Touka Kirishima

> “What the hell do you know?! It's all because I can't eat, because I could be a target at any time, all because I'm a ghoul! No matter how much I try, there's a wall I can never jump over, and there's happiness that I can never have. But I'm still hanging on to life. Despite it all.”
>
> — Touka Kirishima

**Touka Kirishima** (霧嶋 董香 *Kirishima Touka*) is a ghoul who is an ex-waitress at Anteiku. She is the daughter of Arata Kirishima and Hikari Kirishima, the older sister of Ayato Kirishima, the wife of Ken Kaneki and the mother of Ichika Kaneki and Shouta Magatsuchi.

Touka wears a rabbit mask while hunting, earning her the alias **Rabbit** (ラビット, *Rabitto*). In *Tokyo Ghoul*, she was a second-year student at Kiyomi High School and later a third-year after the post-Aogiri timeskip.

Two years after the Owl Suppression Operation, she returns as the **Manager** (店長, *Tenchō*) of the coffee shop :re. Following its destruction she joins the newly formed organization Goat, thus relocating to the 24th ward along with its other members. After the Defense of Tokyo, Kaneki and Touka currently live happily married (which now makes her **Touka Kaneki**) with a daughter and another child coming, with humans and ghouls finally united together. She also adopted Shouta Magatsuchi, raising him as their oldest son.

Sadly, she died after being slaughtered by a ghoul that invaded her home.

## Personality

*See more of Touka Kirishima's personality in Tokyo Ghoul:wiki.*

She has become accepting of the fact that she loves Kaneki, unlike before where she denies it in embarrassment, which led to her being happy when he gave her the look he used to give Rize Kamishiro and over time after Kaneki regained his memories and lead Goat, she became outright bold and openly professed her feelings for him by revealing how she felt over him isolating her and even going as far as to ask if he was a virgin and in fact even noting she wants to do the deed with him, with her indeed making the move that caused them to consummate their relationship and showing an openly soft and tender side as she did it with him. This soft side remains afterwards, as she would open up more and more to him, establishing a more intimate relationship, and led to her admitting about her pregnancy and accepting his marriage proposal. It is her relationship and marriage to Kaneki that provides her with the happiness she always yearned for and helped improve her self esteem as Kaneki's desire to spend his life with her proved that her belief that she wasn't good enough for her loved ones to stay with her was wrong. Indeed, she even breaks down after potentially losing Kaneki during the Dragon arc, showing how important he has become to her as a crux for her to be able to continually repress her emotions and keep moving forward in spite of loss, and desperately refused to give up on saving him, risking her life and frantically clawing at the Dragon until she found him, expressing completely uncharacteristic grief and care for him, showing how far their newfound relationship has changed her.

As a mother, Touka really cares for her children, including her newly adopted son, Shouta Magatsuchi.

## Relationships

### Ken Kaneki

Touka really loves her husband after getting along in a relationship before and after the Dragon War in the younger days. Touka is one of the closest people to Kaneki in Anteiku, helping him adapt to ghoul life. According to herself, she had fell for Kaneki when he confessed he would be sad if she died. She often worried for his safety due to his inexperience in the ghoul world and in more than one occasion risked her own life to save him.

After the Dragon war and after everything is finally over, Touka and Kaneki continue their marriage, with Touka becoming the household and taking care of their daughter with her husband.

### 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 in her father's footsteps. However, Ayato is devastated and bitter towards humans for how their prejudice against ghouls had torn apart his family. In turn, he has taken a different stance from his father and sister's view on them. Prior to his separation from Touka, he was her constant companion, they would hunt together and fight as a team. That is before he began to act on his own and go where he pleased without her, causing her to incessantly worry about him. Whether something would happen to him or why he was keeping himself separated from her, both bothered her. Following her enrollment into school, he left and Touka would receive word about his rampages in other wards, affecting her deeply and developed her fear of losing those she loves. However, she believed her own character and mistakes were what drove him away.

While he disagrees with her ideas on humanity, he still cares for her safety even despite joining Aogiri shown when he refused to let Yamori and Nico to take her as well as Kaneki. Remembering the emotional hurt Touka felt when he turned against his only family, during their first reunion she was anger at him, both with opposite views and what the right thing was. When they reunite again in *Tokyo Ghoul:re* during the Third Cochlea Raid, Touka supports Ayato in his fight against Arima and tells him to rely on her more instead of trying to handle everything himself.

### Shouta Magatsuchi

Touka loves her newly adopted son, she always treats him like a kind and motherly figure. She is very fond of him as he always do things for his adoptive mother. Everytime she doesn't tell Shouta what to do as he is seen helping his adoptive mother cleaning the dishes and washing the clothes for her without request.

### Tohru Kobayashi

Touka and Tohru are very friendly with each other. As a household of taking care of her family, Tohru loves helping Touka buying groceries from the supermarket requested from her. Sometimes they will eventually loves chatting with each other.

### Ichika Kaneki

Like her oldest son, Shouta. Touka really loves her daughter. She would eventually asks Tohru to bring Ichika to her uncle Ayato to play around.

