Kohaku Tsukishiro

is the deuteragonist of the 2018 anime Iroduku: The World in Colors.
She is the grandmother of Hitomi Tsukishiro, who is a member of the Tsukishiro family, a family of talented witches and magicians, as well as an alumna of Minamigaoka High School. At some point in time, Kohaku witnesses her granddaughter's spiral into depression after she loses her ability to see the colours around her, as well as the loss of her ability to make friends.
In order to counter it, Kohaku would later send Hitomi back in time to 2018, 60 years ago, via the mysterious hourglass known as Stardust Clock, as means to visit her own past self and her friends during her term as a second-year high school student in Minamigaoka, as well as subsequently regaining her ability to see the world in colours again.
Kohaku is voiced by in Japanese as a teenager, who voiced other characters including Hikari Takanashi from Interviews With Monster Girls, Sakura Minamoto from Zombie Land Saga, Hana Yurikawa from Mieruko-chan, and Ciel from Tsukihime. Her old self is voiced by , who voiced Margalo from the Japanese dub of Stuart Little 2. In English her teenage self is voiced by Cat Thomas, who voiced other characters including Nozomi Harasaki from Shenmue the Animation, Yui Yuigahama from My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU and Chito from Girls' Last Tour. Her older self in English is voiced by .
==Appearance==
In her teenage years Kohaku is regarded as a cute-looking teenage girl of average stature, who has a purple hair tied into a ponytail, as well as amber-colored eyes. Like Hitomi, she wears the Minamigaoka High School uniform, albeit the past version, which consists of a white collared shirt, dark-blue blazer, red bow tie, and a grey skirt. Around her neck is a golden necklace with an azurite pendant, similar to the azurite earrings that Hitomi has.
In the 60 years within the future, Kohaku is an elderly lady with a short purple hair with some of them greying out due to her age.
==Personality==
During her teenage years, Kohaku is a renowned troublemaker in Minamigaoka, who often causes trouble amongst her classmates for experimenting all forms of magic, which her own classmates fear her. However, in spite of her faults, Kohaku is notably friendly and caring, particularly towards Hitomi, who has known about her future granddaughter's predicament, as well as the rest of her classmates.
As an old lady, Kohaku has grown much wiser and more empathetic, who deeply cares for Hitomi, especially after she saw her granddaughter's depressive state over her mysterious inability to see the colors around her. She goes so far into sending her granddaughter 60 years into the past through the Stardust Clock, in hopes that she can cure her severe achromatopsia and see the world in colors again.
==Background==
Kohaku is one of the members of the Tsukishiro family, who were a lineage of witches and magicians, and even owned a magic store that still stood presumably for several centuries. In the past, she was in a relationship with Shohei Ichiyanagi, her love interest, future husband, and Hitomi's future grandfather. It was presumed that she married him at an unknown amount of time. It was then revealed that Ichiyanagi was responsible for the Stardust Clock, whom he gave it to Kohaku.
At the start of the series, Kohaku later witnesses Hitomi's rather depressive demeanor, after finding out that she lost her sense of seeing colors around her, due to her slowly ageing. She then proceeds to send her granddaughter in 2018 to meet her younger self, as well as ending her achromatopsia that was mysteriously placed on her.
==Relationships==
===Hitomi Tsukishiro===
Hitomi is Kohaku's granddaughter, whom she has transported 60 years into the past, and she likes Hitomi to address to her by her first name from their teenage years, when they were close friends.
===Shosei Ichiyanagi===
Kohaku's love interest during her high school term and later husband in the future, who is responsible for helping Kohaku obtaining the Stardust Clock in the past.
==Trivia==
*Kohaku's first name means "amber", mostly alluding to her eye color, and her surname means "White moon".
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