Koutarou Amon

Koutarou Amon (亜門 鋼太朗, Amon Kōtarō) is a First-Class Ghoul Investigator.

He was Kureo Mado's last partner. His last partner was 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 has a certain interest in the two ghouls Rabbit and Eyepatch.

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

Like most ghoul investigators, Amon usually wears a black suit with tie. If he leaves for an investigaton, he additionally 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 Porpora was exposed of his crimes. This incident led 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.

After his fight with Kaneki, he has shown interest and curiosity by wanting to understand him, however their future encounters ended up with both of them fighting one another.

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

Doves' Emergence
After they had killed Asaki Fueguchi, 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.undefined 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.undefined 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.undefined

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.undefined

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

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.undefined

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.undefined

The commander of the 11th Ward Special Countermeasures Unit orders that Amon, Shinohara and Suzuya shall participate in the unit.undefined 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.undefined

Anteiku Raid Arc
Amon takes part in the raid on Anteiku. When Kaneki appeared to get through in order to help out Yoshimura, he asked Amon to let him pass, in which Amon stated he obviously can't do that. During this confrontation, Amon gives Kaneki his name for the first time, before they clashed. In their initial clashing, Amon had his quinque broken (as Kaneki refused to kill him), but had two new ones brought to him afterwards, where one is a model of his previously broken quinque and another being an Arata for special classes, with both being improved versions. In this second confrontation however, Amon still loses, this time with a cost of his right arm. Despite failing to stop Kaneki, he still managed to deal a formidable amount of damage to him, blowing off a chunk of his waist. By the time Amon recovered consciousness, Seidou had brought reinforcements with him for help. Tatara however appears with Noro with the intention to wipe them out. After Seidou was dealt a lethal hit by Noro through Tatara's command, Amon is seen for the last time charging at Tatara with his quinque in a fit of rage.

He is officially listed as killed in action by the CCG. It is currently unknown if he is among the missing dead investigators.

Donato Porpora
Donato was his ghoul foster parent and they lived together in a Catholic orphanage. But one day, Amon discovered that Donato had been slaughtering the children in the orphanage daily, which made Amon grow a sense of hatred toward him. Since then he has cut his ties with him, and refuses to recognize him as his foster family.

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 several ghoul incidents, and a time wherein Akira had gotten drunk, their bond grew closer and they started to work well together. 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. Akira may have romantic feelings toward Amon as she tried to kiss him once, which he stopped. It is then showed that the two are in completely different teams during the battle against Anteiku.

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
Amon considered Suzuya to be quite weird and was angered by his carefree attitude, but later started to get along, though Amon said that he 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. Amon respects him as a true comrade and flew into a distraught rage when Takizawa was seriously injured and killed by Tatara and Fura

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 pursuing 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 for, although he has a lot of questions 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 Kaneki from becoming 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 up with a solution to repair it. Amon was given the repaired Doujima after Kura was destroyed by Kaneki. The repaired Doujima 1/2 takes the form of a lance like spear. The quinque was repaired by using the Bin Brother's kagunes.
 * Kura (クラ) The koukaku quinque Amon wields during CCG's raid on the Aogiri hideout. It is a quarterstaff with a large blade at its end that can take down multiple ghouls in a single swing. The blade 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. It was destroyed by Kaneki during Amon's fight
 * Arata proto • II: A koukaku quinque that is an upgrade to it's predecessor Arata Proto. This quinque takes the form of a suit of armor that wraps Amon's body in a spiral-like fashion. Additionally, Arata Proto II creates a mask that takes the shape of a bird with two small curved markings stacked above two larger markings. Like it's predecessor, Arata Proto II augments Amon's strength, speed and durability to the point of being able to fight toe to toe with Kaneki, a SS ranked ghoul for a period of time. However using the quinque bears a heavy burden on the body which could be mitigated due to Amon's high physical abilities. The quinque was destroyed by Ken Kaneki in his kakuja form.

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".

Quotes

 * "This world is wrong."
 * (To himself about the world): “I’ll show them. I will be the one to correct this wrong world.”