Kirigaya Touko

Kirigaya Touko is a second-year student at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy, and the guitarist of Morfonica. She handles the band's costumes and like Lisa, follows.

Outside of the band she is friends with Sayo and Kaoru. She is also classmates with both Mashiro and Rui, and is also the class president.

Background
Touko's family owns a classic and famous kimono shop; as a result, she is knowledgeable of making outfits and loves fashion. She also has her own fashion brand "TOKO", which mostly sells T-shirts. She lives together with her grandmother and parents. Her grandmother is a great cook, but according to Touko she is also very strict, doesn't let Touko practice at home, only cooks traditional Japanese food and constantly tries to push Touko to attend tea ceremonies and other kinds of fancy events.

She and Tsukushi attended Tsukinomori's elementary and middle school together. However, they had never talked to each other, and when they first meet at CiRCLE, Touko mistakenly calls her "Tanaka-san" and "Yamada" (two very common Japanese surnames).

Appearance
Touko is a girl of above average height (164cm/5'5") who has long, wavy blonde hair and light-brown angular eyes. Her bangs part to her left and stop just at the eye.

Her casual attire consists of a light-blue jacket with a salmon colored hoodie underneath, along with a black shirt with the word "BLACK" going down vertically 3 times. She also wears short, dark blue shorts with a brown belt, along with white, red, black, and green sneakers. Her outfit is adorned with a necklace with a gold pendant, along with a thin, brown belt.

Personality
Touko is a popular girl who gathers people around her both at school and on social media, where she goes by the name TOKO and is known as a popular influencer who's able to find and create the latest trends. She is a cheerful and open-hearted girl, but those around her are often caught up by her tendency to play things by ear. She often talks in gyaru slang, especially using the words "yabai", "maji" and "mikuron" (no biggie), and wants to take selfies no matter where she goes (even during performances). She loves to tease Tsukushi, which at times leads them to arguing. She is quite confident in herself and the ideas she comes up with, and has sworn that one day she'll become so popular they'll erect a bronze statue of her in Tsukinomori's courtyard.

She sometimes argues with Rui as well due to their clashing and contrasting personalities. This is especially shown in the An Étude to Spread Our Wings event, in which Touko and Rui have an argument due to Rui refusing to give Touko the highlight part in their new song due to her lackluster talent in guitar. This pushes Touko to become more determined and practice more often, causing her to seek out Sayo, Kaoru and Tae to teach her how to play the guitar properly, wanting to be acknowledged by Rui.

Game Interactions
A list of characters Touko interacts with in the game (during Lives and in the dialogues at the end of every game).

Etymology
Kirigaya (桐ヶ谷) means "valley of paulownia trees".

Touko (透子): Tou (透) means "transparent", while Ko (子) is a suffix used in female given names.

Trivia

 * Touko gets up at 5 am every morning.
 * She has the same height as Tae.
 * She is bad at studying to the point where she needs to take supplementary classes. She also tends to forget to do her homework often and as a result gets even more homework assigned to her.
 * Her physical appearance is nearly identical to from Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo suru who shares the same voice actress as her. They are also the same height.
 * In the That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime collaboration, her design was based on.
 * In the Chainsaw Man collaboration, her character design was based on.