Akira Mado

Akira Mado (真戸 暁, Mado Akira) is a former Associate Special Class Ghoul Investigator, the mentor of Haise Sasaki and the daughter of Kureo Mado and Kasuka Mado who was previously partnered with Koutarou Amon. Akira eventually got defected from the CCG and joined Goat.

Appearance
Akira is a beautiful young woman with neck-length pale blonde hair that hangs on the right side and purple eyes (they are portrayed as pale grey-green in Tokyo Ghoul √A).

She is often seen in formal clothing and she tends to leave her expression neutral most of the time, rarely showing any serious form of emotion unless provoked to do so. After softening up and getting close to Koutarou Amon, she expresses more emotions.

Akira's trademark is a braided hairstyle which she wears in most of her appearances. In her younger days at the Academy, Akira's hair reached past her shoulders but she cut it short when she became an investigator. After the time skip, it has grown out again and she keeps it tied up in a braided bun with bangs swept to the right side.

In the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime, Akira’s hair has grown out where it is now styled in a similar way to the manga and Akira’s eyes have been changed to their manga eye color.

Personality
Akira is an intelligent woman who always serious about work and her daily routine in general. Like Kureo Mado, she has deep insight and intuition that helps her in investigations and determining situations while on the field. She shares her father's "quinque-mania", but not as extreme.

Akira remains professional in most situations, no matter who she is faced with, and she is not one to admit her own feelings on a subject unless provoked to a certain degree. Seen through her interactions with others, it is most likely that she would prefer to make a quinque rather than to interact with someone else.

After the timeskip, Akira has become much more open about showing her emotions to others, as she does throughout her c

onversation with Haise Sasaki.

In Dragon Quinx, Akira begins to be a little depressed just like Shouta in which she rarely puts a smile on her face, after experiencing the great catastrophe of the Defense of Tokyo. However, Akira sometimes may get herself intoxicated, just like Kobayashi in which she becomes insanely mad.

Kureo Mado
After losing her mother at a young age, Akira and her father develop a very close bond. She states she handled much of the housework for their family, while her father was shown to be a devoted and even doting parent. Akira had great admiration for him, viewing his obsession with fighting ghouls as something to aspire towards as an investigator. Though she maintains a stoic front concerning his passing, when intoxicated, she breaks down in tears over the loss.

Kasuka Mado
Kasuka and Akira shared a loving mother and daughter relationship. Her death has affected Akira greatly. After discovering about her revival by Legion, Akira knew that it was her chance of bringing her mother back. But what she didn't know is that her mother became a Dire Ghoul.

Amon Koutarou
Initially, Akira harbored a deep-seated resentment towards him over the death of her father and even claimed to hate him while drunk. She often made things difficult for him, teasing him or acting contrary especially towards his gestures of good will. However, over time, she came to care deeply for him and even attempts to kiss him once. His rejection causes her frustration, demanding to know whether he compares her to Harima. After his apparent death, Misato confronts her apparent lack of emotion over the death of her superior Amon and former classmate Takizawa. Akira then breaks down in tears saying that she did deeply care for both of them.

After meeting with him four years later, she expresses confusion and lacks the courage to face him. Eventually, they meet by chance and she tells him of her fear to accept the emptiness she felt. When he promises to always support her however, they both act out on their romantic feelings for each other and kiss.

Haise Sasaki
As his mentor, Akira is usually friendly towards him and treats him kindly. When she first heard about him, she felt misgivings concerning rumors of him being different but over the years, they have developed a close bond. However, Akira is not above harshly rebuking him and claims that he is dangerously naïve. After he loses control, she helps to bring him down and later comforts him, establishing his condition and reassuring him. When asked by Arima if he wanted to know about his family Sasaki would say that Akira is like a mother to him. Later while he is with Akira herself, Sasaki jokingly called her "Mom," something she was not pleased with.

Juuzou Suzuya
The two were friendly towards each other in their first meeting, with Akira commenting that Suzuya's cross-stitches looked nice.

Kuki Urie
Akira mentors and supervises her underling Urie, giving him advice on using quinques and tips on being a ghoul investigator. Urie doesn't appear to have any complications with Akira and cooperates with her, unlike with Sasaki. During the Rushima Landing Operation, Urie showed disbelief at Mutsuki's claim that Akira shielded a ghoul, and reaffirmed that Akira was their superior. Urie then decided that he wanted to listen to Akira's story before judging her and told his squad to attend to her immediately once they were done with Floppy.

