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 (ラビット). She is a second year student at Kiyomi High School.

Appearance
A distinct feature is her long hair-bang that covers her right eye. After the Aogiri arc, her hair becomes longer and now reaches to the back of her neck. On the outside, she is considered a cute, normal girl that one wouldn't suspect to be a ghoul. Normally in either waitress or high school 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 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.

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 a hair bang.

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 about it, but he 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 just 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 also came to thank Touka for nursing Kaneki and him after the car incident. 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 did find out 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 can't hunt humans by themselves.

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 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.Kaneki thinks that it didint 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 worring 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, Loser. 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'. In this case the fuel is 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 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.

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 because she cares about him, but she pretends she only does so because he is her coworker and her workload would increase if something happened to him. Kaneki also has started to care about her as much as he cares about Hide. When Kaneki is captured by Aogiri, she becomes very worried and disregards her own safety in order to save him without hestitation, even if Kaneki could already be dead. Furthermore, her seemingly growing 'attachment' to Kaneki was later shown when he told her that he will be leaving Anteiku as she was shocked and is willing to go as far as to leave her job at Anteiku as well as her studies in order to join him on his quest only to be turned down much to her dismay. She has feelings for Kaneki. She is attracted to his gentle and selfless nature.Since they started to practice together, their movements during fights have synchronized.

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. Proved by 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.

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. The manager also suggested her to go to school and was willing to pay for expenses, a school life that she enjoy and cherish.

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, so the two of them have a close relationship. Seeing that Hinami has also lost her parents to doves, Touka is protective of 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 typical 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, blockheads and classical literature.
 * In some other appearances her right eye can be seen although her eye mostly appears when she activates her Kakugan.