Arata Kirishima (霧嶋 新, Kirishima Arata) is the husband of Hikari Kirishima. He is also the father of Touka Kirishima and Ayato Kirishima. A group of ghoul investigators named him the Corpse Collector (骸拾い, Mukuro Hiroi).

    Yukinori Shinohara and Kureo Mado had exposed Arata's identity,[2] and the investigators were subsequently able to catch Arata.[3]

    Appearance

    Arata is a slender man of average height, with short dark blue hair. His manner of dress was never particularly noteworthy, besides wearing a large overcoat while scavenging to disguise himself. Neighbors described him as being very slim and possibly even in poor health.

    In his younger days, he resembles Ken Kaneki.

    Arata's profile in Vol. 8. Arata's profile in Vol. 8. Arata's kakuja mask in profile. Arata's kakuja mask in profile. Personality

    Virtuous and gentle, Arata is another pacifist ghoul who is content to live peacefully with humans and wants the same for his children. Being a scholar and a reader, Arata embraces the human life by cooking human food and consuming it, even if he and his kids cannot digest it. The human qualities to blend into both human and ghoul worlds are traits he believes Ayato and Touka should learn in order to live happily. He shows to be somewhat of a renaissance man; knowing how to craft, cook, and socially interact well with human acquaintances.

    The death of his wife had a profound impact on Arata, causing him to thirst for power so that a similar tragedy would not unfold again. This desire ultimately caused him to scavenge for the corpses of ghouls and humans alike, seeking to become a kakuja in order to protect his family. During their confrontation, Ayato angrily exclaimed he hated Kaneki because he resembled and reminded him of Arata.

    However, according to Touka, Arata has a rather brutal side to his kind personality. Unable to cope with the death of his wife, he resorted to killing both ghouls and investigators behind his children's backs as revenge for his wife's death.

    Plot

    Past

    Arata apologizing to Yomo Arata apologizing to Yomo for not being able to protect his sister. At one point, Arata met his wife Hikari and had two children with her. When Hikari was killed by Kishou Arima, Arata was confronted by an infuriated Renji Yomo, who blamed him for his sister's death. Yomo's words, combined with the guilt he felt for not being able to stand up for his family, made him seek power and he began scavenging both human and ghoul corpses.[4]

    Arata moved into a neighborhood in the 20th ward, hoping to start a new life with his family so they could live peacefully. He taught his children that living as both a human and ghoul would mean that they would have to endure hardships in order to protect their way of life.

    Arata prepares an attack Researchers find Arata cannibalizing another Ghoul. Arata used to take his children to the library to read and study, allow them to take care of birds, and he even convinced them to eat human food in an attempt to teach them the ways of a human life (in order to make them learn to coexist peacefully with humans). Whenever he went to collect corpses, Arata would leave his children alone in the house. On the night before he vanished, Arata asked his children to promise him that they would protect and watch over each other.[2]

    Screenshot 62 Mado and Shinohara meet Arata. Later on, he was found by Kureo Mado and Yukinori Shinohara. His whereabouts were established through traces left behind by his kakuja. What followed was a life or death battle with the CCG until he was eventually secured.[5] Thereafter, he was subjected to the harvesting of his kakuhou, which is being used as the CCG's exoskeleton armor quinque, respectively named "Arata."

    Relationships

    Hikari Kirishima

    His wife. Arata loved Hikari, and felt great guilt because of his inability to protect her.

    Touka Kirishima

    Touka is his eldest child and daughter. He sees a lot of his wife's brutish and courageous attitude in her as she and her brother collect a bunch of earthworms for the bird they found injured on the ground. While Touka understood why he kept his vendetta against investigators a secret and cannibalized in order to become stronger, she always resented this fact as it left her and Ayato alone in the world especially after his death. Partly why Touka and Ayato are fond of Kaneki is because he is very similar to Arata.

    Ayato Kirishima

    Ayato was his youngest child and son. He loves his children and made them swear they would protect each other despite the fact that Ayato shares his resentment towards their father for taking on the burden alone. After his death, this resentment soured the siblings relationship as Touka accepted the fact that Arata was soft hearted and selfless to a fault while Ayato saw his father as weak and unable to protect anyone.

    Renji Yomo

    Arata and Yomo are implied to have a poor relationship as he left his sister's care to him only to find that he was too weak to protect her, thus resented him the same way his children did after he died alone on his quest for revenge. But over time, Renji accepted the fact that he didn't blame Arata for his weakness but hated the fact that Renji was also not there to protect his sister.

    Power and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Having been born a ghoul, Arata possesses enhanced physical capabilities along with a koukaku kagune, and a kakuja obtained from continuous cannibalization.

    Koukaku Kakuja: After eating left-over corpses of ghouls, Arata developed a kakuja armor that had covered his whole body. After being captured, his kakuja was used to manufacture Arata which makes it capable for investigators to face SS to SSS-rated ghouls

18. #18Ayato Kirishima

    Keys: Ayato Kirishima

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ayato Kirishima JAPANESE NAME 霧嶋 絢都 （きりしま あやと） ROMAJI Kirishima Ayato ALIAS Black Rabbit SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive AGE 14–15 (Tokyo Ghoul) GENDER Male BORN July 4[1] HEIGHT 159 cm / 5'3" (Tokyo Ghoul)[1] 170 cm / 5'7" (Tokyo Ghoul:re)[1]

    WEIGHT 49 kg / 108 lbs (Tokyo Ghoul)[1] BLOOD TYPE O[1] AFFILIATIONS Aogiri Tree - Executive (Formerly) :re - Associates (Formerly) Goat (Formerly) United Front TSC OCCUPATION Peacekeeper RELATIVES Arata Kirishima (Father) Hikari Kirishima (Mother) † Touka Kirishima (Older Sister) Ichika Kaneki (Niece) Unborn Nephew Ken Kaneki (Brother-in-law) Renji Yomo (Maternal Uncle) Unnamed Maternal Grandparents † Unnamed Maternal Uncle † WARD 20th ward (Formerly) 11th ward (Formerly) 14th ward (Formerly) 19th ward (Formerly) 24th ward (Currently) RC TYPE Ukaku RATING SS MANGA DEBUT Chapter 50 ANIME DEBUT Episode 9 NOVEL DEBUT Days: Chapter 2 (Mentioned) Past: Chapter 1 GAME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Jail SEIYUU Yūki Kaji Ayahi Takagaki (young) ENGLISH VA Todd Haberkorn Terri Doty (young) Image Gallery LESS

    "The world is power. Everything is decided by the superiority or inferiority of one's power. Get that through your thick head, dumbass. You are weak. That's why you are going to lose. Just like father."

    AYATO KIRISHIMA

    Ayato Kirishima (霧嶋 絢都, Kirishima Ayato) is Touka Kirishima's younger brother and goes by the alias Black Rabbit (黒ラビット, Kuro Rabitto).

    He grew up with his sister in the 20th ward but at some point in time, he left the ward. According to Kazuichi Banjou, Ayato subsequently began to wander all the wards of Tokyo, bringing sheer wreckage and chaos upon them, until his unique powers and abilities caught Tatara’s eye. Ayato was therefore pulled into joining Aogiri Tree, where he served as an executive before its downfall.

    Later, he joined the new organization Goat under the One-Eyed King.

    Appearance

    Ayato was a lean young man, with blue eyes and long, blue messy hair which swept down in front of his eyes. He bore a striking resemblance to his sister and had a rough-looking, rebellious image. He wore a hooded, long-sleeved black leather jacket, and black pants, along with knee-high black boots. Ayato also had a piercing on his left ear, and usually wore a ring on the pinky finger of his right hand.

    In the anime, Ayato was mostly seen wearing a black mask with spires, as well as a black overcoat with a white fur collar.

    After the timeskip, Ayato had grown noticeably taller, and was seen wearing shin-high black boots and a long, black coat over his clothes.

    Ayato possessed multiple black masks. The first one had red eyes and a sharp-toothed grin, which he used during the Aogiri Arc. His most frequently-seen mask bore a rabbit design, earning him the moniker of "Black Rabbit." During the auction, he wore a very basic, vaguely conical mask which covered only the lower half of his face.

    Personality

    Ayato was an arrogant, brash teenager, with a similar hot-blooded attitude resembling his sister's, while he normally displayed either a scowl or menacing smirk on his face. Other than his physicalities, he shared many similarities with Touka, such as his tendency to use language that is often uncouth or inappropriate. He had a habit for kicking people over the simplest mistakes; such as when Kaneki failed to address him with the desired honorific, or when Banjou did not return his missed calls. However, he seemed to be more harsh compared to his sister, but admitted himself to be surprisingly "softer" than his Aogiri superiors. He was a firm believer in the notion that "the weak perish and the strong survive," which was triggered by the death of his mother and father. Ayato bore deep grudges against his father, Arata, for abandoning him and Touka when they were young. Ayato had even stated that the whole reason for hating Kaneki was his resemblance to Arata. It was also pointed out by Kaneki that Ayato cared deeply for Touka subconsciously, as shown when he beat her down first rather than allowing her to suffer a slow, torturous death from Yamori. Later on, he also took her alias, "Rabbit" so the CCG would hunt him instead of Touka. Ayato also seemed to have a soft spot for rabbits.

    Three years later, there was a reduction in most of the mannerisms and habits which Ayato once portrayed when he was younger; as he became far less ill-tempered, obnoxious and arrogant, and even developed a rational, approachable way of speaking. Ayato also grew on having a sense of concern, as well as the instinct to protect his subordinates, shown when he refused to leave Hinami behind in the auction and by not following Tatara's orders and going to back up Naki when he was outnumbered by the Doves. However, he still retained a few of his old traits, such as relentlessly slaughtering ghoul investigators and engaging in violent brawls. He tends to hide his softer side, by denying he wanted to visit his niece. Plot

    Background

    Young Touka and Ayato Ayato and his sister, Touka, as children. Ayato resided in the 20th ward with his sister Touka, under the care of their father, Arata Kirishima. Arata lived his life like humans did; he usually took Ayato and Touka to the library to study, and even convinced them to eat food offered by humans; for he believed that ghouls should try to blend in with human society by adapting their behavioral patterns. Ayato however, supposed that it was solely a human’s world, and that ghouls were not “normal.” He and Touka also cared for a bird, where Ayato was shown to dislike earthworms and insects. One night before Arata set out on his regular scavenging routine, Ayato made a promise to him that he would protect Touka whenever she was in trouble. After Arata never returned, Ayato assumed that his father had died by ghoul investigators finding and killing him. Touka and Ayato visited a woman named Satou to tell her of their father’s disappearance. She offered them human food, but when they refused, Satou stuffed the food in Ayato’s mouth, and both siblings were sold out. They managed to escape as Touka used her kagune to kill the investigators.[3]

    Ayato claiming a Feeding Ground-0 Ayato claiming a feeding ground. Ayato’s perspective of humans changed immediately; as he came to the conclusion that none of what they went through would have happened if they had not gotten involved with humans. After running away from home, they found Anteiku, where they were taken care of by Yoshimura. As they grew up, the siblings got stronger, to the point where Ayato started displaying violent tendencies. When Touka started school and met Yoriko, Ayato told her that interacting with humans was foolish; for they could not be trusted under any circumstance. Believing they might end up just like Arata did, Ayato left Anteiku in search of more power. He then wandered the wards of Tokyo, such as the 14th ward; where he took away multiple feeding grounds from the ghouls there.[3]

    Aogiri Arc

    Ayato barges into Anteiku Ayato barges into Anteiku. Ayato was first seen at the Aogiri Hideout in the 11th ward, enraged by the fact that he sent Kazuichi Banjou on a mission to capture Rize Kamishiro, but Banjou did not answer his phone calls. Ayato, thinking Yakumo Oomori and Nico would capture Rize before him, decided to go visit the 20th ward. He briefly talks about a little of his history there to an unnamed Aogiri member.[4]

    Ayato barged into Anteiku upon hearing Banjou telling Ken Kaneki to tell Rize should run away from the incoming danger. He kicked Banjou in the arm, cracking his bones, and threatened to give him another beating. Ayato was suddenly faced with his elder sister Touka Kirishima, and when asked where he wandered off to after walking out of her life, Ayato said he had been "studying the world," for he would never proclaim himself to be a "peaceful idiot." Ayato became disappointed when he saw Yamori at Anteiku as well, but when Nico pointed out that Kaneki was indeed the one who smelled like Rize, Ayato cooperated with Yamori to capture Kaneki.[5]

    When Touka put up a resistance by not wanting them to take Kaneki, she countered Yamori but was confronted by Ayato. Ayato, punching her in the face, compared Touka to their dead parents, calling her a "weakling." Touka thrusted her kagune at him, but he blocked the attack with one of his wings. With his own kagune activated, Ayato pledged to show her ghouls were truly above humans. Ayato then beat her down effortlessly, subsequently ordered Banjou to stuff an unconscious Kaneki in a bag, and headed back to the 11th ward. When asked if they should take Touka as well, Ayato desisted, saying she would just weigh them down.[6]

    At the hideout, Ayato was the first person to approach Kaneki when he woke up. He ordered Kaneki to follow him, but when Kaneki showed concern for Touka’s well-being, Ayato kicked him, telling him he was not allowed to talk, and should be obedient of the slightest order he was given. Ayato then admitted himself to be a "softy," in comparison to his superiors. He then took Kaneki to a meeting to meet Tatara, but when Tatara refused Kaneki, Ayato was told to do what he wanted with him. So Ayato locked Kaneki away in a room.[7]

    Later on, during the CCG’s raid on the Aogiri base, he was beside the Bin brothers, battling the ghoul investigators.[8]

    Ayato rips off Touka's kagune Ayato feasts upon Touka's kagune. After some while, he encountered Touka, assuming she came to the Aogiri Hideout to save Kaneki. He told Touka that Kaneki was originally made into one of his subordinates, but was now with Yamori. Ayato pronounced Kaneki dead; due to Yamori's torture hobby and violent sadistic tendencies. Angry, Touka charged toward him, but he blocked her attack by clutching her foot in his palm.[9] He then threw her to the ground, deciding to take her to the above platform once she fell unconscious. Once they arrived there, he bludgeoned Touka once more, subsequently feasting off of her kagune. Ayato pointed out that Touka, just like their father, was weak, and that the superiority or inferiority of any individual was solely dependent upon “power.”[10]

    Kaneki defeating Ayato Kaneki starts breaking 103 of Ayato's bones. When Kaneki rescued Touka, Ayato confronted him on the roof of the hideout. Ayato declared that Kaneki should die and started shooting bullets with his kagune, all of which Kaneki dodged. He became irritated as Kaneki vowed to "half-kill" him for his actions.[11] The two battled, and Kaneki lectured him for being violent against his own sibling, and pierced Ayato’s thigh with his kagune afterwards. Ayato engaged Kaneki in close combat, but Kaneki effortlessly beat him down. He was agitated at the fact that Kaneki pointed out his "secret."[12] Kaneki openly told him the person Ayato portrayed himself to be was the total opposite of what was in his heart. The reason why Ayato had even joined Aogiri Tree in the first place was to become strong enough to ensure Touka would not be killed, and hence he protected her. Ayato denied this, mentioning that he hated Kaneki since he first met him, for Kaneki reminded Ayato of his father, Arata Kirishima. Ayato was weakened when Kaneki gave him another beating, and was forced to endure as Kaneki calmly broke one hundred three of the two hundred six bones of his body.[13]

    √A (Anime)

    Kaneki Ayato Ayato partnered with Kaneki. After Kaneki joined Aogiri, he and Ayato were partnered to do missions together. They were first sent to destroy a convoy containing a mass of CCG vehicles, one of which an arrested Naki was believed to be in. Ayato was puzzled when Nashiro and Kurona appeared. He ordered the Aogiri members to retrieve Naki from an ablaze car and seeing the latter’s childish behavior over Yamori’s death, caused Ayato to become irritated.

    Shinohara vs ayato Ayato vs Shinohara. Whilst infiltrating Cochlea to find Shachi, Kaneki prevented a barrier from closing in, allowing Ayato to descend through the crevice and target the tactical guard members of the CCG. He later ran into Yukinori Shinohara and the two clashed. Ayato sensed a strange presence in the room, and after seeing Shinohara activate the kakuja armor, Arata, made from his father, Ayato finally reached the conclusion of his father’s whereabouts.

    Ayato later succumbed to an overwhelming attack from Shinohara. Weakened, he tried to muster up the strength to strike against the Arata armor, but failed to do so when memories of his father resurfaced. He then collapsed, but before Shinohara could deal him the final blow, Ayato was saved by Kaneki.

    During the CCG's ultimate operation of ghoul eradication, Ayato was tackling the SWAT members with his underlings.

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Ayato was shown to have undertaken the newly found alias “Black Rabbit,” and began wearing his second mask. This was done in order to have the CCG mistake Ayato for Touka, and therefore track him instead of his sister; thus covering up Touka’s actions and cleaning up after her bad reputation.[14]

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    In the ending montage, Ayato was seen clutching his second mask to his chest, which confirmed his identity as the Black Rabbit.[15]

    Torso Investigation

    Ayato briefly appeared in the opening montage, speaking to Hinami.[16]

    Auction

    Ayato in re Ayato returns. Later on, he appeared at Torso’s residence where it was reported he stole some unknown data belonging to the CCG. He also attacked and slaughtered all of Shimoguchi’s subordinates; leaving Shimoguchi as the only survivor, though severely injured.[17] Ayato’s name is then mentioned in a discussion between Akira Mado and Haise Sasaki, whereby Akira noted that three years ago, Ayato murdered multiple ghoul investigators while invading the 20th ward, and also hunted down Associate Special Class investigators from the 7th ward. Akira mentioned Ayato’s existence and power had been increasingly outstanding every year, and so she was therefore led to think that it was Ayato and Hinami who had murdered her father, Kureo Mado.

    Ayato later spoke to Torso at his home. Since his true identity was revealed, Torso requested Ayato to allow him to join Aogiri Tree, as this was his only choice. Noticing Torso was intimidated by him, Ayato instead warned Torso about the higher-ups of Aogiri Tree: he would be killed if he were to ever leave the organization, and should therefore carefully reconsider before joining. Ayato then asked if someone by the name of “Sasaki” was affiliated with the Quinx Squad.[18]

    Ayato was at the Aogiri Hideout, at a height where he was able to overlook Tokyo. Eto approached him, informing him that she had gotten a message from Tatara.[19] Eto requested that Ayato be the guard and escort for Big Madam at the upcoming auction. He later approached Hinami and Torso, where Hinami listened and interpreted a discussion between two ghoul investigators, discovering the CCG was also interested in the "floppy," and would therefore be at the auction. Ayato mentioned he needed Hinami to be his "ears," where she would listen in on multiple conversations in order to gather information.[20]

    As they later overlook the auction, Ayato explained the exploitation of humans to Torso and was subsequently alarmed when Hinami informed him of something strange she had sensed.[2]

    Ayato vs juuzou Ayato vs Juuzou. Ayato was surprised to see Tooru Mutsuki was a one-eyed ghoul, but was later agitated when Torso threw a fit of excitement just to participate and get closer to Mutsuki.[21] When Juuzou Suzuya intervened, Ayato quickly instructed Naki and Miza to take charge of their squads as he decided to guard Big Madam, therefore beginning his battle with Juuzou.[22]

    During the battle, Ayato lost track of Juuzou after the former gained the upper hand. Hinami then contacted Ayato, telling him Naki's group was outnumbered. Ayato decided to abandon his fight with Suzuya and left the main hall to back up Naki - showing concern over his comrade.[23] After coming to Naki's rescue, Ayato berated him for taking too long.[24] He continued to battle the ghoul investigators alongside Naki and demonstrated his ability to not only fight for long periods of time despite being an ukaku-type, but also the ability to use his kagune for close range combat which he used to behead two investigators.[25]

    He eventually regrouped with Naki and Miza on the roof of the auction house with Naki frantically telling Ayato that a large number of Doves were coming their way. Ayato knew of the risks associated with the Doves then stated urgently they had to hurry.[26]

    When CCG reinforcements arrived and Aogiri began their retreat, Ayato initially refused to leave without Hinami but was instead told that he did not stand a chance against the CCG's overwhelming numbers. Ayato gritted his teeth in frustration and departed with his comrades.[27]

    Rose Extermination

    Tatara orders Ayato Kirishima to stand down re anime Tatara ordering Ayato to stand down. Months later, during an Aogiri meeting, Ayato yet again proposed a mission to Tatara to rescue Hinami from Cochlea. Tatara dismissed his demands, and Seidou Takizawa mocked him over the idea of ghouls showing affection for each other. Ayato was enraged and opted to attack him, but Tatara intervened and reprimanded him for having disobeyed his orders. Ayato questioned Aogiri's willingness to simply throw away and replace its members, then recalled the first time he met Hinami. He had been annoyed with her crying and confronted her, but she simply laughed and reminded him of the resemblance of his angered expression with that of his sister; concluding that she felt happy.[28]

    Ayato and Hinami first meet re anime Ayato meeting Hinami for the first time. Post-Rose Extermination

    Ayato talking with Miza Ayato talks to Miza. Ayato was at the Aogiri hideout on Rushima where he asked Miza if she had seen Torso. When she denied knowing his whereabouts, their discussion moved towards the upcoming assembly held by Eto. Neither of them knew what the assembly was about, just that Eto had something to say and everyone had been asked to gather. That conversation also came up short, Miza then asked about Cochlea, however, the news was as bleak as ever. The place was far too secure and even information about guard shifts was null. Their conversation ended with Ayato informing Miza that Naki was already at the meeting hall, noting that it was odd for her to be on lookout duty, so he figured she was looking for him

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Having been born as a full ghoul, Ayato possessed an ukaku kagune with the ability to harden for close range combat.

    Ukaku Kagune: Like his sister, Ayato's kagune were vermilion in color. He was able to form a single wing on both of his shoulders. Like many ukaku ghouls, he was agile and able to shoot bullets from both wings when in the crystallized mode.[11] However he also suffered from a low Rc supply and therefore tired if a battle was dragged out for too long and was ill suited for close range, however, he has managed to evade both weaknesses of an ukaku through utilizing his kagune in a koukaku-like manner, making close range his specialty rather than his weakness. He was able to hide within his kagune mid-air, with the two wings revolving around him to shield him from projectiles such as bullets.[61] In :re, his kagune appeared to be much larger in size, as he also possesed the ability to generate one wing of his kagune, and has better control over it. His crystallized kagune wings could transform into sharp blades sprouting from his shoulders.[25] Superhuman Durability: Ayato survived being smashed through several floors of a building by Kaneki, as well as having half of his bones broken by the latter.[13] Superhuman Regeneration: After a period of time, Ayato was able to recuperate from critical wounds inflicted onto him by Kaneki.[13] Superhuman Senses: Although inferior to the sensing abilities of Hinami Fueguchi, Ayato was capable of discerning an environment through hearing such as assuming how many people are inside a room.

    Relationships

    Touka Kirishima

    Before their separation, the two were often together, Ayato would follow her much of everywhere she would go. Together, they would kill anyone who got in their way or disrespected them, and had each others' backs when it came to decisions. However, as he got older, Ayato spent less and less time at her side, and with that, he became often irritated with her and her constant worry. When Touka began to attend school, he hated hearing about her time with humans and so he left.[60] Ayato is very apprehensive about his true feelings towards Touka. He often insults her and refers to her as a "weak" person, just like their father was, and even goes as far as beating her up to the point of unconsciousness and ripping off her kagune. However, Kaneki sees these mannerisms as a mere shell; since Ayato had beat down Touka before Yamori could take the pleasure of torturing and killing her and expressed disgust at Nico when he comments about her appearance. Ayato cares for Touka and wishes to protect her whenever she is in trouble, given that this is what he wanted to accomplish by joining Aogiri Tree and becoming stronger. As his presence became prominent each year, he undertook the alias, "Rabbit" in order to cover up for Touka’s actions, clearing her name, which lead the CCG to think that it was Ayato who had murdered investigators such as Kureo Mado, and therefore suspend their hunt for Touka. Ayato and Touka eventually reunite when the latter rescues him from Arima. They reconcile after she tells him he does not have to look out for her anymore.

    Ken Kaneki

    Ayato expresses indifference and agitation towards Kaneki, seeing him as just another useless weakling; for he is constantly reminded of his father through Kaneki’s attitude and way of talking. However, when Kaneki confronted him about his false pretense and true motives for joining Aogiri Tree, Ayato became offended by this, but was in denial, despite the fact that Kaneki was telling the truth.

    In √A , Ayato is usually seen partnered with Kaneki, and though he has shown little signs of aggression towards him, he does seem to consider Kaneki a comrade, trusting him during their mission to retrieve Shachi in Cochlea.

    In re, Ayato held an interest in Kaneki's current self, Sasaki, asking Karao Saeki if he met Sasaki in his encounter with the Quinx Squad. His attitude towards Kaneki vastly changed, as during the Third Cochlea Raid he accepted Kaneki's aid in rescuing Hinami and deferred to his authority as the One-Eyed King without question. Ayato is also the maternal uncle of Kaneki's child with Touka. The two became brothers-in-law after Kaneki married Touka.

    Arata Kirishima

    Ayato despises his father for not being able to stand up against ghoul investigators, and leaving him and his sister alone to fend for themselves when they were younger. Ayato often tends to deride his father’s way of living whenever he talks to Touka about their family or comparing his father to Kaneki; saying that he could not even bear the thought of remembering him. It is implied that despite loving his father, Ayato grew to resent him for his kind nature as it was that very element which had gotten him killed, leading to the siblings growing up in a violent world orphaned. Although he holds this irrational hatred for Arata, Ayato still managed to secretly protect his elder sister, just as he promised Arata as a child.

    In √A, before his battle with Yukinori Shinohara, upon seeing the latter activate an armor in the form of a kakuja that once belonged to Arata, Ayato becomes immensely infuriated. This suggests that Ayato still holds some degree of grief over his father’s death.

    Hikari Kirishima

    Hikari loved and cherished her son. According to Renji Yomo, Ayato alongside his sister took after her personality.

    Renji Yomo

    Yomo is the maternal uncle of Ayato. The two were not very close, but Yomo looked out for Ayato when he was younger, including clearing the evidence of Ayato and Touka's kills to keep away the CCG's attention from the two. He helps Ayato and Touka in breaking into Cochlea to rescue Hinami. Yomo intervenes to shield Touka and Ayato from Arima's onslaught showing his affection for the two of them.

    Hinami Fueguchi

    Ayato sees Hinami as his partner and subordinate. He treats her with respect and seems to get along nicely with her, always speaking to her with kindness. According to his instructions, she executes both the auditory and scent detection of ghouls and humans. She is mostly seen alongside him, whereby they cooperate during missions. Ayato secretly covers for Hinami when she is forced to do tasks she is unsuited for, such as killing. Ayato is also shown to possess a deep concern over Hinami's well-being, as seen when he was hesitant about leaving her behind at the auction, and continuously demanded Tatara prepare a rescue of her from Cochlea. When Tatara refused, Ayato requested Banjou's aid in order to save Hinami.

    After letting Hinami know about Akira Mado's recovery, he is shown to comfort her while she cried.