## Powers and Abilities

**Ghoul Physiology**: Touka is an ukaku ghoul possessing one wing with the ability to harden and dis-harden it at will.

* **Ukaku Kagune**: During the time of Touka's fight with Shuu Tsukiyama, she formed a single ukaku wing and control her kagune with ease. As time passed, Touka gained a second wing with projectiles of a much larger size. Additionally, her kagune stopped the projectiles of Kiyoko's Zebizu and Mougan's Higher Mind, upon emerging, even canceling the attack for a brief moment of time.
* **Pseudo-Electrokinesis**: Touka's kagune while in use is surrounded by a lightning-like aura, capable of generating electricity that can be utilized in an offensive and destructive manner.
* **Superhuman Speed**: When engaging Tsukiyama in battle, she traveled at a speed fast enough to make Tsukiyama lose track of her location for a short amount of time.
* **Superhuman Durability**: When fighting Ayato Kirishima during the 11th Ward Battle, Touka maintained consciousness after getting her kagune devoured by her brother.

## Etymology

* In the first character popularity poll, Touka was ranked second.
	+ In the latest, she was first.
* Touka likes school life and rabbits, but hates ghoul investigators, dimwits, and classical literature.
* Touka canonically has black hair. However, due to the time it takes to ink, Sui Ishida simply stated to "just imagine she has black hair."
* Touka appears to be bearing a second child with Ken Kaneki, as seen in :Re Chapter 179, where in the last two pages she is holding her stomach which looks slightly bigger than usual.
* Touka is associated with the number "2," referring to the tarot card The High Priestess (II).
* Touka is featured as the "Ace of Clubs" in *Tokyo Ghoul Trump*.
* Touka's kagune can produce lightning-like bolts similar to Narukami, T-Human and Renji Yomo's kagune.
* Touka is bad at cutting hair where she has ruined the bangs of both Hinami Fueguchi  and Yomo .
	+ However, Kaneki says she is good at it after seeing Hinami's haircut in the anime.

## Quotes

### *Tokyo Ghoul*

* To Ken Kaneki: "Everything is 'terrible'? Don't make me laugh. So what about me... for me, it's been terrible since I was born."
* To Kaneki (when he tried to eat Hide): "Seems you've become pretty reprehensible. You dumbass. The pain and hunger drowns out all reason... and it's so painful you'd rather die, right? In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a ghoul. That's our destiny. I'm really tired of it... This time I'll help you out."
* To Akira Mado: "I think it's because we want to live. Is there something wrong about that? We were all given life and raised. If the only thing we can do is eat people... how can we ever live correctly with a body like this? Even ghouls... even I want to live just like you guys!"
* To Kaneki: "There is no reason we have to be protected by you. You pretend you care about other people but in the end, it's all about you. You're just afraid of being alone, aren't you?"
* To Renji Yomo: "For the sake of food and anger I've also killed a lot of people!"
* To Yoshimura: "Manager, he... is the one who let me go to school. I've always been in his care, he really is like a father..."
* To Yomo: "Everything... Everything... For the sake of not losing anything, desperately trying to do something. It's always because I didn't know what to do that I blindly try to live."
* To Yomo: "I've had enough... I've had enough... I've had enough."
* To Yomo (about Kaneki's disappearance): "He was perplexed over whether he should return to Anteiku. So... he needs to have a place to belong (return to). I... I will believe. I will believe that he will return to Anteiku."

### *Tokyo Ghoul: Days*

* To Mayuhara (internally): "What the hell do you know?! It's all because I can't eat, because I could be a target at any time, all because I'm a ghoul! No matter how much I try, there's a wall I can never jump over, and there's happiness that I can never have. But I'm still hanging on to life. Despite it all."
* To herself: "I'm bad at sorting out my feelings, and although I try to put on a good front I'm just so incredibly immature. And I hate that about myself."
* To herself: "People suck. They're bound by stupid laws, have an idiotic love for groups, and convinced that they're in the right, they lump together those they hurt and drive them out. But though they're weak, some of them care about others; they may be fragile, but they show love to the people who are important to them; they may not have claws or fangs, but they will fight to defend someone. Do ghouls do that? Do I?"
* To Yoriko Kuroiwa (internally): "...I make idiotic mistakes, and I'm oblivious to the pain of others because I'm too used to pain myself. But you're not like that, Yoriko. I feel calmer just by being around you — that's the kind of presence you have. You're so, so many of the things I'm not."

### *Tokyo Ghoul:re*

* To Ayato Kirishima (about Hinami Fueguchi): "I'm gonna smack her! When you lose sight of yourself, someone's gotta come by and give your cheek a good slap. Otherwise you'll never come to your senses."
* To Ayato: "Ayato. You don't need to keep overreaching. You've grown tall enough already. Rely on others for a change. Stop worrying about me, and go protect Hinami."
* To Ken Kaneki: "Kaneki... Kaneki, I'll see you later, okay?"
* To Koutarou Amon (about Kaneki): "Even if time has passed, even if our bodies have changed, even if he'd forgotten me completely... As long as he came back home, things'll be all right."
* To Akira Mado: "I'm not after your empathy. I empathize you. It must be terrible. Trapped by your past, unable to live in the present..."

### *Tokyo Ghoul: Dragon Quinx*

* (To Tohru): *"Tohru, even though I have high hopes on you. I trust that you take care of our son. Be like a mother to him."*