Touka Kirishima

Touka Kirishima (霧嶋 董香, Kirishima Tōka) is a ghoul and an ex-waitress at Anteiku.

While hunting, she wears a rabbit mask and her alias is Rabbit (ラビット, Rabitto). In Tokyo Ghoul, she was a second-year student at Kiyomi High School in the beginning and a third-year student after the post-Aogiri time skip.

After the time skip, she returns as the manager of the coffee shop re.

Appearance
Touka is a slender teenage girl noted for being attractive. She has dark straight hair cut into a bob and long bangs that reach her chin, covering the right side of her face. On the outside, she is considered a cute, normal girl that one wouldn't suspect to be a ghoul. Her facial features and hairstyle bears a resemblance to her mother and her brother, to the extent that Banjou thought she was him at first. She normally wears her waitress or high school uniform but her casual clothes are tomboyish street wear. As Rabbit, she wears a long coat jacket, rabbit mask and blonde, or sometimes a pink wig to conceal her identity. After the Aogiri arc, her hair reaches shoulder length, but her signature bangs remain the same. As a child she wore dresses, and bunny hair-clip on the left side of her bangs, and her hairstyle was much the same. However, her bangs at first were brushed to the side revealing her whole face. After the time skip, Touka grew into a beautiful young woman and has reverted back to her short bob cut. Her bangs are shorter, reaching her nose instead of her chin and considerably bouncier than her previous bob hair cut. Touka's hair has become a lighter color and she has switched to a more feminine style of clothing. She wears a white wide neck blouse with a black apron over the top for her waitress outfit. When Touka's moving around as a "ghoul", she wears trench coats, pants, and boots.

Personality
Her rash attitude comes from having to live a "hard-working" double-life of a human and ghoul identity. As a human, she presents as a normal girl attending school with normal friends and being a café waitress. As a ghoul, she reveals a more reckless and ruthless personality full of hatred for Ghoul Investigator's. This stems from the fact that her family was torn apart by CCG and she had to live a fugitive life until leading a more docile life by attending school. After being separated from her brother Ayato, she grows to appreciate her human life and starts to desperately hold onto it. As Shuu Tsukiyama notes, she had previously looked more dangerous and cold but has somewhat softened up because of her friends and possibly Ken Kaneki's influence. When Touka was fourteen years old, she expressed a much colder demeanor, and displayed a harsh glare, but these traits subsided over the years.

Touka suffers from ornithophobia. This may have stemmed from caring for a bird when she was a child only to be pecked near her right eye that she then covers with her bangs.

After the time skip, Touka possesses a much gentler and warmer personality compared to how she was back then. She is also seen smiling a lot more and greets people politely even outside her workplace. But she can revert back to her old personality if it is someone she is well acquainted with such as Nishiki and Tsukiyama.

Background
Touka resided in the 20th Ward with her younger brother Ayato, and her father, Arata. They lived by trying to blend into human society as much as possible, so Arata tried to teach them all the necessities by taking them to the library and even convincing them to eat human food. Touka always seemed to have 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 that he was still alive, and berated Ayato for thinking that he was killed. The siblings visited Satou, where they were forced to eat human food; eventually being sold out as Ghoul Investigators approached them. 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. After some time they found Anteiku, and were taken care of by Yoshimura. As they grew up, the siblings acquired 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 at school, but Ayato was against the idea of interacting with humans, telling her that she’d 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.

Prologue
Touka appeared first as a waitress serving 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. She is later encountered by Kaneki who witnessed a drunk old man trying to sexually assault her; thinking Kaneki was a ghoul due to his kakugan, she reveals herself as a ghoul after slicing half of the old man's head off. She was confused with Kaneki having only one 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 couldn't believe that 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 attacking Kaneki and accused him of trespassing on his territory. Touka stepped in and declared that the place wasn't Nishiki's feeding ground, but Rize Kamishiro'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 called ghouls monsters. Enraged, Touka assaulted Kaneki then berated his actions. With vitriol she told Kaneki that he was neither ghoul nor human, so didn't belong anywhere. With one last warning about the pain ghouls endure from starvation, she left Kaneki alone in the alley. (In the anime, she force-feeds him, shoving the corpse's flesh into his mouth.) 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 that she'd help Kaneki out 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.

