Otokaze (オトカゼ, Otokaze) is an elderly woman working as a housekeeper for the Utsumi household who is very close to Koharu Utsumi that she treats her as a daughter.
In truth, she is actually Kazene Mitsuba (三葉 風音, Mitsuba Kazene), the missing mother of idol singer Kotone Mitsuba. Her elder daughter, Kiyone Mitsuba, was murdered by the her employer and his adopted ghoul children.
Appearance[]
Personality[]
Mitsuba appears to be a regular mother, supportive of her young daughter Kotone Mitsuba's dream career until she grows old enough and begins forcing her to follow a more practical path in order to make a living.
After her elder daughter Kiyone Mitsuba goes missing after arguing with her, she became depressed and later delusional, mistaking her younger daughter as the already deceased, elder daughter.
Plot[]
Mitsuba appears to walk around with the frail Koharu Utsumi around town frequently.
She later stabs Yuujirou Utsumi while he was hospitalized as it is revealed that he kidnapped and ate her elder daughter with the ghoul children eight years ago. When Kotone Mitsuba (Mitsuba's younger daughter) visits her, she mistakes her as the already deceased daughter, Kiyone Mitsuba, and falls asleep.
Etymology[]
- The name Kazene means "wind" (風) (kaze) and "sound" (音) (ne).
- Kazene's surname Mitsuba means "three" (三) (mitsu) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (ha/ba), which literally means "three leaves" altogether.