Tooru Mutsuki
Akira is caring towards her underling Mutsuki and is shown to be worried when Mutsuki is assigned a tough position to infiltrate enemy lines during the Auction. Akira is relieved when she finds a missing Mutsuki alive during the Rushima Landing Operation, but is evidently disturbed when she has her cheek cut by Mutsuki's kagune unleashing. When Akira shields Takizawa from being killed by Mutsuki, Mutsuki pierces her repeatedly while calling her out for violating the ghoul countermeasures act, showing no qualms in hurting his superior.

Saiko Yonebayashi
Akira deeply cares for her underling Saiko and looks after her wellbeing, even telling her not to eat too much. During Shirazu's funeral, Akira comforted a crying Saiko, telling her to let it all out. Akira would often pose as a motherly figure towards Saiko.

Shouta Magatsuchi
Knowing that Shouta is Kaneki's adopted son, she often refrain from talking to him. But she doesn't seem to see him with hatred as she knows the boy's feelings. During their dinner, it is seen that Akira thanked him after he gave her a gift which consist of a cute CCG pen. When Akira asked him about Kaneki, Shouta starts to feel incredibly sad after telling her that Kaneki and Touka were slaughtered brutally by her mother as he begins to cry. He additionally told her that this was not his first time experiencing the pain of loss. Akira, knowing what Shouta had been through, she embraced him the same way Shouta's aunt Hinami had. As Shouta is bursting in tears, Akira calmly wipe off his tears like a mother. Hinting that she deeply cares about Shouta.

Hinami Fueguchi
In Tokyo Ghoul:re, after Hinami's imprisonment in Cochlea, Akira told Sasaki to hurry up on getting information from her as his ownership period of her was limited. As noted by Sasaki, Akira showed uneasiness and tension, and possibly hatred, from her part due to Hinami being involved in her father's death.

After a turn of events which results in Hinami and Akira being in the same organization, Hinami appears to be not fond of Akira who utilized Hinami's parents as her quinques. Hinami confesses that seeing Akira makes her remember her parents' deaths and breaks down as she cannot bring herself to meet Akira.

Once Akira met Hinami, Hinami hugged her, having forgiven her father, and Akira cried in her shoulders. She remarked that Hinami was warm and as a result, she let go of her grudge.

In Dragon Quinx, Akira and Hinami became incredibly close friends even though having her involved in the death of Kureo Mado's death. The two knew that it is the time to be responsible of looking out for Shouta, Hinami's beloved nephew.

Powers and Abilites
Like her father, Akira seems to have her own collection of quinques. Beyond that, she also takes a lot of interest in new quinque designs or experimental weapons. She is also a capable fighter, being strong enough to stand against S-ranked ghouls such as Naki and Miza. She shows expertise with firearms as well, sniping Haise Sasaki from a considerable distance. She has also displayed remarkable durability, being capable of taking numerous shots from Mutsuki's kagune and still being able to converse properly. Eventually, she hasn't been fighting for almost 10 years after Shouta's adoption by Ken Kaneki.


 * Amatsu: The quinque Akira used during the raid of Kanou's lab, this quinque combines two types of kagune into one lethal weapon. The whip-shaped Bikaku part can distract then drag the enemies into close range, so the dagger-shaped Koukaku part can easily finish them off.
 * Fueguchi: A rinkaku quinque that was created from Asaki Fueguchi's kagune. It looks like a spine that was tied together. It is a high-speed combat quinque with a sharp cut. It was presumably succeeded by Akira from her father, Kureo Mado, as the quinque belonged to him before he was killed. It took her a whole year to master it and she can control it as easily as moving a finger.
 * Fueguchi Two: This is a koukaku quinque that was created from Ryouko Fueguchi's kagune. It has the appearance of flower petals that spread in four directions. It can defend against attacks of any kagune and counter attack with a thrust. This quinque combines both offense and defense. It was presumably succeeded by Akira from her father, Kureo Mado.
 * Control Rc gas grenade: Its full name being Control Rc cells gas grenade, is an experimental weapon that releases gas which can suppress Rc cells activities. Through respiratory system or other mucous membranes, the opponents' kagune will be paralyzed in a short time, giving investigators an edge against disarmed ghouls.