    Eto Yoshimura

    As fellow members of Aogiri Tree, Ayato obeys Eto and doesn't question her. Eto personally brings Ayato a message from Tatara and entrusts him in being a bodyguard at the auction. Eto also tells Ayato to finish "Floppy" should it make an appearance, to which Ayato heeds.

19. #19Ayumu Hogi

    Keys: Ayumu Hogi

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ayumu Hogi JAPANESE NAME 穂木 あゆむ （ほぎ あゆむ） ROMAJI Hogi Ayumu SPECIES Human STATUS Alive GENDER Female AFFILIATIONS CCG (Formerly) Hachikawa Squad TSC OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) Peacekeeper WARD 1st Ward (Currently) QUINQUE Youji (Unknown type) RANK Rank 1 (until :re Ch. 60) First Class (after :re Ch. 60) MANGA DEBUT Chapter 127 ANIME DEBUT Episode 21 SEIYUU Rui Tanabe ENGLISH VA Morgan Berry

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    Ayumu is a short girl with messy blonde hair that usually covers most parts her face. It is revealed that she has a young round face with freckles, but since she hates her freckles, she conceals it with her hair. Personality

    Ayumu rarely talks and she is more focused on the battle. She feels insecure about her freckled face, hence the peculiar hairstyle she dons.

    She is also quite friendly as she seems to have a liking to her superior, despite admitting that he is universally disliked. Plot

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Ayumu was part of the Squad 3 led by Chuu Hachikawa and later fought against the Black Dog with her squad. She eventually managed to help defeat the Black Dog, but her quinque was destroyed by Ken Kaneki - making her unable to fight.

    After the appearance of Eto, Ayumu made her way to the rooftop and engaged Eto in combat. She was seen flipping over an attack that killed two of her comrades.

    Torso Investigation

    Ayumu was in the lobby of CCG Main Office alongside Chuu Hachikawa and she was asked by Kuramoto Itou about her suit.[1]

    Post-Rose Extermination

    As part of Hachikawa's squad, she was sent to investigate Rushima after it became suspected of being Aogiri's hideout.[2] There, they encountered Aogiri ghouls who were quickly disposed of. She and the rest of the squad located Aogiri's hideout where they spied as Eto gave a speech to the gathered Aogiri members. They were spotted by Owl.[3]

    After Shikorae attacked and ripped off Hachikawa's nose and spits it out, Ayumu tried to attack him head on but the ghoul managed to dodge all of her moves. When Hachikawa was killed, Ayumu screamed out his name and was pulled away by Tooru Mutsuki, telling her they were going to jump off the cliff into the water to escape. One of Shikorae's projectiles managed to scratch Ayumu as she and Mutsuki plunged into the ocean below.

    In a small cave, Mutsuki provided basic first aid to Ayumu's arm and talked about Hachikawa. She talked to him about Hachikawa's past and that despite Hachikawa's foul-mouth and his bad reputation due to his greed, she still liked him. In the past, when she told him why she hid her face he said it was stupid and asked her between his face and her freckles which was better. She added that no matter who the person was, if you had one beautiful memory of them, it was hard to feel disgust for that person.

    She was then suddenly attacked by Torso, who grabbed her by the hair and bashed her against a wall, terrifying Mutsuki.[4]

    She survived Torso's attack and escaped back to the CCG Headquarters. Ayumu attended a meeting with Matsuri Washuu and Yoshitoki Washuu to recount the events she witnessed at Rushima.[5]

    Post-Rushima Landing Operation

    A month after the operation, she went to fetch Mutsuki who was conversing with Saiko Yonebayashi.[6]

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    Relationship

    Chuu Hachikawa

    Hachikawa is Ayumu's former partner. Despite his coarse personality, Ayumu found Hachikawa hard to hate because she had fond memories of him. He made Ayumu feel better about her insecurities in his unorthodox way and she grew to respect him.[4]

    Tooru Mutsuki

    A former member of the Hachikawa Squad. Mutsuki and Ayumu worked well together and would back each other up on the field and comfort each other emotionally. Mutsuki understands Ayumu's feelings of not being able to hate someone if they have one good memory of that person.[4]

    Powers and Abilities

    Ayumu is shown to be a rather skilled investigator able to hold off an SS-rated ghoul, and later able to hold off an A-rated ghoul as well.[7]

    Swordsmanship: Ayumu has shown to be quite proficient in wielding her quinque as shown when she fought the Black Dog and Shikorae.

    Youji: This quinque is a long, light-colored katana that strongly resembles Yukimura and Tsunagi

20. #20Big Madam

    Keys: Big Madam

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Big Madam JAPANESE NAME ビッグマダム ROMAJI Biggu Madamu SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Female SEX Male DIED November 11, 3 ASBI[1][2] AFFILIATIONS Ghoul Restaurant RC TYPE Bikaku RATING SS MANGA DEBUT Chapter 122 ANIME DEBUT Episode 18 SEIYUU Kimiko Saitō ENGLISH VA Nancy Sherrard Image Gallery LESS Big Madam (ビッグマダム, Biggu Madamu) was a powerful and influential Ghoul, with an extensive black market network. In the past, Big Madam raised Juuzou Suzuya as a human "pet" and subjected him to extensive abuse. Nutcracker was believed to be one of their employees, and was considered a major target by CCG.

    Appearance

    Big Madam was an obese Ghoul with strawberry-blonde hair, often dressed in luxurious clothing and excessive jewelry. Unlike many ghouls, Big Madam was never shown possessing a mask. Her face was easily recognizable for use of heavy makeup, tinted sunglasses, and braces. Big Madam's biological sex was revealed by the CCG when her corpse was recovered after the auction. Personality

    Big Madam was a sadistic individual who took pleasure in inflicting suffering on others. Examples included organizing quite a few auction shows for human goods, as well as lending her pets for Dinner Shows at the Ghoul Restaurant.

    Big Madam's wealth was extensive and she was able to afford the highest luxuries. She had a particular appetite for collecting petite, feminine humans, as well as handsome ones. She was able to offer up 200 million Yen (roughly 2 million USD) to buy Tooru. However, her personality was anything but distinguished. She made no qualms about expressing her emotions, and her temper often went unchecked. When she was pleased, she could be feverishly enthusiastic, with an odd habit of drooling with excitement. On the other hand, she was uncontrollably brutal when things did not go her way, acting childishly and lashing out. Plot

    Background

    Big Madam was an affiliate of Madam A and the Ghoul Restaurant. Previously, "Rei" was abducted as a pet and was given the name "Juuzou", and became a scrapper and entertainer for the audience. Madam also took the pleasure of torturing Suzuya at nights and dressing him as a girl, and even castrated him forcibly with a gavel. Years after, the CCG raided their hideout, but failed to capture Big Madam.

    Auction

    Madam was first mentioned by Abara Hanbee during her Nutcracker briefing to the Quinx Squad about a certain "ingredients list." She was later mentioned by Eto and Ayato during a discussion about the auction.

    Big Madam took part in the Auction, excited at the possibility of finding a new human pet. She took part in a fierce bidding war against Croque Monsieur for a famous actor, but ultimately lost. She angrily denied her interest, apparently frustrated at the loss. However, she succeeded in placing the winning bid on Tooru Mutsuki — a record 200 million Yen. Her excitement was short-lived, however, when Suzuya revealed himself on stage and began slaughtering the Ghouls. She quickly recognizes Suzuya.

    In the face of the CCG assault, Big Madam retreated along with many of the auction guests to the Zeum hall's underground area. She came into conflict with Kuki Urie when he discovered the guests' hideout. However, Big Madam defeated Urie without much difficulty and swallowed him whole.[3] Urie forced his way out by releasing his F4 Koukaku Kagune, and managed to kill Big Madam's bodyguards, but he was not able to fully control his new power and went berserk in the process. As a result, he was still no match for Big Madam, and had to be saved by Suzuya's squad.[4] Big Madam was severely wounded by Juuzou's "Jason", and begged for mercy. Juuzou said he never hated Big Madam, but merely had to kill her because that was his "job". Infuriated, Big Madam said she had never loved Juuzou but was immediately killed by the Squad members. As Big Madam was killed, Hanbee covered the saddened Juuzou's eyes and ears, as he said his final farewell and addressed her as "father".[2]

    Relationships

    Juuzou Suzuya

    As a child, Suzuya was one of Big Madam's pets and her favorite executioner. She called him "Juuzou" in the arena; a name he would later adopt as his own. Suzuya and Big Madam's relationship was a torturous and abusive one, with its highs and lows. After every show he performed, she would give him "points" depending on how good he was that day. Every point chalked up to one stitch with a needle-- perhaps how he learned how to body stitch. Suzuya was kept in a dungeon during the majority of his time with Big Madam. On the other hand, Big Madam would sometimes be affectionate to her pet. In one of Suzuya's flashbacks, he remembered one of the rare occasions when Big Madam would play and read books to him, not unlike a mother.

    Big Madam also loved to dress Suzuya like a doll, thrilled with how lovely he looked as a girl. However, she was unnerved by the possibility of him growing up to look masculine. She decided to crudely castrate him with a hammer, leading to Suzuya's current androgynous appearance.

    Big Madam had a strong obsession with Suzuya. When she recognized Suzuya at the Auction hosted by the Clowns, she was overly excited, calling him "Juuzou-chan" and frozen in awe. When she is at his mercy, she desperately tries to appeal to him as her "son", asking him if he would really kill his mama. When this approach fails, she lashes out, telling him how she never really loved him. Their twisted relationship was therefore defined by cycles of affection and violence, alternately showering "Rei-chan" with kindness and brutalizing "Juuzou".

    Nutcracker

    Big Madam was supposedly Nutcracker's employer for the auction sale, while Nutcracker was in charge of bringing humans to the auction.

    Power and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Having been born as a ghoul, Big Madam possessed great physical capabilities. Although she was usually accompanied by ghoul bodyguards, she possessed an SS rating by herself (though this was partially due to her influence) and was more than capable of holding her own. It took an extensive team of skilled investigators and Quinx for her to be exterminated.

    Bikaku Kagune: Big Madam possessed a massive Bikaku kagune, resembling a thick tail that could be extended a great distance

21. #21Bin brothers

    Keys: Bin brothers

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Bin brothers JAPANESE NAME 瓶兄弟 （びんきょうだい） ROMAJI Bin Kyōdai ALIAS Tail Brothers SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased AGE Unknown GENDER Male DIED December 20, 0 ASBI[1][2][3] AFFILIATIONS Aogiri Tree - Executives RELATIVES Yumitsu Tomoe (Step-sister)[4] RC TYPE Bikaku RATING S MANGA DEBUT Chapter 54 ANIME DEBUT Episode 10 SEIYUU Yuki Fujiwara (Older Bin) Sōta Arai (Younger Bin) ENGLISH VA Sonny Strait (Older Bin) Jean-Luc Hester (Younger Bin) Image Gallery LESS The Bin brothers (瓶兄弟, Bin Kyōdai) were two brothers who acted as executives of Aogiri Tree. The ghoul investigators called them the Tail Brothers (シッポブラザース, Shippo Burazāsu).[5]

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    Both brothers hid their face with unique masks featuring different geometrical patterns but wore the typical attire of Aogiri Tree's members otherwise. The older of the two had short spiky hair, black nails and, without the lower half of his mask, slightly sharp cheekbones.

    In the anime, they wore purple blue robes as opposed to the maroon ones of other Aogiri members and the brothers had slightly long messy dark hair, shown when they are killed by Koutarou Amon.

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    Personality

    Among Aogiri's members, they had a relatively moderate personality. During a fight, while one was about to be defeated, they used mockery as a means to trick their opponent. They had sworn their allegiance to the One-Eyed King and idolized Aogiri's ideology. Plot

    Aogiri Arc

    The Bin brothers attended the meeting when Ken Kaneki was brought before Tatara.[6] During Kaneki and Anti-Aogiri's attempted escape from the Aogiri hideout, one of them noticed the plan and attempted to put a stop to it.[7] He succeeded in wounding Kazuichi Banjou but was knocked down and had his mask damaged after a prolonged fight with Kaneki, Jiro, Ichimi, and Sante. A standoff ensued as the second brother arrived before the escape attempt was put to an end by the appearance of Yamori, who captured the rest of Anti-Aogiri. Despite their insistence on it being their job to finish off the escapees, Yamori threatened them to leave things there for him to have fun.[8]

    When the Aogiri invasion began, the Bin brothers led squads in exterminating investigator troops until they were confronted by Amon. While attempting to do another combo attack, Amon used his quinque to kill the two brothers in quick succession.[3]

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    Yumitsu Tomoe

    Tomoe, a direct subordinate of Tatara, has been nicknamed Little Bin,[9] and is their step-sister unrelated by blood. She holds them in high esteem, hates Amon, and hopes to avenge them.[10]

    Yakumo Oomori

    Despite being fellow Aogiri executives, they were not on good terms. They had an opposition of intentions and mentality, while the Bin brothers joined Aogiri to revolt for the purpose of a better world for ghouls, Yamori stated he only did it for the fun involved. Thus they are unable to stand him. However, when Yamori asked if they wanted to try and kill him while adopting an intimidating manner, they called him a maniac and left after Nico's interference.

    Power and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Being a ghoul, the twins possessed higher physical capabilities. During fights, they were very well-coordinated, executing dual attacks without any words against a single opponent.

    Bikaku Kagune: They both had one bikaku tail. Leadership: Their leadership skills were one of their best assets as they were able to amass a large number of ghouls.

22. #22CCG rates

    Keys: CCG rates, Ghoul ratings, Ghoul levels

    🔹 Rating System (Lowest to Highest): Rating Description C Weak ghouls with little to no combat ability. They usually prey on easy targets and are not much of a threat. B Slightly stronger than C-rated ghouls. Still relatively low-threat and manageable by new Investigators. A Considered dangerous. These ghouls have strong abilities and can kill CCG agents if underestimated. AA More dangerous than A-rated ghouls. Usually skilled fighters with high intelligence and combat capability. AAA Very dangerous and powerful. These ghouls are often experienced killers or have powerful kagune (ghoul weapons). S A known and serious threat. S-rated ghouls require more skilled Investigators to handle and often lead to casualties. SS Extremely powerful and highly lethal. Very few Investigators can handle them alone. SSS Top-tier threat level. These ghouls are rare and considered catastrophic. Only elite Investigators or entire squads can deal with them—if at all. 🔸 Examples of Ghouls by Rating: S: Hinami (early story), Ayato (early) SS: Shuu Tsukiyama, Noro SSS: Eto Yoshimura (One-Eyed Owl), Kaneki (as Haise/Sasaki and later forms)

23. #23Nutcracker

    Keys: Nutcracker

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Mayu JAPANESE NAME 痲ユ ROMAJI Mayu ALIAS Nutcracker SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive AGE 21[1] GENDER Female BORN January 6[1] DIED November 11, 3 ASBI[2][3] HEIGHT 166 cm (5'5 ¾) [1] WEIGHT 48 kg[1] BLOOD TYPE B AFFILIATIONS Ghoul Restaurant OCCUPATION Dominatrix WARD 19th Ward[1] RC TYPE Koukaku ・ Bikaku RC LEVEL 2200 ・ 4500[1] RATING A~ (until :re Ch. 23) S (after :re Ch. 23) MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 9 ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 2 SEIYUU Nozomi Mikajiri ENGLISH VA Emily Neves Image Gallery LESS For the quinque, see Nutcracker (Quinque). Mayu (痲ユ, Mayu), known under the alias Nutcracker (ナッツクラッカー, Nattsukurakkā), was a ghoul who preyed on men by crushing their testicles before drinking the fluids. She was tasked with capturing humans for an underground "Gourmet" society.

    Suzuya Squad was in charge of the Nutcracker case, with the Quinx Squad supporting the investigation. She was killed during the Auction Mopping-up Operation by Ginshi Shirazu, and her kagune was turned into a quinque of the same name.

    Appearance

    Nutcracker was an attractive young woman, with long black hair of average height, light colored eyes, and vertical pupils. She seemed to prefer clothing with lingerie elements, and had teeth that had been dyed black. Manga Depiction sexy curvy body and big breasts and fat white butt

    Personality

    Nutcracker was a sadistic ghoul, and took pleasure in torturing her male victims, crushing and eating their genitals. She also had an obsession with money and beauty, stemming from her upbringing in extreme poverty. HOWEVER she has strong obsession with {{user}} finding them the cutest thing in her life being a yandere Plot

    Auction

    With the Torso investigation put on hold, the Quinx Squad was reassigned to assist the Suzuya Squad with her case. Haise Sasaki described her unusual feeding habits to Ginshi Shirazu and Tooru Mutsuki, who were both deeply unnerved at the thought. Elsewhere, Nutcracker was wearing lingerie and spoke to a prone man wearing nothing but his boxers. She smiled and crushed his testicles underneath her boot while he screamed.[4]

    During the meeting between the Suzuya and Quinx Squad, her identity had been uncovered. However, because of her involvement in a human trafficking ring and links to a Gourmet society, they decided to simply observe her. The Quinx were assigned to spy on her while she met with an unknown man, but the mission went south when Shirazu accidentally broke a glass. Nutcracker noticed him, but walked past him to get something to drink. As she filled her glass, she watched him closely with an interested look.[5]

    The Quinx learned Nutcracker was seeking targets in the 13th ward, for an upcoming auction. Based on the requested items, she was looking for young women at local nightclubs and the Quinx go undercover in order to bait her. They observed her speaking to young women at the club, offering them a part-time job. An intoxicated Mutsuki approached her brazenly, and managed to secure the information about the "job," providing information on the date of the Auction. A plan was put into motion to use Nutcracker to infiltrate the event, tricking her into bringing an undercover ghoul investigator to the location.

    On the day of the Auction, Nutcracker met with Mutsuki and Juuzou Suzuya and drove them to the location in a luxury car. However, the vehicle was filled with gas and both were knocked unconscious. Some time later, Nutcracker fetched Mutsuki and dragged him onto stage to be sold. The revelation that the "surprise item" was a one-eyed ghoul caused a frenzy and the resulting bidding war fetched a record 200 million Yen. After the sale, Nutcracker took Mutsuki back to the holding area and was so excited that she kissed him on the cheek in celebration.

    When the CCG began the raid on the Auction, she attempted to escape with Mutsuki but was knocked down. She screamed in dismay at her "200 million" escaping.

    Some time later, she ambushed several investigators as they entered the building's control room. The team had the upper hand against her and managed to wound her. However, before they could land another blow, she impaled Ryouta Ooshiba through the thigh. Mayu unveiled her dual-kagune type and killed several investigators with her koukaku. She turned on Ooshiba, crushed his genitals and consumed them before she cornered the last survivor — complimented the woman on her beautiful looks and devoured her face.

    Shirazu stabs Nutcracker Nutcracker's death Ooshiba's last desperate call reached Matsuri Washuu to inform him about her dual-kagune, Washuu upgraded her rating from an A to an S-rated threat and ordered the Quinx Squad to exterminate her.

    She attempted to find Mutsuki using the CCTV screens in the administrative tower while crying for her "200 million." Nutcracker noticed the Quinxes' attack and avoided it. As Shirazu prepared to attack her, he triggered one of her detached kagune traps and was impaled. She pressed the attack against Shirazu and Naoto Hayashimura, shrugged off their blows and left them struggling to fend her off. Shirazu barely avoided her attempt to stomp on his groin and was able to figure out the trick to her kagune traps.

    Unaware of the trap being set, Nutcracker continued to fight with Hayashimura and wounded him. She dodged another attack by Shirazu and caused her to end up in the path of her own trap — which reacted to nearby objects and impaled her from behind. Unable to escape, she was attacked and rendered motionless by Saiko's kagune attack. She was finished off by Shirazu and in her final moments recalled her childhood of living in extreme poverty. She stated she wanted to be beautiful and died as Shirazu was shaken by her final words.

    Rose Extermination

    In the months following the Auction, her kakuhou was used to create a new quinque for Shirazu. However, he remained haunted by her death and had nightmares about her. When he picked up his new quinque from the labs, the memory of her final words caused him to vomit from the stress.

    Even after he received the quinque, Shirazu was initially unable to use it. When he attempted to use it while fighting Kanae von Rosewald, he had a vision of Nutcracker strangling him from behind and collapsed in horror. He finally gained the resolve to use the quinque during his fight with Noro and tore him apart to pieces, although the damage done proved to be insignificant due to Noro's unique regenerative abilities.

    Relationships

    Ginshi Shirazu

    The incident with Nutcracker haunted Shirazu, as he realized he was essentially given a weapon made from someone human-like that he had killed. This relationship resembled the opposite of Kaneki and Rize, where instead of becoming a coping mechanism, Nutcracker served as a trauma which reminded Shirazu of his feelings of guilt and doubts regarding the nature of ghouls.

    Nutcracker's partner

    Little is known, however they are seen together talking in a cafe during the time the Quinx investigated her. He also had a brief battle with Haise and noted him as a hard opponent.

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: As a ghoul, Nutcracker possessed increased physical capabilities and a bikaku and koukaku kagune with the ability to detach.

    Superhuman Agility: While having most of the common traits of a ghoul like strength or regeneration, her most notable display is her agility; being able to do various flips, fast leaps and scaling ceilings. She was also shown doing a kip-up back into a standing position as well. Bikaku Kagune: Her bikaku took the form of a long tail. She was able to use it to hang from ceilings. Koukaku Kagune: Her koukaku resembled a pair of spider forelimbs, which she used to defend herself. Kagune Detachment: Nutcracker demonstrated the ability to detach her bikaku kagune. Kagune Trap: Nutcracker detached her bikaku kagune as traps that used vibrations to pierce unsuspecting enemies.

24. #24Chie Hori

    Keys: Chie Hori

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Chie Hori JAPANESE NAME 掘 ちえ （ほり ちえ） ROMAJI Hori Chie ALIAS Little Mouse SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 19 (Tokyo Ghoul: Days) GENDER Female BORN February 25, 21 BSBI[1][2] HEIGHT 130 cm AFFILIATIONS Tsukiyama family Seinan Gakuin University (Formerly) Kaneki's group (Formerly) Goat (Formerly) TSC OCCUPATION College Student (Formerly) Freelance Photographer Information Broker WARD 20th ward MANGA DEBUT Chapter 86 (Mentioned) :re Chapter 1 ANIME DEBUT Tokyo Ghoul: Pinto :re Episode 1 NOVEL DEBUT Days: Chapter 3 SEIYUU Megumi Han ENGLISH VA Madeleine Morris Image Gallery LESS "Despite how I might seem, I'm really scared about dying. It's hard to think I'll disappear forever. So at the least, I want to die when I'm content about dying so that's why I want to fill my time with fun things."

    CHIE HORI

    Chie Hori (掘 ちえ, Hori Chie) is a human photographer and information broker and a long-time friend of Shuu Tsukiyama who is aware of his secret.

    At his request, she served as an informant to Ken Kaneki's group. During the Torso investigation, she offered to sell information to the Quinx Squad, due to her interest in Haise Sasaki, whom she knew was Ken Kaneki.

    Appearance

    Hori is a very petite woman, often being mistaken for a child, and has retained her youthful features, making it difficult for others to guess her age from her appearance alone. She has dark brown hair and a lighter shade of brown eyes, however, in the light novels she is illustrated with burnt orange hair and eyes of a similar shade. In the manga, she is shown wearing a green raincoat. She is mostly seen with her black camera, but once appeared with a pink one, and a black (Pinto), pink (manga), or yellow (light novels) camera case.

    Hori's appearance in the anime. Hori's appearance in the anime. Chie Hori in the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime. Chie Hori in the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime. Hori wearing her school uniform. Hori wearing her school uniform. Personality

    Hori has a very unique personality. This is evident during her first encounter with Tsukiyama as a ghoul. She proved to be very unpredictable and many of her actions can be left for interpretation. She was noted to be quite eccentric and the amount of energy she carried astonished others around her. This tied into her curiosity, as she is willing to do almost anything for a scoop or a photo, however she states she is unwilling to die to obtain either.

    She is under the CCG's radar for taking pictures of ghoul hunting and other things that have a bad influence on society. She has assisted ghouls in hunting and hacked into CCG servers. The CCG have tried catching her for the amount of crimes she has committed. Plot

    Background

    Days: Photograph

    Hori Chie Laptop Hori finds out that Tsukiyama is a ghoul. Hori was introduced taking a photograph of Tsukiyama as he fed on a victim, startling him and triggering a chase. She managed to elude him at first, but she eventually stopped in an alleyway. Rather than responding with fear when he caught up, she showed him the photo she had taken and revealed they both attend Seinan Gakuin University's high school. She demanded that he take her somewhere to eat, and the pair ended up at a cafe where she made him purchase her a dessert. Though Tsukiyama attempted to manipulate her to find out her intentions, she quickly lost interest and stated she would not leak the photo after all.

    In the following days, Tsukiyama investigated her at school while she went about her business. Finding that she had gotten into the prestigious academy on a scholarship but neglected her grades in favor of constantly looking for interesting things to photograph. Having gotten the scoop she wanted, she was initially uninterested in Tsukiyama, but he pressed her further and invited her to accompany him to a nearby hospital.

    There, Tsukiyama introduced her the beautiful nurse and revealed her elderly patient frequently harassed her, but cannot recall his actions afterward. Hori snapped a photograph as the old man sneaked up behind the nurse and grabbed her from behind, saving it for later. Before they left the hospital, she was invited to come back at midnight for a special "dinner show." Hori accepted the invitation and returned later that night. She hid in the restrooms for some time and changed into pajamas so that she will blend in with the patients. Once visiting hours had ended, she joined the patients returning to their rooms and sneaked onto the ward visited earlier. She sneaked into the old man's room, making note of the massive private room and expensive, unopened gifts. When the nurse entered the room, she hid underneath the bed.

    As she hid, she heard the nurse abuse the old man, insulting and hitting him. Tsukiyama broke through the window, startling the nurse and chiding Hori for failing to open the window for him. Hori emerged from beneath the bed, and watched the scene as he declared his true identity and began to remove the old man's skin. Eventually, the old man woke up and began to struggle, begging the nurse to save him. As she viciously kicked away the old man, Hori took a photograph of the abuse.

    Amused, Tsukiyama grabbed Hori by her shirt and held her out the eighth story window, threatening to drop her. Rather than plead for her life, Hori calmly took another photograph of Tsukiyama as he prepared to kill her. This intense focus further amused Tsukiyama, and he lifted her back into the room while declaring that she is clearly a very amusing pet. Hori refused, but is immediately ignored. She then revealed to Tsukiyama that she had prepared for the possibility of being killed, and has a blog post set for 1am which would reveal his identity if she does not cancel it in time. The pair climb out the window, leaving the injured old man and the nurse behind.

    Weeks later, Hori and Tsukiyama met in a cafe to discuss the events of that night. She showed him on her laptop the news, and how the nurse had reported an unknown ghoul had attacked her and then killed her elderly patient. As a result, she has became the heroine of the tragedy and became romantically involved with a doctor. Hori revealed she went to see the nurse afterward, and told Tsukiyama that the nurse is grateful to him for her good fortune. Looking at the photograph again, she noted how the nurse looked at her patient as if he were an insect to be crushed. He expressed amusement at the cruelty of humans, and Hori took another photograph of him as he smiled.

