Tabata is a second-year student at Kiyomi High School who shares a classroom with Touka Kirishima in the 20th ward. His blunt, unsettling observations tend to rattle the people around him.
Short black hair and a pair of glasses mark this young student, who is typically seen wearing the standard school uniform during lessons.
He has a habit of voicing remarks that leave his classmates unsettled.

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As his classmates traded talk about the unfolding situation in the 11th ward, Tabata offered the view that ghouls had always thrived as a species and that people ought to brace for a human defeat, a comment the others found creepy.
He appears again inside a 20th ward library, studying in the company of Touka and another classmate, where he warns one of them to put in real effort if he hopes to pass.
Tabata is a second-year student at Kiyomi High School who shares a classroom with Touka Kirishima in the 20th ward.
As his classmates discussed the situation in the 11th ward, Tabata offered the view that ghouls had always thrived as a species and that people ought to brace for a human defeat, a remark the others found creepy.
Tabata has short black hair and wears glasses, and he is typically seen in the standard school uniform during lessons.
Tabata appears inside a 20th ward library, studying alongside Touka Kirishima and another classmate.
Tabata has a habit of voicing blunt, unsettling remarks that leave his classmates rattled.
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