Doves' Emergence
When Kaneki just started working part-time at Anteiku, his friend Hide came to give him a visit. Kaneki told Hide not to sit there only chatting and asked him to order and Hide spoke out that he also came to thank Touka for nursing Kaneki and him after the "car accident." Kaneki remembered that the manager had told him that he had fabricated a car accident to explain the injuries that he and Hide received from Nishio. While Kaneki was making Hide's order, Touka warned him to make sure that Hide doesn't find out about him being a ghoul. If Hide found out, she swore she would kill him, to protect their identities as ghouls. While Kaneki was washing the dishes, Yoshimura asked him to come to the second floor. In one of the rooms, the manager showed Kaneki how to eat a sandwich in a way that doesn't give him the urge to vomit, while Touka also watched. Later, two visitors came to Anteiku, Ryouko Fueguchi and her daughter Hinami. The mother saw Kaneki, the new worker, and told Hinami to greet him, and so Hinami did so shyly. Touka greeted Ryouko and Hinami and told them that the manager was waiting them in the second floor of Anteiku. Then Kaneki found out that both of them are ghouls who cannot hunt humans by themselves.

While working at Anteiku, Yoshimura suddenly told Kaneki that he should have a mask and asked Touka to take him to get one made on her next day off. Touka became irritated as she didn't want to spend her free time with Kaneki, but Yoshimura insisted that he would get lost and scared of Uta. Touka agreed, however she still debated Kaneki's necessity for one. Yoshimura informed her that there was information about investigators in the area and Touka finally understood the situation. Touka agreed to take Kaneki to get his masked made, but threaten to kill him if he was late to the appointed meeting place. During Touka's next day off, Kaneki waited for her at the meeting place, but she was late. When Touka arrived, she greeted Kaneki with a kick, then ignored him for some time as he followed her. They walked for a long time going deep into the city until they reached HySy ArtMask Studio. They entered and at first thought Uta had gone home until he frighted Kaneki from beneath a sheet he was hiding under. Afterwards, Touka formally introduced Kaneki to Uta. Touka waited in the shop until Kaneki's measurements were finished. After they left, Kaneki asked Touka why he needed a mask and she became annoyed that her manager didn't explain something so basic. Touka explained that ghouls wear masks to protect their identities from Ghoul Investigators.

Touka's exams were approaching, so she took some time off from Anteiku to focus on her studies. In her place, Yoshimura asked Kaneki to assist with the collection of food supplies. At some time, Touka came to Anteiku to find that Kaneki and the others were in a meeting after Hinami's mother's death. Touka then got shocked of the news and suggested to revenge Hinami's parents, but the manager refused. Touka ended up alone and went to kill the ghoul investigators who killed Hinami's parents by herself. She succeed killing Ippei Kusaba but got wounded by Kureo Mado. When Touka came back to Anteiku, Kaneki noticed her injuries and then went into a conversation about it with Yoshimura. After that he went to Touka suggesting her to let him treat her. Kaneki told Touka that he doesn't think that the ghoul investigators existence is bad and that he thinks she is in the wrong, however he would be sad if she died and said he also wants to do something with her. Kaneki asked her to help him get stronger. So the two went practicing underground in V14. Kaneki asked Touka about the place and she replied that it was the place where ghouls used to live. Later they went to the CCG branch office in the 20th Ward to give them false information and get more about the situation. There they started talking about the RC Scan Gate. Before they went back, Kureo Mado saw them and thought there was something off about them, so he asked to have a meeting with them further inside. He took Kaneki to through RC Scan Gate, however, the gate didn't react to Kaneki. Kaneki thinks that it didn't react to him because he still has human body parts.

