Ken Kaneki's aunt

She is a woman past her youth whose pale complexion frames a thin figure. Brown hair falls to her shoulders, and a jaded, sneering expression tends to settle across her features.

Deceit came easily to her. Though her household was comfortable, she repeatedly told her sister she was scraping by in order to squeeze out extra cash. After agreeing to raise her orphaned nephew alongside her husband, she measured him against her own layabout son and made that comparison a constant source of friction, leaving the boy miserable under her roof.

While he lived with her she avoided him whenever possible, and their few interactions were either accidental or designed to upset him. On one occasion she cleared out his room and hauled his books off for recycling, including a magazine he had borrowed from his friend Hideyoshi Nagachika. Hide confronted her over it and managed to recover the collection.

Trapped later in Yamori's torture chamber, Kaneki revisited these memories. He recalled that his mother, worn down by her sister's endless requests for cash, took on ever more work until the strain killed her, which is how he ended up in the aunt's care. Her early kindness and praise for his grades soured fast; she began resenting him, likening him to her idle son and accusing him of talking down to her. Meals grew smaller before she cut him out of them entirely. In time he realized her poverty had been a fabrication, since the family lived in a roomy two-story house furnished with new appliances bought using his mother's money.