Yasuhisa Kurona

Personality

Kurona was a cheerful and upbeat girl until she witnessed her parents’ horrific murder at the hands of a ghoul. Kurona became cold, aloof, and nihilistic as a result of their deaths’ trauma. She chose to become a ghoul because she believed that being human and living in today’s “twisted world” was the source of her troubles. Her misanthropy, on the other hand, was the outcome of Akihiro’s manipulations.

Kurona loves her sister Nashiro above all else, a feeling that has only grown stronger since their parents’ demise. If her sister is in danger, she is willing to lay aside any task or goal, including her grudge against the government.

Her acts against Rushima show how her sister’s murder has profoundly altered her, as she seeks vengeance against Kanou and Suzuya for their deeds against her and her sister. Kanou’s sanity has deteriorated to the point where she believes Nashiro is still alive and conversing with her, despite the fact that she has entirely absorbed her beloved sibling and the noise the malformed face on her abdomen produced was flatulence.

Despite her twisted nature, she is wise, having retired from the Suzuya Squad as they began to lose and collaborating with Nishiki Nishio to arrest Kanou. In comparison to when she was a child, she is also more outspoken. This is evident when she criticizes Kaneki’s plans.

Appearance

Kurona and Nashiro were identical twins. They both had light-colored hair and dark eyes when they were kids. They both obtained a kakugan after Kanou transformed both into half-ghouls. Kurona’s kakugan was in her left eye, and beneath it was a small dark mark. Nashiro’s hair turned white, but Kurona’s turned black following the experiment. Her typical attire consisted of a long black cloak with a hood. Two white circles resembling eyes were atop the hood. Her ghoul mask was a simple vertical-striped black and white mask with a hole in the left eye.

She wears a long, hooded cloak in Tokyo Ghoul. Her hair has grown out and is now the lighter color she had as a child.

History

Kurona was born into a wealthy family and grew up in a lavish mansion with them. She aspired to be a chef and create her own restaurant as a child. Her joy was short-lived, however, when a ghoul broke into her house and murdered her parents in front of her and her twin sister. Following her parents’ murder, she and her sister were brought into the custody of the CCG and assigned to its Academy Junior School as wards.

She, like many other kids orphaned by ghouls, aspired to be a ghoul investigator and excelled in her studies. Kurona began taking lessons with Juuzou Suzuya, who was still known as Rei at the time when she was fifteen years old. She and Nashiro thought he was unusual, but attempted to get along with him nevertheless. They didn’t appreciate how others propagated tales about him and used them to isolate Juuzou. She also met Koutarou Amon, who was visiting as a guest speaker at the time. Kurona and her sister grew to admire Amon rapidly and communicated with him after class. They inquired about the possibility of women becoming ghoul investigators, and Amon assured them that they could. He mentioned a couple of notable female investigators, like Kasuka Mado and Kiyoko Aura. They were inquisitive about Mado, but Amon informed them that she had been slain in the line of duty, and Kurona was introduced to the term “one-eyed ghoul.” Shizuku Kawakami, one of Kurona’s acquaintances, died of sickness shortly after Amon’s presentation. She and her sister went for a walk in the woods while grieving and came across Juuzou. They were concerned about his lack of understanding of life and death and wondered if he was upset about Shizuku. Kurona noticed Juuzou was covered in blood and deduced that he was the perpetrator of the animal slaughter.

Soon later, the two sisters disappeared. They were tested on and became subjects of experiments just like Kaneki.

Raid of Kanou’s Lab

Kurona and her sister accompanied Madam A to the Ghoul Restaurant as her bodyguards as Kanou had predicted that Kaneki might target her. They fought Kaneki and when she and Nashiro used their kagune together, they were able to block his attack and push him back. After she exposed her kagune, it was immediately recognized to be the same as Kaneki’s; it was a kagune derived from Rize Kamishiro. After Madam A escaped, she removed her mask showing her single kakugan, confirming that Kanou was still performing experiments.

During Kaneki’s investigation into Kanou, Kurona was requested by the doctor to protect Madam A and was consequentially staying at her residence. When Madam A went to check up on her “children,” Kurona went with her and attempted to protect her during Kaneki’s group’s attack. When they encountered Kaneki, she abandoned Madam A on the orders of Kanou.