When Hinami was locking herself in a room in Anteiku, Touka visited her and gave her a newspaper contains the ghoul investigator Ippei's death. Soon after that Hinami disappeared, causing Touka and Kaneki to immediately go out to look for her. Touka found Hinami, alone, holding her mother's detached hand, on the edge of the 20th Ward near Kasahara elementary. Touka then called Kaneki to inform him that she had found Hinami. Mado appeared and fought the combined team of Hinami and Touka, and finally he got killed by Touka's finishing attack. Soon later, Renji Yomo and Kaneki rushed to Hinami and Touka's whereabouts and, finding that everyone was safe, they prepared to go back to Anteiku. Touka said to hurry up and get the body but Renji replied that, because someone might come anytime, they should leave immediately. While they were walking back, Hinami asked if it was right for her to live and Kaneki answered that he believed Hinami's mother told her to live in her final words.

At school, Yoriko asked Touka why she was spacing out during class. Touka hastily told her that she's suffering stomach pains, hiding that she was actually disturbed by Mado's death. Hinami started living in Touka's apartment and later Kaneki visited them worrying about Hinami. Kaneki was then surprised by Hinami's new and bad haircut. Yoriko visited Touka's house, thinking to cheer Touka up with homemade food. She mistook Kaneki for Touka's boyfriend and hurriedly left them alone. Even though she knew it would make her sick, Touka ate all of the food Yoriko made.

Gourmet Arc
After Kaneki finished telling about his experience in the Ghoul Restaurant, Touka appeared at the doorway, hesitating to enter because of the injured cockatiel that Hinami adopted, Hetare. Touka then told Kaneki there was a girl down looking for him.

Because Touka saw Kaneki and Nishiki walking together while she was on her way home, she became curious as to what they were doing and followed them. Upon seeing their battle with Tsukiyama, she entered with a surprise attack. Tsukiyama quickly heals the wound and tells Touka that she's become weaker than her past self. Even though the fight continues with her and Kaneki double-teaming Tsukiyama, Tsukiyama manages to overwhelm them with his exceptional battle prowess and what he calls superior 'fuel' (said fuel being human meat). Both Touka and Kaneki are severely injured, but due to Kaneki's idea for Touka to eat some of his flesh, she is able to regain her strength and manifest her Kagune. With her Kagune, she able to defeat Tsukiyama. After this, she said that she had to kill Kimi Nishino, Nishiki's human girlfriend, to protect their identities as ghouls. Kaneki tried to persuade her not to, likening Kimi to Hide for him and Yoriko for her. Uncertain about what she should do, she decided not to kill her when Kimi called her incomplete Kagune beautiful.

Aogiri Arc
Banjou and his followers came to Anteiku to search for Rize by orders of Aogiri's leaders. Touka and Kaneki decided to hear his story, and Banjou began to talk about his time with Rize in the 11th ward. However, Banjou soon realized that Kaneki smelt like Rize. Because he suspected Kaneki to be her boyfriend, he attacked him, but Banjou was easily knocked out by Kaneki. When Banjou woke up again, Kaneki tried to clear up the misunderstanding. He told Banjou that Rize had moved somewhere else, hiding from him that she had died. Soon after, Ayato broke in a had a short confrontation with Touka before Yamori and Nico interrupted. They announced that they were ordered to capture Rize herself or "the person who smells like her". Touka and Kaneki put up a fight but Touka was knocked to the ground when she was punched by Ayato. He proceeded to mock her about being as weak as their father. Touka retaliated, saying that he was wrong, that their father was trying to protect them. However, her Kagune was soon overpowered by Ayato's and she was knocked out. Kaneki was knocked out by Yamori as well and they kidnapped him. Ayato convinced Yamori and Nico not to take Touka, saying that she would only be a burden. Soon after Kaneki was kidnapped, Yoshimura and Yomo returned to find Touka sitting on the floor, badly injured. Yoshimura, after hearing that Kaneki was kidnapped, announced that Anteiku would be shutting down for a while. After everyone is gathered at Anteiku, Nishio asked Touka, who was overwhelmed with worry for Kaneki, to calm down and reassured her that Kaneki isn't as weak as he looks. Soon enough, Yoshimura announced that he had one thing he would like to note about Kaneki. He said that he didn't think that they would have anymore contact with Kaneki. Touka's hands begin to tremble in shock at these words. While Touka remains completely silent, everyone begins to protest. Touka gives a small somewhat creepy smile, and proceeds to look up at the manager and declares that if he isn't going, then she'll go alone. In the end, all Anteiku members are going to the 11th ward, Aogiri battlefield (except Enji Koma).

