Rize Kamishiro
Rize Kamishiro is a female anime and manga character who features in Tokyo Ghoul.
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Biography
Rize Kamishiro (Japanese: 神代 利世, Hepburn: Kamishiro Rize) was a female Ghoul born as one of the many illegitimate children of Tsuneyoshi Washuu. She was born at the Sunlit Garden where she was intended to be a 'womb' as part of the family's attempts at preserving the Washuu Clan bloodline. However, she was disregarded by her family with the young Rize being disgusted at her fate. This led to her being involved in an escape attempt where she was helped by Souta Washuu-Furuta where she successfully fled the facility though this left her exhausted and hungry. She was eventually found by a fellow Ghoul named Shachi who decided to take her in his care. In that time, Rize grew close to Shachi and saw him as her surrogate father with her taking his surname of Kamishiro. In those years, Rize grew up but this led to a similar growth in her appetite with her wanting to eat humans. As a result, she began overeating with Shachi warning her against such excess activity that would draw attention to her. Despite Shachi's protests, Rize continued eating people with her actions eventually resulting in a Commission of Counter Ghoul raid in the 6th ward that resulted in her adoptive father's capture. Rize would then begin living nomadically, drifting through the different wards while continuing her binge-eating habit. Six months ago, Rize lived in the 11th ward where 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 who was the leader of the ghouls in the 11th ward, and two others.
Later on, she came to find a new prey in the form of a young boy named Ken Kaneki when she noticed that he developed a crush on her. The two began engaging in 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. Whilst there, Professor Akihiro Kanou pronounced Rize was too far gone and decided to transplant her organs into Kaneki without contacting their relatives, given the urgency of the situation. However, he secretly kept her alive to use for his experiments. Kaneki in the aftermath began to manifest hallucinations of 'Rize' in his mind during times of extreme stress. He later came to be captured by the ghoul Yamori who had been hunting Rize and after finding her scent on Kaneki decided to torture the youth. 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.
Since the accident, Kanou had kept Rize alive in a tank to harvest her kakuhou for his research. 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. After the incident at the lab, Rize was kept in a container inside Renji's living quarters. 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. 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. At some point, 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. Rize was in the process of her recovery just after Sen Takatsuki announced she was a ghoul. She later came to be mentioned by Kaiko to have some connection with the CCG Laboratory Division but that this was a classified issue that had not been made public. Rize came to be captured by Kichimura Washuu who kept her in a tank in order to farm her kakuhou for making the Oggai that were a new form of one-eyed ghoul.
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 regretted ever meeting Kaneki but despite her feelings he bore no hatred. 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'. 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.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Rize Kamishiro was a slender girl with chest-length purple hair that has bangs swept to the left side, purple eyes, full pink lips and an hourglass figure. As a Ghoul, her excess eating habits led to her being known by the nickname of Binge Eater (大喰い Ōkui, "Binge Eater" or "Gluttony", literally "Big Eater").
She was a voracious, independent ghoul who acted as a femme fatale to those who fell victim to her charms.
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. She was implied to have caused her foster father's capture, showing she no longer cared for him. However, in her half-crazed starving state, she apologized to her father. On his side, he still considered her as his daughter.
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 haunted Kaneki when he was hungry and needed to eat human meat.
Powers and abilities
Though appearing human, Rize Kamishiro was in fact a Ghoul (喰種グール, gūru) and thus possessed superhuman abilities including increased senses, endurance and strength. These abilities were derived though from her ability to feed with human flesh being the only thing that could nourish her.
As a Ghoul, she possessed a kagune (赫子, red child) that was a predatory organ and functioned as her primary weapon. Kagune were composed of Rc cells, which flowed just like blood where they could become as solid as teeth and said to be akin to 'liquid muscles'. The Rc cells were released from the kakuhou (赫包, kakuhō, approximately red wrap) that were a sac-like organ containing Rc cells which pierced the skin and the released Rc cells formed the kagune. The kagune acted as voluntary muscles for ghouls who could control them whenever they want and repeatedly harden and soften them at will. A Kagune's size depended on the Rc cells' quality and quantity while the shape depends on the creativity and intellect of the user. In Rize's case, she had a rinkaku kagune (鱗赫, rinkaku, "scale-red") that had an appearance similar to scaled tentacles and were released at the back around the waist. A rinkaku wielder has powerful regenerative abilities and some could even survive the most critical of damage. Its peculiar appearance and structure yields superior striking power and they excel in brute strength. Her regenerative powers were a result of the Rc cells easily binding together with their composition being similar to a liquid. However, this meant that the binding force among the Rc cells were weak, therefore making the kagune very soft and easy to break.
She came to be used as the host for the body of the Dragon (竜, Ryū) that sprouted and began transforming humans into Ghouls.
Notes
- Rize Kamishiro was created by Sui Ishida where she featured in the setting of the Tokyo Ghoul universe.
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