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Hori was mentioned by Kaneki in conversation. He referred to her as a reliable person after she obtained the list of prisoners that Aogiri Tree freed. Itori suggested this information could only be obtained by hacking the CCG's database.

    Later, when Tsukiyama told the story of the Yasuhisa family, he mentioned that he was given this information by Hori.

    Torso Investigation

    Urie and Shirazu talks with Chie re anime Hori talks with Urie and Shirazu. Hori was sitting on a ledge, watching over Kanae and chiding him for his behavior.

    She later approached Kuki Urie and Ginshi Shirazu, offering them information on Torso.[1] They were initially suspicious since the identities of investigators were closely guarded and threatened to take her in for interrogation. Unconcerned, Hori warned them that she would simply provide the bare minimum of information and would not cooperate further. Instead, she offered to sell them photographs in exchange for either one million yen or one of Haise Sasaki's personal belongings. She claimed to want it to cheer up her "model" and make them interesting again. Urie agreed to her terms, but asked for the photographs of Torso's hunting grounds beforehand. She handed them over, with the rest of the information withheld until her price was met.

    Chie recieves Sasaki's boxers re anime Hori receives Sasaki's boxers. Days later, Hori met with Urie and Shirazu to complete their business. She was given a pair of Sasaki's underwear and gave them Polaroids Torso took before killing his victims. She explained to them the different brands of instant cameras and demonstrated the brand "Immortal" had a special quality, with faded colors. Hori photographed the pair with two different cameras, proving that Torso had been using the Immortal brand film and shared that it was a foreign brand that had to be ordered from a specialty store. She told them their suspect lived near the crime scenes and had recently ordered a large amount of the film from a store — she knew of one suspect that fit.[6]

    After Kanae delivered Sasaki's boxers to Tsukiyama and got a lack of response, Hori was complained to by Kanae in bringing his master a dirty object. Kanae threatened to kill Hori, but she merely dismissed that idea as something Tsukiyama would no approve of, as Tsukiyama would kill her personally if the time ever came and noted that he saw her as his "pet." Chie was next seen sitting on a rooftop, holding out her camera to the city lights and hoped for Tsukiyama to get better soon to show her more interesting things.

    Rose Extermination

    Hori eventually cooperated with Kanae in order to help Shuu Tsukiyama get back to his normal self after a long period of depression for him. She made a deal with Kanae and handed him some photographs of Haise and instructed him on how and when to use them. She was later chased by ghoul investigators because of her involvement with the ghouls. Taking pictures of their predatory action, hacking the CCG's servers and helping them hunt humans. The CCG views her as a ghoul supporter and ally. She managed to hide and escape from them.

    Chie Hori during Tsukiyama Extermination Operation Hori reunites with Shuu. Hori arrived with Touka, Yomo, and Mirumo in a van to rescue Tsukiyama. She explained that she did not know who else to turn to, so went to :re knowing the ghouls there were his friends and asked for help. Along the way, they picked up Mirumo Tsukiyama and headed towards the Luna Eclipse, but Tsukiyama was trapped on the roof. Initially, Chie had thought that he risked jumping until Tsukiyama revealed that Kaneki had pushed him and he only survived because of Kanae. Chie observed that Kaneki could have killed him easily if he wanted to, and throwing him off the roof was odd. When asked by Shuu whether she was afraid of the situation, she replied that she didn't have time to think about that stuff.

    Rushima Landing Operation

    Alongside Mirumo, Chie waited for the arrival of the ghouls so they could all escape from Rushima in the aftermath of the Rushima Landing Operation.[7]

    Epilogue

    Pictures from her showing Tokyo's devastation are playing overseas. After continuing activities supporting the TSC for several years, she returned to her lifestyle of taking pictures at her whim. She remained a lifelong friend of Shuu.

    Relationships

    Shuu Tsukiyama

    The two have been long-time friends since they met in high school. Their mutual obsession with perfecting their chosen interests and unusual morality has made them unlikely friends, with Hori showing little concern over his predatory nature. She finds Tsukiyama 'interesting' and calls him her 'photography model'. Over the years, she has acted as an informant to Tsukiyama and appears to have made contact with the Quinx Squad for his sake.

    When Tsukiyama later suffers from severe depression, she continues to help him with the hopes of making him 'interesting again'. She is willing to risk imprisonment and even death by the CCG to help him.

    Kanae von Rosewald

    Hori addresses Kanae by the Japanese honorific "-kun". Although both Hori and Kanae are in close relation to Tsukiyama, they are not on good terms. Kanae looks down on this human girl and refers to her with rude names like "stray rat", "guinea pig", or profanities in German. It appears that Kanae is extremely jealous of Hori's relationship with Tsukiyama. Although she has been helping Tsukiyama during his severe depression, Kanae is not grateful to her and even threatens to kill her. However, Hori sees through his intentions and outsmarts him easily, adding to his resentment towards her.

    Ken Kaneki

    In Tokyo Ghoul, though their interactions were minimal, she brought information to him at Tsukiyama's request. Kaneki described her as a reliable person.

    In Photography, Hori negotiated with Kaneki that she would work for his team as an informant provided that Kaneki makes all his requests through Tsukiyama. She is fully aware of Tsukiyama's obsession with Kaneki and therefore utilizes her connection with his group to protect herself from being eaten and influence Tsukiyama to listen to any of her requests.

    Kuki Urie and Ginshi Shirazu

    She has made contact with them and has offered her assistance in their investigation. Urie is suspicious of how much she knows, while Shirazu seems to take a liking to her right away. Chie is unfazed by their attempts to intimidate her and easily convinces them to agree to the terms of the deal she offers them on the ghoul Torso.

    Torso

    She possesses quite a bit of knowledge about him, some of which she reveals in her deal with Urie and Shirazu. Though it is an on-going investigation, she has managed to gain access to the crime scenes to photograph them and has gathered Polaroids he left behind at the scenes. She even suggests she has a suspect in mind, though how much she actually knows about him is still unknown.

    Powers and abilities

    Above average agility: Without much difficulty, she outran a S-rated ghoul. When running from Shuu Tsukiyama, her speed made him initially ponder the possibility she was either a ghoul or an investigator. He did come to the conclusion she was faster than an athletic marathon runner.

25. #25Ching-Li Hsiao

    Keys: Ching-Li Hsiao

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ching-Li Hsiao Genie Hsiao JAPANESE NAME 小 静麗 （シャオ・ジンリー） ジーニーシャオ ROMAJI Shao Jinrī SPECIES Quinx Half-human (Formerly)[1] STATUS Alive AGE 25 (after :re Ch. 179) GENDER Female BORN June 20, 15 BSBI[3] HEIGHT 167 cm / 5'6"[3] WEIGHT 58 kg / 128 lbs[3] BLOOD TYPE B[3] AFFILIATIONS CCG (Formerly) Mado Squad (Formerly) Quinx Squad S2 Squad TSC OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) Peacekeeper WARD 1st Ward (Currently) RC TYPE Koukaku[3] RC LEVEL 892[4] QUINQUE Kuai 1/4 (Rinkaku, Rate A)[3] CLASS 76th[3] RANK Rank 1[3] TRAINING Sunlit Garden[3] HONORS Single White Wing Medal[3] MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 59 ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 13 SEIYUU Maya Enoyoshi ENGLISH VA Katelyn Barr Image Gallery LESS Ching-Li Hsiao (小 静麗, Shao Jinrī; Pinyin: Xiǎo Jìng-Lì; Wade-Giles: Hsiao Ching-Li), also known as Genie Hsiao (ジーニーシャオ, Jīnī Shao) in English, is a Taiwanese Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator and one of the second batch of recruits to the Quinx Squad.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

    Hsiao is a dark-haired young woman of average height and athletic build. During operations, she wears a long coat, knee-high boots, and long clinging gloves covering the entirety of her arms before reaching her shoulders. Underneath is a tight form-fitting suit with a cutout revealing her lower back. Personality

    Compared to her teammates, Hsiao is much more cool-headed and collected. She always displays a calm attitude and always tries her best to execute what is demanded. Hsiao has a focused mindset. Plot

    Background

    Hsiao was born in Taiwan and came to Japan as a child. She received special education for gifted students at the Sunlit Garden.[2]

    Post-Rose Extermination

    Hsiao was first introduced fighting Aogiri Tree members alongside her squad. She exterminated two members, however Touma Higemaru found this unimpressive.[5]

    Rushima Landing Operation

    She along with the rest of her squad were assigned to the operation to exterminate the ghouls of Rushima. Their squad was ordered by Matsuri Washuu to eliminate the remaining ghouls on the beach.[6] Five days later, she and her squad were still on the island searching for Tooru Mutsuki.[7]

    With Urie in the lead, the Quinx Squad arrived[8] in the middle of the fight between Floppy and Mutsuki. Urie shouted orders as they attacked in a set strategy used by Arima Squad, he was confident that Hsiao could take the position of Take Hirako in the formation. They charged as Hsiao flung her coat to the side before Urie made his first attack against the ghoul, Hsiao charged from behind and sent a powerful kick that met at Floppy's front as he turned, causing his attention to shift to her on his front side. Following this attack, she told Shinsanpei Aura to go low, and he stabbed Floppy in the back. The formation went awry when Higemaru was too close for Saiko Yonebayashi to finish the ghoul. After Floppy and the Owl ghoul spoke and Owl planned to leave with Akira Mado and Yumitsu Tomoe, she and her squad, minus Higemaru and Shinsanpei who were both injured, continued to fight against Floppy.[9] As Floppy activated his kakuja, Hsiao attempted to engage him in a battle, only to be quickly repelled and defeated.[10]

    Post-Rushima Landing Operation

    Clown Siege

    Hsiao along with the rest of the Quinx are fighting off the clown onslaught. Urie made the squad split up telling Saiko and Hsiao to take care of some area of Tokyo while he and Higemaru helped protect the firefighters.[11]

    Saiko is contacted by Higemaru about the situation with Urie and Donato Porpora, Hsiao along with Saiko and Higemaru immediately rushed to their location until Higemaru fainted. Saiko told Hsiao to call the medical squad before continuing to Urie's location. Once they made it to the building the both of them stumbled upon a framed out Urie. Saiko then told Hsiao that they will save their squad leader while preparing for battle.[12] While Saiko managed to battle Urie with different forms of her kagune Hsiao managed to inject Urie with Rc suppressants after he had left himself open.[13]

    Post-Clown Siege

    After the Clown Siege ended Hsiao watched as the captured clowns and the fake Haise Sasaki were executed by the Oggai during the new Chairman's promotion.[14] Some time later, Hsiao with the rest of the quinx celebrated Takeomi's and Yoriko's wedding.[15]

    Dragon Arc

    Finale

    She engaged in TSC duties. But at 26, she took for a leave of absence due to her poor physical condition. During medical treatment, she cooperated with research studying extended the lives of half-humans. Following that, she returned to the workforce, and became active in places such as office affairs and the intelligence department.

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    Relationships

    Touma Higemaru

    The two appear to have some sort of rivalry.

    Saiko Yonebayashi

    Hsiao seems to be highly affectionate towards Saiko. When describing Saiko's good points, Hsiao calls her cute and lovely.[16]

    Powers and Abilities

    Half-human Physiology: Having been born as a failed half-ghoul, Hsiao was granted increased physical capabilities as well as a shortened life span.

    Quinx Physiology: Due to being a Quinx hybrid, she possesses a koukaku kagune. Her superior physical abilities are further enhanced by receiving the Quinx Surgery.

    Koukaku Kagune: Hsiao's kagune takes form of a sword and shield. She has recently shown the ability to wrap it around her legs in order to strenghten her kicks. Hsiao's kagune. Hsiao's kagune. Hsiao's kagune - muscle armor. Hsiao's kagune - muscle armor. Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Her main ability is bare-handed combat, and she surpasses the rest of the new batch of the Qs in that field.

    Kuai 1/4: A rinkaku quinque which takes the form of four small blades. It is wielded by Hsiao in a combat rig fashion with each blade attached to her hands and feet, befitting her bare-handed fighting style.

26. #26Chunta

    Keys: Chunta

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Chunta JAPANESE NAME チュンタ ROMAJI Chunta SPECIES Sparrow STATUS Unknown GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Kirishima family (Formerly)

    Chunta (チュンタ, Chunta) is an injured bird that was found by Touka Kirishima and Ayato Kirishima. They nursed the bird back to health, keeping him in a cage at their apartment and feeding him worms they dug up. After their father, Arata Kirishima, disappeared and Touka and Ayato were on the run from Ghoul Investigators, they turned back to release Chunta from his cage. After being freed, he pecked Touka in the eye.

27. #27Chuu Hachikawa

    Keys: Chuu Hachikawa

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Chuu Hachikawa JAPANESE NAME 鉢川 忠 ROMAJI Hachikawa Chū SPECIES Human STATUS Alive GENDER Male DIED November, 4 ASBI[1][2][3] AFFILIATIONS CCG Hachikawa Squad OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator QUINQUE Kajiri (Ukaku) (Destroyed) RANK Associate Special Class MANGA DEBUT Chapter 127 ANIME DEBUT Episode 18 SEIYUU Kenta Miyake ENGLISH VA Scott Freeman (√A) Patrick McAllister (:re (anime)) Image Gallery LESS Chuu Hachikawa (鉢川 忠, Hachikawa Chū) was an Associate Special Class Investigator from the CCG. He was the Captain of the Squad 3 in the Owl Suppression Operation.

    Appearance

    Hachikawa was a tall and muscular man with round glasses, he had spiky grey hair. It's stated his disfigured lower face was caused by the ghoul gang, Black Dobers, in the past.

    Personality

    Similar to Kureo Mado, he was a human who hated Ghouls due to a tragic past stemming from them, even going so far as to sacrifice an old woman in order to kill Black Dog during Owl Suppression Operation, despite his duty being to prioritize civilians' safety. In spite of this, he does show some concern about the well being of his squad when he ordered his squad to retreat when they were ambushed by Takizawa and Shikorae.

    Plot

    Past

    Hachikawa participated in the suppression of the Black Dobers ten years ago but had his entire team, save for himself, wiped out whilst protecting a civilian. His face became permanently disfigured after the incident. Hachikawa's personality became distorted after this encounter.

    Owl Suppression Operation

    During the Raid, Hachikawa led Squad 3, fighting Black Dog and her gang. Face-to-face with the Dober Gang once more, he fights intensely to get his revenge. When Irimi came in proximity to a civilian, Hachikawa shot at them both, injuring Irimi who took the blow to protect the civilian. Having injured her, Hachikawa and his squad quickly incapacitated her. Though criticized by Hirako for his actions and told that bringing the ghoul to Cochlea would be the wiser choice, Hachikawa brushed him off stating that he had been waiting for this moment. However, before he could kill the wounded ghoul, he was immediately defeated by Kaneki. After defeating Hachikawa, Kaneki then moved Irimi away from the frontlines.

    After the appearance of Eto, Chuu makes his way to the rooftop complaining about his ribs hurting, and engages her with his reserve Quinque.[4]

    Hachikawa later orders the other Investigators to cease fire as not to get in Arima's way.[5]

    Root A (Anime only)

    Hachikawa appears at a CCG meeting for the Owl Suppression Squad.

    Torso Investigation

    Hachikawa is seen in the Lobby of CCG Main Office alongside Ayumu Hogi and tells Kuramoto Itou to shut up when the latter asks about his suit.[6]

    Post-Rose Extermination

    Hachikawa's death Hachikawa's death. Hachikawa and his team investigate Rushima as a suspected Aogiri hideout.[7] They take out several Aogiri grunts and Hachikawa becomes frustrated with Tooru for not using his Kagune and accuses him of spacing out. They eventually find the hideout and spy from afar as Eto gives a speech to the Aogiri members in attendance, but is spotted by Owl.[2] They attempt to leave quickly before the whole base is alerted but Owl intercepts them by shooting at Ayumu, who dodges the shots thanks to Hachikawa's warning. He makes a remark about Houji to Takizawa, but is caught off-guard by Shikorae, who leaps at him from behind and bites off his nose.[8] Breaking free from Shikorae, he shoots the ghoul with his quinque while ordering his subordinates to retreat. However, Takizawa blocks the shots and retaliates with his own projectiles, destroying Hachikawa's quinque. Unarmed and defenseless, Hachikawa is impaled from behind by Shikorae, killing him. Shikorae and Takizawa then agree to eat his body.[3]

    Relationship

    Kaya Irimi

    Hachikawa bears an intense grudge towards Irimi for the massacre of his squad during an attack by the Black Dobers, being the only survivor of the incident. [9]

    Ayumu Hogi

    Ayumu is Hachikawa's partner. Despite his rough personality, he still cares for her in his own way, and is deeply mourned by her when he died.

    Tooru Mutsuki

    One of Hachikawa's subordinates and a former member of the Quinx Squad. Hachikawa doesn't seem to have much respect for him, quickly becoming frustrated with Tooru and dismissing his abilities.

    Powers and Abilities

    He was quite capable of close combat, being able to dodge, block and counter all of Irimi's attacks, showing somewhat good reflexes. His skills are enough to earn him a rank as Associate Special Class.

    Kajiri: Kajiri was a shiny, gold, gauntlet with a spiked tip that shot crystal-like projectiles supposedly made of quinque steel. After the battle against Irimi, the quinque was destroyed by Kaneki. He uses this quinque again when investigating Rushima Island, but it was destroyed by Seidou Takizawa

28. #28Daisuke Atou

    Keys: Daisuke Atou

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Daisuke Atou JAPANESE NAME 阿藤 大介 (あとう だいすけ) ROMAJI Atō Daisuke SPECIES Human STATUS Deceased GENDER Male DIED November 11, 3 ASBI[1][2] AFFILIATIONS CCG Atou Squad - Leader OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RANK Associate Special Class SEIYUU Hinata Tadokoro ENGLISH VA Cris George Image Gallery LESS Daisuke Atou (阿藤 大介, Atō Daisuke) was an Associate Special Class Ghoul Investigator. He participated in the Auction Mopping-up Operation as the squad leader of the Atou Squad.

    Appearance

    Atou was a middle age looking man with an undercut hairstyle. During the Auction Mopping-up Operation, he wore the standard CCG coat and body armor underneath. Personality

    Atou suffered from a jealousy towards Arima for some time, but then came to conclusion that he did not need to compare himself with the prodigy. He believed that with hard work, even someone like him could achieve big things. Plot

    Pineapples Takizawa decapitates Atou. Auction

    Atou was assigned to participate in the Auction Mopping-up Operation and received direct order from Matsuri Washuu. When the operation started, his group and Haise Sasaki encountered a strong koukaku ghoul, Nutcracker's partner. Matsuri later told Haise to go ahead, leaving his group behind. Atou obeyed the order and noted that it pained him a little to know that the higher-ups believed Sasaki, a Rank 1 Investigator, held more potential than him, an Associate Special Class Investigator.[3]

    Atou, after the elimination of said ghoul, remembered how much of a gap between the talented investigators - in this case young Arima - and he, who was not blessed by god. However, Atou believed that with training and experience, he could somehow become capable and his squad members would not die.

    Seidou Takizawa ambushed his squad shortly afterwards, decapitated him and compared it to harvesting pineapples.

    Powers and Abilities

    As an Associate Special Class Investigator, Atou possessed significant proficiency in battling ghouls. His victory over Nutcracker's partner further confirmed his strength. He was, however, no match against an SS~ rated ghoul's sneak attack.

29. #29Demon Yamada

    Keys: Demon Yamada

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Demon Yamada JAPANESE NAME オニヤマダ ROMAJI Oni Yamada ALIAS Investigator Killer Demon Yamada SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive AGE Unknown GENDER Male RC TYPE Bikaku RATING S MANGA DEBUT Chapter 74 Image Gallery LESS Demon Yamada (オニヤマダ, Oni Yamada) was an infamous S-rate ghoul that was killed by Yukinori Shinohara whose kakuhou was used to create the quinque, Demon Yamada 1.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

    He had a muscular build. He also wore a mask that resembled the face of a demon fitting his moniker. Personality

    Yamada hunted for challenges in order to test his own strength, even killing investigators to do so.[1]

    He was eventually taken down by a team that included Fujishige Iba, Kureo Mado and Yukinori Shinohara, Shinohara delivering the final blow.[2] Relationships

    Yukinori Shinohara

    He was killed by Shinohara.

    Power and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Demon Yamada was a bikaku ghoul, which granted him increased regeneration and durability, as well as agility and strength apart from his kagune. He was presumably a strong ghoul, having gained an S-rating through killing numerous First Class and Associate Special Class ghoul investigators before he was defeated.

    Bikaku Kagune: He had a bikaku kagune that took form as a long butcher knife.

30. #30Donato Porpora

    Keys: Donato Porpora

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Donato Porpora JAPANESE NAME ドナト ・ ポルポラ ROMAJI Donāto Porupora ALIAS Crown[1] SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male BORN February 14[2] HEIGHT 179 cm / 5'10"[2] WEIGHT 69 kg / 152 lbs[2] BLOOD TYPE A [2] AFFILIATIONS Clowns Kichimura Washuu OCCUPATION Catholic Priest (Formerly) Orphanage Caretaker (Formerly) RELATIVES Koutarou Amon (Adopted Son) WARD 23rd Ward (Imprisoned, Formerly) RC TYPE Koukaku[2] RATING SS[3] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 82 ANIME DEBUT Episode 10 SEIYUU Kazuhiko Inoue ENGLISH VA Greg Dulcie Image Gallery LESS "How cruel it is. Cruel to be one of those who can only but watch over others."

    DONATO PORPORA

    Donato Porpora (ドナート ・ ポルポラ, Donāto Porupora) was a Russian ghoul and a former prisoner who had special treatment, in the 23rd ward's ghoul detention center, Cochlea, before being freed during the Third Cochlea Raid. In the past, he ran a Catholic orphanage and preyed upon the children under his care, earning the nickname Priest (神父, Shinpu).[4] And during that time, he was Koutarou Amon's foster father.

    By the Clowns, he was known as Crown (クラウン, Kuraun).[1].

    Appearance

    Donato was an old ghoul, showing the physical signs of a long life with a wrinkled face. He had short cropped, light-colored hair and a neatly-trimmed beard, as well as thick, bushy eyebrows. In the past, he dressed in the typical clothing of a Catholic priest. As a prisoner, he wore simple prison scrubs — a long-sleeved shirt and pants, though he seemed to be barefoot. In the anime he appears to have icy pale blue eyes and pale skin. Donato's mask is a white round mask with a tiny golden crown on the center on the forehead - the eyes are round red circles with cross-like slits in the middle; the lips are slightly painted red and he can talk and eat through the mask's lips. Manga Depiction

    Donato's clown mask. Donato's clown mask. Anime Depiction

    Donato's clown mask. Donato's clown mask. Personality

    Donato is a ruthless and cruel individual, noted enough among ghouls for his sadistic personality. He thoroughly enjoys inflicting suffering on others, whether physical or psychological, for example: when Donato ripped off Touma Higemaru's arm, messing with the mind of Kuki Urie, and not to mention his horrible acts of brutally murdering children. His utter disregard for others makes him a valuable informant, willing to cooperate in investigations and betray other ghouls in exchange for being allowed to continue living. When visited by investigators, he enjoys making statements to disturb or frustrate them. Though selfish and cruel, he is apparently not without the ability to care. When his secret was discovered by his foster son, Amon, he spared the boy's life out of some sort of twisted affection. Whenever Amon must consult him professionally, he enjoys teasing his "beloved son." Plot

    Background

    Amon discovers Donato's secret Amon discovers Donato's secret. Donato Porpora originally hailed from Russia, and came to Japan at some point in time. He posed as a Catholic Priest, opening an orphanage and used the children as his personal livestock. While pretending to be a caring and affectionate caretaker to the children, he would in secret torture and murder the children that had supposedly been adopted. It is implied that he also served pieces of his victims to the other children, disguised as appetizers.

    Eventually, his secret was discovered when Koutarou Amon interrupted him during a meal. Instead of killing the boy to protect his secret, he requested that Amon remain with him and join in his lie. He would eventually be captured by the CCG and sent to Cochlea. There, he established himself as a valuable informant and was frequently consulted by investigators about their cases.

    Aogiri Arc

    When Aogiri attacked Cochlea, he was not among the prisoners released. It is unknown whether this was intentional or merely a coincidence. He overheard the attack from his cell, but was unable to participate in the slaughter of the guards.

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    In the months following the raid on Aogiri's hideout, Amon and his new partner, Akira Mado, were sent to interview him.[3] He made small talk at first, teasing Amon about their relationship before congratulating him on his promotion. Though Amon refused to answer about his previous partner, Donato easily figured out what this meant and laughed mockingly. When told that Amon had come with questions for him, he suggested that Akira leave them alone to talk — while hesitant, she left father and son alone. He took the chance to tease Amon further, inquiring about whether their relationship was intimate or not.

    He refused to cooperate when Amon read from a list given to him, correctly guessing that Itsuki Marude ordered Amon to interview him. He stated that he did not know anything about Aogiri, since he could only hear things from inside his cell. He described the sounds of the guards being killed, and mourned that he was not able to take part in the killing. Amon was disgusted and prepared to leave, but was stopped when Donato questioned him about the cross he still wore. He wondered if Amon harbored any affection for him, and was amused by the anger this question triggered. He offered Amon cryptic advise, suggesting that he should follow "Alice" instead of the "White Rabbit" because it would lead to the same place. Amon was left to puzzled over the meaning of his words.[4]

    When Amon battled an out-of-control Ken Kaneki in the underground laboratory, he began to recall his childhood and the night he discovered the truth about his foster father. He recalled the snacks Donato would serve the children, implying they may have been made from his victims. Still haunted by his childhood, he asked Kaneki to explain to him the reason he alone was spared.[5]

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Just before he lost consciousness due to his injuries, Amon's thoughts wandered first to his faceless parents before settling on Donato. He wondered why this was, calling out to him as his father.[6]

    Torso Investigation

    Donato scaring Mutsuki Donato scares Mutsuki. Haise Sasaki and Tooru Mutsuki visited him in hopes of gaining new insight on the investigation into the ghoul known as Torso. Donato greeted Sasaki in a friendly manner, teasing him over having a woman as his superior and using his personal name. When he noticed Mutsuki watching him with unease, he becomes excited and rather graphically described how he wanted to eat the young investigator. He states how he looks delicious, and how he would love to greedily rip apart his stomach and gorge himself on his soft internal organs while looking at him hungrily, causing Mutsuki to shiver fearfully in disgust. Before it could go further, Sasaki intervened and defused the situation.

    He was shown the case information on a digital screen and noted how unusual it is for a ghoul to have no interest in their victim's head. Later, he explained the importance of the face as part of the meal, and suggested their suspect was someone who was blending in with human society. Based on the use of a vehicle and familiarity with the streets, he suggested that Torso had been working as a taxi driver. As Sasaki prepared to leave, he suggested the investigator come speak to him again after the case was over. He stated it should be alone, as there was another case he would like to talk to him about.