During her search for Kaneki, Touka encountered her brother Ayato on the rooftops. She was hesitant and practically overwhelmed by the more experienced Ayato. Her battle with Ayato ended with her losing after a one-sided duel, and Ayato commenced to rip off the entirety of her Kagune. As she began to lose consciousness, Kaneki arrived at the scene after defeating Yamori. Stating that he'd kill Ayato if not for him being Touka's precious little brother, he decided on the compromise of "half-killing" Ayato: breaking half of his total bones.

After getting out of the Aogiri hideout with the Anteiku and Banjo group, Touka was uncertain how to confront Kaneki, and suggested to him to do something about his hair color. Kaneki however replied that he would not return, and interrupted her before she could suggest for her to follow him, and denied her request by giving the excuse that Touka would have to prepare for her college entrance exams that would take place soon. As he told her that he would see her later, she turned and dashed away.

Raid of Kanou's Lab Arc
After the Raid on Kanou's Lab, Kaneki returned to the 20th Ward for the second time since the Aogiri arc. Unlike last time, Touka finds Kaneki this time but was too overwhelmed with emotion. She angrily calls him selfish and beats him up, telling him she does not need his protection and to not go back to Anteiku ever again. Later, Touka muses over the encounter, thinking that Kaneki is unlikely to go back after she drove him away.

Owl Suppression Operation
Touka watched the CCG platoons center the 20th ward. She left her apartment to help Yoshimura but is prevented from doing so by Yomo, who had been tasked to keep her safe. After the Owl Supression Operation, Kaneki Ken went missing and is rumored to have died in the midst of battle by many ghouls. Touka however, believed in him still being alive, holding back tears in her eyes after supposedly hearing the news about his death and the destruction of Anteiku.



Auction
Touka appeared as a shop manager working in a new cafe called ":re" along with Yomo. When Renji doesn't greet the customers, she lectures him, and with a clipboard in her hand she prepared to take the order. However, Touka is immediately dumbfounded upon spotting Haise unexpectedly. After they give their order, Touka goes back and delivers their coffee. After looking at Haise and noticing his tears, Touka gives a sad smile and handed Haise a handkerchief to wipe his tears away. She then noticed Haise looking at books in the cafe and asked him to read them if he liked. She then asked him what his profession was. Haise revealed that he's a ghoul investigator and is the Quinx Squad's mentor.

She is then seen by Shirazu and Saiko visiting someone at the hospital where Shinohara is admitted, bringing them flowers. She greets Ginshi as she passes by him and Saiko.

Post-Auction
A month after the Auction Raid, she is later seen in re along with Uta, Nishiki and Yomo when Uta visits the shop during Christmas. After Uta asked them what they want to do regarding Kaneki, Touka stated that she will continue doing what she has decided to do; to which Nishiki and Uta smile at her response.

Rose Extermination
Touka is surprised when Shuu Tsukiyama, whom she hasn't seen for a long time, enters her coffee shop. She is then hounded by the ghoul about Kaneki's memory loss. Tsukiyama suggested that they should work on bringing his memories back. However, Touka and Nishiki disagree as bringing Kaneki back would result in him being hunted by the CCG. Touka stated that she will not actively try to bring back his memories, but would readily help him if they came back on their own. She further says that Shuu wants him back for selfish reasons, which he states he is fine with before leaving. When he left, Nishiki wondered if he will stop. Touka replies that he won't and stated that she understands his feelings.

Touka and Yomo are asked for help by Chie Hori in order to save Shuu. They rescued him just in time as he was about to be killed by doves. They take Shuu to a parked van, where Hori and his father are waiting. As Hori explained, Touka called him an idiot before telling him that he should be grateful for the rescue.

Post-Rose Extermination
Touka watched Sen Takatsuki's press conference on the TV with Yomo at :re, when Takatsuki reveals she's a ghoul to the public.

