Touya Kinomoto

### Dislikes:

Fried tofu, hyperactive people, Syaoran Li, Nutty (for always stealing Sakura's candy)

## Voices

**Toya/Touya Kinomoto** (木之本 桃矢, *Kinomoto Tōya*) is one of the main characters of the franchise and the deteuratagonist of the spin-off *Yukito Oujo*. He is Sakura's older brother. Yukito Tsukishiro, the borrowed form of Yue, is his boyfriend.

His birthday is on February 29th, which makes him a leap year baby, a person that can only "properly" celebrate their birthday once every four years. His blood type is O.

He is rumored to be the TRUE protagonist of the series, but questions are unanswered.

## Appearance

Touya is a very tall, well-built, and strikingly handsome young man with tanned skin, dark brown hair parted on the left side, and dark brown eyes. He is usually seen in Seijou high school uniform, but occasionally has also been seen in casual clothes.

## Personality

Touya is similar to his father who is also good at cooking, kind, athletic and helps with house work. Like Yukito, he is also very popular with the girls.

Touya holds the belief that as Sakura's older brother, he is the only person entitled to make fun of her, a belief that his best friend Yukito refers to as a "sister complex." However, he is also caring of her, which leads him to feel suspicious of Syaoran Li. Though Syaoran and Sakura eventually stop fighting, Touya continues to dislike Syaoran when he becomes Sakura's friend, knowing that Syaoran will eventually take Sakura away from him. However he begins to like Syaoran because he is always helping Sakura. Which he reveals when he states that if there was anyone that Sakura wanted to be with to be by her side he wanted it to be Syaoran.

He is a perceptive young man and knows what Sakura has been up to despite Sakura's attempts to keep it a secret, though he pretends not to. Sakura thinks it's impossible that he knows already because he would tease her about it.

Touya seems to be a loner in personality. His only two friends appear to be Kaho Mizuki and Yukito and he is normally only seen socializing with the latter.

## Trivia

* Touya and Yukito are one of Clamp's "Soul Pairs" or soulmate pairs (a common theme in their stories). They are each other's special person and are always together when they appear in other works by Clamp, including in Tsubasa.
* Sakura's confirmed by her voice actress, Sakura Tange, and the Clear Card app to be 13 at the start of Clear Card Arc; despite her age being conflicting with a real-world Japanese school system. This age would conflict with not only her own, but everyone else's as well, meaning Touya would be 17 instead of 16 earlier on in the series.
	+ When he dated Kaho, Kaho was his student teacher; not yet a professional teacher (she would not meet Eriol until she was later in college in England). Touya dated her before she left for college in England, only just beginning seeing her in 8th grade. Due to the aforementioned "conflicting age" issue, he would be a year older than a real-world system during this point of the "timeline" as well. Since Japanese students typically leave high school and later begin college at age 18 or around there; that would apply to a pre college-aged Kaho as well; thus, their age difference is unlikely to be more than 4-5 years.
	+ If Kaho was not yet 20, she also would have not yet reached the "age of adulthood" (20 in Japan), thus technically being considered a minor during the time.
	+ Despite all of this, Kaho's age is not confirmed exactly during this point of the series; only Touya being in 8th grade around that age at the very start is confirmed. It might be of note that she and Touya both share birthdays in February, which occur towards the end of a typical Japanese school year (the Japanese school year begins in April and ends with the next year's March*.*)
	+ Similarly to the "conflicting age" issue, Touya confirms he is in college during Clear Card Arc Episode 03. Because he was previously in high school during the previous series, he would have just started college by Clear Card Arc.
	+ As early as Chapter 11, he states he is 10 years old when Sakura is 3, which would make their age difference about the difference in that length of time. This fact also lining up with Touya being in college in Clear Card Arc. He states this when he speaks to Yukito about how Sakura became scared of ghosts
	+ It is also confirmed by the manga that Nadeshiko died three years after Sakura was born.
* In the anime, like Syaoran in the *Sleeping Beauty* play, Touya plays the lead female character in his high school's *Cinderella* play.
* Touya's "kaijuu" (monster) nickname for Sakura in *Cardcaptor Sakura* is reused in *Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles*.
* Touya's running gag about his part-time jobs is retained in *Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles* as he appears as a waiter in a restaurant where Syaoran and company eat in the Hanshin Republic.
* The first kanji of Touya's given name (桃) means peach, and peach blossoms are one of his mother's two favorite flowers; the other being cherry blossoms, sakura (桜).
* In the Greek Dub, Touya's name was changed to Justin.
* He is voiced by Tomokazu Seki in *Cardcaptor Sakura* and by Shin'ichiro Miki in *Tsubasa Chronicle*. In *Cardcaptors*, he is voiced by Tony Sampson, and by Kirk Thornton in *The Sealed Card* movie. He is voiced by Eric Vale in the English dubbed version of *Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle*
* His Japanese voice actor from *Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle*, Shin'ichiro Miki, Mepple in *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and its second season and also voices Charizard from the *Pokémon* anime.
* His English voice actor from the second *Cardcaptor Sakura* movie, Kirk Thornton, is also the current voice actor of Shadow the Hedgehog from the *Sonic the Hedgehog series* since *Sonic Colors* for the *Nintendo Wii* and *DS* to the present releases.
* Touya isn't really a prince by blood, but despite this, he is part of the Crystal Princes. though it is possible that he might become a prince in the future when he becomes Yukito's husband. making Touya a prince by marriage.
* It is revealed that Tom, Jerry, Touya and Kyoya work in the same restaurant, but that is just an AU headcanon. it was firstly shown in The PinkPlush100 Show Season 2 Episode 8: Dragon Love.