    Afterwards, Mutsuki wondered why such a dangerous ghoul had been allowed to live, saying the look in his eyes gave him the shivers. Sasaki explained that Donato was a valuable resource for their investigations, but that he must continuously prove himself useful to them. Later that night, Sasaki had a nightmare in which a mysterious figure told him that he was just like Donato — desperate to remain useful so he would not be thrown away.

    Auction

    As requested, Sasaki visited him alone after a meeting with the Suzuya Squad to discuss personal matters. The investigator apologized to him for allowing Torso to escape after the help he had provided, which Donato brushed off since these visits amused him. He changed the subject to the matter of Sasaki's memories, noting that unlike previous visits, he seemed to be worried about them and experienced conflicting feelings. He inquired if it had anything to do with the Torso case, while casting a suspicious glance at the camera monitoring them. When questioned about Serpent, he admitted to not knowing more than the basic data about him — Sasaki confessed that he believed the ghoul was someone he once knew. The subject was changed again, to the other ghoul that Donato claimed was someone of "personal interest" to him. He advised Sasaki this ghoul may hold one of the keys to his lost memories, and provided a name. Afterwards, he suggested that Sasaki intentionally concealed his suspicions about Serpent and had become curious about his own memories. He called Sasaki his friend and wished him well.

    Third Cochlea Raid

    As Shinme Haisaki looked in terror at Cochlea being laid waste to, Donato snuck up on the former and swiftly ripped the warden's head off. After Uta had handed him a Clown mask, Donato told him that they should go meet the King.[1] Arriving in the chairman's office, Donato and Uta met Furuta and witnessed the murder of Chairman Tsuneyoshi Washuu.

    Clown Siege

    At the time of the Clown Siege Donato is seen watching the carnage of the battles between the CCG and the Clown organization. Later on, Donato kills Touma Higemaru's uncle with his kagune from inside an old building prompting Kuki Urie and Touma Higemaru to investigate. When upon meeting each other Donato greets them, then instantly sliced off Touma Higemaru's arm, making him scream in agony. Urie looks away in concern then almost gets stabbed by Donato. Donato tells him looking away will get him killed followed by a surprise attack that Urie luckily manages to block in time. Suddenly Donato seems to disappear from thin air and traps Urie on the ceiling by kagune detachment. Then appears right next to Higemaru and begins to torture him in front of Urie hoping that Urie feels his pain of being unable to do anything for years. Urie pleads for Donato to stop and have mercy on Higemaru. Donato continues to snap and break Higemaru's arm. Urie screams out in despair and anger then finally Higemaru's arm breaks off. Donato smiles in delight of Urie's misery, Higemaru's pain and agony in a state of ecstasy. Higemaru once more let's out shriek of suffering while Urie is speechless and watches him in anguish.

    Donato rips off Higemaru's arm Donato rips off Higemaru's arm. Moments pass and Donato asks Urie questions about what are his thoughts on Haise Sasaki. Urie asks him why is interested in his opinion and Donato simply says it's out of pure curiosity. Donato, then asks Urie how would he feel if Haise was the Puppet master of all the clown attacks and how would that make him feel. Urie scoffs and says he once had believed that but realized that Sasaki isn't cunning enough to control multiple branches attacking in unison. And mentions that the clowns have no reason to join forces with Haise Sasaki because he used to be an investigator and that it would make more sense that the Clowns are moving on their own whim for their own purposes. Donato counters saying that the clowns love infamously dangerous people and that Haise is one of them but Urie says that is still not a reason to team up with the man. Urie changes the subject and starts a conversation about Donato's new found freedom and how does it feel to be free after a long time of imprisonment while talking Morse code with Higemaru. Donato says its not bad but he has complaints about his meals; the women are much more skinnier and leaner and the children are a bunch of idiots with no redeeming qualities. He likes healthier, thicker women and intelligent children. He comments on how he loves taking the clear, transparent eyes of children that show wisdom and cleverness and rolling them around and eating them like little pieces of wrapped candy, proving this statement by consuming an eyeball. Urie replies saying that's why he ran an orphanage and that Donato is repulsive for it. Donato says he's reminiscent of the orphanage saying it was his place of peace and for a while it meant everything to him but that was also stolen from him. He tries to remember the investigator's name at that time, wondering who imprisoned him from that time. He then noticed Higemaru moving from his spot and Higemaru froze in fear. While Donato was momentarily distracted Urie broke free from the kagune-like chains and bodyslammed then jumped on the back of Donato and yelled for Higemaru to run away. As Higemaru did just that, Urie held Donato in a chokehold screaming for him to die. While struggling Donato recalls the investigator who captured him. He then released his kagune through Urie's chest and said calmy to an injured Urie that his captor was Mikito Urie, Urie's father.

    Donato grabs Urie's head and smashes it through the windows, the glass piercing Urie's flesh and throwing him across the floor like a rag. Urie thinks about his father and how he went all out to capture Donato and rises up off the ground with his kagune healing his chest wound. Donato amused that Urie wasn't done yet with the fight unleashes his kagune saying this will be an entertaining way to put on a show and says goodbye to a twin-kakugan activated Urie.

    Urie goes berserk swinging his kagune around but Donato dodges the attacks effortlessly taunting and mocking Urie about how pitiful of a child he is, how everything he works hard for is all in vain, and how its his father he should blame for dying leaving him alone cause he was weak and pathetic. Having exposed Urie's true reason to become an investigator drives Urie livid, screaming that its not true stabs Donato through the stomach only to reveal that its actually a mere clone of Donato made from the real Donato's finger. Donato is actually on top of a random building looking at his regenerating finger with a smirk on his face. He then says it seems he's lost a finger and leaves a berserk, out of control Urie in the old building where he is pleading for someone to save him.

    Later on, Saiko Yonebayashi spots Donato on top of a pole holding two unknown severed heads. When she looks at him he turns his head avoiding eye contact with her. They don't fight and instead ignore each other.

    A while later he is seen chatting with Uta on some steel beam bridge. Uta mentions needing another piercing while Donato needs another finger. Uta laments about the excitement of witnessing a person change almost instantly likening to flipping a switch. Donato asks him does it fill him with a sense of uneasiness which Uta replies saying that he has always been a rogue person and that was his reason for wanting to be in the thick of such behavior because its lonely on the edges. After being asked whether it was the same for him, Donato responded by saying he is not as emotional as Uta.

    Dragon Arc

    During the assault on the JSDF and operation headquarters, Donato observes the chaos along with his fellow Clowns. The group notes that Furuta's plan seems to have backfired, watching the combined forces of the CCG and Goat battling against numerous V agents. Someone in the group suggests bringing "her" out to buy more time for the plan. On the orders of the Clowns, a large Kakuja appears and begins to attack alongside V's forces.

    When the creature's head is removed, the main body is exposed -- revealing a headless body, with a cross resembling Donato's kagune embedded into the neck. After being discovered by Hinami's exceptional hearing, Donato and the rest of the clowns get ready to ditch their rooftop. As they all walk away Donato stops in his tracks, anticipating an attack from Amon. Donato blocks Amon's heavy quinque with his koukaku without any hesitation. Donato calmly turns around to face Amon and politely greets him, saying they haven't seen each other in a while.

    Amon attacks Donato Amon attacks Donato. As they are about to fight, Donato unleashes his kagune as Amon grips his quinque ready for action. Initially, Donato has the upperhand in their fight and begins beating Amon to a pulp while Takizawa and Yumitsu spectate in the background. While Amon endures Donato's blows, Takizawa shouts at a battered Amon and gives him the incentive and encouragement to finally fight after realizing Amon was restraining himself due to his lingering father-sentiment that he possesses towards Donato. Finally understanding that he must defeat Donato for the greater good, Amon unleashes a giant crosslike quinque, and after having a tearful moment, realizes he loved Donato despite all of the pain he caused Amon.

    Shortly after bisecting Donato, and as Donato laid dying, Amon and Donato have one last conversation on Donato's purpose of being as evil as he could be after being given the title of Crown by the Clowns. Amon reminisces on how Donato cared for the orphans, including Amon, and recalls how the food and shelter that was given to them by Donato was nostalgic and how he even held the memories dear. Despite all the evil things Donato had done, even denouncing himself as a depraved individual who has only caused suffering, Amon breaks down in tears as he told Donato that it isn't wrong for a son to love his father. As Donato hysterically laughs, he also starts crying profusely and questions the entitlement of being a father and a "masterpiece" - showing that he somewhat feels remorseful for his actions and was shaken by Amon's final words to him. Donato's incessant laughter finally ceases after he dies shortly after.

    Relationships

    Koutarou Amon

    Their relationship was very complicated, with a twisted mixture of hatred and affection. Though Donato preyed on the children in his care and enjoyed their suffering, he seemed to harbor genuine affection towards Amon as his adopted son. As a direct result, he spared him when his secret was uncovered and even asked Amon to remain with him. As a prisoner, he enjoyed teasing Amon about various things and seemed to take pleasure in his discomfort. During the Defense of Tokyo, when Donato engaged Amon in battle, he visibly held back and allowed his defeat. During his last moments with Amon, he mockingly laughed at his adopted son, though shed streams of tears when he was called 'father'.

    Haise Sasaki

    They had an unlikely friendship, with Donato serving as both an informant and a sympathetic ear. He aided the amnesiac investigator with sorting out his thoughts, and treated him in a friendly manner compared to his other interactions. In turn, Sasaki seemed to genuinely appreciate his advice on personal issues and cases, confessing his worries to the imprisoned ghoul. Despite this concern for Haise, Donato showed no remorse in attempting to persuade Urie that Haise was the mastermind of the Clown Siege.

    Tooru Mutsuki

    As a ghoul who prefers young victims, Donato became excited upon meeting Mutsuki. He relished the young investigator's terror while he described how he would eat him, going into graphic detail. Sasaki stepped in to defuse the situation, and suggested that Donato was only "teasing." Later on, Mutsuki questioned the justification for keeping such a sadistic ghoul alive. He also mentioned he likes eating healthy developed women over the thin skinny kind and likes eating clever, intelligent children over spoiled stupid children for food.

    Kureo Mado

    Mado and Donato were not seen together, but it was hinted they interacted with each other in the past. While nothing was known on how they interacted, Donato called Mado a Death God-like man and was amused when he realized the investigator was dead and laughed mockingly.

    Uta

    Not much was known about their exact relationship, but the two had a calm and casual relationship.

    Mikito Urie

    Donato harbored a grudge against the deceased Mikito for capturing and imprisoning him in the Cochlea. He derided Mikito as loathsome for ruining his peace and desired revenge by attacking his son Kuki Urie.

    Kuki Urie

    Due to being the son of Mikito Urie, he had a grudge against Urie. He enjoyed physically and mentally hurting Urie by ripping off Urie's subordinate Touma Higemaru's arm and attacking Urie viciously with his kagune.

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Being a ghoul, Donato possessed enhanced physical abilities and a potent koukaku-type kagune.

    Koukaku Kagune: His Koukaku kagune resembled a long tentacle formed from intertwined strands of sinew and an outer layer covered in cross-like shapes. It was capable of ranged attacks, and allowed him to extend it over long distances and spear targets with great precision. In spite of the type's greater weight, he was able to wield it with incredible speed, attacking faster than the eye can follow. Kagune Detachment: Donato demonstrated the ability to detach pieces of his kagune. Superhuman Strength: He possessed strength superior to a human, allowing him to decapitate a human with a single motion. He was also capable of ripping off limbs as shown with what he did to Touma Higemaru. Superhuman Speed: He possessed incredible speed, demonstrating the ability to move so quickly that he seemed to vanish into thin air. With this speed, he was literally able to disappear from view while standing in an open space with an unbroken line of sight. He was able to sneak up on people very quietly and unsuspectingly. Superhuman Regeneration: Donato's cells were capable of regenerating in a cross-like pattern after his finger was severed by Kuki Urie. Cloning: Donato was able to clone himself out of his kagune using his finger, and put them in his place to deceive his enemies. Later on, it is shown he can produce up to four clones at once, and each of them can work individually. However, during his fight with Amon, it is shown he can create a lot more. Even his clones can create clones with the same method. However, the main body can only create ten, and once it is incapacitated, they all disappear. Great Intelligence: Donato had a brilliant mind, able to connect pieces of information available to him even inside prison, so much that the CCG still occasionally went to him for information. He was also exceptional at reading people, able to deduce what Amon was thinking with minimal effort and succinctly analyzed Sasaki's worries and personal issues.

31. #31Enji Koma

    Keys: Enji Koma

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Enji Koma JAPANESE NAME 古間 円児 (こま えんじ) ROMAJI Koma Enji ALIAS Devil Ape[1] SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male BORN March 24[2] AFFILIATIONS Apes (Formerly) Anteiku (Formerly) :re - Associates (Formerly) Goat OCCUPATION Waiter WARD 20th Ward RC TYPE Bikaku RATING SS[3] SEIYUU Anri Katsu ENGLISH VA Tyson Rinehart FILM ACTOR Kenta Hamano Image Gallery LESS "When there's a power imbalance, it's impossible to stand on an equal footing. Those who are high up don't want to make everyone anxious, so they have no choice but to take a strong stance on everything, and those who are lower down have to be strong and accept everything the leader says."

    ENJI KOMA

    Enji Koma (古間 円児, Koma Enji) was a ghoul and a former waiter at Anteiku before its destruction. He was also an expert coffee brewer.[4] In his youth, he was known as the Devil Ape (魔猿, Maen)[5] and led the Apes ghoul gang.

    Appearance

    Koma typically wears Anteiku's waiter uniform and is the only waiter that wears a bow tie. He has brown hair styled in a pompadour and a bulbous nose. As the Devil Ape, he wears a long white hooded coat with a pair of matching white pants. His ghoul mask is a snarling monkey face with marking on each of the eyes.

    Personality

    Koma is a polite, playful and proud waiter of Anteiku who acts as Ken Kaneki's supervisor when Yoshimura is not around. He takes pride in his work as a worker of Anteiku and his former glory days as the "Devil Ape" of the 20th ward. Unlike Kaya Irimi, he is more talkative with his coworkers and has a long association with Yoshimura before his employment at Anteiku. The side stories reveal a more forbearing aspect in lone conversations with his friends such as when he discusses the dualism of leader-subordinate relationship and its consequences for people. In the past, Koma had a more violent and brutal temperament. Plot

    Past

    A decade prior to the series[6], Koma was the leader of a violent gang of ghouls that occupied the 20th Ward. He was infamous for seeking out strong investigators to kill, and had a rivalry with another gang, the Black Dobers. He was approached by Yoshimura, who told of his desire to live in human society without unnecessary violence. Attracted by this idea, he began working at Yoshimura's café, Anteiku. Yoshimura at first assigned him to do cleaning duties, which he initially thought of as boring working that anyone could do. However, he quickly understood that Yoshimura had a special reason for doing so. His initial ineptitude at cleaning annoyed a regular customer named Tsubasa. Additionally, his fellow gang members were outraged that Yoshimura had assigned their leader to do such menial work. However, Koma explained that these activities were helping him learn new things. As time went on, Tsubasa became much friendlier towards him. After a few months of his cleaning activities, Yoshimura finally taught him to brew coffee, and he began working at the counter. However, after Kaya Irimi unexpectedly started working at Anteiku Yoshimura immediately taught her taught her how to brew coffee. She quickly took over the counter, and Koma was relegated back to cleaning. This once again enraged his gang members, but Koma calmed them by explaining that Yoshimura put Irimi in charge of the counter to teach her how to step up to a challenge (as she was not as mature as he was). [7] After Touka Kirishima began working at Anteiku, she asked Koma what the meaning of the name "Anteiku" itself was. Koma merely seems amused that she doesn't know. [8]

    Doves' Emergence Arc

    Koma asks Ken Kaneki to retrieve a container of coffee beans with a large red label from upstairs. After Kaneki comes back with the container, he warns Kaneki that Hinami Fueguchi is eating upstairs and that he shouldn't disturb her, but Kaneki states he already saw her by accident. Koma explains that female ghouls do not like being watched while eating, and he gives him a cup of coffee to give to Hinami as an apology. [9] After Ryouko Fueguchi is killed by Kureo Mado, Koma is present in the cafe's meeting room appearing sad and depressed. He becomes more despondent when Touka shouts at how Hinami wouldn't be able to survive in the 24th ward (when Yoshimura suggests placing Hinami there), and he looks troubled when Touka suggests they simply kill the investigators. Yoshimura gives Koma descriptions of the investigators with orders to not attack them, and he also asks Koma to help warn their customers. [10] Later, he is seen talking with Kaneki while they are working together in the café. [11]

    Gourmet Arc

    After Kaneki comes in for a shift, Koma tells him he is now a big shot with their ghoul customers due to how he defeated Koutarou Amon. Then, he tells Kaneki he himself used to be a troublemaker known as the "Devil Ape."

    Aogiri Arc

    During a conversation with Kaneki and Nishiki Nishio, Koma explains how the ghouls in the 11th ward have organized themselves and are hunting down investigators. As a result of this, he explains that the CCG may be focusing most of their men on this ward, and even civilians are noticing the chaos caused by this conflict. He even goes on to state a war could occur and he may even get the chance to use his "Devil Ape" persona once more. [12] After Kaneki was kidnapped by the Aogiri Tree, Koma and all of the other café employees met in the meeting room to discuss what they should do next. [13] The group decides to rescue Kaneki from the 11th Ward Base. When Koma asks Yoshimura what his role will be in the upcoming mission, the manager asks him to stay and watch the café. While he agrees to this he expresses his disappointment to Irimi that he will not be able to go wild. [14] Later, while Kaneki is being tortured by Yamori at the 11th ward base, he thinks about Koma and everyone else at Anteiku. [15]

    Post-Aogiri Arc

    A few months later while the café is being rebuilt, Koma speaks to Hinami while he is checking and repairing a coffee machine. After he finishes his work he brews Hinami a cup of coffee and remarks that the café feels lonely without any customers. He then states that before Kaneki began working at Anteiku that he was a frequent customer and enjoyed Koma's coffee. He expresses his worry for Kaneki, and explains to Hinami that Kaneki (in his role as a leader) is likely lonely due to the need to appear strong. He then states that he thinks Kaneki will be fine. He is then surprised when Nishiki shows up asking if they will reopen soon, to which he replies that they will. He then makes Nishiki a cup of coffee, but then Irimi comes and asks to see him about something. [16]

    Raid of Kanou's Lab Arc

    After Nishiki yells at Roma Hoito for breaking a dish, Koma tells him he shouldn't speak to women in such a manner. He then tells Roma to just be more careful next time. When Nishiki complains about Touka not taking more shifts, Koma states she is studying for her college entrance exam. After Roma starts excitedly talking about Kaneki's destruction of the Ghoul Restaurant, Koma brags that Kaneki once looked up to him as a "mentor." He thens smiles when Roma says she wishes to meet Kaneki. [17]

    Post-Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Koma is seen brewing a cup of coffee while working a shift at Anteiku. [18] Later, Koma cleans the café one final time prior to the upcoming battle with the CCG. He then drinks a cup of coffee prepared by the manager. When Yoshimura states that things are going to get lonely, Enji reminds him that he and Kaya are with the manager to the end.

    Owl Suppression Operation

    When the CCG arrives at Anteiku, Koma greets comes (along with Kaya) to greet him in his old persona of the Devil Ape. After taking out several investigators, he then states humans have dull senses when they state there are only two of them. They then jump up on the rooftop to reveal the presence of their old gangs, the Apes and the Black Dobers. Koma then states he hopes the apes aren't out of practice, and tells them to "go wild." [20] He and his group then take out several squads before Mougan Tanakamaru attacks them with Higher Mind. The blast eliminates several of the Apes, but Koma manages to evade. He states that the attack "wasn't nice." When Tanakamaru tells him to go back to "his mountain," he responds that this was his mountain. [21] Observing the battle from afar, Nishiki notes how nice Koma and the others are, and that their sacrifice leaves a bad taste in their mouths. [22] Koma continues his battle with Tanakamaru, and evades all of his attacks. He mocks the latter for shouting whenever he is about to attack. He tries to close in on him, but realizes if he gets too close to the Quinque blast he will be obliterated, and so he falls back. Despite this, he still thinks he has a chance of winning, but is worried about Irimi. [23] Elsewhere, Touka questions Koma's decision to fight the CCG, and remembers her times interacting with him at Anteiku. [24] Later, Koma manages to disconnect Higher Mind from its Quinque case, and then moves in for a final blow. However, unbeknownst to him the Quinque has a short-range mode, and Tanakamaru uses this to blast Koma in this stomach. This injury leaves him unable to move, but then Kaneki arrives and destroys Higher Mind. He then takes Koma with him and leaves the area. [25] Later, Koma and Irimi (along with the remainder of their groups) all try to exit the area through V14. However, they are intercepted by Kishou Arima and the Arima Squad. Their remaining subordinates decide to hold them off in order to give their leaders time to escape via another route. They successfully escape and later meet up with Touka and the others. [26]

    Rose Extermination

    During the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation, Shuu Tsukiyama learns from Matsumae that Mirumo Tsukiyama and the family servants chose to remain behind so that they would have a greater chance of escaping. Upon hearing this, he remembers Koma and the other Anteiku members who stayed behind to fight the CCG a few years previously, and laments how history is repeating itself. [27]

    Post-Third Cochlea Raid

    Koma shows up at re along with Irimi to the shock of Kaneki. He teases Kaneki that he looks like he has seen a ghost, to which Irimi knees from behind for (as she was thinking the exact same thing). After explaining how they escaped the 20th Ward, Koma states that it was a shame what happened to the manager, but that they are still here. He smiles reminiscently when Kaneki says having them all together makes it feel like "Anteiku." He then states that he and Irimi will watch over :re while Kaneki and the others go to their meeting with other ghoul groups. [26]

    CCG Lab Infiltration

    When Kaneki is assigning the Goat members tasks for the upcoming mission, Koma asks Kaneki what he wants him to do. When Kaneki says he wants him to "hold down the fort," and Koma agrees. At this, Irimi realizes Koma didn't want to go in the first place.[28] As the mission progresses, Koma is shown helping with communications at the café. He looks at a computer monitor with a worried expression on his face, which Yomo takes note of. [29]

    Post-CCG Lab Infiltration

    When Kaneki states he fights for those close to him, Koma is one of the people he envisions. [30] Later, after Goat decides that its members will remain mobile at all times, Koma is shown helping to move essential items out of :re, and complains that moving seems to have become a part of their lifecycle.[31]

    Relationships

    Yoshimura

    He possessed a deep loyalty to his employer as he gave him the chance to redeem his past actions.

    Kaya Irimi

    Koma and Irimi appeared to be on good terms, often being seen together and during the Owl Suppression Operation, wondered whether the other was dead. In the past, they were rivals with opposing gangs that clashed frequently. Koma believes he is stronger than Irimi.

    Ken Kaneki

    He was an occasional mentor of Kaneki's, providing Kaneki with advice on both coffee brewing and life. He was grateful for being rescued during the Owl Suppression Operation and they happily reunite when their respective battles concluded. When Goat is founded he submits to Kaneki's leadership without opposition.

    Touka Kirishima

    Koma often acted as a mediator in Anteiku, stopping Touka and the other employees' arguments by brewing them coffee.

    Powers and Abilities

    As a former ghoul in the 20th ward with a large gang that held a lot of territory, Koma is a formidable fighter. Despite his attitude and looks, he is extremely capable, being able to fight on par with a Special Class Investigator for an extended amount of time. He is very proficient in hand-to-hand combat and is agile enough to handle First Class Investigators for a period of time without injury. He claims that he is stronger than Kaya Irimi, who is labelled as a SS-rated ghoul.

    Ghoul Physiology: Living as a full ghoul, Koma possesses a bikaku kagune along with increased physical capabilities.

    Bikaku Kagune: His kagune takes the form of a monkey tail. His uses for it are mainly prehensile, using it for agile movement on surfaces such as walls and using it to dodge attacks rather than using it as an actual weapon in combat.

32. #32Erina Tagata

    Keys: Erina Tagata

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Erina Tagata JAPANESE NAME 田方 エリナ （たがた えりな｝ ROMAJI Tagata Erina SPECIES Human STATUS Alive GENDER Female DIED November 11, 3 ASBI[1][2] AFFILIATIONS CCG OCCUPATION Ghoul investigator RANK Rank 2 MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 19 Image Gallery LESS Erina Tagata (田方 エリナ, Tagata Erina) was a Rank 2 Ghoul Investigator who was participating in the Auction Mopping-up Operation as a member of the Ooshiba Squad.[3]

    She took part in an attempt to seize control of the Administrative building, where Nutcracker ambushed her squad and wiped them out. The ghoul cornered her last, complimenting her beautiful face before eating it.[2]

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

    1/2

    She was an attractive young woman. Her hair was shoulder length and dark. Like the rest of the investigators, he wore a formal suit and a white coat. Personality

    Her personality is unknown, since her role in the series was too short. Plot

    Auction

    She participated in the attempt to gain control in the administrative building, where the Nutcracker ambushed his team and killed them.

    The Ghoul cornered her afterward, complementing her beautiful face before eating her.

33. #33Fuka

    Keys: Fuka

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Fuka JAPANESE NAME 府河 （ふか） ROMAJI Fuka SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Goat WARD 23rd Ward (Imprisoned, Formerly) 24th Ward (Currently) RC TYPE Koukaku RATING S MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 68 (unnamed cameo) :re Chapter 99 Image Gallery LESS Fuka (府河, Fuka) was a ghoul that was formerly imprisoned in Cochlea, and freed during the Third Cochlea Raid. He had become a subordinate of Ken Kaneki, the person that freed him.

    Appearance

    Fuka was a man with black hair styled into a mohawk, the front end covering his forehead and had distinctive sunken cheeks. He wore a light colored zippered jacket with black two stripes on the shoulders and forearms.

    He wore the usual prison scrubs during his days in Cochlea, while having his hair grown out. Personality

    Not much was known about him. He appeared to be loyal to the new One-Eyed King due to the latter releasing him from prison and being the rumored savior who would liberate ghouls. Plot

    Third Cochlea Raid

    Fuka was freed by Ken Kaneki during the Third Cochlea Raid, crawling out of his cell after Ken had opened the cell doors.[1]

    Post-Third Cochlea Raid

    Fuka led a group of ghouls to the meeting with the One-Eyed King. He ordered them all to bow, which they followed obediently.[2] As Furuta left Kaneki behind, Fuka asked whether to let him go, to which Kaneki responded that Furuta is more useful alive than dead.[3]

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Being a ghoul, Fuka possessed enhanced physical abilities and a potent koukaku-type kagune.

    Koukaku Kagune: Fuka possesed a koukaku-type kagune.

34. #34Gagi and Guge

    Keys: Gagi and Guge

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Gagi Guge JAPANESE NAME ガギ グゲ SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male DIED November 11, 3 ASBI[1][2] AFFILIATIONS Aogiri Tree White Suits RC LEVEL 3800[3] MANGA DEBUT Chapter 90 ANIME DEBUT Episode 15 NOVEL DEBUT quest: Chapter 2 ENGLISH VA Cris George Image Gallery LESS Gagi (ガギ, Gagi) and Guge (グゲ, Guge) were a pair of twin brothers, and ghouls who were members of Aogiri Tree and the White Suits. They were always seen in the presence of Naki and served as his henchmen.

