Nasuverse character
Kohaku
Japanese name:	琥珀
Also known as:	Nanaya (after Hisui Good End) Broomstick Girl Magical Amber (joke) Mister Chin (joke) Aproned Devil (nickname... kind of) Thieving Cat (nickname... kind of)
Franchise:	Tsukihime
Appears in:	Tsukihime PLUS-DISC Kagetsu Tohya Melty Blood / RA / AC / AA
Voice actor:	Kana Ueda (Anime) Kari Wahlgren (Anime Dub) Naoko Takano (Melty Blood)
Character type:	Human, (Demon Hunter bloodline), Synchronizer
Gender:	Female
Birthday:	March 12
Height:	128cm (Child) 156cm
Weight:	43kg
Three sizes:	B78/W58/H80
Blood type:	B
Hair color:	Pink
Eye color:	Yellow

Kohaku (琥珀, ^? lit. lit. "amber") is one of the five heroines of Tsukihime. Her character image song is Yawaraka na Kizuato (やわらかな傷痕, ^?), performed by Cocco.

She also has appearances in the sequel, Kagetsu Tohya and spin-off Melty Blood. She is voiced in the anime series by Kana Ueda, while is voiced in Melty Blood by Naoko Takano.

Kohaku was a member of a branch family of the Fujou clan.

BiographyEdit

The older of the two twin maids in the Tohno mansion, Kohaku, along with her sister Hisui, is a childhood friend of Shiki. She wears a Japanese kimono and is always seen to be smiling and cheerful, being especially gifted with medicine which she learned from Jinan Sougen. Her name, Kohaku, is the Japanese word for amber, referring to her eye color.

She hides her tragic past behind a cheerful face and Hisui's cold demeanor. As a child she was constantly raped by the manor's master Makihisa Tohno, and pretends as though the events never happened, to a degree. It is due to the fact that Kohaku and her sister are the descendents of "Synchronizers" that allow them to give a person of the opposite gender a bit of their life energy if body fluids are exchanged. She also makes a fake contract with Akiha by letting her suck her blood to suppress the demon blood inside of Akiha. After being used by the manor's master, she eventually lost herself. Her twin sister, Hisui, learned of the Tohno master's sin against Kohaku, and it depressed her greatly. Kohaku, seeing her sister's free enthusiasm falter for her sake, promises Hisui that she will "take on her role" until she was cheerful again. Ironically, it is because of those words that Hisui is unable to return to her old self. Seeing Kohaku acting happy as Hisui was as a young girl, she cannot bring herself to return to her former self. Even if Kohaku is simply acting out her old role, she seems to have attained some level of happiness.

She claims to hate Shiki for the silent connection they shared as children (watching one another but never meeting), but it is revealed that she is actually in love with him, and it is in part why she wanted to take on Hisui's role in the first place. Kohaku simply wanted to innocently love the boy named Tohno Shiki, just as Hisui did as a young girl. Just before Shiki leaves the mansion to live with the Arima family, Kohaku gives him her favorite ribbon and makes him promise to return it, indirectly begging for him to return. In Kohaku and Hisui's scenarios, this promise has a powerful meaning to Shiki, and along with his sister Akiha, is part of the reason he does in fact return to the Tohno mansion.

She has a habit of breaking many (and valuable) objects when cleaning indoors. Though she always states that it was not intended, some characters, like Akiha, seems to think otherwise.

ReferencesEdit

Tsukihime characters
Main characters
Shiki Tohno • Arcueid Brunestud • Ciel • Akiha Tohno • Hisui • Kohaku • Len • Michael Roa Valdamjong
Secondary characters
Arihiko Inui • Aoko Aozaki • Barthomeloi Lorelei • Crimson Moon • Gransurg Blackmore • Kouma Kishima • Merem Solomon • Mr. Dawn • Narbareck • Nanako • Nrvnqsr Chaos • Satsuki Yumizuka
Minor characters
Akemi Yamase • Akira Seo • Brainwashing-Detective • Curry de Marche • Forte • Fake Shiki • Hanei Misawa • Ichiko Inui • Keiko Arima • Kiri Nanaya • Magical Amber • Maiko Yamase • Makihisa Tohno • Master Panda • Mecha-Shiki • Neco-Arc Bubbles • Neco-Arc Destiny • Neco-Arc Evolution • Phantas-Moon • Sougen Jinan • Souka Tsukihime • Tokie Jinan • Tonami Kugamine • Tsukasa Shijyou
Melty Blood characters
Miyako Arima • Dust of Osiris • Mech-Hisui • Neco-Arc • Neco-Arc Chaos • Night of Wallachia • Riesbyfe Stridberg • Shiki Ryougi • Sion Eltnam Atlasia • White Len