Etymology

 * The name Akira means "dawn, daybreak" (暁).
 * Akira's surname Mado means "real, genuine" (真) (ma) and "door" (戸) (to/do).

Trivia

 * In the first character popularity poll, Akira was ranked twentieth.
 * In the latest, she came in as thirteenth.
 * Akira likes making quinque, solving puzzles and cats.
 * Akira respects her parents and Kishou Arima.
 * Both of Akira's parents were killed by ghouls.
 * Akira owns a cat, which resides in her apartment.
 * Takizawa refers to her as an "Asexual Weapons Fanatic", similar to how others mockingly called her father a "Crazy Old Quinque Fanatic".
 * In Tokyo Ghoul Trump, Akira is featured as the "Queen of Diamonds".
 * Akira has demonstrated the same one bulging eye, and one squinting eye like her father during the Auction arc while facing Naki who recognized only her face, but he forgot her name.
 * Akira loves spicy food, especially curry.
 * Akira is slightly jealous of Juuzou for owning 13's (Juuzou's) Jason.
 * While Sui Ishida states that he likes Akira's type of personality in women, he also claims he most likely would not like her that much in real life.

Tokyo Ghoul:re

 * To Koutarou Amon: "Hey. Do you have any business with my Father? Amon Kotarou."
 * To Amon: "Starting next week, I'll be your subordinate. I am Mado Akira, second-class investigator. It's nice to meet you, Top-class investigator, Amon-Dono."
 * Thoughts on Donato: "Donato Porpora, SS rate Russian ghoul. This is only information acquired from the data but... He's hunted and killed mass amounts of investigators... He especially likes eating young children in all sorts of brutal ways. He ran a Catholic orphanage in Japan. His nickname was "Father". In that case, is that story I heard reality...?
 * To Misato Gori: "Misato. Give me a break, won't you...? I loved him... Both Takizawa and Amon..."
 * To Naki: "This Fueguchi is especially hard to handle. It took me a whole year before I could use it well. But now, I can control it as easily as moving a finger. You have been stuck in the past, with Jason. That's why you could never change.
 * To Amon While Drunk: "Please don't go Father..."
 * Akira Teasing Amon: "Ghoul investigator Amon Koutarou at the age of 20, enrolled in the [CCG] academy and graduated at the top of his class. After becoming First-Class Mado Kureo's partner, beginning with [Apple Head] and [Red Jam], He either exterminated or captured numerous heinous ghouls-- In little less than three years after he was appointed, He was promoted to Rank 1 investigator. In the [11th ward Aogiri subjugation battle] He exterminated the Bikaku Brothers and other Aogiri affiliated ghouls. At the age of 27 He was further promoted to First-Class investigator. His true self is a zealous muscle builder at his subordinates home. A [Perverted Investigator]...Don't make a face like that it's just a joke."
 * To Amon While Drunk: "Amon Koutarou I... Hate you the most."
 * To Naki: "S Rank ghoul 'Naki'. So you were the kokaku type. I do want to use my rinkaku quinque, but... Shame I didn't bring it. I only have my bikaku... And kokaku! Trash should be thrown out. Die.
 * To Naki: "That's a nice kagune, why don't I take it?"
 * To Takizawa While Drunk: "Takizawa ~ maybe you see me as your sworn enemy but you know? That kind of act is just an eyesore for me."
 * To Haise Sasaki: "It's not that I hate your amicable personality, but don't act so sweetly during fights. Even I was embarrassed with that statement of Clause 2 just now. You tend to be prejudiced more than the Quinckes themselves. Don't defend ghouls. If you don't want to take another Mado punch again, that is. That kindness will be the end of you."

Dragon Quinx: War

 * To Shouta: "I'm... I'm sorry... Hey, look at me... you're gonna be alright, okay? Stop crying... it's alright..."
 * To Hinami: "If my mother wouldn't have been alive again right now, she wouldn't have killed your family (Kaneki and Touka)..."
 * To Shouta while drunk: "Hey Shouta... did you know... that... you're very naive?"
 * To herself: "It is painful... to lose the ones you have spent time together with."