    Appearance

    The twins were extremely large and well-built. In the anime, they were seen with short dark hair, as opposed to the manga, where they were completely bald. They wore nearly identical white masks, with one smaller and one larger hole for the eyes, just like the emoticons, "O-o" and "o-O". Both wore identical white suits, in imitation with their leader.

    Personality

    The twins acted as a single unit, without any distinctive traits that defined them as individuals. Their speech was unusual, coming out garbled though Naki understood them without issue. Both were deeply devoted to their leader, coming to his aid and attempting to comfort him when problems arose. Plot

    Past

    At some point in the past, the twins were recruited by Naki and Yamori, becoming members of the fledgling gang that would eventually become the White Suits.

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    The pair took part in the raid with Naki, fighting against and with Kaneki's group and against the CCG. One of them was almost stabbed by Akira Mado but Naki jumped in front of them and was wounded instead. They carried him to safety as the group retreated.

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    They were playing on a see-saw with Naki.

    Root A (Anime)

    They first appeared outside of a toy store where they tried to keep Naki, who was having an emotional breakdown due to the death of Yamori, calm. They kept him company until Kaneki managed to do the job for them and helped Naki spell out Yamori's name on the floor. Gagi and Guge stood beside Naki to keep him safe.[4] During the raid on Cochlea in the 23rd Ward, both brothers were with Naki at all times even when they jumped down along with dozens of Aogiri soldiers and killed the guards stationed there. Naki then faced Akira and fought her while Gagi and Guge fought Amon. Naki got heavily injured and he was most likely carried out by the two brothers.[5]

    During the CCG's Owl Suppression Operation, they fought alongside Naki and kept him safe as armies of Aogiri Tree forces emerged and engaged the remaining CCG soldiers after they fought off Anteiku's forces. Naki along with the brothers, were with him as they and Aogiri Troops surrounded a small band of Ghoul Investigators until Arima arrived with reinforcements and everyone began to pull out of the area.[6]

    Auction

    Gagi and Guge sacrifice themselves Naki cries over the twins' death. They took part in the fight against the CCG with Naki and the rest of the White Suits. When Naki was wounded in battle with Akira, and surrounded by investigators, they used their bodies to shield him from harm and sacrificed themselves to protect their "Big Brother."[2] Afterward, the surviving members of the gang rampaged to avenge them.

    Rose Extermination

    After the Auction Mopping-up Operation, their bodies were taken back with Aogiri where Akihiro Kanou performed an autopsy. From that, he learned they had a unique condition which blocked their flow of Rc cells and prevented them from using their kagune. Otherwise, their kakuhou were very healthy and they would have produced powerful kagune. Kanou planned to use their bodies for future experiments.[3]

    Relationships

    Naki

    The twins were completely devoted to him, following him wherever he went and carrying out his orders. They were loyal to the point of shielding him with their bodies from several Q bullets and the attacks of investigators, not minding their own injuries. They called him "Big Bro."

    Powers and Abilities

    Neither brother had ever used their kagune, but both were noted for their massive size and incredible strength. Their brute strength was sufficient to challenge powerful investigators, such as Koutarou Amon. Their Rc cells are clotted, preventing them from using their otherwise powerful kagune, as noted by Kanou.[3]

    Ghoul Physiology: Having been born a ghoul, both Gagi and Guge possessed great enhanced physical capabilities.

35. #35Ganbo

    Keys: Ganbo

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ganbo JAPANESE NAME ガンボ ROMAJI Ganbo SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Clowns SEIYUU Takaaki Uchino ENGLISH VA Mark Fickert Image Gallery LESS Ganbo (ガンボ, Ganbo) was a ghoul and a member of the Clowns. He appeared alongside Roma Hoito as entertainment during the Auction, and was later killed by Takeomi Kuroiwa bare-handed.[2]

    Appearance

    Ganbo was a large, heavy-set ghoul dressed in a striped shirt and overalls. He wore a stocking cap on his head, and face-paint with a star over his left eye, as well as a fake clown nose.

    Personality

    He seemed to be fairly simple-minded, behaving in a childish fashion. Plot

    Auction

    Ganbo appeared alongside Roma at the Auction, providing entertainment for the customers. He juggled eyeballs during the opening act and later helped restrain the victims being auctioned off. When Juuzou Suzuya began attacking the audience, he fled off-stage and joined with Uta and Roma in the neighboring building.

    There, he joined in the ambush on the Hirako Squad and Shimoguchi Squad, attacking Takeomi Kuroiwa. He was briefly able to gain the upper hand, breaking Takeomi's quinque in the process and almost biting his leg off. However, the young investigator was able to overpower him and break his neck after a brief struggle.

    Relationships

    Roma Hoito

    He partnered with Roma, both as entertainment for the audience, and fighting the investigators. However, the two did not seem to be particularly close.

    Uta

    Though associated through their gang, it does not seem they were close. Uta seemed unconcerned about his death.

    Powers and Abilities

    He seemed to be a moderately strong ghoul, with physical power sufficient to snap a quinque completely in half with a single blow. Otherwise, little was shown of his full abilities before he died.

36. #36Gil

    Keys: Gil

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Gil JAPANESE NAME ギル ROMAJI Giru SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Orca Matasaka Kamishiro WARD 6th Ward MANGA DEBUT Chapter 84 Image Gallery LESS Gil (ギル, Giru) is one of the leaders of the 6th Ward, formerly working for Shachi. He is distrustful of outsiders and hostile towards Kaneki's group.

    Appearance

    Gil is a well-built man of average height. He has medium black hair and also dons a distinct blemish above his right nostril. Personality

    Gil is a very callous and hot-tempered individual, prone to blunt outbursts over anything that tends to aggravate him. However, underneath this boorish front lies an unwavering dedication and loyalty towards his former leader, Shachi. Plot

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    When Kaneki's group are searching for Rize they meet up with the leaders of the 6th Ward to try and get information about one of the SS rank prisoners who escaped from Cochlea when the Aogiri Tree raided it, Matasaka Kamishiro (Shachi). Gil is antagonistic towards Kaneki saying he's untrustworthy and a liar, as Shachi was a loyal person who would have come back to lead Ward 6 if he'd escaped.

    Later he confronts Kaneki in the street, accusing him of playing dumb about being involved in the massacre of the Ward 7 Ghoul Restaurant. After their fight Gil accuses Kaneki of being a wolf in sheep's clothing and reminding him of 'that stupid brat, without whom Shachi would be...' which Kaneki deduces was a reference to Rize.

37. #37Ginshi Shirazu

    Keys: Ginshi Shirazu

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Ginshi Shirazu JAPANESE NAME 不知 吟士 ROMAJI Shirazu Ginshi SPECIES Quinx Human (Formerly) STATUS Alive AGE) 20 GENDER Male BORN March 8, 16 BSBI[1] HEIGHT 176 cm / 5'9"[1] WEIGHT 55 kg / 121 lbs[1] BLOOD TYPE A[1] AFFILIATIONS CCG Mado Squad Quinx Squad - Leader OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RELATIVES Haru Shirazu (Younger sister) Unnamed father † Unnamed mother (Unknown) WARD 1st Ward RC TYPE Ukaku RC LEVEL 920[6] QUINQUE Tsunagi (Bikaku, Rate C) Nutcracker (Koukaku/Bikaku, Rate S) CLASS 77th[1] RANK Rank 3 (until :re Ch. 32) Rank 2 (after :re Ch. 32) TRAINING 7th Academy Junior[1] SEIYUU Yuuma Uchida ENGLISH VA Daman Mills Image Gallery LESS Ginshi Shirazu (不知 吟士, Shirazu Ginshi) was a Rank 2 Ghoul Investigator, a Quinx, and squad leader of the Quinx Squad.

    Appearance

    Shirazu was a slender young man with light orange hair. He usually wore a menacing grin on his face and had sharp, jagged teeth. He also had six-helix piercings on his right ear, one piercing on his left ear, and wore a ring on the middle finger of his right hand. Unlike the other members of the Quinx Squad, he wore a dark jumpsuit instead of the standard CCG uniform and used a motorcycle to commute during missions. His hair was unusually long for a CCG officer and almost reached his shoulders with two strands of hair parted and tied up at the top of his head. Eventually, he completely buzzed his hair off in an act of repentance. Manga Depiction

    Personality

    Shirazu, like most of his teammates, was shown to have great respect for his mentor, Haise Sasaki. However, this did not stop him from going out of his way to execute missions without Sasaki’s permission, and so he was constantly seen accompanying Kuki Urie, the former squad leader, on dangerous assignments. Although he was a competent fighter with a ruthless nature, Urie described Shirazu as a simple-minded person. This became evident when Urie easily manipulated him into thinking Sasaki was using the Quinx for his own gain. He easily became fired up and spoke loudly.

    He also seemed to be quite exaggerated in his expressions and movements. His primary motive for joining the Quinx Squad was to get fast money for his hospitalized little sister. Shirazu was also quite a carefree individual and used to have a habit of displaying a cocky grin when fighting weaker ghouls.

    He was stated to be poor at tasks that required thought, such as academics or investigation. However, his consideration for others and attention to his surroundings convinced Sasaki he had potential as a squad leader. In contrast to his loud and violent mannerism, he was also someone that cared greatly for his team, shown when he held back Noro to protect them to the point that his kakuhou strained against its frames. While prone to bickering with Urie, he showed a gentler side when interacting with Tooru Mutsuki or civilians such as Chie Hori.

    Despite his brutal image and overall behavior, he was one of the most sensitive of the Quinx. When confronted by a dying ghoul, he was deeply disturbed by how human she sounded, and was reminded of his own little sister's situation. He remembered the incident as an uncomfortable memory, recalling it as killing a person rather than a monster. Plot

    Torso Investigation

    Kobayashi impales Shirazu Kobayashi impales Shirazu. He first appeared fighting several ghouls, apparently enjoying himself and splattered in blood. Later on, he was glimpsed in traffic, following Urie around the city on his motorcycle. When the other engaged the ghoul Akashi Kobayashi in combat, he recklessly fired and nearly hit his comrade. He was unapologetic and joked about it, allowing the ghoul to impale him from behind and briefly played dead (In the anime, Shizaru gets impaled from the front instead of from behind. Furthermore, in the manga, Urie grabs Shizaru to block Akashi's attack which got him impaled while in the anime, Urie doesn't grab him). However, he quickly revealed himself to be alive and prevented Akashi from using his kagune so that Urie could finish their opponent off. Afterward, he argued with the other investigator about credit. While they were distracted, the ghoul attempted to ambush them but was defeated by Sasaki. The group briefly argued, with Shirazu following Urie as he departed the scene.[7]

    In the following days, their superior met with Dr. Shiba concerning the team. They expressed concern over Shirazu's increased Rc levels, noting that he had been using his kagune more than necessary. Meanwhile, Shirazu continued to trail Urie as he worked alone to find Torso. He eventually approached Urie and the two begin to discuss his unwillingness to work as part of a team. It quickly escalated into an argument, and both prepared to release their respective kagune with Shirazu threatening to cook and eat his comrade's kakuhou.

    Urie and Shirazu talks with Chie re anime Chie talks with Urie and Shirazu. However, before they came to blows a camera flash interrupted them. Chie Hori approached them and offered to give them information on Torso.[6] In sharp contrast to his previous behavior, Shirazu immediately warmed up to the young woman and the group ended up discussing business. Chie offered to sell them photographs in exchange for something belonging to Sasaki — leaving him to wonder if she was some a pervert. They agreed to her terms and left with photographs of Torso's hunting grounds.

    Afterward, Shirazu and Urie went through the photographs and discussed Sasaki. He was surprised that Urie intended to keep their findings a secret, but the other man claimed that their superior intended to steal credit for anything they accomplished. He then mentioned that Shirazu needed to be promoted quickly because he needed money, and Shirazu became upset at the thought of being betrayed. He stated he agreed to become a test subject in exchange for financial compensation because he desperately needed it and quickly. As a result, he was easily tricked and came to believe he could trust Urie.

    When Sasaki called a meeting of the team to discuss Akira Mado's order that they capture Torso within a month's time, the tension in the group exploded. Based on the lies told to him, Shirazu stormed out of the meeting followed by Urie.[8]

    Fifteen days into the investigation, Shirazu and Urie meet with Akira to get their temporary quinque. While speaking to her, he began to blush and answer questions cheerfully — suggesting he may have had a crush on the team's supervisor. The pair recalled meeting with Chie earlier to exchange a pair of Sasaki's underwear, and she revealed to them the rest of her information. She shows them Polaroids taken at the scene, of the victims while they were still alive and explained the details of the camera Torso used. Chie demonstrated the distinct qualities of the different brands of cameras, taking photos of the investigators as evidence. While Urie just stood there, Shirazu posed dramatically for Chie. She told them she had a suspect in mind, based on all the evidence.

    Having finished giving them their spare quinque, Akira briefly explained to the pair the history of the quinque. She then asked them whether they had ever actually seen Sasaki fight at full strength and warned them about becoming like him. Neither knew what to make of her warning.[9]

    On the 25th day of the investigation, Urie and Shirazu arrived in time to witness Torso kidnapping Tooru Mutsuki. As their target sped away in his taxi, they give chase on his motorcycle — ignoring the circumstances, Shirazu worried about going too fast because of the speed limit. Urie ordered him to shoot out the taxi's tires with his kagune, but his aim was too poor and he missed completely. The chaos attracted the police, who attempted to assist in capturing Torso and were killed by the ghoul.

    The chase came to an end when they encountered a police barricade, but the officers were immediately killed when Torso jumped from his vehicle. Shirazu ignored prior orders to rely on his quinque, dodging an attack that damaged his motorcycle and returning fire with his kagune. He managed to wound Torso, but he proved strong enough to continue fighting due to being a rinkaku. Before he could continue attacking, Serpent appeared on the scene and confronted them all.[10]

    Shirazu tries to distract Serpent Shirazu tries to distract Serpent. Serpent decided to eliminate them to avoid any future problems, attacking them relentlessly. Urie was wounded while facing Serpent directly, while Shirazu's attacks proved completely ineffective. The ghoul mocked his abilities, referring to his kagune as a "peashooter" and made it clear that the Quinx were completely outclassed. Even so, when he saw that Mutsuki was in danger, he leapt towards Serpent and launched a point-blank attack to protect his comrade. But even this was completely ineffective, and was quickly taken down with a single blow. With all of them wounded and unable to use their kagunes, Mutsuki and Shirazu suggested they retreat from the hopeless battle. When Urie ate his own flesh in desperation, Shirazu was horrified and tried to stop him. They were rescued when Sasaki arrived, blocking Serpent's kagune before he could finish them off. He then faced the ghoul, as Shirazu and the others watched.[11]

    He tried to rush to Sasaki's aid when their leader was wounded but was ordered to stay on the sidelines. He advised Mutsuki to stay out of the way, leading him back to safety. When Serpent was finally defeated, Shirazu overheard Sasaki refer to the ghoul as "Nishio-senpai," confusing him. He was shocked by the arrival of Hirako's team, who quickly and violently subdued the out-of-control Sasaki. Afterward, Shirazu watched while Akira tended to Sasaki – feeling great admiration for his superior's true strength.[12]

    Nutcracker Investigation

    Shirazu kicks Urie Shirazu kicks Urie. During the aftermath of the battle, Urie was relieved as Squad Leader and insulted Sasaki by calling him a "ghoul." This sent Shirazu into a rage, kicking his teammate across the room before screaming at him about how Sasaki risked everything for them. He threatened to kill Urie, nearly starting a fight between the two. After Sasaki calmed them both down, he named Shirazu the new squad leader – he initially believed Mutsuki had been named instead, and was speechless in shock over the promotion. He protested that he was not intelligent enough for the job, and was still trying to process the announcement as Sasaki ordered them all to bed.

    While reporting to Kishou Arima, Sasaki explained his reasons for the change. While Urie performed well academically and was good at investigations, his personality "needed work". He noted that while Shirazu was not good at investigations, he had the ability to consider his surroundings and act for the sake of the group. Later on, at Mutsuki's insistence, he apologized to Urie for attacking him. Because he did not like sweet things, Shirazu gave him a can of red bean soup to drink as punishment. He then ordered him to work with the group, and the three worried about what to do about their lazy comrade, Saiko.[13]

    Shirazu was then alongside Mutsuki and Sasaki, discussing their new target: Nutcracker. Shirazu was reprimanded for dressing elaborately just to pose as the Squad Leader. At first, Shirazu thought Nutcracker cracked peanut shells, but he grew confused when Sasaki mentioned that the Nutcracker ghoul was known for crushing the testicles of males, and slurping the fluid like a paste. They stopped at a cafe named [[::re]], and upon walking into the coffee shop, Shirazu was amazed at Sasaki's Rc cells due to his ability to smell the delicious coffee.[14]

    After leaving the coffee shop, Shirazu became worried that Sasaki was spacing out too frequently. At the Quinx's living quarters, Shirazu was informed that Saiko had arrived. When Saiko refused to leave her room, Shirazu used his kagune to break the door. He was then surprised when Urie motivated Saiko to do her work again. The following morning, Shirazu becomes annoyed that Saiko overslept despite her promise, and decided to wake her up while the rest of the Squad went to discuss the Nutcracker case.[15]

    Shirazu carries Saiko Shirazu carries Saiko to the meeting. Near the end of the meeting, Shirazu shocked everyone when he arrived carrying a still-sleeping Saiko on his back. He apologized profusely for being late, but was praised for actually managing to physically bring Saiko to the CCG.

    The team was assigned to shadow Nutcracker, and spy on her meeting with an associate. Shirazu attempted to listen in, but was too tired to make out what was being said. He asked Saiko to try, but she just described the sound of hamburger steak cooking in the kitchen. This caused him to lose his temper, hitting her over the head and cursing rapidly in frustration. While watching this, Urie thought how trying to make Saiko work had left Shirazu tired and stressed, spending every morning trying to wake her up.

    While sitting back down, he knocked a glass off their table and broke it. This caused Nutcracker to notice them, and he panicked as she walked towards them. However, she continued past him and instead refilled her water. Shirazu failed to notice her watching him with an interested look. With the mission failed, the group gathered outside. Shirazu agonized over his failure and later seeks out Mutsuki for advice. He confessed to doubting his abilities as a leader but was reassured that getting Saiko to actually work was a major accomplishment. Mutsuki revealed that Urie lied about Saiko being fired, but advised that they keep it to themselves for the time being. Shirazu steamed over Urie lying to them again.[16]

    Continuing the meeting, they deduced the connection between Big Madam and Nutcracker, suggesting she was really providing items – humans – for an auction. After the meeting, Shirazu mentioned Urie's hospitalization, expressing his concern for him. At the Chateau, he briefed in Sasaki about the clubs in the 13th ward Nutcracker has been frequenting before Sasaki declared they would dress as women.[17]

    At the nightclub, Shirazu felt out of place, voicing that he was too tall and big and had been forced to wear heavy makeup while the others teased him. Later, talking with Sasaki, they spoke about Saiko and her history. They moved onto the parents, or lack thereof, of each of the Quinx Squad members, Shirazu sympathizing with Sasaki's memory loss. After Shirazu questions, Sasaki affirmed that he would not quit being an investigator even after his memories returned. They end their conversation after Saiko and Mutsuki approach them, the latter having just attained a way into the auction. Afterwards, Shirazu was dragged to the dance floor by Saiko with Mutsuki and the three joke about each other's poor dancing skills.[18]

    In preparation for the upcoming operation, Shirazu gave Sasaki his testament and mentioned Urie's upcoming return home and his hope for a pay raise.[19] Some time afterwards, Shirazu, along with Mutsuki and Saiko, trained with Sasaki and looked up at Urie in the upper room in the building across.[20]

    When Sasaki and Mutsuki were out, Hanbee stopped by the Chateau and took Shirazu and Saiko to a restaurant. They joined him as he visited Yukinori Shinohara at the hospital and learned more about Suzuya from Hanbee before he left them. Leaving the hospital, the squad mates encountered Touka Kirishima, recalling she was the waitress from :re. That evening, they did further training with Sasaki, all except Urie.[21]

    Auction Mopping-up Operation

    Shirazu participated in the Auction Mopping-up Operation along with his team and paved their way to where Mutsuki was.[22] After encountering and eventually defeating Kanae along with his team members, he proceeded to head toward the control room with his squad, minus Urie and Mutsuki, after being blocked off by a kagune wall.[23] Shortly after finding one of the Atou Squad members, Naoto Hayashimura they were attacked by Takizawa, who was labeled as an SS~ ranked ghoul on the spot. Ordered to continue heading toward the control room and leave Sasaki against the ghoul by himself, Shirazu complained to Associate Special Class Matsuri but had no choice to follow the order after Sasaki accepted it.[24]

    Shirazu stabs Nutcracker Shirazu stabs Nutcracker. He, Saiko, and Hayashimura arrived at the control room where they encountered Nutcracker. Despite the fight being three against one, Nutcracker's chimera kagune and ability to detach her bikaku to use as a mine made her a difficult opponent.[25] Shirazu eventually figured out that her mine-like kagune were peppered throughout the room's walls and ceiling and were activated through vibrations. Using this knowledge, he tricked Nutcracker into impaling herself with one of her own traps. Stuck, he signaled for Saiko to attack. Afterward, a severely injured Nutcracker was left on the ground and Shirazu dealt the final blow.

    Nutcracker's dying words of just wanting to be beautiful haunted Shirazu despite his attempts to brush off her feelings as she was not human.[26]

    Post-Auction

    A month has passed since the Auction Mopping-up Operation and everyone was preparing for the Christmas party. He mused to Mutsuki about how happy and kid-like Sasaki was before Sasaki demanded that they help out. That night, Shirazu had fun at the party with everyone, eating and playing video games. He received a model motorcycle as a gift from Sasaki.[27]

    Rose Extermination

    Some time had passed and spring had arrived. The CCG was holding their awards ceremony and Shirazu received a promotion from Rank 3 to Rank 2. At the after party, he enjoyed himself with his coworkers, eating and mingling. Sasaki and Akira came up to him to inform him that his new quinque could be picked up soon and to congratulate him for his victory against Nutcracker.[2] When near the new weapon, he proceeded to vomit, still disturbed by Nutcracker's final moments.[28]

    When visiting HySy ArtMask Studio along with the rest of his squad to get mask measurements, he was asked by Uta whether he had a girl he liked currently and Akira, Saiko, and Hairu's images appear in his mind.[29]

    When the Quinx Squad was lured into a trap in an empty parking garage by Kanae and hired Aogiri hitmen, Shirazu chased After Urie and Kanae to the fifth floor, where they fought against the ghoul. When his kakuhou was damaged by Kanae, Urie reminded him to use his quinque, to which he was unable to due to Nutcracker's image traumatizing him again, causing him to fall to his knees.[30] Some time before the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation, he asked Sasaki to teach him how to control his kagune more efficiently.[31]

    Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation

    Shirazu was later assigned as the back line support for both the Quinx team and the Itou-Quinx team combination when Sasaki went ahead of them in the Luna Eclipse during the operation.[32][33] Shirazu had been horrified when Noro eliminated two investigators in a flash, with some of the investigators' blood splashing onto his face.[34]

    After being notified that the ghoul they were facing was one of the deadliest out of all known ghouls by the CCG, Shirazu stated his determination to finally use the Nutcracker quinque when an explosive power was needed. He goes on to throw the quinque into Noro's chest, letting the quinque expand remotely and thus ripping said ghoul into separate pieces. The damage, however, proved insufficient for stopping Noro as the ghoul heavily injured all active investigators on the scene with the exclusion of Saiko and Shirazu with a different kagune stemming from his lower half.[35] Knowing that if he did not stop attacking everyone would die, Shirazu charged in on Noro head-on, spamming his kagune bullets to the point of where his kakuhou broke its surrounding frame. Out of breath, Shirazu signalled Urie to deliver the final blow on Noro, but was attacked by Noro immediately afterwards. However, this provided Urie the opening to kill the ghoul.[36]

    Shirazu dies Shirazu's death. Although Noro was finally killed, Shirazu was fatally injured as the result of Noro's final attack. The rest of the Quinx Squad, save for Mutsuki, rushed to Shirazu's aid but quickly realized that his wound was too deep and that he could not regenerate fast enough to close it up. Shirazu stated that he wanted to see Sasaki for no particular reason and was wondering why the rest of the Quinx were not saying anything despite them shouting at him to not die. He went on to say that he could not see anyone and wanted someone to hold his hand, showing his fear of dying alone. Knowing that he was at death's door, he requested the rest of the Quinx to let Haru die peacefully if he was not there for her. After his final request, Shirazu finally succumbed to his injuries and died.[4]

    After the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation, Shirazu's body was transferred into a vehicle that was later attacked by Aogiri Tree who were tipped off by Nimura Furuta of the vehicle's location. His body was given to Akihiro Kanou in order to reverse engineer the Quinx's frame technology and to help increase the success rate of his one-eyed ghoul experiments.[37]

    Finale

    In addition to his duties in the TSC, Urie searched longingly for Shirazu's body on Rushima Island. In the third year of his investigation, remains of Shirazu's body were found, and finally buried in the empty grave at the cemetery of CCG's heroes.[38]

    Relationships

    Haru Shirazu

    Haru was Ginshi's younger sister who was diagnosed with ROS. Her Rc tumor being why he was in constant need of money, aside from the fact that she was hospitalized for medical treatment. It was apparent he cared very deeply for her, being his only known in-touch relative, as well as her being why Ginshi sought out to be a ghoul investigator. Before he died he requested that she be allowed to die peacefully instead of living in pain.

    Kuki Urie

    They frequently worked together, primarily due to Shirazu's tendency to follow him around. He initially berated his former squad leader for being unwilling to work with others, and the two nearly came to blows over their disagreement. Even with their rocky relationship, the two made a good team and Shirazu trusted him implicitly. Unfortunately, this trust was not returned with Urie considering him a potential hindrance to his goals. To this end, he emotionally manipulated Shirazu and used him to cause conflict within the group. After the team was nearly killed by Serpent, he realized this mistake and threatened Urie over his attitude. After becoming squad leader, they continued to have a rocky relationship. Shirazu's inability to use his quinque caused Urie to mark him as an incompetent squad leader. However, after he was fatally injured protecting his squad from Noro, Urie was deeply concerned for him, desperately trying to keep him alive despite his wounds and attempted to motivate him, telling him that if he lived he would be able to pay for his sister's cure. His efforts futile, Urie was shaken by Shirazu's death, moments after he was ready to give Shirazu all the credit for Noro's extermination; despite gaining credit being a big part of Urie's ambition and one of his driving points for improvement. Afterwards, he refused to go to Shirazu's grave service since Shirazu's body was absent and vowed to retrieve it from Aogiri.

    Haise Sasaki

    Shirazu was close to the squad's mentor and gave him the nickname "Sassan." ("Mr. Sass" in the English Dub). He was surprised and angered when Urie suggested that Sasaki was merely using them as tools for his own promotion, leading Shirazu to begin doubting his intentions. This led him to act out, rebelling against orders and storming out of a group meeting. After Sasaki risked his life to save the squad and learned the truth about his mentor, Shirazu's respect for him grew, to the point that he assaulted Urie for calling Sasaki a ghoul. Shirazu considered him a mentor and came to him for advice on using his kagune. However, he did admit that Sasaki was somewhat childish in his behavior. Even in his last moments, Shirazu told Urie that he wanted to see Sassan – although he had no idea why – showing how much he respected and cared for his mentor.

