Touka Kirishima

Touka Kirishima (霧嶋 董香, Kirishima Tōka) is a ghoul and worker at Anteiku. While hunting, she wears a rabbit mask and her nickname is Rabbit. She is a sophomore student at Kiyomi High School.

Appearance
A distinct feature is her long hair-bang that covers her right eye. On the outside, she is considered a cute, normal girl that one wouldn't suspect to be a ghoul. Normally in either waitress or highschool uniform, she prefers to wear tomboyish clothes in her free time. In her ghoul alter-ego, she wears a long coat jacket, rabbit mask and blonde wig to prioritize her identity to the utmost importance.

Personality
Her rash attitude comes from having to live a "hard-working" double-life of a human and ghoul identity. As a human, she is seen as a normal girl attending school with normal friends and being a cafe waitress. As a ghoul, she reveals a more reckless and ruthless personality full of hatred for CCG's investigators. This stems from the fact of how 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 like 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.

Touka suffers from ornithophobia.

Prologue
Touka appeared first as a waitress serving both Ken Kaneki and Hideyoshi Nagachika in Anteiku. She also passed beside Kaneki and Rize Kamishiro after their date, and then she stopped glancing into the two. Her friend Yoriko Kosaka asked her what was wrong, and so she answered her it was nothing. In another time, she revealed herself being a ghoul to Kaneki after killing a drunk old man who pissed her off thinking that Kaneki was a ghoul. Then she got confused with Kaneki having only one Kakugan and being the human who Rize was targeting, so she asked him could that be but her ran away. Soon later, 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, stopped her and lent Kaneki human meat.

One day, she passed through a place that was Rize's feeding ground and saw Nishiki attacking Kaneki saying that it is his ground. At that moment, Touka went and declared that this place wasn't Nishiki's feeding ground, but Rize Kamishiro's. Nishiki retorted that this was originally his feeding ground until Rize came, but Touka, unfazed, responded that the feeding grounds would be re-alloted among the weaker ghouls and that it was his own fault for being too weak. Angered, Nishiki attacked Touka, but was immediately defeated.

In the incident between Nishiki, Kaneki and Hide. She appeared after Nishiki got defeated by Kaneki and decided to help the hungry Kaneki from rampaging and eating his own best friend Hide. She later brought Kaneki to Anteiku and at the time Yoshimura was suggesting Kaneki to join working in Anteiku, she appeared treating her wounds she got from the time she helped Kaneki from rampaging.

Doves' Emergence
When Kaneki started working part-time in 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 came also to thank Touka for nursing Kaneki and him after the car incident. Kaneki remembered the manager telling him how he explained things to Hide. While the conversation, Touka pointed out to Kaneki, then he got away from Hide to listen to what she has to say. Touka told him to make sure that Hide won't find out about him being a ghoul because if that happens she will kill him, so that the ghouls identities won't be found out. When Kaneki was working, Yoshimura asked him to come to the second floor. In a room the manager showed Kaneki how to eat sandwiches while Touka was also watching. 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 she did shyly. Touka greeted Ryouka and Hinami and told them that the manager is waiting them in the second floor of Anteiku. Then Kaneki found out that both of them are ghouls from Touka and that there are ghouls who can't hunt humans by themselves.

At some time, Touka come to Anteiku to find Kaneki and the others were into a meeting after Hinami's mother death in Anteiku. Touka then got shocked of the news and suggested to revange Hinami's parents, but the manager refused. Touka ened 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 injuried 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 in the 24th Ward underground. 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 took Kaneki to the RC Scan Gate. However, the gate didn't react to Kaneki for some unknown reason.

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. After that soon Hinami disappeared, then Touka and Kaneki went out immediately to look for her. Hinami alone holding her mother's hand met Touka, then Touka called Kaneki to inform him that she found her. Mado then appeared and fought the combined team of Hinami and Tokua and so he got killed by a finish attack by Touka. Soon later, Renji Yomo and Kaneki rushed to Hinami's and Touka's whereabouts and they prepared to go back to Anteiku. Touka said to hurry up and get the body but Renji says to leave immediately because someone might come anytime. 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.