Third Cochlea Raid
Touka and Yomo accompany the Gas Masks on their mission to break into Cochlea while incognito. After Arima attacked Ayato, she swooped in and rescued him from Narukami's attack. She, Yomo, and Ayato simultaneously fought Arima, but were powerless against him, they fled to a lower level. After they reached a safe area, Ayato revealed to Touka and Yomo that he knew who they were. Touka removed her mask to confront Ayato and they reconciled. Touka asked him to depend on others. Later, they fought off the personnel and tried to enter the Control Room, only to find the access card had its credentials removed. Arima attacked them and Touka tried to block Arima's attack on Yomo, but he pushed her aside and took the blow. After Yomo took the blow from Narukami, she attacked Arima with Ayato, but is quickly defeated by the investigator. Sasaki appeared, blocking Arima's attack on Yomo and ordered Ayato to lead the group to the only available escape route. Touka called out to Sasaki using his previous name and told him that she would see him later. She left with the others never receiving a response from Sasaki. While on the run, she reunited with Hinami and pinched her on both cheeks to scold her. After they disabled the compactor, the group reunited with Banjou and his crew, and they proceeded in escaping through the compactor. However, Furuta activated the machine, crushing many ghouls who tried to escape from Cochlea. As a part of the group survived, they closed in to the Cochlea's exit, only to be blocked by Mougan and Kiyoko. As the two investigators bested Ayato in a fight and prepared, Touka shielded her brother from the blow. Her kagune resisted the impact for a brief amount of time, canceling it while producing lightning-like aura. As Banjou's crew and the rest of investigators engaged in a fight and Yomo attacked Mougan, Touka ran to her brother, pleading Banjou to start healing him.

Post-Third Cochlea Raid
A month following their escape from Cochlea, Touka greeted Kaneki by asking if he wanted coffee. After Kaneki had commented that it tasted like Yoshimura's and they spoke briefly about the shop, she asked about his hair before the TV announced that Kaneki and Take Hirako were wanted by the CCG. She inquired whether to call him "Kaneki" or "Ken" but he mistook it as "Kaneki" or "Sasaki," and replied "Kaneki." She walked around the counter and hit Kaneki's face into the counter-top, her eyes hidden. When Yomo entered the room, Kaneki fell to the floor as she stated she felt better. As they were all set to leave, Touka locked the shop. After Nishiki had leaned on her shoulder as the old Anteiku group gathered, they left to Tsukiyama's place. She was present while Kaneki stated his new goals as the One-Eyed King and what he hoped to accomplish with the title, forming the group, Black Goat. As the news reported Ghouls' assault, Touka took notice of Clowns' actions.

Kaneki then assigns Yomo and Touka to be part of the Communications team before raiding CCG Labs, making her disappointed. She then tells Kaneki that she wants to have a talk with him after he returns, making Nishiki tease her whether it's going to be a proposal.

Ken Kaneki
Touka is initially hateful to Kaneki. She was confused to see a half-ghoul and refused to show any compassion to him as he is a former human. During his early days at Anteiku, Touka would often boss him around and chide him for the slightest mistakes. However, she still trains Kaneki as he wants to become stronger, learn how to use his kagune. After he helps her avenge Ryouko, Touka's attitude towards Kaneki improves and she treats him in a more friendly manner, though she maintains her rough attitude. Touka is one of the closest people to Kaneki in Anteiku, helping him adapt to ghoul life. She often worries for his safety due to his inexperience in the ghoul world and in more than one occasion risked her own life to save him. After Kaneki's rescue and departure from Anteiku, Touka would often wonder of his whereabouts and wanted to meet him again. However, she hated the person he had become after the torture. She shows signs of regret after yelling at and beating Kaneki when he returns to the 20th ward, and still wanted him to return to Anteiku.

She later meets Kaneki as he visits :re as Haise and she identifies him. He seems to somewhat remember her, as he tears up when he smells her coffee and thinks it reminds him of someone. She believes it would be best if Haise does not remember who he was, but she agrees that if his memories come back, he will be welcome in :re.

Touka meets Kaneki in Cochlea when he shields them from Arima's onslaught, telling him that she'll meet him later. They converse in a friendly manner in :Re after the Cochlea Raid, before smacking Kaneki on the tabletop counter.