    Saiko Yonebayashi

    Shirazu did not think twice before criticizing Saiko for her laziness and lack of seriousness. As the squad leader, he was deeply worried by her laziness and tried to make Saiko work harder, going far enough to carry her, still asleep, to the CCG building, something that not even Sasaki was able to accomplish. Despite his frustration with her, Shirazu cared for Saiko, seen how he reacted to the supposed possibility of her dismissal. Saiko did not seem to care much about the way Shirazu treated her, not taking him seriously even when he and Urie broke her bedroom's door to get her out of there. Later on in the series, the two progressively got along with each other during events such as having lunch with Hanbee and battling Nutcracker together. When she witnessed Shirazu slowly dying, she, along with Urie, assured him that he would be fine and cried profusely calling him "Shiragin" when he finally passed away.

    Tooru Mutsuki

    They had a close friendship, frequently joking around and spending their free time together. Mutsuki's more gentle and observant personality worked well with Shirazu's more aggressive nature, making them good friends that were able to balance each other out. Mutsuki frequently acted as a mediator between Shirazu and the others when he lost his temper, helping to smooth out disagreements before they could cause problems within the team. He also served as Shirazu's primary confidante after being promoted to squad leader, listening to his worries and offering reassurances or advice. Shirazu showed a protective streak towards him, while Mutsuki compared himself negatively to his stronger comrade in terms of fighting ability and powers. Like the rest of the squad, Mutsuki mourned him greatly after he passed away.

    Akira Mado

    Akira mentored and supervised her underling Shirazu, giving him advice on using quinques and tips on being a ghoul investigator. Shirazu had a crush on his superior, blushing and acting in an unusually cheerful manner when around her. His squad even knew about his feelings toward her. After the Auction Operation, Akira commended Shirazu for his efforts during the operation and taking out Nutcracker, also telling him that she has raised her expectations from him. After Shirazu's death, Akira attended his funeral and was shown to be saddened.

    Chie Hori

    He immediately took a liking to the young-seeming woman, teasing Chie about her childish looks and acted surprised when he realized she was older than him. When she named her price for her information, he wondered whether she might be a pervert, but was satisfied with her explanation. He played along with her, posing dramatically for her photographs and considered her a reliable informant.

    Nutcracker

    He saw her as a ghoul to be killed and he was the one who delivered the final blow. However, he was haunted by her last words; she just wanted to be beautiful, similar to the words his sister, Haru, had once said to him. After the operation finished he stared down at his hands and months later, he would have nightmares about her and her last words. When the time came to receive the new quinque made from her, he could not touch it and vomited.

    Hanbee Abara

    Abara was friendly towards Shirazu, inviting him to have lunch together. Abara also confided in Shirazu about how he wished to protect his boss Suzuya and support him.

    Naoto Hayashimura

    Shirazu and Hayashimura were tasked with eliminating Nutcracker during the Auction. While he thought of it as pathetic, Hayashimura decided to place everything in the Rank 3 Investigator's hands, following his strategy to deal with the chimera ghoul. Later on, Shirazu sought out Hayashimura to have his hair cut into a tonsure, to which he agreed to do so.

    Taishi Fura

    Fura approached Shirazu who could not use his quinque made out of Nutcracker. Fura comforted Shirazu by telling him that his quinque was also made out of the first ghoul he killed as well. Fura advised Shirazu not to dwell on it and told him that they just take away life as investigators, before giving him a cigarette.

    Hairu Ihei

    Shirazu found Hairu attractive, while she hoped to get along with him as a friend.

    Powers and Abilities

    Shirazu was trained in basic combat and investigative processes though he showed little talent for anything outside of fighting. He was also a skilled bike rider, able to engage in a high-speed pursuit with a passenger riding with him.

    Quinx Physiology: After the surgery, due to his Quinx nature, Shirazu was granted enhanced regenerative abilities and senses.

    Ukaku Kagune: His kagune took the form of a launcher-like protrusion, and fired multiple claw-like missiles with very limited accuracy. Though ordered to use his quinque in combat, he favored using his kagune. After breaking his frames during his combat with Noro, his ukaku morphed into a moose-horn shape and his projectiles gain explosive properties, vastly increasing the damage they could inflict upon anything they hit. Superhuman Regeneration: He was able to survive and recover from being impaled through the stomach. Superhuman Senses: As he became a Quinx, his senses had been heightened to the point of being inhuman. Tsunagi: A basic bikaku quinque, given to him as a spare. He had been shown using it in combat against the Aogiri soldiers defending the Auction site, when fighting Kanae alongside his squad and when he encountered Nutcracker in the administrative building.

    Nutcracker: A unique chimera quinque, created from the bikaku and koukaku kagunes of the ghoul of the same name. Its full capabilities were not known, though it displayed the ability to explosively expand upon contact and destroy a target.

38. #38Goumasa Tokage

    Keys: Goumasa Tokage

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Goumasa Tokage JAPANESE NAME 戸影 豪正 ROMAJI Tokage Gōmasa SPECIES Human STATUS Alive (Anime) GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS CCG OCCUPATION Combat Instructor Cochlea Interrogator (Formerly) SEIYUU Atsuyoshi Miyazaki

    Goumasa Tokage (戸影 豪正, Tokage Gōmasa) was a combat instructor at the 2nd Academy.

    He was once an Investigator serving at Cochlea and known for his sadistic tendencies. While Yamori was imprisoned there, Tokage tortured him to the point of madness but lost control of the situation. After Yamori's escape, he was dismissed from his position amid scandal and sent to work as an instructor.

    Since then, he had continued his sadism through torturing and killing animals. The staff had covered up his crimes, placing the blame on Juuzou Suzuya.

    Appearance

    His initial appearance was that of an average looking man.

    After being assaulted by Yamori, his face is notably disfigured and riddled with scars, with one particularly large scar stretching across the left side of his face. Personality

    Little is known about his personality, other than his sadistic nature. He appears to be a psychopath, with absolutely no empathy and a great love of causing suffering to others. His primary targets were the Ghoul prisoners he oversaw, but after being transferred, he took to mutilating and killing small animals for amusement. It is suggested that Yamori's "Jason" persona is based partially on him, hinting at the depth of his depravity. Plot

    Background

    Yamori after his torture Tokage prior to getting tortured by Yamori. Goumasa Tokage was once an interrogator working at the Ghoul Detention Center. During this period, he was assigned to interrogate a newly imprisoned ghoul by the name of Yakumo Oomori; he was someone who had a considerable amount of knowledge relating to the 13th ward. Because of his barbarous mentality, Tokage used this occasion to inflict excruciating torture on Yamori for an unspecified number of days. At some point, a moment came where Yamori was able to break free from captivity. Yamori grasped this short opportunity to subject the pain he received onto his torturer.[1]

    Some time later, after Yamori's escape from the Detention Center, Tokage began working at one of the CCG Junior Academies. He continued his deranged habits by taking animals he acquired and slaughtering them. He would then leave the dead bodies scattered around outside the facility. He killed up to 10 dogs, 40 cats, and a number of other smaller animals.[2] One night, Juuzou Suzuya had stumbled upon him outdoors after recently killing a cat. He then threatened to kill Suzuya if he ever informed anyone of what he saw. At some point, Tokage was exposed to the other staff members. Because he was employed with the CCG, the rest of the staff devised a plan to use Suzuya as a scapegoat to cover for his actions, in order to circumvent a potential scandal.[3]

    A few years later, wandering the academy's vicinity, Tokage discovers Tooru Mutsuki hidden within a thicket of trees, hunched over. While approaching to inspect the situation, he notices a small pool of blood at the base of Mutsuki's feet. As he kneels down beside, he observes Mutsuki dismembering a stray cat. Thereupon, he then provides words of advice in Mutsuki's action, and even lends his own knife to Mutsuki for an easier dissection.[4]

    Rose Extermination

    While Sasaki is visiting the 2nd Academy to give a lecture, Tokage approaches him. He inquires about Tooru Mutsuki, a former pupil that he describes as a problematic kid. He expresses dark amusement upon hearing that Mutsuki is training with another former student, Suzuya. As he walks away, Sasaki experiences a feeling of unease around him. The former torturer then cracks his fingers.

    Finale

    In the years following the emergence of Dragon, he continued to work as an Academy Instructor. His actions eventually caught up with him, with a student stabbing him to death.

    Trivia

    He has a distinct habit and way of cracking his fingers. This very habit was inherited by Yamori, who unintentionally passed it on to Kaneki and Naki.

39. #39Hairu Ihei

    Keys: Hairu Ihei

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hairu Ihei JAPANESE NAME 伊丙 入 （いへい はいる） ROMAJI Ihei Hairu SPECIES Half-human[1] STATUS Alive AGE 21[2] i GENDER Female BORN September 29, 18 BSBI[2] i HEIGHT 160 cm / 5'3"[2] WEIGHT 58 kg / 128 lbs[2] BLOOD TYPE B[2] AFFILIATIONS CCG Washuu Clan Sunlit Garden Arima Squad S3 Squad (Formerly) S1 Squad - Deputy Leader OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RELATIVES Yoshiu Washuu (Paternal Grandfather) † Tsuneyoshi Washuu (Biological Father) † Yoshitoki Washuu (Paternal Half-Brother) † Kishou Arima (Paternal Half-Brother) † Kichimura Washuu (Paternal Half-Brother) † Rize Kamishiro (Paternal Half-Sister) † Numerous Half-Siblings Matsuri Washuu(Nephew) Iyo Washuu (Niece-in-law) Shio Ihei (Distant relative) † Washuu Clan (Branch Family) QUINQUE Aus (Rinkaku, Rate S+) T-Human (Ukaku, Rate S+) CLASS 74th RANK First Class TRAINING Sunlit Garden HONORS Single White Wing Medal Golden Osmanthus Medal SEIYUU

    Hairu Ihei (伊丙 入, Ihei Hairu) was a First Class Ghoul Investigator and the partner of Koori Ui. She was the deputy leader of S1 Squad.

    She was a veteran of the Owl Suppression Operation and served as a member of Squad 0, commanded by Kishou Arima.

    Appearance

    Ihei was an attractive young woman with straight neck-length light pink hair that is cropped into an angled bob, a sleepy expression with heavy-lidded pink eyes and delicate features.

    She seemed to favor men's wear styles with a vest and slacks as opposed to the skirts worn by most female investigators.

    When serving as a member of Squad 0, she wore a trench coat with a hood pulled up to conceal her identity. Manga Depiction

    Personality

    Ihei came across as a normal young woman, though already a veteran investigator. She eagerly and politely greeted the Quinx, and was happy to finally have met people her own age. Though their superior, she wanted to be treated as their peer and was a bit uncomfortable with how young she was compared to everyone else she worked with. She had quite a tomboyish personality. But also gentle and humble, at the same time.

    In battle, however, Ihei was cold and ruthless. She maintained a casual personality in battle, even when fighting and killing ghouls. She had a habit of killing her enemies brutally, and often left behind a gruesome trail of the remains of her kills. Plot

    Past

    Arima ihei garden Young Arima and Ihei. Little is known about Ihei's past, other than the fact that she came from the Sunlit Garden.[8] During her childhood, she knew Kishou Arima and had a positive relationship with him.[5] While lacking a formal education, she was sufficiently trained in combat to begin working as a ghoul investigator at the age of 16. At some point, she was assigned to work in Arima Squad.

    Owl Suppression Operation

    She took part as a member of Squad Zero, fighting on the front lines and at Route V14.[9]

    Auction

    Ihei was one of the hooded members of Squad Zero that arrived to help secure the auction hall. Along with her team, she surrounded Hinami Fueguchi and aided in her capture.[10]

    Rose Extermination

    Ihei appeared at the S1 meeting alongside her partner, Koori Ui. After the meeting, she approached the Quinx Squad and introduced herself. She noted that they were all the same age — meanwhile, Shirazu blushed and was teased for his awkwardness around her.[7]

    She later took part in the ambush of Matsumae and her followers along with Taishi Fura, Shiki Kijima, and Nimura Furuta.[11] She dominantly fought against Matsumae with outstanding performance and she eventually wounded her belly. However, Matsumae had a chance to escape from her when Kijima captured Yuuma, one of her accomplices. Ihei was disappointed that Kijima obtained ownership of Yuuma despite her great action.[12]

    Hairu stabbed by Matsumae Hairu stabbed by Matsumae. She was later put in charge of the vanguard troops for the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation's second location, the Luna Eclipse.[13] She easily fought her way in along with Kijima and the other CCG investigators and was confronted by Matsumae, Mairo, and several other Tsukiyama family ghouls near the top floor.[14] After she witnessed Matsumae's kagune-formed sword and shield, Ihei expressed interest in getting it as her quinque. Despite the fight having been more or less on even grounds, she slipped on a pool of blood which created an opening for Matsumae to pierce Ihei with her kagune.[15]

    HairuDies Hairu's headless body falls to the ground. Though heavily wounded, Ihei demanded her subordinates to hand over her other quinque, T-Human. She fired T-Human at Matsumae, and began to break through her koukaku shield. Mairo leaped between the two women and took the fatal blow. He was torn in half, but still able to use the momentum of his leap to attack Ihei.

    Dragon Arc

    Kichimura introduced a new visiting researcher to Koori Ui, who happened to be Akihiro Kanou. Koori was irritated by the fact that the Bureau Director was working with an ex-Aogiri member, while Kichimura was discussing about the Oggai squads' progress with Kanou. Koori shouted at Kichimura, who stated that Koori would make a gain out of this, bringing out a jar with Hairu Ihei's head in it, claiming that they could revive her, which left Koori in shock.

    Relationships

    Koori Ui

    Ui was Ihei's partner. She called him Koori Senpai (郡先輩, Kōri Senpai). Ihei stated that she would work harder than Sasaki and Ui so that she might earn Arima's praise. Her referring to him by his first name implied a close relationship between the two.

    Kishou Arima

    Ihei admired Arima greatly and she wanted to work harder than Sasaki and Ui so that she might earn Arima's praise despite knowing full well that he did not praise anyone. She had known Arima in their younger years and shared a positive sibling relationship. In the omake for Volume 11, she asked him to play "red light, green light" with her and used it as an excuse to be able to stare at him as much as she wanted to, calling attention to a deep fixation on Arima that could be read as romantic, though that is unconfirmed.

    Haise Sasaki

    Ihei stated that she wanted to work harder than Sasaki and Ui so that she might earn Arima's praise, although Sasaki's rank was below Ihei's before he was promoted and she called him by his first name without an honorific.

    Quinx Squad

    Ihei hoped to get along with them since they were her age. Having worked with mostly older people since a young age, she wanted to experience a classmate-like relationship with them.

    Powers and Abilities

    Half-Human Physiology: Being a half-human hybrid, Hairu had increased physical capabilities.

    Superhuman Durability: Hairu had displayed enhanced durability during her clash with Matsumae, as she maintained consciousness after receiving a large wound on her chest.[5] Swordsmanship: Hairu was highly adept at using quinque, capable enough to fight alongside seasoned investigators.

    Aus: A rinkaku quinque that resembles a dark colored (white in the anime) machete that has a long, thin handle. This quinque is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Matsumae's kagune barrage, and even slice through the latter's kagune.[16] T-Human: An ukaku quinque that has three satellite-like panels attached to a rapier handle, this quinque overall resembles Narukami. It was also strong enough to almost completely obliterate Matsume's kagune shield and could cut clean through a ghoul with one blast. T-Human is capable of firing condensed Rc cells that have a lightning-like appearance, which can become concentrated or dispersed blasts.

40. #40Hajime Hazuki

    Keys: Hajime Hazuki

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hajime Hazuki JAPANESE NAME 葉月 ハジメ (はづき ハジメ) ROMAJI Hazuki Hajime ALIAS Kou SPECIES Oggai Human (Formerly) STATUS Alive AGE 11–12[1] (Volume 11, Tokyo Ghoul:re) GENDER Male

    April, 5 ASBI HEIGHT 155 cm / 5'1"[1] WEIGHT 52 kg / 115 lbs[1] BLOOD TYPE AB[1] AFFILIATIONS CCG Squad A - Leader OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RELATIVES Unnamed Parents † WARD 20th Ward (Formerly) 24th Ward (Formerly, Imprisoned) 1st Ward (Currently) RC TYPE Rinkaku

    SEIYUU

    Hajime Hazuki (葉月 ハジメ, Hazuki Hajime) was the squad leader of the Oggai Squad A.[2]

    He infiltrated Goat under the identity of Kou (甲, Kō), a young ghoul who escaped from the clutches of the CCG to Goat's base in the 24th ward.[3]

    Hajime was a young boy with black spiky hair that had a blue tint to it, with dark blue eyes.

    Personality

    As an orphan who lost his parents to ghouls, he held strong feelings of hatred against ghouls and seeked to avenge his family.[4] Hajime was power-hungry and attached to figures of strength, proven when he had shown to idolize Ken Kaneki and his abilities, referring to him as a miracle human. ADVERTISEMENT

    Plot

    Doves' Emergence

    Koutarou Amon walked by Hajime inside the CCG 20th Ward's Branch Office building.[5]

    Post-Clown Siege

    Hajime was one of the children who were introduced as the newly created Quinx Squad and beheaded the fake Ken Kaneki alongside the other members of the Clowns.[6]

    Goat Wipeout Operation

    Under the identity of 'Kou', he was attacked by investigators from the CCG, however was saved by Naki before they could take out the young ghoul. Naki took Kou to the headquarters of the Goat organization who now resided in the 24th Ward, where he was introduced to Ken Kaneki by Shuu Tsukiyama.[3] Later, Kou snuck into the computer room of the Goat base and tried to steal the information, though was exposed by Tsukiyama. A fight ensued between the two, where Kou released his kagune and easily defeated Tsukiyama, before being apprehended by the Arima Squad.[4]

    Kou, now revealed to be Hajime Hazuki, is imprisoned by Goat and watched over by Fuka. When the CCG begins its Goat extermination mission in the 24th Ward, Hajime escapes from his cell, killing Fuka in the process.[7] He is later encountered by Touka, Hinami, and the rest of the fleeing ghouls.[8] As the two sides square off, Arima Squad intervenes and battles Hajime instead.[9]

    Hajime is not seen again until the end of Chapter 143, after Ken Kaneki is defeated by Juuzou Suzuya and Hanbee Abara. As Kichimura Washuu and the Oggai squads look on at the crippled Kaneki, Hajime is called to step forward, revealing that he had survived his battle with Arima Squad, and presents the severed heads of Shio Ihei and Rikai Souzu. Washuu orders Hajime to stay with Kaneki as he moves onward, and to give him "special treatment". However, as Hajime approaches Kaneki to capture him, Kaneki suddenly lunges forward and bites off a chunk of Hajime's face. The young Oggai begins lamenting his disfigurement, but is cut off when Kaneki impales his head with his kagune.[10]

    Relationships

    Naki

    He was attacked by investigators from the CCG, but before they could take him out, he was saved by Goat's Naki who killed the three investigators. He appeared to be grateful to Naki for saving him and after a short conversation he was taken to Goat's base in the 24th ward.

    Ken Kaneki

    Hajime admired and looked up to Ken Kaneki to a level of severe attachment, obediently idolizing the man, specifically over Kaneki's accomplishments throughout his journey as a one-eyed ghoul. Hajime referred to him as a miracle human. However, after Kaneki is defeated by Juuzou Suzuya and Hanbee Abara and his limbs are severed, Hajime openly mocks him, no longer holding him in such high esteem.

    Powers and Abilities

    Hazuki possessed a genius level of dynamic vision and motor reflexes and has received the same training as the Arima Squad.[4]

    Oggai Physiology: As an Oggai, Hazuki possessed Rize Kamishiro's kakuhou, giving him an increased healing factor along with a rinkaku kagune.

    Rinkaku Kagune: Hazuki displayed his kagune in his fight against Shuu Tsukiyama, possessing two tentacles. In Frame B, he could release up to four or five tentacles. His kagune was also able to form multiple mouths, similar to Ken Kaneki

41. #41Hanbee Abara

    Keys: Hanbee Abara

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hanbee Abara JAPANESE NAME 阿原 半兵衛 （あばら はんべえ） ROMAJI Abara Hanbē SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 22 - 23 GENDER Male BORN May 21, 19 BSBI[1] HEIGHT 190 cm[1] WEIGHT 79 kg[1] BLOOD TYPE O AFFILIATIONS CCG (Formerly) Suzuya Squad S3 Squad TSC OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator (Formerly) Peacekeeper RELATIVES Hanbee Abara's father WARD 13th Ward QUINQUE Silver Skull (Ukaku, Rate A)[1] Arata Ⅱ (Koukaku) CLASS 75th[1] RANK Rank 2 (until :re Ch. 32) Rank 1 (after :re Ch. 32) TRAINING 5th Academy Junior[1] HONORS Osmanthus Medal[1]

    SEIYUU Masakazu Nishida

    "I’ll do anything to cover Mr. Suzuya’s small back."

    HANBEE ABARA

    Hanbee Abara (阿原 半兵衛, Abara Hanbē) is a Rank 1 Peacekeeper. He is a member of the TSC's Suzuya Squad and is assigned to the 13th ward, in charge of the investigation of the Nutcracker.

    Appearance

    Hanbee is a very tall, slender young man with long black hair. He often appears to have a troubled expression, and his eyes are depicted without irises. Hanbee wears a black suit and an armband with the roman numeral 13 (XIII), supposedly a reference to Juuzou Suzuya's first name Juuzou, which can be alternately written as 十三, or 13. Personality

    Despite his terrifying appearance, Hanbee fears for his life and has a low self-esteem, for he is unable to fight the ghouls he is confronted with, fleeing instead. Suzuya describes him as "absolutely unfitting" for the job as investigator, as he is too gentle and scared to fight. Hanbee is presented as very self-conscious of his actions, thinking very long before taking action; often until it is too late.

    However, Hanbee is capable of growing, showing courage when Suzuya purposely puts himself in a lethal situation, and interfering with the attack of a ghoul to protect him. Hanbee also wishes to sum up at least a tenth of the courage Suzuya has.

    During :re, it is shown that he has gained enough courage to face and actually injure an SS-rated ghoul, as opposed to fleeing like he would have during the events of Joker.

    One-shot JOKER

    Hanbee is the protagonist of the story, where he introduces the concept and characteristics of ghouls as well as the humans who oppose these creatures-- the Ghoul Investigators. Hanbee mentions his superior and squad leader, Juuzou Suzuya, a First Class Investigator whom Hanbee admires for the courage and bravery Suzuya has. Hanbee frequently refers to himself as “hopeless,” for he usually flees when faced with ghouls.

    He attends a meeting, where Akira Mado provides the squad with information about the ‘Skull Masks’ leader; a ghoul whom they were currently investigating at the 11th ward.

    On Kurashiki Street, Abara and the rest of the Suzuya squad begin searching for clues. Although Abara is scared, he mentions that he is able to concentrate better when alone, but loses all courage when countered by a ghoul.

    As he sees an old man inching up to a young girl, he perceives it as sexual molestation at first. While trying his best to muster up the bravery and stop the crime, Suzuya intervenes and deals with the matter instead, subsequently pointing out Abara’s uselessness. Juuzou then suggests that they follow the man off the train. Abara explains to Suzuya that he was attacked by ghouls when he was a child, and his father tried saving him; losing both his legs in the process. Abara contemplated on saving his father, but despite all efforts, he failed to even gather the bravery.

    Hanbee implaes the Skull Masks Leader Hanbee impales the Skull Masks Leader. In an underground section of the train station, the leader of the Skull Masks is seen attacking the molester from earlier. However, Suzuya decides to fight on his own when Hanbee seemed too afraid. After noticing that Suzuya could be in danger when his quinque broke, Abara finally manages to impale the opponent with his katana, saving Juuzou.

    The investigation is solved, and as Suzuya suggests that they go to the donut shop, Abara just wishes for at least a tenth of Suzuya’s courage, even though Hanbee is not fit to be an Investigator after all.

    Auction

    The Quinx Squad visits Hanbee for the discussion of the investigation involving the Nutcracker. When asked about Juuzou's whereabouts, Abara makes an excuse, saying that Juuzou overslept, and subsequently discusses the Nutcracker with the squad.

    Hanbee later shows up at The Chateau and invites Saiko Yonebayashi and Ginshi Shirazu to lunch before taking them to hospital to see the comatose Yukinori Shinohara.

    Hanbee arrives with the other members of Suzuya Squad in the underground area and stops Big Madam from killing Kuki Urie.[2] He succeeds in wounding Madam along with the other squad members and as she begins to insult Juuzou, Hanbee covers his superior's ears and tells him he would not want to hear it as the other squad members kill her.[3]

    Rushima Landing Operation

    While the Blades are being ambushed by Juuzou's squad, Hanbee advanced towards their leader and one of the subordinates towards an abandoned building. After eliminating Miza's companion, they soon begin to clash. As Hanbee has the upper hand, Miza kicked his quinque into a wall, trapping it while ambushing him from the top. Hanbee, however, activated quinque's gimmick, effectively piercing Miza and injuring her gravely. He leaves Miza on the ground and decides to wait for the rest of Suzuya squad to show up, but is approached by a robed ghoul who asks him if he is one of Juuzou's subordinates.[4]

    While fighting Kurona, Hanbee is easily overwhelmed and pinned to the ground after getting his leg pierced. As he lays down in pain, questioning his loyalty to Juuzou, Kurona states that Juuzou has already abandoned him. Hanbee disagrees, giving her reasons as to why he follows Juuzou, one of them being that he never abandons his squad mates. When he said this, Juuzou leaped in and had begun to fight Kurona.

    Relationships

    Juuzou Suzuya

    Abara has great admiration for his superior, viewing Suzuya as a brave person that he wishes to be more like. He isn't bothered by his partner's unusual behavior, instead even being rather fond of it, and is prone to emotional moments whenever Suzuya is happy. He watches over Juuzou in a way, such as watching out for snack crumbs on Juuzou's face, or feeding him pudding in Joker.

    Yukinori Shinohara

    Though they have never actually met, Abara knows about Shinohara from stories told to him and has incredible respect for the fallen Investigator. He makes a point to visit the man in the hospital, and hopes to one day live up to his example.

    Powers and Abilities

    Abara seems to have sharp senses, mentioning that the scent of a crime scene aches his nostrils, and he can hear the breath of every person in the train he boarded during the investigation of the ‘Skull Masks’ leader. As a Ghoul Investigator, Abara wields a sword with a long flat blade held by a hilt.

    By Tokyo Ghoul: re, Abara is shown to have improved significantly, to the point where he can easily injure Big Madam, without any second thoughts. By the Rushima Invasion, Abara's abilities have progressed to the point of being able to fight on equal grounds with Miza, an S-ranked ghoul. Abara seemed to have recovered from his leg wound by Kurona at a fairly fast rate. Kurona also mentioned that Abara has excellent reflexes.

