Also known as the Rabbit, Touka Kirishima is one of the main characters in Ishida Sui's Tokyo Ghoul. Touka serves as a waitress at the famous coffee shop known as Anteiku, being a Ghoul who tries not to resort to violence most of the time. With peace finally prevailing between humans and ghouls by the end of the series, Touka lives a happy life with her husband, Kaneki Ken, and her daughter Ichika Kaneki. As the lead female in Tokyo Ghoul, it's not a surprise to see her being a fan-favorite. Here are ten things you probably didn't know about Touka Kirishima.
10 Touka's Duality
Throughout Tokyo Ghoul, Touka's character has had a duality about her. She often flips between kindness and rage. Although she's inherently kind, this nature of hers is repressed by her rage for humans who often hunt her kind down. With the progression of the story, Touka's character evolves as well, and her kindness comes to the surface at a drastic speed. By the end of the series, Touka is more kind than she's filled with rage, as she finds it in her to forgive those who she once considered her enemy as well, displaying great maturity in the process.
9 Touka's Ghoulhood
Despite being born as a Ghoul, Touka is very insecure about her true identity. This is likely because she has always had to blend herself among humans and suppress her real nature, as directed by her father, Arata Kirishima when she was a kid. Touka was surprised when Kimi noticed her Kagune and called her beautiful, despite her being a ghoul. Although it helps in improving her self-esteem, she largely doesn't take pride in being a Ghoul, yet she's ready to defend her kind with everything she has if it ever comes down to it.
8 Touka's Fear
Although she often dons a tough exterior, Touka has her own with fears and anxieties, just like any other person. One of her biggest known fears is being abandoned by the people she loves, which is something that's happened in her life time and again. Her mother, her father, and her brother have all left her behind, which is also one of the reasons why she has low self-esteem.
After losing Kaneki, Touka almost broke down, but thankfully, everything worked out for her towards the end. By the end of the series, she lives a happy life, in a happy family with her friends, both human and ghoul, all around her.
7 Touka and Yomo
Touka's maternal uncle, Renji Yomo, has played an important role in her life in Tokyo Ghoul. According to the manga, Yomo was responsible for training her in combat to defend herself if the need arises. As such, Yomo knows all of Touka's strengths and weaknesses. Yomo and Touka would often take missions together when they were at Anteiku, especially ones where they would have to restock on food for the ghouls who didn't hunt humans. Unbeknownst to Touka, Yomo has always watched her and Ayato's back ever since their parents passed away.
6 Touka's Kagune
Being a Ghoul, Touka is capable of manifesting a powerful Kagune. She has an Ukaku type Rc, and has the ability to form a humongous wing from her back which can also unleash a barrage of projectiles. With time, Touka gains enough skill to form a second wing and the size of her attacks gets significantly larger as well. Touka also possesses the ability to release a lightning aura from her kagune, capable of causing large-scale destruction. While she doesn't fight often, Touka can fight very well, which is not a surprise since she's trained under Renji Yomo himself.
5 The Meaning of Her Name
Whether her name has a connection to her personality in any way is not known, but since the author, Ishida Sui, has a knack for choosing interesting names with a hidden meaning behind them, that might as well be the case here.
4 Touka's Hair
Touka's hair has changed quite often, both in the anime and the manga. In the anime, her hair is mostly blue, although in Tokyo Ghoul :re, the shade of her hair is slightly darker. In the manga, Touka's hair is black initially, but as the manga went on, Ishida Sui started to avoid inking her hair because it took him a lot of time. Instead, he simply imagined that Touka has black hair.
3 Touka's Children
After getting married to Kaneki Ken, the two start their own little family. Their firstborn daughter is named Ichika Kaneki. Like Ken Kaneki himself, Ichika has shades of black and white in her hair. Touka is also seen pregnant with another child in the last chapter of Tokyo Ghoul :re. To date, we don't know anything about the unborn child of Touka and Kaneki, except for the gender, which is presumably a boy. Hopefully, Ishida Sui will give us some more information on this lovely family in the future.
2 Touka's Likes and Dislikes
As seen throughout the series, Touka Kirishima enjoys her school life quite a lot. She treasures her memories with Yoriko among others, and it helps her calm her insecurities as she blends with people like a normal school girl. Touka also likes rabbits. In fact, her initial alias in the series was 'Rabbit'. According to Touka, she dislikes Ghoul Investigators since they've stolen everything from her. Other than that, Touka also isn't fond of the stuff that Kaneki likes, such as classical literature.
1 Touka and Haircuts
Despite having gorgeous hair herself, Touka is known to be awful at cutting other people's hair. She's previously given Hinami and Yomo haircuts, both of which were admittedly horrible, as she ended up ruining their bangs. In the anime, Kaneki Ken seems to think that she's good at cutting hair as he, surprisingly, liked the haircut that she gave to Hinami. Whether he actually believes she's good at this, or if he said this not to hurt her feelings is something we will likely never know.