Touka Kirishima

Touka Kirishima is a female anime and manga character who features in Tokyo Ghoul.

Biography

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Touka Kirishima (Japanese: 霧嶋 董香, Hepburn: Kirishima Touka) was a female Ghoul who was the daughter of Arata Kirishima and Hikari Kirishima with her being the older sister of Ayato Kirishima. To blend into human society as much as possible, Arata tried to teach them all the necessities by taking them to the library and even convincing them to eat human food. Touka always had more faith and confidence in her father than Ayato did. Touka and Ayato began caring for an injured bird, and she showed a fondness for them and collecting earthworms. On the night before Arata was captured by ghoul investigators, Touka promised her father that she would teach Ayato many things as an elder sister. When Arata never came back, Touka believed he was still alive, and berated Ayato for thinking otherwise. The siblings visited Satou, where they were forced to eat human food; eventually being sold out as ghoul investigators approached them. The bird they had been raising attacked Touka and flew away, sparking Touka's hatred towards birds. In order to protect herself and Ayato, Touka unleashed her kagune for the first time, killing the investigators. Touka and Ayato ran away from home immediately. Because she unleashed her kagune at a young age, she gained a half-kagune. After some time they went to Anteiku, and were watched of by Yoshimura. As they grew up, the siblings continued to acquire power, occasionally fighting against Shuu Tsukiyama as well. Touka was offered a school life, and to repay Anteiku, she was asked to work as a waitress at the coffee shop. She met Yoriko Kuroiwa at school, but Ayato was against the idea of interacting with humans, telling her that she would die if she continued to befriend humans. After Ayato left Anteiku, Touka heard of his malevolent actions on the 14th ward and other districts of Tokyo.

At Anteiku, she was serving as the waitress for both Ken Kaneki and his best friend, Hideyoshi Nagachika in Anteiku. She presented herself as a shy girl who ran away flustered by Hide's charismatic flirting. Later on, she passed by Kaneki and Rize Kamishiro while they were on their date and stopped to glance at the two. Her friend Yoriko Kosaka asked her what was wrong, but Touka said it was nothing, and they continued on. Later on, she was in an alleyway where she came upon a drunk old man. Another person present at the scene came to believe Touka was being sexually assaulted by the man. This passer-by turned out to be Ken Kaneki who Touka mistook for being a ghoul due to his kakugan. Kirishima revealed her own nature as a ghoul after slicing half of the old man's head off. She was confused with Kaneki having only a single kakugan and being the human whom Rize targeted. When she asked him about it, he ran away. Soon after, Kaneki came to her begging for help. Touka refused to help a former human and told him to go off and die on his own. However, the manager of Anteiku Yoshimura, rebuked her and gave Kaneki a portion of human meat. After Kaneki left the café, Touka questioned her manager about why he helped Kaneki. Yoshimura asked Touka what she knew about the recent organ transplant scandal, which Touka admitted to knowing little about. Yoshimura explained that two people were involved and that one of them was Rize. Touka could not believe Rize died that way and was further shocked to learn that Kaneki was the human who received her organs.

One day, she passed through Rize's old feeding ground and saw Nishiki Nishio attacking Kaneki, accusing him of trespassing on his territory. Touka stepped in and declared that the place was not Nishiki's feeding ground, but Rize's. Nishiki retorted that it was originally his until Rize came, but Touka, unfazed, responded that the feeding grounds would be re-allotted among the weaker ghouls and that it was his own fault for being too weak. Angered, Nishiki attacked Touka, but was immediately defeated. After Nishiki fled Kaneki began to have a mental breakdown, unable to comprehend the ways of ghouls. Fed up with Kaneki's complaining, she tried to force feed him, but Kaneki spat the meat out. Touka verbally tried to convince Kaneki to eat once more, but his breakdown only worsened. She stood by silently annoyed until Kaneki labelled ghouls as monsters. Enraged, Touka assaulted Kaneki then berated his actions. With vitriol she told Kaneki that he was neither ghoul nor human, so did not belong anywhere. With one last warning about the pain ghouls endure from starvation, she left Kaneki alone in the alley. Some time later, Touka spoke with Yomo on the phone and asked for him to wait for her a bit longer as she had business to take care of. She found Kaneki, who had lost control of his hunger after he fought with Nishiki and was about to eat an unconscious Hide. She once again told him of the suffering ghouls undergo due to starvation and that he would regret eating his friend. Touka declared she would help Kaneki before she drew out her kagune. She later brought the unconscious Kaneki and Hide to Anteiku to be treated. There, Yoshimura suggested that Kaneki work at Anteiku. Elsewhere Touka sat bandaged and resting from the wounds she received when she stopped Kaneki's rampage.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Whilst operating as a ghoul, she tended to wear a rabbit-themed mask leading to her being known as the Rabbit (ラビット, Rabitto). After opening her own coffee shop, she came to be known as the Manager (店長, Tenchō).

Touka's personality could initially be 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 was 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.

She had hated her nature of being a ghoul leading to her having a low sense of self-esteem. This was shown when she was shocked by Kimi Nishino who called Touka beautiful despite being in her ghoul state with her kagune revealed.

Her father Arata Kirishima (霧嶋 新, Kirishima Arata) was a pacifist and her mother Hikari Kirishima (霧嶋 ヒカリ, Kirishima Hikari) was noted for her talkative strong personality.

During her time at Anteiku, she came meet Ken Kaneki (金カネ木キ 研ケン, Kaneki Ken). 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.

She had a daughter named Ichika Kaneki (金木 一花, Kaneki Ichika) who had light colour with darker roots at the crown that resembled her father.

Powers and abilities

As a ghoul, she possessed a kagune organ that she could manifest in times of need with it being an ukaku (羽赫, ukaku, "feather-red"). It was able to harden and dis-harden at will where it manifested as a single wing that she could control with ease.

Notes

• Touka Kirishima was created by Sui Ishida where she featured in the setting of the Tokyo Ghoul universe.

Appearances

• Tokyo Ghoul:

External Links

• Tokyo Ghoul Wiki Entry

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