Kohaku
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| Nasuverse character | |
| Kohaku | |
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| Japanese name: | 琥珀 |
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| 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: | Ueda Kana (Anime) Kari Wahlgren (Anime Dub) Takano Naoko (Melty Blood) |
| Character type: | Human, 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. "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 Ueda Kana, while is voiced in Melty Blood by Takano Naoko.
Kohaku was a member of a branch family of the Fujou clan.
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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.
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 Tohno Makihisa, 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 (Tohno Shiki's sister) 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 Tohno 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. Her name, Kohaku, is the Japanese word for amber, referring to her eye color.
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This article is based on or incorporates content from this revision of the article Kohaku_(Tsukihime) from the English Wikipedia