After Kaneki and his gang apprehended Madam A, they located Kanou’s hideout and infiltrated his secret laboratory. They encountered Kurona and Nashiro waiting for them, but Kaneki slipped past to let the others take care of them. They fought Shuu Tsukiyama, annoyed all the while as they found him pretentious, but strong. Just as they began to fight more seriously, Naki swooped in and accidentally saved Tsukiyama. Aogiri Tree had arrived and between them and Kaneki’s group, they wondered what to do. The fight halted until Naki attacked Tsukiyama and the fight commenced between Aogiri and Kaneki’s group. However, Eto slipped by and the twins went after her. They followed Eto to an isolated location where she taunted and spoke to them about their past. Kurona and her sister repeatedly tried to attack Eto, but she dodged them so quickly that the twins could not see her. Eto dug at their painful past, what they had done to their bodies, and how they fell for Kanou’s manipulation until they collapsed from mental and emotional anguish.

Shortly after the CCG’s arrival at the lab, the twins ran into Juuzou Suzuya, a familiar face from their days in the Academy. Following a brief exchange of words, the twins then engaged him in a skirmish. Juuzou fought against them, reveling in how fun it was and wanting to see their guts. However, Juuzou became too laid back and the twins were able to slash his abdomen open. Juuzou was able to see his own guts instead. He flailed around and appeared too injured to fight, so the twins attacked again, asking Juuzou not to think badly of them. It was an act, however, and as they approached, Juuzou stuck a knife in Kurona’s kakugan. Juuzou was able to seriously wound Kurona with his stash of scorpion 1/56 quinque knives, leaving her almost helpless. Nashiro came to her aid but Juuzou used his 13’s Jason quinque to nearly kill her.

As Kurona rushed to her sister’s rescue she remembered why she chose the path she did. She remembered Kanou speaking to her about her parents’ deaths and who revenge should be sought on. Kurona and Nashiro discarded their humanity so that they could have the power to seek revenge. She remembered the day they underwent their operation. They held their hands the entire time to not feel scared. Just as Kurona reached her sister, they clasped hands and Juuzou severed Nashiro’s arm at the forearm. Nashiro collapsed onto her and Kurona debated with herself over what to do before deciding to flee to find Kanou.

On the way, Kurona stopped to rest in a hallway where Amon eventually passed by and noticed her. She turned around to face Amon and they instantly recognized each other. Kurona ran as Amon called after her. She arrived at Kanou’s hidden security room hoping the doctor could save Nashiro. There she found him with Eto and Matasaka Kamishiro. Kanou stated that Nashiro’s damage was beyond recovery and that they should leave her. Despite the terrible news, he smiled and said that she would make many new friends. Shocked, Kurona fell to her knees before Kanou then left with Aogiri. After an unknown amount of time, Kurona decided to absorb Nashiro into her own body, allowing Nashiro to live as a parasitic entity inside her body.

Auction

In the aftermath of the Auction, fleeing members of Aogiri Tree were ambushed. When the bodies were later discovered by investigators, they found evidence of cannibalism. Koutarou Amon as the Robed Giant discovered a dying ghoul, who called out “floppy” while he mentioned the name “Yasuhisa” before departing from the scene.

Rushima Landing Operation

Unexpectedly, Juuzou came up behind her and attempted to strike her with 13’s Jason. Managing to evade his attack, Kurona and Juuzou began their clash. In the middle of dodging, the rest of Suzuya Squad appeared behind her and Kurona blocked their attacks. She felt excited because she could show Juuzou’s pain to Nashiro. He asked Kurona if Nashiro was able to live after sustaining such wounds. Kurona removed her cloak to show him Nashiro, beneath was a deformed face on her stomach with the supposed ability to speak.

As the fight ensured, Kurona struck Juuzou’s chest, piercing the quinque armor and breaking 13’s Jason. She continued fighting Suzuya Squad while contemplating why they were unconcerned about Juuzou’s death, believing that Suzuya Squad never cared about Juuzou. To her surprise, the squad jokingly disagreed with her. Suddenly, Juuzou recovered from the previous attack and ambushed her wearing Arata Joker. She attempted to subdue Juuzou with her claw-shaped kagune but was immediately overwhelmed. Her arms and legs were repeatedly lacerated by Juuzou. Enraged and unable to fight back, she fled.