Arata Kirishima
Touka, as a child, greatly looked up to her father and was supportive of his ideals. For her father's sake, she and her brother would usually eat human food when offered by neighbors, despite knowing that it makes ghouls sick. After Arata went missing, she believed in her heart that he would return back. Though, it is unknown if she still believes that. As a proof that Arata's ideals have passed on to his daughter, Touka always ate the food that her friend prepared for her, even though it made her sick because of her ghoul heritage. She would react in anger whenever Ayato would speak ill of him.

Ayato Kirishima
As the last surviving member of her family, Touka is responsible for her younger sibling's well being. After Arata went missing she took the burden of raising him in order to follow her father's footsteps. However, Ayato is devastated and bitter towards humans for how their prejudice against ghouls had torn his family. In turn, he has taken a different stance from his father and sister's view on them. He left Touka when she further pursued a pacifist life with humans by going to school. While he disagrees with her ideas on humanity, he still cares for her safety even despite joining Aogiri shown when he refused to let Yamori and Nico to take her as well as Kaneki. As noted by Kaneki, Touka was emotionally hurt when he turned against his only family, and when they reunite she shows anger towards him.

When they reunite again in :re during the Rue Island arc, Touka supports Ayato in his fight against Arima and tells him to rely on her more instead of trying to handle everything himself.

Yoshimura
During her early teen years, Yoshimura took Touka and Ayato into his care. He offered her a chance to live in the human society and live a relatively stable life as a student with the condition she works for him. Reacting in surprise at first as if she didn't see the point, she still attended school that Yoshimura paid for, coming to cherish and enjoy it, despite the hard work that came with it. She agreed to the condition, as she worked as a part-time waitress at Anteiku and completing errands for him regularly, such as getting coffee beans and collecting "food." Yoshimura would tease her occasionally, and isn't bothered by her quick outbursts of anger. She does respect him, learning much of her morals from him alongside those learned from her father, in this he is a father figure to her.

Renji Yomo
The two are in a good relationship as they work with Anteiku, unknown to her and Ayato, Yomo is her maternal uncle, the younger brother to their mother, Hikari. In the past, he trained her in combat and knows the majority of her strengths, noticing instantly that she wasn't in the best condition when they trained along with Kaneki, since she was eating human food prepared by Yoriko. Together, they would be the ones restocking the "food" that Anteiku would offer to those ghouls who couldn't hunt. He speaks to Touka honestly, not sugar-coating his words when she attempts to join the others during the Owl Suppression Operation.

In Tokyo Ghoul:re, two years after Anteiku's destruction, posing as brother and sister it is shown they have opened another cafe called :re.

Yoriko Kosaka
Despite Yoriko being a human, she is Touka's best friend in high school. An aspiring chef, she would give food to Touka, who always accepted the food even though it made her sick. Even after it affected her in a fight. They promised to "always play together" even after they finished school. It's unknown if they held true to that after the two year time-skip.

Hinami Fueguchi
Hinami sees her like an elder sister and loves her, so the two of them have a close relationship. Seeing that Hinami has also lost her parents to doves, Touka becomes fiercely protective of Hinami, risking her life to protect her and avenge her mother so her life wouldn't be threatened.

Nishiki Nishio
Originally, he and Touka didn't get along very well due to territory disputes. After becoming an employee at Anteiku, they continue to butt heads, but the animosity eventually turned more into friendly reffing. After the time skip, Nishiki is seen at :re, where he and Touka continue to speak with each other in jabs, though it's apparent that it's still done in a friendly manner.

Hideyoshi Nagachika
Being a regular customer at Anteiku, Hideyoshi is on good terms with her. He always tries to hit on her which usually leads to comical situations.

Shuu Tsukiyama
Touka held negative feeling towards Tsukiyama, having had many confrontations with him when she and Ayato were children. She described him to Kaneki as a "nasty one" during the Gourmet Arc. Later in :re, she greets him in a more casual manner, and is more patient with him, shown when she calmly tells him why forcing Kaneki's memories to come back would be a bad idea. It can be assumed her views toward Tsukiyama have improved, as she even went to rescue him when his life was endangered near the end of the Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation.

