Touko Kanbayashi

**Touko Kanbayashi** (寒林 陶子, *, *Kanbayashi Tōko**?) is a character in Zombie 100. She is a former municipal office employee who was fired for her overbearing attitude and a member of Kanta Higurashi's group.

## Appearance

Touko is an adult woman of average height with back-length black hair that has a straight fringe cut above her eyes which are framed by square-rimmed eyeglasses where they are noticeably cold and distrustful with deep eyebags underneath them and she wears red lipstick.

Her outfit when she was still working consisted of mainly professional attire, a white button-up shirt, a formal black blazer, and an ID slung around her neck.

When she became part of Kanta Higurashi's group, she wore a blouse with a v-shaped neckline and puffed sleeves that reached above her elbows, which are tucked into office pants with a pair of black-heeled shoes for footwear.

## Personality

Touko was a stuck-up, entitled individual who refused to believe that she was in the wrong and always played the victim when called out for her misgivings. She was also very selfish and ruthless as shown when she was willing to let an entire village of innocent people die by releasing the zombies that the villagers barricaded against for safety. One of the demonstrations of her cruelty was when she attacked Beatrix Amerhauser with a chainsaw, the latter who only wanted to help innocent people.

## History

Not much is known about Touko except that she was a part of Kanta Higurashi's group who used to work as an office worker.

## Story

### Manga

Touko was with Kanta Higurashi’s group to attack the village Akira Tendou’s group was at where she goes after Beatrix Amerhauser who plans on stopping the water mill so the electrical fence trapping everyone will depower so everyone can escape. She rams against the horse she was riding on with a tractor. Then, she attacks Beatrix with a chainsaw that destroys her naginata and one of her katanas before the two start to engage in a fight.

While fighting, Touko comments on how the sound of her chainsaw attracts the zombies and that they should end the battle immediately. As the zombies get closer, she reminisces about her past life and shouts out the reason why she wished to have everyone who looked down on her deserved to be turned into zombies. In response, Beatrix talks about her German culture and Touko angrily tells her, "*People in the wrong should just shut up and get turned into zombies*!"

However, Touko soon met her demise when Beatrix crushes her to death along with many zombies with a loose water wheel in an attempt to depower the electrical fence trapping everyone to escape the village that was becoming infested with zombies.

### Anime

Much of Touko's story remains the same except her death is portrayed differently in Episode 11 as seen when Beatrix Amerhauser attempts to crush Touko while walking on the water wheel, she manages to avoid being squished and slumps on the ground hysterical, but she soon gets devoured by the zombies around her and she was presumably zombified at the end.

## Abilities

Touko is a formidable opponent who "ranked top 4 in the national high school Kendo Tournament for 3 years in a row..." (as she mentioned herself in Chapter 18) that Beatrix Amerhauser had trouble beating.

## Equipment

Touko wields a powerful chainsaw to chip the blade of one of Beatrix Amerhauser's katana as seen in Chapter 19.

The chainsaw is not easy to carry yet Touko can lift it with ease.

## Gallery

Touko gets crushed to death by a waterwheel with Beatrix on top
## Etymology

* The name **Touko** means "pottery" (陶) (**tou**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
* Touko's surname **Kanbayashi** means "cold" (寒) (**kan**) and "forest" (林) (**hayashi**/**bayashi**).
	+ The kanji "寒" reflects on her heartless nature.