Wandering around the island after fighting with Juuzou, Kurona eventually found Kanou, who greeted her as he bowed and welcomed her back. With Kanou standing before her, Kurona requested him to save Nashiro. Kurona attempted to prove Nashiro was alive but was enraged when Kanou told her she was long dead. Confronted by Kurona, Kanou released Okahira from a capsule to test which of his creations was better.

With Kanou’s new Quinx being quickly subdued, Kurona claimed she would kill everyone in the laboratory. Kanou then questioned Kurona’s statement while the rest of his test subjects were released. She quickly subdued the test subjects but was caught off guard by Okahira who proceeded to snap her neck while apologizing for his actions. However, this proved to be insufficient as Kurona quickly recovered and slashed at the Quinx, killing many of them. She then decided to make her way to the roof in order to gain higher ground.

She mocked Kanou, and said she would kill him for what he had done to her family, their conversation, however, was interrupted by the arrival of Serpent, who agreed with Kurona’s claims and prepared to kill Kanou. She later pondered about Nishiki’s true intentions while she watched his fight with Roma Hoito and Shikorae. Kurona impaled Roma with her kagune and told Nishiki she would help him pursue Kanou. She prepared herself to fight again after stating she did not manage to wound Roma’s kakuhou. Although, she managed to cut short Roma’s rampage against Serpent and pin her down. Startled by Shikorae’s chimera kagune, she failed to react in time when he attacked but Serpent managed to land a powerful kick, tossing the ghoul back. After Shikorae fled in pain, the two of them captured Roma.

She was present during the Aogiri executives’ and Anteiku group’s grand escape from Rushima, standing with Serpent and their hostage.

Post-Rushima Landing Operation

A month after leaving Rushima, Kurona waited for the intended meeting with the One-Eyed King. After Kaneki had arrived with:re staff and the 0 Squad, Kurona interrupted the argument that began. Declaring that she would only help if one of the goals was to kill Kanou, she implied that Nishiki was her one ally in the room. She then spoke to the White Suits about their new circumstances with Aogiri gone, which they denied needing. After Miza had Kaneki state his aspirations, Kurona laughed at his words, finding them absurd but inquired about how he actually planned to achieve human and ghoul coexistence, his reply made her ask if he was even serious or just insane. Kurona remained silent as Kaneki continued about the philosophy he was basing his goals on and was astonished when the escaped ghouls of Cochlea bowed down to him.

CCG Lab Infiltration

Kurona participated in a raid on the CCG lab alongside Kaneki, Ayato Kirishima, and Seidou Takizawa in order to retrieve the required suppressants for Akira Mado. While on their way to the lab, Kurona approached Kaneki and thanked him for making Kanou regret his decisions on him, and admitted her jealousy of him for being treated the way he was, compared to her and her sister being considered failures. Kaneki said that people who ignored her existence were in no position to assess her, to which Kurona was grateful. They encountered a comatose Amon sedated in a test tube, accidentally awaking him while he triggered his kakuja in a deranged mental state. Kurona and Takizawa stated that they would be the ones to put Amon down to buy time for Ayato and Kaneki to escape. She attempted to restrain Amon, as the latter easily repelled both her and Takizawa’s attacks.

Epilogue

She went to Europe and carried out activities to repel ghouls that assaulted humans. Although it is said that she went to a conflict in the Middle East, and her whereabouts are unknown.

Much later, Kurona appeared at Rushima late into the CCG’s Rushima Landing Operation. She encountered Hanbee Abara after he had successfully injured Miza Kusakari. She then asked him if he was one of Juuzou’s grunts, while two of her kakugan were active. The two engaged in a fight, with Kurona gaining the advantage, she incapacitated Hanbee by piercing his leg with her kagune. After subduing Hanbee, Kurona questioned why he would follow someone like Juuzou, stating that he would just abandon him. Hanbee disagreed, saying that Juuzou would never leave behind his subordinates.