    Swordsmanship: Abara's swordsmanship is delicate and well guarded, he was able to easily slice through pillars and hold is own against an SS-rated ghoul for a short time[4][5].

    Silver Skull: An ukaku-type quinque that takes the form of a long katana with a circular guard. It has the ability to produce several rib cage shaped appendages that can pierce into ghouls with minimal effort.

42. #42Haru

    Keys: Haru

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Haru JAPANESE NAME ハル ROMAJI Haru SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Female AFFILIATIONS Anti-Aogiri RELATIVES Shuu (Lover) † WARD 11th ward ANIME DEBUT Episode 11 SEIYUU Yurie Kobori ENGLISH VA Felecia Angelle Image Gallery LESS This article is about the Anti-Aogiri member. For other uses, see Haru (disambiguation). Haru (ハル) was a female ghoul who used to live in the 11th ward and a member of Kazuichi Banjou's group when he was still the leader of the 11th ward.

    Appearance

    Haru wears the typical attire of Aogiri Tree's members. Personality

    Plot

    Aogiri Arc

    After Yamori left Ken Kaneki following a torture session, Haru and Shuu came where they cleaned Kaneki and the area surrounding him. They relayed the message from Kazuichi Banjou that they would save him.[1]

    Some time later, Haru and Shuu were used by Yamori to torture Kaneki, but after a failed attempt at doing so, she and her boyfriend were killed by Yamori

43. #43Shuu

    Keys: Shuu

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Shuu JAPANESE NAME シュウ ROMAJI Shū SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Anti-Aogiri RELATIVES Haru (Lover) † WARD 11th Ward ANIME DEBUT Episode 11 SEIYUU Kohei Aoyama ENGLISH VA Orion Pitts Image Gallery LESS For the Gourmet ghoul, see Shuu Tsukiyama. Shuu (シュウ, Shū), was a male ghoul and a resident of the 11th Ward. He was a member of Kazuichi Banjou's group when he was still the leader of the 11th Ward.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

    He wears the typical attire of Aogiri Tree's members. Personality

    Plot

    Aogiri Arc

    After Yamori left Kaneki following a torture session, Haru and Shuu came and cleaned him up and the area around him. They relayed a message from Banjou that they will eventually save him. [1]

    Soon after, both he and Haru were brought in front of Kaneki. While they trembled in fear, Yamori demanded Kaneki to choose one of them to die in order to save the other. Failing to choose someone, Kaneki watched as Haru was strangled to death by Yamori in front of Shuu, and he was murdered soon after.[2]

    Trivia

    Shuu and Haru replace Kei and Kouto in the anime.

44. #44Shirazu Haru

    Keys: Shirazu Haru

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Haru Shirazu JAPANESE NAME 不知 ハル ROMAJI Shirazu Haru SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 15 GENDER Female RELATIVES Ginshi Shirazu (Older Brother) † Unnamed Father † Unnamed Mother (Unknown) MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 42 ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 7 SEIYUU Ayaka Shimizu ENGLISH VA Kristen McGuire Image Gallery LESS This article is about the sister of Ginshi Shirazu. For other uses, see Haru (disambiguation). Haru Shirazu (不知 ハル, Shirazu Haru) is the younger sister of the deceased Ghoul Investigator and Quinx Squad Leader Ginshi Shirazu.

    She suffers from a condition known as Rc cell over-secretion disease which causes her to be hospitalized as a result.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

    Haru was a normal-looking girl prior to the development of her disease, but her appearance has since been drastically altered. She is bedridden with a massive Rc tumor growing out of her face, which at all times must be supported with rope attached to the ceiling of her room.

    Haru, prior to her disease. Haru, prior to her disease. Haru's Rc tumor. Haru's Rc tumor. Haru in :re Chapter 179. Haru in :re Chapter 179. ADVERTISEMENT

    Personality

    Little is known about Haru's personality, although she appears to have once been a rather ordinary girl. Plot

    Background

    During her childhood, Haru's mother abandoned the family and disappeared. It appears that her father eventually committed suicide, leaving her older brother with the responsibility of caring for them both. She eventually developed a tumorous Rc mass and was hospitalized. In order to finance her care, Shirazu volunteered for the Quinx surgery and became a ghoul investigator.

    Rose Extermination

    Haru is first glimpsed when Shirazu recalls their childhood, back to when she complained about her eyes feeling itchy. He noticed a small bump beneath her right eye, not realizing what it really was. She is then shown in her current condition, hospitalized and surrounded by equipment to support her vital functions with the massive tumor growing out of her right eye. It is then seen as she faintly says "I want to be beautiful," explaining Shirazu's uncomfortable behavior when Nutcracker said the same thing before her death.

    Post Extermination

    Each of the remaining Quinx squad members promised to pay for Haru's hospitalization in Shirazu's stead.

    Epilogue

    Haru is seen fully recovered and visiting her brother's grave alongside the rest of the Quinx, who have covered all her treatments. When they are done saying their prayers, they invite her over to The Chateau for lunch, to which she happily accepts.

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    Relationships

    Ginshi Shirazu

    The siblings had been very close, especially with their mother abandoning the family and their father's possible suicide. Her illness motivated Shirazu to volunteer for the Quinx Project, allowing himself to be experimented on and sent to hunt ghouls in exchange for money to provide for her care. Right before his death, he mentions that it would be easier to let Haru die, to prevent her from suffering from her tumor any longer

45. #45Hetare

    Keys: Hetare

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hetare JAPANESE NAME ヘタレ ROMAJI Hetare SPECIES Cockatiel STATUS Alive GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Kaneki's group (Formerly) Anteiku (Formerly) WARD 20th Ward MANGA DEBUT Volume 4 omake ANIME DEBUT Episode 3 NOVEL DEBUT Void: Chapter 4 ENGLISH VA Jamie Marchi Image Gallery LESS Hetare (ヘタレ, Hetare) is a cockatiel parrot who lived in Anteiku prior to its destruction.

    His given name originates from the fact that Hetare (English Loser, Good-for-Nothing, or Coward) is the word he says most frequently. Renji Yomo nicknamed him Shooting Star Wing (シューティングスターウイング, Shūtingu Sutā Uingu).[1]

    Appearance

    Hetare is a plump bird with pale, yellow feathers and grey wings. As is common with cockatiels, he has orange circles on his cheeks, and a wispy crest protruding from the top of his head. His most notable feature is the star mark on his left wing, hence Renji Yomo's alternate nickname for him. Plot

    Hinami Fueguchi found Hetare injured on the veranda of Touka Kirishima's apartment and made the decision to take care of Hetare until he healed.[2]

    The two later decided to move Hetare to Anteiku as a result of Touka's ornithophobia until his real owners could be found.[3]

    Yomo stayed at Anteiku overnight, as he was concerned for Hetare's well-being. He also attempted to teach him how to say "good morning," but with no success.[1]

    In the months following the 11th Ward Battle, Hetare was kept by Kaneki's group in their apartment in the 6th ward.[citation needed]

    After the destruction of Anteiku, the survivors scattered. He was seen with Kazuichi Banjou and Hinami.[citation needed]

    He is seen with Ichika and Yomo at the end.

46. #46Hidenori Tateshima

    Keys: Hidenori Tateshima

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hidenori Tateshima JAPANESE NAME 縦島 秀徳 （たてしま ひでのり） ROMAJI Tateshima Hidenori SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AFFILIATIONS CCG OCCUPATION Ghoul Investigator RANK First Class MANGA DEBUT :re Chapter 19 ENGLISH VA Howard Wang Image Gallery LESS Hidenori Tateshima (縦島 秀徳, Tateshima Hidenori) is a First Class Ghoul Investigator who participated in the Auction Mopping-up Operation as the squad leader of the Tateshima Squad.

    Appearance

    Hidenori is a man expected to be in his thirties, he wears a dark haircut that is fairly short to reveal his ears. He sports a very thin mustache and an inconspicuous light beard. Personality

    At the moment, nothing is known about Tateshima's personality. Plot

    Auction

    He is seen for the first time in one of the cars transporting him and his men to the "Zeum Hall" where the auction is located in order to fight. He is next to Fuuma Yukimichi are deputy heads He is under the charge of Inspector Akira Mado, he is the leader of team C.

    Hidenori is deployed alongside his group and tries to enter the Zeum Hall, that's when the S-rank ghoul Naki arrives, he notices as a second S-rank ghoul arrives, the three-bladed ghoul Miza. Hidenori's team tries to fight, one of their member Jun Numa is instantly killed by Miza, Fuma and Tateshima then complain about the death of their ally, shortly after Akira appears and declares to them that she is taking care of. the ghoul in their place.

    Naki will be temporarily neutralized by Akira, he will then be weakened by Jesse's squad, seeing that he is weakened Hidenori will issue the order to his squad to shoot the ghoul to neutralize it. Naki seriously injured will flee. The operation will finally end with the arrival of a new wave of inspectors, Hidenori will be safe.

47. #47Hideyoshi Nagachika

    Keys: Hideyoshi Nagachika

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hideyoshi Nagachika JAPANESE NAME 永近 英良 （ながちか ひでよし） ROMAJI Nagachika Hideyoshi ALIAS Hide Scarecrow SPECIES Human STATUS Alive AGE 19–20 (Tokyo Ghoul) GENDER Male BORN June 10, 19 BSBI[1] i HEIGHT 171 cm / 5'7"[1] WEIGHT 58 kg / 128 lbs[1] BLOOD TYPE O[1] AFFILIATIONS Kamii University (Formerly) Occult Research Club (Formerly) CCG (Formerly) TSC OCCUPATION College Student (Formerly) Staff Assistant (Formerly) Investigator Assistant (Formerly) Peacekeeper RELATIVES Unnamed Father † Unnamed Foster Father WARD 20th Ward RATING C[2] DIVISION II[3] (Formerly) MANGA DEBUT Chapter 1 :re Chapter 17 (As Scarecrow) ANIME DEBUT Episode 1 Re: Episode 3 (As Scarecrow)

    Hideyoshi Nagachika (永近 英良, Nagachika Hideyoshi), also known as Hide (ヒデ), is a normal human and the best friend of Ken Kaneki.

    He attended Kamii University as a freshman and, later, sophomore. While there, he was studying Foreign Language Studies — majoring in English[1] — at the Department of International Studies.[4]

    At a certain point, he started working part-time at the CCG, and soon became an investigation assistant helping both Koutarou Amon and Akira Mado.

    He disappeared during the Owl Suppression Operation, and later resurfaced under the identity of Scarecrow (スケアクロウ, Sukeakurō). With the disguise of a low-rated Ghoul, he lingered on the fringes of several major operations and meddled without revealing his true nature or goals.

    Appearance

    Hideyoshi is a young man of average height with short, messy, dirty blonde hair with dark roots and olive eyes. He tends to wear bright colored clothes that consist of a yellow varsity jacket and green shorts. Because of his love for music, he usually wears a pair of headphones around his neck.

    After the Aogiri arc, he lets his hair grow out, and most of the time he wears a red and white cap, and he no longer wears headphones. He mostly wears a light-blue jacket over a white dress-shirt with a red collar that serves as his uniform. He also carries around a green bag, black pants and green shoes, aligned with yellow.

    During the Owl Suppression Operation he wears a military CCG uniform consisting of a black long-sleeved shirt, gray vest and black trousers.

    Several years later, he continues to wear casual clothing and has cut his hair back into the short style he wore during college. When not wearing his Scarecrow costume, he opts to wear a scarf to conceal the lower half of his face and his throat. Underneath, heavy scarring covers his face from just above his upper lip and extending down to his left clavicle. The flesh has been almost completely stripped from his lower face, exposing his teeth and leaving very little to cover the bone structure. The Zygomaticus major muscle is missing, leaving a large hole in his left cheek. The damage continues down his throat, with a vocal prosthesis surgically implanted into his neck and several areas where the skin has been torn away. Across his left clavicle, there is exposed muscle tissue and evidence of the skin being stripped away.

    Six years after the events of :re, his neck has healed back to a normal skin tone. Although his lips are likely still destroyed, so he opts to wear a face mask rather than a full bandana, covering his mouth but not his neck anymore. As Scarecrow

    When disguised as the ghoul Scarecrow, he pairs traditional Japanese attire with a straw hat and sandals. The robe consists of a vertical striped pattern on the left side and contrasting zigzag pattern on the right, tucked into a pair of loose hakama pants. Notably, he folds the shirt right over left, in the manner reserved for burial and therefore associated with restless spirits. He pairs this with a dark-colored hat and sandals, as well as a cloth mask. The mask has a henohenomoheji-face drawn on the front.

    Personality

    Most of the time, Hide has a carefree attitude, always joyful and friendly, which greatly annoyed Nishio. He doesn’t seem to share relationships with people beside Kaneki, despite his appearance. He commented to Kaneki that even though he hung out with Nishiki, he thought he was poisonous, and that he might even hate him. Hide is also incredibly observant and can figure things out about people in an almost Sherlock-like manner. He also becomes interested in things and works hard on them until he finds something else that interests him. Hide claims to have a habit of pretending to be a detective by putting tracking devices on suspicious people and notifying the authorities if his intuitions turn out to be right (however, the "hobby" part of it is most likely a lie he made up to hide his true motive from the CCG, which was to find clues about Kaneki's whereabouts).

    Hide says Kaneko Hide worries about Kaneki. Hide also has a very "determined" behavior. When he's set goals or decisions, he'll stick to them to the very end.

    He looks out for his friend Kaneki, encouraging him about many things and worrying when he doesn't return his calls. In some ways, Hide is also the opposite of Kaneki, as he is the outgoing type for festivals while Kaneki, more the introverted type, does not like these kinds of events.

    Hide First Meets Kaneki A young, nervous Hide asking Kaneki to become his friend. Though he is loud and outspoken, Hide is usually found keeping most of his concerns to himself in order to not trouble those surrounding him.

    Just like his best friend, Hide has a habit of placing his hand on his face when he is nervous or is lying. Plot

    Prologue

    Hide and Kaneki at Anteiku Hide with Kaneki at Anteiku. Hide appeared first with Kaneki at Anteiku in the 20th Ward listening to news about ghouls. He asked Kaneki about the girl he had been talking about and asked if the waitress, Touka, was the one, but Kaneki denied it. Then Rize Kamishiro, the one Kaneki had a crush on, entered the cafè. Hide tried to convince Kaneki that Rize was out of his league, but was unable to deter him. Hide left only wanting to see who Kaneki was interested in and went to work.[5]

    After Kaneki's incident with Rize, Hide invited him to Big Girl Restaurant to celebrate his discharge. There, Hide commented how nice the waitress Oohashi was. Hide soon talked about Prof. Akihiro Kanou's decision to save Kaneki with Rize's organs but then apologized thinking how it was tough for Kaneki to lose the girl he started going out with. While they ate, Kaneki suddenly vomited, which took Hide by surprise.[6]

    Nishiki kicks Hide Nishiki kicks Hide. After Kaneki had disappeared for a long time, he finally went back to Kamii University. Hide yelled at Kaneki for how long he had disappeared. He invited Kaneki to accompany him to visit Nishiki Nishio in another department of the university to get the DVD of last-year's college festival. Hide barged into the room unannounced and they interrupted Nishiki and his girlfriend making out. Nishiki's girlfriend ran off embarrassed and Nishiki scolded Hide.[7] Nishiki told them to help him look for the material, but then claimed that he took the disk home. He proposed that they should go to his home. In reality, he deceived Kaneki and Hide, took Hide out and started fighting Kaneki.[8]

    He provoked Kaneki by stomping on Hide's face, but Kaneki was no match for Nishiki with kagune. Before Nishiki could continue fighting Kaneki, Hide grabbed onto his pant leg, seemingly still unconscious. However, when Nishiki tried to kill Hide, Kaneki's kagune emerged.[9] With his kagune, Kaneki heavily injured Nishiki. After that, Kaneki started to lose control over himself and was about to eat his own best friend, but Touka appeared and decided to help him. Later, Kaneki awoke inside Anteiku, where Yoshimura led him to his friend, seemingly unconscious. Kaneki noticed blood inside his mouth and realized that he ate human meat, so asked Yoshimura about what he had done and the manager replied that there was only one way to calm a hungry ghoul. Kaneki said he wanted to be with his friend but he could not. Kaneki cried out that he was neither a human nor a ghoul and there was no place for him, however Yoshimura replied that he was wrong and there were two worlds he belonged to. Yoshimura asked him to join working in Anteiku while he would teach him how to live as a ghoul. Hide opened his eyes as they left.[10]

    Doves' Emergence

    Hide paid him a visit when he found out that Kaneki started working part-time in Anteiku. Hide spoke out that he also came to thank Touka for nursing Kaneki and him after a car accident, a story told to him by Anteiku's manager to cover up Kaneki and Nishio's fight. After they had left Hide, Touka told Kaneki to make sure that Hide did not find out about him being a ghoul because she would kill him if that were to happen, so that the ghouls' identities would not be found out.[11]

    Later, Kaneki and Hide sat together at the university. Kimi approached them to give Hide the materials of the previous year's festival. Hide asked Kimi where Nishiki was hospitalized, but she did not answer. Then, Hide remarked about Kaneki's scary face when Kaneki was wondering whether Kimi was a ghoul or not.[12]

    Hide talks to Kaneki Hide talks about past ghoul investigations. Some time later in a class, Hide started talking about the news of the death of two ghoul investigators. Kaneki asked Hide why he was interested in such things, then Hide showed him Hisashi Ogura's newest book and said it was super interesting. Hide talked about joining the investigation, but Kaneki told him not to do so because it was dangerous. After that, Hide drank a can of coffee alone and commented on its bitterness.[13]

    Aogiri Arc

    Shortly after Kaneki was kidnapped, he sent many e-mails to him in worry while watching news about changing statuses in Tokyo and the 11th Ward.[14]

    Hide appeared once again watching news about the 11th Ward Special Countermeasures Unit attacking the Aogiri hideout while he was taking some notes.[15]

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    After the invasion on Aogiri Tree, Hide began working as a part-time Staff Assistant at the CCG. He became known as a cheerful hard-worker who got along with most people. He befriended, Seidou Takizawa in particular and Hide would try to coax information out of him over lunch. Although Seidou would not talk about the investigation, he was comfortable enough around Hide to talk about other personal things, especially since Hide could read him easily. While Hide worked at the CCG, Itsuki Marude and Katsuya Mabuchi discovered that he was the anonymous informant who tipped them off about the 11th Ward hideout.[16]

    Hide at the CCG Hide with Amon and Akira. Afterwards, Marude questioned him about whether he was the one to notify them of Aogiri Tree's base location and how he knew about it. Hide admitted it was him and claimed he found the base by accident. He explained that his hobby was tracking suspicious people and turning them into the police, but had not known at the time that Yamori was a ghoul when he placed a tracking device on him. He had already followed Yamori into the 11th Ward when he found out that there were many ghouls. To escape, he stole clothes off a dead ghoul to cover his scent then left and called in the CCG. However, while he told Marude his story he recalled seeing Yamori and Nico enter Anteiku and placed a device on him after he disguised himself. He had not mentioned it before in fear that it would look suspicious. Marude thought it was strange, but found him promising, so ordered Amon and Mado's daughter, Akira, to take him away as a new investigator assistant. Marude refused to explain his reasons, so they left confused, but Akira figured that must have had a plan. Akira suggested that they get lunch and Amon would be treating. Hide recommended a place as he knew a lot about the 20th Ward.[4]

    While Amon and Akira investigated Rabbit, Hide arrived to the office with lunch. Akira asked Hide his opinion and Amon was surprised that he already knew that kagune tracings could be analyzed. He gave his opinion regardless and thought that there were two Rabbits. He theorized that the Rabbit from the previous years killings was an "avenger" for the daughter ghoul and mother ghoul because of the timing and targets. The Rabbit that had been killing in the 7th Ward did not appear to have a motive. Akira stared at him and informed Hide that she had noticed for a while his interest in ghouls. Hide tried to brush it off as them being on the news a lot. Shinohara and Juuzou arrived with updates about the Binge Eater case. After he looked into the Steel Beam Incident, Shinohara became suspicious of Dr. Kanou. He found out that he used to be a coroner with the CCG and his whereabouts were unknown. His patient from the incident was also missing. Shinohara theorized that the girl in the incident might have been the Binge Eater, so wanted to find Kaneki. After the university Kaneki attended was mentioned, Hide admitted that he was Kaneki's best friend.[17]

    Hide and Akira researched Dr. Kanou and looked into his past. Sometime after graduating university he worked for the GFG and CCG for about four years before he suddenly quit. They were unaware of why he quit, but figured that he might have seen something that he did not like. Akira brought up that she would have been still carrying around a ransel at the time and they joked about it until Amon arrived. Annoyed, he ignored Akira and showed them the blueprints to another property. In their search, they discovered that Kanou owned many estates and most had already been checked out. The last one was purchased under someone else's name, so was more difficult to track. The property appeared suspicious, so Amon figured that Kanou might be there and they could find more information on Kaneki. Hide agreed, but appeared depressed.[18]

    Hide meets Takatsuki Hide meets Takatsuki at her autograph session. Hide went to Sen Takatsuki's book signing to get a copy of The Hanged Man's MacGuffin autographed. When Hide told Takatsuki his name was Kaneki, she began asking him about Osamu Dazai. Confused, Hide told Takatsuki that he got into her books because of his friend. Hide really liked Unita, a character who had a craving for humans. Takatsuki also really liked that character and said that the character in her next book might be like that because she wanted to write a story about ghouls.[19]

    Hide explains Kaneki's habit Hide explains Kaneki's chin-touching habit to Touka. At Kamii, preparations were being made for the cultural festival and Hide hung posters. Against one of his peers wishes, he was about to tear down a missing persons poster of Kaneki to replace with a festival poster when he noticed Touka.[20] They had coffee and Hide told her about Kaneki. When he was a child, he read a lot and was bullied because of it, but never fought back or acted troubled. He changed a bit after his mother died and seemed lonely. The most surprising thing was that he was the star of a school play and did really well. Hide felt that Kaneki was always playing a part or wearing a mask and took everything upon himself for reasons he did not understand. He figured that things were fine as long as Kaneki was safe, but wished he would talk to him more. To cheer him up, Touka insisted that Kaneki was fine and probably reading a book. Hide smiled and decided to tell her Kaneki's secret. He told Touka about his tell when he hid something and to use that knowledge to make him spill all his secrets when he returned.[21]

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Marude asked Hide if he knew how to write a will and Hide advised him that it would not be good to kill himself. Marude insulted him and told Hide it was for him. Confused, Marude explained that he would participate in the next operation as part of Division II and it would be a learning experience. People in their position rarely died, but it was advised that he write a will anyway. Their target was Anteiku and they were after a certain ghoul. Hide agreed to write a will.[3]

    At the Owl Suppression Operation, Hide initially stayed near Marude and stood close by before it began.[22] Sometime into the operation, personnel at the base received news that Amon had encountered Centipede. Marude observed monitors from a surveillance van and commented on the intense fight. Hide asked if ghouls could reach far enough to get to them, and Marude did not deny the possibility. Hide found the situation too scary.[23]

    Crazy kaneki hide "Let's just go home already." Hide appeared in front of Kaneki who had fled into the sewers after he had been badly wounded in his fight against Amon. Hide revealed that he knew about Kaneki being a ghoul, and asked him to come home. As Kaneki began losing control, Hide told him that he wanted to help him. While Kaneki begged him to run away or else he might harm him, Hide asserted that there was almost no chance for a ghoul to escape from the way the blockade felt and the route had been blocked, and then apologized. Finally, as Kaneki was about to black out, Hide asked him to fight at full force once more as there would be no other way.[24]

    Later, Kaneki recalled the event as follows: After stating that he wanted to help him, Hide told Kaneki to eat him. However, Kaneki hesitated, disbelieving his ears. Hide explained that some dangerous guy was further ahead, and asserted that it would be impossible to escape and he would lose there, maybe even die. For this reason, Hide intended to show to Arima that there would be value in letting Kaneki live. Finally, he asked Kaneki to fight at full force once more.[25]

    When Kaneki regained his senses, Hide was gone and Kaneki tasted blood in his mouth.[26]

    Post-Owl Suppression Operation

    Scarecrow rescues Amon Scarecrow rescues Koutarou Amon from Aogiri Tree members. Now living under the identity of Scarecrow, Hide helped Koutarou Amon flee from Akihiro Kanou after he was turned into a one-eyed ghoul. He threw a Control Rc gas grenade, disabling the two Aogiri Tree guards restraining Amon. Afterwards, he appeared in front of Amon, sitting on the ground and called out to him with a distorted speech.[27]

    Auction

    Scarecrow was among the audience during the Auction, mumbling strange and nonsensical things.[28] When the CCG raided Zeum hall he hid in a secure room where he accidentally pressed a button turning on the speakers. The speakers caught Owl torturing Haise Sasaki, playing the screams and mad chattering throughout the entire hall and lowering the investigators' morale[29] while alerting the hall to Sasaki's distress at the same time.

    Post-Rose Extermination

    Scarecrow rowed away from Rushima on a paddle boat during Hachikawa Squad's investigation of the area. Having spotted him from afar, Tooru Mutsuki wondered if he was part of Aogiri Tree.[30]

    Third Cochlea Raid

    Hide in Kaneki's illusion "It may not be stylish, but... live." Critically injured in his battle with Arima, Sasaki decides that he has done enough and experiences a surreal vision of a dark river. As he began to wade into the water, a mental projection of Hide appeared and wondered whether he was trying to mimic the suicide by drowning of a certain famous individual. He teased his friend to put on some clothing, and the two sat down together to discuss the current situation. Hide pointed out that Sasaki was lying to himself, and he knew something had gone wrong elsewhere in Cochlea. Calling the wish to die an excuse, Hide told his friend that he would find his reason to go on living soon enough. He explained that his wish at that time, in the sewers, was to go on living together. As he began to walk away, Hide promised that he would tell his friend to go on living as many times as necessary

    Relationships

    Ken Kaneki

    Kaneki calls Hideyoshi by the nickname "Hide," and they have been best friends since childhood. Hide seems to care greatly about Kaneki and had been watching him carefully after the incident with Rize. If Kaneki was in trouble or danger, he would do his best to support him. He cares for Kaneki immensely and did not falter to help him even after finding out about Kaneki's transformation into a ghoul. When asked by Amon why he was willing to go so far for Kaneki, Hide outright declared that he loved Kaneki, and he didn't need any reason other than that.

    Nishiki Nishio

    He seems to have student-teacher relationship with Nishiki but stated himself that he most likely hates Nishiki, saying that he is poisonous to be around whilst Nishiki is equally cautious of him due to his very keen intuition and sees him as being dangerous to be around as he explained to Kaneki regarding his ghoul identity being a secret.

    Touka Kirishima

    Although they do not know each other well, Hide is on friendly terms with Touka, and thinks she is cute. At Kamii, he spoke briefly about his and Kaneki's past, and gave her a tip on how to tell when Kaneki was hiding something. Later on in the series, Hide asks Touka about her relationship with Kaneki.

    Koutarou Amon

    Hide worked under Amon and Akira when he joined the CCG. Amon sometimes chided Hide when he was socializing or not working, a small clash between Hide's carefree disposition and Amon's work-orientated mentality.

