Kichimura Washuu

Latest revision as of 09:36, 29 January 2023

Kichimura Washuu is a male anime and manga character who features in Tokyo Ghoul.

Biography

Nimura Furuta.

Souta Washuu-Furuta (Japanese: 和修旧多 宗太, Hepburn: Washū-Furuta Sōta) was a male born in the modern age in Japan where he was born in the Sunlit Garden as a half-Ghoul of the Furuta Branch Family. As such, he was one of the many half-breed offspring of Tsuneyoshi Washuu of the Washuu Clan who were secretly a family of Ghouls but had masqueraded as humans and headed the Commission of Counter Ghoul to eliminate their own kind.

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. Heavily injured, they were transported to Kanou General Hospital, where Rize's kakuhou was transplanted into Kaneki's body. 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. 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. 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. When Touka Kirishima visited Kamii University, she mistook Furuta for Ken Kaneki. 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. After the raid, he celebrated with the other Clowns.

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

Six months after the Tsukiyama Operation, he was partnered with Haise Sasaki, who he accompanied in visiting Shunji Shiono, Sen Takatsuki's editor. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Whilst working as a Rank 1 Ghoul Investigator, he used the alias of Nimura Furuta (旧多 二福, Furuta Nimura). As a member of the Clowns, he went by the name Souta (宗太, Sōta). He then declared himself the Washuu King (和修の王, Washū no Ō) that was made to contrast against Kaneki claiming the title of the One-Eyed King.

As Furuta, on the surface he appeared to be a normal person with a quiet personality. He was shown as being soft-spoken and very polite where he respected his superiors whilst being worried for their safety in times of danger.

When asked for his motivations, he stated that he intended to bring about superpeace. He said he hated fighting and preferred to slaughter his foes 'peacefully'.

Kichimura had said that games were not fun unless lives were on the line. He found an insurance for anything and everything to be boring.

He saw that every person was simply a pawn on a great board. On the surface, he was seemingly nothing but a weakling and a coward who preferred to remain in the shadows where he plotted schemes behind everyone's backs.

Powers and abilities

As a failed half-ghoul, Furuta was born with abilities above that of a normal human but suffered a reduced life span as a result. 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.

After gaining Rize's kakuhou, Furuta had an increased healing factor along with a rinkaku kagune. 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.

As Souta, he operated as a member of the Clowns (道化師ピエロ, piero, from French pierrot) and wore their distinctive clown-faced masks.

Notes

• Kichimura Washuu was created by Sui Ishida where he featured in the setting of the Tokyo Ghoul universe.

In other media

Television

Appearances

• Tokyo Ghoul:

External Links

• Tokyo Ghoul Wiki Entry

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