Noro

Noro (ノロ, Noro) is a direct subordinate of the One-Eyed King and one of Aogiri Tree's leaders.

Appearance
Noro is an eerie giant of a ghoul with long black hair tied up in a ponytail. Noro wears a white mask featuring huge black lips, a huge mouth with equally massive teeth and tiny slits for nostrils. His finger nails are black, much like those of a pre-timeskip Kaneki. After the timeskip, Noro's hair has grown as he is seen with a much more thicker ponytail.

Personality and Traits
An intimidating giant in eerie silence, he seems to communicate only through actions, not words. He also carried around a clock when being fought by Gourmet, Yomo, and Uta. Tsukiyama speculated that he is under a curfew much like a child. Also, despite being stabbed and cut, Noro never displayed any signs of pain or struggling with it at all and merely healed from it without any problem.

From the perspective of an average ghoul, he eats an absurd amount of meat.

Aogiri Arc
Noro attended the meeting where Kaneki was brought before Tatara. At the end of the meeting, Tatara left the 11th Ward Base'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.

At the beginning of CCG's attack on the Aogiri hideout, Noro was waiting until his clock showed 12:00 midnight. He then started to act.

After the fight between Ayato Kirishima and Kaneki, Noro came to pick up "the half-killed" Ayato, killing the CCG squad that had discovered the pair in the process. He clashed with Renji Yomo, Shuu Tsukiyama and Uta, displaying his absurd regeneration ability. When the alarm of his clock ringed at 2:00 am, he casually picked up Ayato and left. Afterwards, he went to the roof to pick up Yamori. He left without fighting Juuzou Suzuya after he had realized that Yamori was dead.

Anteiku Raid
He appears alongside Tatara on the streets when they confront Amon, Takizawa and a couple of other CCG investigators. Using his ghoul abilities, one of Noro's kagune takes a bite of Takizawa's arm.

In the √ A anime, Noro also encounters Hide and is later shown to have inflicted a lethal injury to him.

Rosewald Investigation


Noro is seen with Eto overlooking the raid on the Tsukiyama Estate, and later appears within the Lunar Eclipse building, confronted by the Itou Squad and Quinx Squad, minus Sasaki. He almost immediately attacks after the investigators organized a formation, cutting Nezu in half and devouring Umeno who was on back support. His next attacks on Saiko and Urie are repelled, and is pinned down by Mutsuki and Shirazu's kagune, before being cut it half by Saiko's. Noro however stood back up, demonstrating his extraordinary regeneration, and broke Kuramoto's rib cage with one strike from his kagune.

After being struck by the explosive power of the Nutcracker quinque, Noro is blown into four separate pieces and had his head stabbed through by Michibata. However, the ghoul's lower half comes back to life with four kagune tentacles that resembles Eto's, piercing five separate bodies in an instant.

Power and Abilities
Out of all Ghouls acknowledged by the CCG, Noro is considered as one of the strongest ghoul excluding Owl and Shachi.

Noro has displayed abnormally high levels of regeneration, being able to heal even when his upper body was cut off by Yomo. Noro has a very thick kagune with razor sharp teeth, resembling a mouth, and it appears that it can consume food through them. Noro can also create two tentacles which were shown to be able to pierce through the CCG's computer system quite easily. His lower half is capable of creating four thick tentacles itself, resembling Eto's kagune with its wrinkly texture and additional mouths unlike his commonly seen lamprey-like kagune.

Noro also possesses very high pain tolerance, durability, stamina, speed and endurance even by Ghoul standards, as evidenced by the fact that he was repeatedly peppered with ammunition, repeatedly stabbed by Shuu, impaled from back to front by Uta, and had his head kicked off without showing any sign of being affected. Noro is also able to turn his head 180 degrees, like an owl.

Trivia

 * In Tokyo Ghoul Trump, Noro is featured as the "Queen of Spades".
 * The Noro was spirit medium priestess that communicate with ancestors and the Gods from indigenous belief system originated from Ryukyu Islands. At one time, they were considered Queen-Priestesses with considerable political and spiritual power within the community.
 * He seems to have a slight fear of buzz cutters, as shown in a Omake.