    Akira Mado

    Hide worked under Amon and Akira when he joined the CCG. Akira seemed to have been suspicious of Hide, as she noted that he was strangely perceptive when asked about the mother and daughter ghouls' relationship to the Rabbit ghoul.

    Seidou Takizawa

    Hide had a friendly relationship with Takizawa, occasionally eating lunch together in the CCG building.

    Itsuki Marude

    Hide was assigned as investigator assistant under Amon and Akira by Marude, who found out about him being the informant for the Aogiri Tree base location. He jokes around Marude sometimes, such as when he mentioned that committing suicide is bad when given an empty will before the Owl Suppression Operation. Despite his levity around him he apparently trusts him as he gives him information that causes Marude to discover the Washuu Clan's true species.

    Powers and Abilities

    Keen Intellect: Hide has proved to be very perceptive and observant, being able to distinguish the difference between the two Rabbit ghouls, while also noticing the changes and habits of people.

48. #48Hikari Kirishima

    Keys: Hikari Kirishima

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hikari Kirishima JAPANESE NAME 霧嶋 ヒカリ (きりしま　ヒカリ） ROMAJI Kirishima Hikari SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Deceased GENDER Female DIED About 13 BSBI[1] i RELATIVES Arata Kirishima (Husband) Touka Kirishima (Daughter) Ayato Kirishima (Son) Renji Yomo (Younger brother) Unnamed Parents † Unnamed Brother † Ken Kaneki (Son-in-law) Ichika Kaneki (Granddaughter) Unborn Grandson RC TYPE Ukaku MANGA DEBUT Chapter 71 (as Hikari Kirishima) Chapter 112 (as Renji Yomo's sister) ANIME DEBUT Re: Episode 14 SEIYUU Yoko Fujita ENGLISH VA Beth Lipton Image Gallery LESS Hikari Kirishima (霧嶋 ヒカリ, Kirishima Hikari), née Hikari Yomo (四方 ヒカリ Yomo Hikari), is the late elder sister of Renji Yomo, the late wife of Arata Kirishima and the late mother of Touka Kirishima and Ayato Kirishima who was killed by Kishou Arima prior to the events of Tokyo Ghoul.

    ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

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    Hikari had light-colored hair that had bangs covering her right eye, just like Touka Kirishima. Personality

    Hikari was apparently a very 'tomboy-ish' and strong-willed woman that Renji Yomo described her as being talkative and strong. She would sometimes tease Yomo with bugs, showing that she had a sense of humor.[1] Hikari's kind and gentle personality only developed after she fell in love with Arata Kirishima. In the past, Yomo recalled that Hikari was a wild child, killing and eating humans. Her children have also inherited her previous wild tendencies which are noted by Yomo.[2] Plot

    In Hikari's younger days, she was noted by Renji Yomo to be a wild one, having been known to kill and eat a large number of humans without care. She was even hinted to have battled and possibly cannibalized on fellow ghouls as well. Due to this destructive track record and her immense bloodthirst, the CCG may have categorized her as a more dangerous ghoul and had their strongest set out to dispose of her. After having children, she became more gentle and friendly, although she still hunted humans for food as noted by her younger brother after her death.

    Hikari's parents and brother were killed, leaving her the sole caretaker of Yomo.[1] They stayed together until she formed a relationship with Arata Kirishima and they started their own family. After she gave birth to Touka Kirishima, Hikari introduced her to Yomo as an infant and promised that no matter what happened, she would always be his big sister.[3] Hikari was killed by Kishou Arima [1] shortly after her son Ayato Kirishima was born. ADVERTISEMENT

    Relationships

    Renji Yomo

    Renji is Hikari's younger brother whom she took care of after the deaths of their parents and brother. She often teased him as a child, but she loved him dearly. After her death, he sought power in order to avenge her.

    Arata Kirishima

    Arata is Hikari's husband whom she was married for several years and they lived happily together with their two children until Hikari died protecting her family. After her death, Arata sought power in order to protect their children.

    Touka Kirishima and Ayato Kirishima

    Hikari loved and cherished her children.

    According to Renji Yomo, they both took after her personality.

    Kishou Arima

    Not only did Arima kill Hikari at the age of 16, but it is likely that Arima's quinque Narukami came from Hikari since her brother Renji Yomo is shown to utilize electricity based attacks and siblings usually have similar kagune.

49. #49Hinami Fueguchi

    Keys: Hinami Fueguchi

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hinami Fueguchi JAPANESE NAME 笛口 雛実 （ふえぐち ひなみ） ROMAJI Fueguchi Hinami ALIAS Daughter Ghoul Number 745 Yotsume SPECIES Ghoul STATUS Alive AGE 18 (after :re Ch. 89)

    GENDER Female BORN May 21, 13 BSBI[2][1] HEIGHT 148 cm / 4'10" (Tokyo Ghoul)[2] ±162cm / 5'4" (Tokyo Ghoul:re)[2]

    WEIGHT 40 kg / 88 lbs (Tokyo Ghoul)[2] BLOOD TYPE AB[2] AFFILIATIONS Anteiku (Formerly) Kaneki's group (Formerly) Aogiri Tree (Formerly) :re - Associates (Formerly) Goat (Formerly) United Front - Teacher TSC RELATIVES Ryouko Fueguchi (Mother) † Asaki Fueguchi (Father) † WARD 20th Ward (Formerly) 6th Ward (Formerly) 23rd Ward (Imprisoned, Formerly) 24th Ward (Currently) RC TYPE Koukaku ・ Rinkaku RATING SS

    Hinami Fueguchi (笛口 雛実, Fueguchi Hinami) is a ghoul whose parents, Asaki and Ryouko Fueguchi, were killed by ghoul investigators. After the event she began to share strong pseudo-sibling relationships with both Ken Kaneki and Touka Kirishima. The CCG held insufficient information about Hinami, and therefore failed in eliminating her. She was known as subject Number 745 or Daughter in their files. Later, she joined Kaneki's group.

    After the time skip, she became a member of Aogiri Tree. While her primary duties concern information gathering, she also serves as a strategist and commander when necessary. She became known there under the alias Yotsume (ヨツメ, Yotsume).

    After being captured by the CCG during the Auction Mopping-up Operation and sent to Cochlea, she was released several months later by Kaneki, Touka, and Ayato Kirishima. She is currently a member of Goat, an organization founded by the One-Eyed King.

    Appearance

    Hinami is a young teenager with light skin, bearing a resemblance to her late mother. She had short, straight brown hair, brown eyes, and often wore a hairband decorated with two four-leaf clovers, a common motif for her. Her outfit consisted of an orange scarf, a white cardigan with brown buttons, a black T-shirt underneath, a light blue mini skirt, yellow tights/pantyhose/stockings and brown boots.

    She was identified as the "Daughter" ghoul when she was wearing her butterfly dress and coat. Therefore, she disguised herself while moving around the 20th ward.

    After the time skip, Hinami has grown into a beautiful young woman, with her hair arranged into a bob cut with her fringe parted towards the right side of her face. She first appears in the opening montage wearing a long black hooded cloak on missions. For casual clothes she wore a long sleeve blue dress with black sleeves, black leggings and sandals. While in the epilogue, she wore a simple white shirt with a long purple skirt and the same sandals.

    Personality

    As a preteen, Hinami was shy with a very gentle heart. She was also eager for knowledge and fond of reading in order to learn. She cared deeply for Touka and Kaneki, constantly expressing sadness and worry for the two's unhappiness. She also had a very pacifistic nature, having no intention to avenge her mother and father despite loving them so much. Hinami gradually coped with the deaths of her parents better, and obtained a very cheerful attitude.

    After the time skip, Hinami's demeanor has become much more calm, collected, and somewhat distant. Her experiences since Kaneki's disappearance and the CCG's new agenda has caused her to lose much of her previously cheery stance and instead take on a jaded, realistic outlook on life. Since joining Aogiri Tree, Hinami's persona has become more solidified. She is no longer terrified of smelling or seeing death, as shown through her interactions with Torso and Ayato. However, she is still reluctant to kill. She believes this to be her weakness and the reason people she loved left her. Plot

    Hinami is first seen when her mother Ryouko Fueguchi brings her to Anteiku to retrieve some meat after the death of her father. Later, Hinami was eating her food in a room in Anteiku's second floor when Ken Kaneki suddenly entered the room without knocking. After apologizing properly, he explained his half-ghoul status to her. Kaneki noticed Hinami was reading one of Sen Takatsuki's books, Monochrome Rainbow and, remembering she was unable to attend school, taught her more complicated vocabulary in the novel. Before she went back with her mother, she thanked him and asked him to teach her more next time.

    While Hinami and her mother were walking back from the bookstore, four ghoul investigators, including Koutarou Amon, Kureo Mado, Yasutomo Nakajima and Ippei Kusaba, lured the two into an alley to annihilate them.[4] Ryouko told her daughter to run while she held the attackers back. During her frantic escape, Hinami ran into Kaneki and begged for his help, but only returned in time to witness her mother being killed by Kureo Mado.[5]

    When reading a newspaper detailing Ippei Kusaba's death, Hinami realized Touka Kirishima had killed the investigator as revenge and decided to run away.[6] Touka found her in a distraught state and comforted her, only to be interrupted by the appearance of Mado.[7] Hinami helplessly watched her sister figure battle and slowly lose against the investigator, eventually releasing her own kagune and rendering Mado helpless. As Hinami cried over the loss of her parents, a weak and injured Touka finished off Mado.[8] Renji Yomo and Kaneki rushed to Hinami's and Touka's whereabouts and accompanied them back to Anteiku. During their walk back, Hinami asked if it was right for her to live and Kaneki answered that he believed it to be Ryouko's will.[9]

    Hinami's Dual Kagune Hinami attacks Mado with her kagune. Later on, as Kaneki went to Touka's apartment to pay Hinami a visit, he was surprised by Hinami's new, unprofessional haircut and gave her another book to read in her free time.[10] Gourmet Arc

    Hinami made an appearance after Ken Kaneki returned from Shuu Tsukiyama's trap at the Ghoul Restaurant. She had brought the injured cockatiel Hetare to Anteiku, eliciting a fearful reaction from Touka Kirishima. She listened to Yoshimura's speech to Kaneki about the ghouls who killed their emotions and forgot the value of life.[11]

    Aogiri Arc

    Hinami joined the others from Anteiku in rescuing Ken Kaneki. With the Yoshimura and Kaya Irimi information collecting team, she was the one to determine Kaneki's location using scent.[12]

    Raid of Kanou's Lab

    Hinami was mentioned by both Kazuichi Banjou and Ken Kaneki about her excellent sense of smell, and how it could have helped them find Akihiro Kanou much faster. Kazuichi Banjou - "It's like a maze in here...this would go a lot smoother if Hina was here..." Ken Kaneki - "We don't know what sort of trap he's got set up...(Akihiro Kanou) I want to keep Hinami away from danger as much as possible."

    Owl Suppression Operation

    Takatsuki praises Hinami Eto befriends Hinami. In order to cheer up Ken Kaneki, Hinami goes with him to a book signing event. The pair met and befriend author Sen Takatsuki, who took an immediate liking to Hinami.[1] On a later date, she secretly goes on an outing with Tsukiyama. At a coffee shop, they discussed their concerns over Kaneki's mood and behavior, agreeing to do what they could to help him. When he excused himself to use the restroom, Takatsuki approached Hinami and offered to give her advice about her worries. She was initially hesitant, but finally discussed her concerns about Kaneki and was surprised when the author told her there was nothing she could do. Takatsuki excused herself, and offered Hinami her business card should she ever need more advice or help.[13]

    Afterward, Hinami and Shuu Tsukiyama ran into Touka Kirishima and Nishiki Nishio, sparking a brief confrontation. She defused it by defending Tsukiyama, and the two groups parted ways.[14]

    When Kaneki resolved to disband his group, she wholeheartedly supported his decision to return to Anteiku.[15]

    She was next glimpsed in the aftermath of the raid on Anteiku, traveling through an alleyway with Banjou and his companions. She wore a downcast expression, and was seen staring at Takatsuki's business card.[16]

    Torso Investigation

    Hinami briefly appears in the opening montage of Tokyo Ghoul:re, speaking to Ayato Kirishima.[17]

    Some time later, she hailed a taxi and instructed the driver to just continue on straight. She then greeted the driver as Torso and informed him that she had a message from Aogiri Tree.[18] She warned him that the CCG was pursuing him and Aogiri was concerned he might reveal information if captured. They briefly discussed the rumors about the Quinx Squad, and she warned him his vehicle smelled and it might give him away. After they exchanged a flash drive, she leaned against the window and thought how the Quinx were like Ken Kaneki.[19]

    Auction

    Hinami listens to recordings Hinami analyzes the recordings. Hinami was next seen analyzing the audio recordings obtained from various informants while Karao Saeki watched in amazement. In a room filled with computers and speakers, she listened to all of the recordings at the same time to pick out important pieces of information. When she finished, she greeted Ayato Kirishima and informed him that the Doves were also concerned about the "floppies." He told her of his next assignment, acting as a bodyguard to Big Madam and asked her to come to the Auction as his "ears."[20]

    During the beginning of the ghoul auction, Hinami sensed something off.[21] Her sense of unease proved to be true, as the building was quickly surrounded by investigators while Juuzou Suzuya attacked from the stage. While Ayato went to rescue Big Madam and fight Suzuya, Hinami told Karao to follow her and fled towards the exit. Miza contacted her to warn that Naki had gone out of control, and apologized for being unable to secure them an escape route.[22]

    Hinami gathered numerous ghouls on the roof of the building, taking command while the other executives were busy fighting. She ordered most of their forces to retreat and regroup but was brought up short when someone mentioned the Spine User, Akira Mado, was fighting with Naki. Regaining her composure, she ordered reinforcements to head to Naki and Miza's position.[23]

    Hinami saves Sasaki from Takizawa re anime Hinami rescues Sasaki. She next made her way to Naki's position when the investigators got the upper hand but one of her subordinates convinced her to stay since there would be no one left to take command if she left.[24] She once again asked Miza and Ayato to retreat saying the investigators dealing with Miza were heading towards Ayato and Naki. Hinami was visually disturbed when she heard Haise Sasaki's agonized screams on the building's PA system, seemingly recognizing his voice, and proceeded to rescue him from Seidou Takizawa.[25][26]

    Hinami resolved to protect Sasaki even if he no longer remembered her and said that she would not let him fight alone anymore. She then proceeded to fight Takizawa in order to protect Sasaki. Hinami initially had the advantage as she used her new abilities to wound Takizawa, cutting off his hand. However, once her opponent activated his kakuja, Hinami found herself overwhelmed but was still determined to protect Sasaki.

    Haise asks Arima for the ownership rights Haise claims "ownership rights" over Hinami. Sasaki regained consciousness and asked Hinami to leave, telling her that he was no longer the person she once knew and even though he had Ken Kaneki's body, he was still Haise Sasaki, but he said Kaneki must have been a great person for Hinami to remember him like she did. Hinami reached out to him and called him "big brother" while mentally begging him not to fight. After hearing Saiko Yonebayashi beg Sasaki not to leave, Hinami retracted her hand seeing that Sasaki was not just Kaneki's vessel and even without any memories the person before her, Haise Sasaki, was her big brother Ken Kaneki.[27]

    Her injuries and fatigue left her at the mercy of Arima and Squad 0, who arrived as reinforcements. She was saved by Sasaki however, who lied and claimed he cornered Hinami and asked for rights over her, which Arima granted.[28]

    Rose Extermination

    Since the events of the auction, Hinami had been imprisoned in Cochlea. Akira Mado and Haise Sasaki discussed the situation with her, and how she has proven a valuable informant. Sasaki noted that the subject made Akira tense since Hinami was involved in the death of Kureo Mado. Akira warned Sasaki about the period of ownership rights, something that left him troubled.[29]

    During her imprisonment, Ayato attempted to get permission to rescue her but was turned down by Tatara. After the meeting, he recalled how he first met Hinami, when Eto brought her to the organization. She was confronted by him because of her crying but recognized him as Touka's younger brother. Their similar expressions cheered her up, prompting the beginning of a friendship.[30]

    Sasaki interviews Hinami Sasaki visits with Hinami in prison. Some time later, Sasaki paid a visit to Hinami in prison and brought her several books. She thanked him and referred to him as "big brother," which bothered him. He insisted he was a different person from Kaneki, something Hinami admitted may be true. Even so, she stated his way of worrying about things and bringing her books to cheer her up are the same. She told him that she and the many others who loved Kaneki were all probably feeling the same confusion.[30]

    As he departs for the day, Sasaki remains troubled by his growing attachment to Hinami and how this conflicts with his duties.

    Post-Rose Extermination

    Hinami became depressed and withdrawn because Haise Sasaki had not visited her in the six months since the end of the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation. Kuki Urie visited her in order to get intel about Aogiri Tree. Expressing her wish to speak to Sasaki, Urie responded that Sasaki had a busy schedule, but he would deliver her message to him nonetheless. He then left, feeling pity for her since she was scheduled for disposal, and thought that Sasaki's current self would not be showing that kind of warmth to her now.[31]

    She was in her prison cell during Eto's press conference when a guard informed her that her disposal date had been confirmed.[32]

    Third Cochlea Raid

    Sasaki and Hinami reunion Sasaki and Hinami reunite. During the Third Cochlea Raid, Hinami was finally reunited with Haise Sasaki when he came to her cell to rescue her.[3] She then slapped him, admitting to herself that she was happy to see him but angry he was doing something that was likely to get him killed, which, unbeknownst to her, was his intention. They began their escape, but their path was quickly blocked by Nimura Furuta.[33] Furuta attacked Sasaki with his quinque, Rotten Follow, and a brief bout ensued. However, Hinami intervened mid-battle by impaling Furuta with her kagune, incapacitating him before she and Sasaki continued their escape.[34]

    Later on, Sasaki left Hinami in a hallway while he went up ahead. After some time, she was reunited with Ayato, Touka, and Yomo who fled from Arima with Sasaki's help. After a tearful reunion, they proceeded to the drainage route that was the only available exit in Cochlea.[35] As a part of the group survived, they closed in to Cochlea's exit, only to be blocked by Special Class Investigators Mougan Tanakamaru and Kiyoko Aura. As Mougan fired his Higher Mind quinque, Hinami stepped in and blocked it with her koukaku but immediately fell down due to the sheer force of the blast.[36]

    Post-Rushima Landing Operation

    Hinami accompanied Kazuichi Banjou to an unknown facility in order to help Akira Mado. Banjou asked if it is was acceptable to heal her and she approved because Akira was important to Kaneki.[37]

    Epilogue

    Hinami takes care of the orphaned ghouls at the United Front and teaches them how to read and write. She often goes out of town with Ayato Kirishima to go shopping.

    Relationships

    Ryouko and Asaki Fueguchi

    Hinami had loving relationships with both her parents and missed them dearly after their deaths. Her mother Ryouko taught her to live in the human world and educated her in literacy.

    After Hinami was orphaned, she confined herself in sorrow for days, but decided to live on in respect to her mother's last wish.

    Touka Kirishima

    Hinami sees Touka as an elder sister and loves her, willing to fight back against whoever harms Touka despite her own pacifistic nature. In return, Touka is fiercely protective of Hinami.

    After the death of her parents, Hinami lived with Touka until she joined Ken Kaneki's group of ghouls. When they reunite, Hinami breaks down in tears and starts apologizing.[35]

    Ken Kaneki

    After the two bonded over reading, Hinami and Kaneki quickly developed a close sibling-like relationship. In later chapters, she expresses worry to both Shuu Tsukiyama and Sen Takatsuki over his sad and stoic demeanor, desiring his happiness. She is one of the few able to make Kaneki genuinely smile after his torture at the hands of Aogiri. Even years after Kaneki's disappearance, Hinami still thinks of and misses him.

    During the Auction Raid, she still cares for him deeply and broke from her position to rescue him from Takizawa. She has come to the conclusion that Sasaki is not just an empty, former vessel of Kaneki, but that Sasaki and Kaneki are one and the same.

    Shuu Tsukiyama

    When Tsukiyama joins Ken Kaneki's group, Hinami is wary of him at first, aware of his past attempts to eat Kaneki. However, when he takes her outside against her curfew and conspires with her to make Kaneki feel better, Hinami begins to trust and enjoy his company. When encountering Nishiki Nishio and Touka Kirishima, she defends Tsukiyama against their accusations. Because of the flowers he regularly brings to the group's hideout, she affectionately refers to him as "flower man."

    Sen Takatsuki/Eto Yoshimura

    Hinami has long been a fan of Takatsuki's works, enjoying them despite their advanced level. When the two meet in person, there is an immediate connection between them. Takatsuki later seeks her out and offers her advice and assistance in the future. Back then, Hinami was unaware of her new friend's true identity as the "One-Eyed Owl" Eto, but after Ken Kaneki's disappearance, Eto manages to recruit her as a new member of Aogiri.

    Kazuichi Banjou

    Banjou is one of Hinami's caretakers and companions in Ken Kaneki's group, and she enjoys his company. The two watch horror movies together, even though he is easily frightened.

    Ayato Kirishima

    The two work closely together as members of Aogiri and seem to have a comfortable relationship. His similarities to Touka Kirishima brought Hinami comfort when she was starting out in Aogiri and they would eventually form a close bond. Ayato would often cover for her, such as berating her in front of Tatara to spare her from having to commit murder. After her capture, Ayato was visibly distraught and insisted on saving her. When Tatara refused, he reached out to Banjou instead to assist in breaking her out.

    When Investigator Mougan Tanakamaru's Higher Mind was shot at Hinami's Koukaku, she falls to her feet as a result of the sheer force inflicted upon her. Ayato rushes to Hinami's aid and angrily attacks Investigator Tanakamaru to only be heavily injured by Investigator Kiyoko Aura's Zebizu quinque. Hinami later cries out for Ayato and is stopped from attempting to save him by Banjou.

    After hearing about Akira Mado's recovery, Ayato asked if Hinami if she was content with the news. Hinami replies by stating that Akira never directly harmed her. The fact that she spoke to Ayato about such complex feelings relating to her parents deaths implies a closer relationship between the two of them. Afterwards Hinami silently cries in despair and Ayato is shown to comfort her upon seeing her saddened.

    In the last chapter of the manga, it seems that Hinami and Ayato have a friendly relationship, showing that she enjoys to pick on him for going to visit his niece.

    Karao Saeki

    Hinami has acted as his primary contact for Aogiri, delivering messages to him and retrieving the data he prepared for them. They seem to be comfortable with each other, and after he officially joins the organization, he seems to spend time in her company. Torso is in awe of her unique abilities and admires her.

    Naki

    They seem to get along well and Hinami expresses concern for his well-being during the Auction Raid. Naki also voted for a rescue to save her when she was caught by the CCG.

    Seidou Takizawa

    Hinami seems to fear Seidou and for good reason. While he refers to her as a comrade and speaks to her with a mockingly, affectionate tone, she opposes him to protect Sasaki and is seriously wounded in battle against him.

    Akira Mado

    Though the two never had any encounters with each other in Tokyo Ghoul and Aogiri, Akira seems to know of Hinami's connections to Kureo Mado's death. In Tokyo Ghoul:re, the two have a brief encounter with each other in chapter 120, which was also their first meeting with each other. Akira seemed to hold a grudge against Hinami, given how she coldly and bluntly admitted that it was her father who murdered Ryouko Fueguchi, but when Hinami warmly embraced her, Akira seemed to have a slight change of mind in her opinion of Ghouls and shed tears.

    Renji Yomo

    Though they never really spoke to each other very often, they care about each other, as Yomo is the uncle of Touka and a friend of Anteiku and Goat's crew. He is seen carrying her at the end of chapter 28.

    Powers and Abilities

    Ghoul Physiology: Hinami was born with both a rinkaku and koukaku kagune, as well as heightened senses.

    Koukaku Kagune: This kagune resembles two flowers petals that act as shields. After the time skip, Hinami could create four koukaku petals, which was strong enough to block one of Higher Mind's blasts.[36] Rinkaku Kagune: This kagune takes the shape of flexible red and yellow spines. As a child, Hinami could produce up to two rinkaku tentacles. As time passed, Hinami displayed the ability to create four rinkaku tentacles while having greater control over them.[27] Superhuman Senses: Having a great sense of hearing, Hinami can easily sort through sounds for information. Having an abnormal sense of smell, Hinami can use this information to find peoples’ locations from long distances

50. #50Hisashi Ogura

    Keys: Hisashi Ogura

    CHARACTERISTICS NAME Hisashi Ogura JAPANESE NAME 小倉 久志 （おぐら ひさし） ROMAJI Ogura Hisashi SPECIES Human STATUS Alive GENDER Male AFFILIATIONS Teihou University (Formerly) Great Wheel Act - Vice Secretary Goat OCCUPATION College Student (Formerly) Ghoul Researcher WARD 5th Ward (Formerly)

    Hisashi Ogura (小倉 久志, Ogura Hisashi) is a ghoul researcher. He often goes on TV programs to speak about them.

    According to Yukinori Shinohara, Ogura is not an expert researcher but a minor one who takes advantages of any information from other sources to shine in the media.

    Appearance

    Hisashi is a middle-aged man with short dark hair and a mustache. During interviews he wears a formal suit. Manga Depiction

    Personality

    Ogura is a publicity hound who pretends to be an erudite when it comes to ghouls so he can get media attention. He can be very boastful and egotistic as well. During one of his interviews he sarcastically remarks about a news staff's qualification publicly.

    After reading Sen Takatsuki's latest book, King Bileygr, Ogura joined many ghoul sympathizers who advocated for "ghoul rights" as he began calling them interesting and very intelligent creatures while wearing a headband that reads "ghoul lover."

    Plot

    Past

    Ogura studied at Teihou University, at the Ghoul Research Society. Akihiro Kanou was introduced to him and his classmates. Ogura mentally noted that Kanou looked at them as if they were bugs.[1] At an unspecified point of time, he learns about Kanou's past through an associate.[2]

    Prologue

    Ogura was on TV to share information on ghouls due to the recent killings caused by the "Binge Eater."[3]

    Doves' Emergence

    Hideyoshi Nagachika mentioned to Ken Kaneki that Ogura was making TV appearances after the bureau investigator of the 20th ward, Ippei Kusaba, was killed.[4]

    Post-Rose Extermination

    After Eto Yoshimura's revelation to the public that she was a ghoul, Ogura was asked for his opinion on her new book King Bileygr. He had no comment as he was instructed by the "higher-ups" to not talk about it.[5]

    Post-Third Cochlea Raid

    To get help for Akira Mado, Kaneki and other member of Goat decided to meet with the Great Wheel Act, the human introducing himself to them was Ogura.[6]

    Dragon Arc

    Itsuki Marude summoned Ogura for a meeting. Marude affirms that he would've criticized Ogura for his falsifications, but decided to let bygones be bygones. Ogura assumed that he was convened for information about Dragon, but suddenly Hide arrives into the discussion to ask about Kanou. He then reveals the origins and motivations of the doctor. Ogura questions Marude sending an forage for Kanou, who then responds that he was a specialist

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