Koutarou Amon

Koutarou Amon (亜門 鋼太朗, Amon Kōtarō) is a Rank 1 (First-Class as of chapter 80) Ghoul Investigator. He was Kureo Mado's last partner.

His current partner is Akira Mado.

Due to a personal experience as an orphan during his childhood, Amon has come to the conclusion that this world is wrong, so he has made it his task to change the world. Because he thinks it's the ghouls that are twisting the world, he views the eradication of all ghouls as a way to mend this world. After being spared by Ken Kaneki, Amon has started to question the righteousness of his crusade.

He is interested in Rabbit and Eyepatch Mask Ghoul.

Appearance
Amon is a tall young man with black hair. Due to his constant training, he has an extremely athletic and muscular build.

Like most ghoul investigators, Amon typically wears a black suit with tie. If he leaves for an investigaton, he additonally wears a white overcoat on top of his suit. He also wears a necklace with a cross.

Personality
At heart, Amon is a likeable, sympathetic young man with a great sense of justice and dedicated to his cause. It appears that his hatred for ghouls came when his foster father, Donato Propora was exposed of his crimes. This incident lead Amon to believed that the world was wrong and that hunting ghouls would be the first and only step towards making it right.

He feels responsible for the death of his partner Kureo Mado.

Past
Amon graduated from the Academy at the top of the class.

Doves' Emergence
After they had killed Hinami Fueguchi's father, Amon and Kureo Mado came to the 20th ward in pursuit of Ryouko Fueguchi and her daughter Hinami Fueguchi. By desecrating a grave that Ryouko Fueguchi had visited, he was able to turn up evidence that the grave most likely belonged to Hinami Fueguchi's father. That served as proof that Ryouko Fueguchi was connected to this ghoul, so they confronted her together with investigators of the 20th ward branch office. After Ryouko Fueguchi had attacked the investigators to give her daughter the opportunity to flee, Mado and Amon defeated her and finally, Mado killed her.

After he and 20th ward's investigators Ippei Kusaba and Yasunori Nakajima had gone for dinner, they they were attacked by Rabbit. Kusaba was killed and Amon was losing because he didn't have his quinque with him. He and Nakajima were saved by Kureo Mado.

On the basis of false information spread by Touka Kirishima, Amon and Mado investigated Kasahara river, but were unable to find a hint on the Daughter Ghoul. Amon proposed to leave, but Mado wanted to stay and told Amon he should leave ahead. When Mado called him as Mado attacked Touka and Hinami, Amon hurried to his partner's side, but was stopped by Kaneki. In the fight between Amon and Kaneki, Amon lost with his quinque being destroyed, but he was spared by Kaneki. Afterwards, Amon hurried again to Mado's location, but Mado was dead when he arrived.

Aogiri Arc
Because he felt guilty for Mado's death, Amon became obsessed with his job. He considered the two fake students that provided the fake information to be the key.

To his surprise, headquarters deployed Yukinori Shinohara, Kousuke Houji, Seidou Takizawa and Juuzou Suzuya to the 20th ward, the special investigators being major figures in CCG. This was a measure to deal with the dangerous stand-alone ghouls in the 20th ward. Additionally, CCG's 11th ward branch had become powerless, so the deployment was also meant to prevent the destruction of CCG's 20th ward branch. Otherwise, a pincer attack on the wards between the 11th ward and the 20th ward could not be avoided.

The commander of the 11th Ward Special Countermeasures Unit orders that Amon, Shinohara and Suzuya shall participate in the unit. Because Doujima 1/2 was destroyed, Amon needed a replacement. Shinohara proposed that he could choose one of Mado's quinques, as Mado had written in his will.



Anteiku Raid Arc
Amon takes part in the raid on Anteiku. In a confrontation with Kaneki, he is seriously injured, losing an arm. Later, he and other CCG members are attacked by Tatara. He is officially listed as killed in action by the CCG. It is unknown if he is among the missing dead investigators.

