made a promise with Shiki to attend college. He discovers a doll at an exhibition his friend asked him to attend and falls in love with its flawless craftsmanship. He is so charmed by it that he seeks out the maker, Touko Aozaki, and then finds her residence. With his hopes of attending college with Shiki crushed because of her coma, he drops out of college to work under Touko as an assistant investigator. Touko holds his investigative skills highly because of his ability to find her workplace, an abandoned building hidden to all except those who wish to find it. His character design was used as a basis for Tsukihime protagonist, Shiki Tohno. (drama CD), Ayumi Fujimura (movies) Mikiya's younger sister and is in love with him. She becomes an apprentice of Touko due to her rivalry against Shiki and is talented in ignition magic. She is quite similar both in appearance and abilities to Akiha Tohno (though Akiha's power consists of controlling external heat, whereas Azaka's ability is inducing ignitions). In an interview with Nasu, despite their rivalry, Azaka actually likes Shiki personally, and vice versa, except their relationship with Mikiya has made it difficult for both of them to become good friends. (drama CD), Takako Honda (movies) Appearing as a puppet maker, Touko is actually a powerful sorceress. She runs a business in an abandoned building called Garan no Dou. This agency sells their work, ranging from architectures to craftsmanships, to whoever is interested. However, Mikiya believes that Touko is simply forcing what she wants to make on the customers. As the company only consists of herself and Mikiya, she is the sole designer while Mikiya takes the secretary's job. Due to Touko's connection with the Magic Association, the agency occasionally takes on supernatural or otherwise abnormal cases despite Touko having run away and distanced herself from the organization long ago. She is the older sister of Aoko Aozaki, who does not have a particularly good relationship with her. In the early editions of the novel, Touko was portrayed with short blue hair. In the newer editions of the books and the movies, she has been given long red hair; Nasu and Takeuchi, dissatisfied with older illustrations of Touko, changed her hair color to reflect her relationship to Aoko Aozaki, who also has red hair. She is very loose with money which leads to her being broke