Powers and Abilities
Ghoul Physiology: Touka is an ukaku ghoul possessing one wing with the ability to harden and dis-harden it at will.
 * Ukaku Kagune: During her fight with Shuu Tsukiyama, Touka was able to form one ukaku wing and control kagune without any difficulties. As time passed, Touka gained a second wing with projectiles at a much larger size. Her kagune was also able to stop the projectiles of Kiyoko's Zebizu and Mougan's Higher Mind, upon emerging, even canceling the attack for a brief moment of time while producing lightning-like aura.
 * Superhuman Agility: When engaging Shuu in battle, she was able to travel at a speed fast enough to make Shuu lose track of her location for a short amount of time.
 * Superhuman Durability: When fighting Ayato Kirishima during the 11th Ward Battle, Touka could still maintain consciousness after getting her kagune devoured by her brother.

Trivia

 * Touka was ranked first in the latest character popularity poll.
 * Touka likes school life and rabbits, but hates ghoul investigators, dimwits, and classical literature.
 * Touka is associated with the number "2," referring the tarot card The High Priestess (II).
 * Touka is featured as the "Ace of Clubs" in Tokyo Ghoul Trump.
 * Touka's kagune can produce lightning-like bolts similar to Narukami, T-Human and Renji Yomo's kagune.
 * Touka is bad at cutting hair, ruining the bangs of both Hinami and Yomo.

Tokyo Ghoul

 * To Kaneki: "Everything is 'terrible?' Don't make me laugh. So what about me... for me, it's been terrible since I was born."
 * To Kaneki (when he tried to eat Hide): "Seems you've become pretty reprehensible. You dumbass. The pain and hunger drowns out all reason... and it's so painful you'd rather die, right? In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a ghoul. That's our destiny. I'm really tired of it... This time I'll help you out."
 * To Mado: "I think it's because we want to live. Is there something wrong about that? We were all given life and raised. If the only thing we can do is eat people... how can we ever live correctly with a body like this? Even ghouls... even I want to live just like you guys!"
 * To Kaneki: "There is no reason we have to be protected by you. You pretend you care about other people but in the end, it's all about you. You're just afraid of being alone, aren't you?"
 * To Yomo: "For the sake of food and anger I've also killed a lot of people!"
 * To Yoshimura: "Manager, he... is the one who let me go to school. I've always been in his care, he really is like a father..."
 * To Yomo: "Everything... Everything... For the sake of not losing anything, desperately trying to do something. It's always because I didn't know what to do that I blindly try to live."
 * To Yomo: "I've had enough... I've had enough... I've had enough."
 * To Yomo (about Kaneki's disappearance): "He was perplexed over whether he should return to Anteiku. So... he needs to have a place to belong (return to). I... I will believe. I will believe that he will return to Anteiku."

Tokyo Ghoul: Days

 * To Mayuhara (internally): "What the hell do you know?! It's all because I can't eat, because I could be a target at any time, all because I'm a ghoul! No matter how much I try, there's a wall I can never jump over, and there's happiness that I can never have. But I'm still hanging on to life. Despite it all."
 * To herself: "I'm bad at sorting out my feelings, and although I try to put on a good front I'm just so incredibly immature. And I hate that about myself."
 * To herself: "People suck. They're bound by stupid laws, have an idiotic love for groups, and, convinced that they're in the right, they lump together those they hurt and drive them out. But though they're weak, some of them care about others; they may be fragile, but they show love to the people who are important to them; they may not have claws or fangs, but they will fight to defend someone. Do ghouls do that? Do I?"
 * To Yoriko (internally): "...I make idiotic mistakes, and I'm oblivious to the pain of others because I'm too used to pain myself. But you're not like that, Yoriko. I feel calmer just by being around you - that's the kind of presence you have. You're so, so many of the things I'm not."

Tokyo Ghoul:re

 * To Ayato (about Hinami): "I'm gonna smack her! When you lose sight of yourself, someone's gotta come by and give your cheek a good slap. Otherwise you'll never come to your senses."
 * To Ayato: "Ayato. You don't need to keep overreaching. You've grown tall enough already. Rely on others for a change. Stop worrying about me, and go protect Hinami."
 * To Kaneki: "Kaneki... Kaneki, I'll see you later, okay?"

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