Donato Porpora
Donato was his foster parent and they lived together in a Catholic orphanage. But one day, Amon discovered Donato's daily slaughter in the orphanage children. Since then he has been cutting any ties related to him.

Kureo Mado
Mado was Amon's first partner and a mentor in Amon's eyes. He respected him greatly and learned a lot from him. When Mado was killed, he underwent a phase of great sorrow and promised to catch Rabbit, the ghoul who killed him. Amon still feels responsible for arriving too late to save his mentor.

Akira Mado
Amon's second partner/first subordinate. They met for the first time in the cemetery where both had gone to pay their respect to Kureo's grave. At first, their relationship was strained because Akira held Amon responsible for her father's death. After a little while though, several ghoul fights and an incident in which Akira got drunk helping, they started to get along better. Before the battle against Anteiku, Amon offered her a cat strap because it reminded him of her cat and they went together to see Kureo's grave one more time, Amon asking her not to be rash in the future battle against Anteiku. There, Akira tried to kiss him but he stopped her. Then they were both put in different teams for the fight.

Yukinori Shinohara
Shinohara was Amon's teacher in the CCG academy, and Amon respects him a great deal. Just like Mado, Shinohara is like a mentor for him, and when Ken Kaneki hurt him in Kanou's laboratory, Amon became enraged and immediately went to fight Ken.

Juuzou Suzuya
At first, Amon considered Suzuya to be quite weird and was angered by his carefree attitude. Soon, they started to get along though, even if Amon still doesn't understand the way Suzuya sees the world.

Seidou Takizawa
Takizawa and Amon are on great terms, Takizawa admiring Amon a lot. However, since Seidou's not getting along that well with Juuzou or Akira, Amon often has to play the conciliator. Still, Amon respects him as a true comrade.

Ken Kaneki
At first Amon thought Kaneki was just a regular ghoul. However after being spared by Kaneki after their first confrontation, Amon begins to gain interest in Kaneki as to why he was spared and what his motivations are. Once Amon concluded that Kaneki and Rabbit were the key to solving Mado's death, he began to pursue Kaneki in search of answers. Amon was responsible for stopping Kaneki's rampage when he was raiding Kanou's Lab. Kaneki is the only ghoul that Amon does not seem to have any real hatred or scorn, although he has a lot of question that he wanted to ask him. After fighting Kaneki during the Anteiku Raid, Amon lost his arm. Even after being severely wounded by Kaneki's kakuja, Amon persists to stay alive in order to prevent him from being a murderer.

Power and Abilities
Because Amon is extremely athletic, he is able to fend off ghouls to some extent even if he doesn't use his quinque, and may be able to deal with weak ghouls without using the quinque at all. As a dedicated, disciplined ghoul slayer, he always trains extensively in weight lifting to match against ghouls who are naturally stronger than average humans. This strength allows him to wield heavy Koukaku quinque.
 * Doujima 1/2 (ドウジマ1/2, Dōjima 1/2) A koukaku quinque which takes the form of a club. It's a simple quinque that is used to swing heavy blows that are tough to block. This quinque is a memento of Harima. During the climax of their fight, Kaneki Ken was able to cut the quinque, making it unusable. Before the battle against Anteiku though, Akira Mado comes with a solution to repair it.
 * Kura (クラ) The koukaku quinque Amon wields during CCG's raid on the Aogiri hideout. It's a heavy double-edged glaive that can take down multiple ghouls in a single swing. The glaive can be separated into dual falchion blades to lure opponents off guard and have a quicker weapon at hand. While the swords are a bit heavy for single hand use, Amon can also throw and retract them for longer reach. Currently, Amon is using this quinque because its weight is similar to Doujima 1/2's. Mado bestowed the quinque on him in his will.

Trivia

 * Amon was ranked 11th in the character popularity poll.
 * Amon likes to train and investigate.
 * Amon likes to eat sweets like donuts, but dislikes spicy food.
 * Amon is actually the name of an Egyptian god meaning "god of all gods".