At last, Hinami started living in Touka's apartment and later Kaneki visited them worring about Hinami. Kaneki then was surprised by Hinami's new and bad haircut.

Gourmet Arc
After Kaneki made it back alive from the Ghoul Restaurant to Anteiku, Hinami appeared and brought the injured parakeet Hetare with her because of Touka's fear of birds, and so Renji and Yoshimura did appear. Kaneki told them he saw lots of ghouls and commented at how they laughed behind their masks at the injured him and the two people that were with him. Then Yoshimura made a speech to Kaneki about ghouls who killed their emotions and forgot the value of life. When Kaneki and Hinami became alone, Touka appeared glancing from far and then went in trying to get closer to the bird. Touka told Kaneki there a girl down looking for him. It was Kimi Nishino who begged Kaneki for help after Nishiki got into even worser state. Kaneki promised her to do something about it and she then left after thanking him. While she was walking back, she got kidnapped by Shuu who was planning for another trap for Kaneki.

After Kaneki saw Shuu's letter about Kimi being kidnapped by him, Nishiki appeared looking for Kimi. Kaneki told him that Tsukiyama had kidnapped her. They decided to face Tsukiyama together to save Kimi. However, Kaneki and Tsukiyama were no match for Tsukiyama, and even after Touka, who followed them all the way, joined them, they were losing because Tsukiyama was the only one who could use his Kagune. However, Nishiki's tenacity and Kaneki's idea to allow himself to be eaten by Touka led to victory against Tsukiyama.

Ken Kaneki
At the beginning, Touka was bewildered to find him alive and turned into a half-ghoul, even though Rize had chosen him as her prey. She refused to help him as a former human, but still came to his help whenever he was in a pinch. After Kaneki joined Anteiku, the two of them are becoming closer and she starts to value him more. Whenever they are together, it would seem as if she bosses him around. Touka often helps him, allegedly only because he is her coworker, but also becauses she cares about him. Kaneki also has started to care about her as much as he cares about Hide.

Since they started to practice together, their movements during fights have synchronized.

Yoshimura
During her early teen years, Yoshimura offered her a job and a chance to live in human society. Since then,Touka has been working part-time at his shop as a waitress and would take missions from him, she is affiliated with Yoshimura's organization Anteiku.

Renji Yomo
The two of them seem to be in good relationship as they work together in Anteiku. It seems that Touka had times with him practicing and that she got trained by him once. She seems to respect him as a strong superior.

Hinami Fueguchi
Hinami sees her like an elder sister and loves her, and so Touka do. The two of them have a close relationship. Touka also is protective toward Hinami.

Powers and Abilities
As part of Anteiku's stability team, Touka has trained almost all her life to fight against doves and insane ghouls who threaten the 20th ward's peace. Much like her rash and hot blooded attitude, her kagune centers around finishing fast and striking hard.


 * Ukaku Kagune: Her Kagune shapes RC gas coming from her shoulder into a single black wing. As a typical Ukaku-type ghoul, her strength comes mainly from her agility and firing projectiles. Her tendency to rush in for the killing blow catches her opponents by surprise. She can cause serious damage by either focusing her Kagune in a single focused attack or firing a flurry of bullets. From a distance, she can rapidly fire a volley of rounds to overwhelm enemies. When striking a single attack, her kagune can pour down a linear strike that grinds surfaces and can even wear down a Koukaku kagune. But as a typicaly ukaku user, she has a short RC supply and her strength diminishes as the fight drags on.

Trivia

 * Touka was ranked second in the character popularity poll.
 * Touka likes school life and rabbits.
 * Touka hates the ghoul investigators, blockhead guy and classical literature.