Appearance
Hinami is a young teenager, bearing a resemblance to her late mother. She had short, straight brown hair, brown eyes, and often wore a hairband decorated with two four-leaf clovers, a common motif for her.
She was identified as the “Daughter” ghoul when she was wearing her butterfly dress and coat. Therefore, she disguised herself while moving around the 20th ward.
After the time skip, Hinami has grown into a beautiful young woman, with her hair arranged into a bob cut with her fringe parted towards the right side of her face. She first appears in the opening montage wearing a long black hooded cloak on missions.
Personality
As a preteen, Hinami was shy with a very gentle heart. She was also eager for knowledge and fond of reading in order to learn. She cared deeply for Touka and Kaneki, constantly expressing sadness and worry for the two’s unhappiness. She also had a very pacifistic nature, having no intention to avenge her mother and father despite loving them so much. Hinami gradually coped with the deaths of her parents better and obtained a very cheerful attitude.
After the time skip, Hinami’s demeanor has become much more calm, collected, and somewhat distant. Her experiences since Kaneki’s disappearance and the CCG’s new agenda have caused her to lose much of her previously cheery stance and instead take on a jaded, realistic outlook on life. Since joining Aogiri Tree, Hinami’s persona has become more solidified. She is no longer terrified of smelling or seeing death, as shown through her interactions with Torso and Ayato. However, she is still reluctant to kill. She believes this to be her weakness and the reason people she loved left her.
Later, Hinami was eating her food in a room on Anteiku’s second floor when Kaneki suddenly entered the room without knocking. After apologizing properly, he explained his half-ghoul status to her. Kaneki noticed Hinami was reading one of Sen Takatsuki’s books, Monochrome Rainbow, and, remembering she was unable to attend school, taught her more complicated vocabulary in the novel. Before she went back with her mother, she thanked him and asked him to teach her more next time.
While Hinami and her mother were walking back from the bookstore, four ghoul investigators, including Koutarou Amon, Kureo Mado, Yasutomo Nakajima, and Ippei Kusaba, lured the two into an alley to annihilate them. Ryouko told her daughter to run while she held the attackers back. During her frantic escape, Hinami ran into Kaneki and begged for his help, but only returned in time to witness her mother being killed by Mado.
When reading a newspaper detailing Kusaba’s death, Hinami realized Touka had killed the investigator as revenge and decided to run away. Touka found her in a distraught state and comforted her, only to be interrupted by the appearance of Mado. Hinami helplessly watched her sister figure battle and slowly lose against the investigator, eventually releasing her own kagune and rendering Mado helpless. As Hinami cried over the loss of her parents, a weak and injured Touka finished off Mado. Renji Yomo and Kaneki rushed to Hinami’s and Touka’s whereabouts and accompanied them back to Anteiku. During their walk back, Hinami asked if it was right for her to live and Kaneki answered that he believed it to be Ryouko’s will.