Touko Kanbayashi

Touko Kanbayashi (寒林 陶子) is a character in Zombie 100. She is a former municipal office employee who was fired for her overbearing attitude and a member of Kanta Higurashi's group.

Personality
Touko was a stuck up entitled women who refused to believe that she was in the wrong and always played the Victim. She was also very selfish and ruthless as shown when she was willing to let an entire village of Innocent people die by releasing the Zombies that the Villagers trapped and she attacked Beatrix Amerhauser who was only trying to help innocent people with a Chainsaw.

History
Not much is known about Touko except that she was a part of Kanta Higurashi's group who used to work as a office worker.

Story
Touko was with Kanta Higurashi’s group to attack the village Akira Tendou’s group was at where she goes after Beatrix Amerhauser who plans on stopping the water mill so the electrical fence trapping everyone will depower so everyone can escape. She rams against the horse she was riding on with a tractor. Then, she attacks Beatrix with a chainsaw that destroyed her naginata and one of her katanas before the two start to engage in a fight.

While fighting, Touko comments on how the sound of her chainsaw is attracting the zombies and that they should end the battle right away. As the zombies get closer, she reminisces about her past life and shouts out the reason why she wished to have everyone who looked down on her deserved to be turned into zombies. In response, Beatrix talks about her German culture and Touko angrily tells her that "people in the wrong should just shut up and get turned into zombies!"

However, Touko soon met her demise when Beatrix crushes her to death along with many zombies with a loose water wheel in attempt to depower the eletrical fence trapping everyone in order to escape the village that was becoming infested with zombies.

Abilities
Touko is a formidable opponent who "ranked top 4 in the national high school Kendo Tournament for 3 years in a row..." (as she mentioned herself in Chapter 18) that Beatrix Amerhauser had trouble beating.

Equipment
Touko wields a chainsaw that is powerful enough to chip the blade of one of Beatrix Amerhauser's katana as seen in Chapter 19.

The chainsaw is not easy to carry yet Touko is able to lift it with ease.

Etymology

 * The name Touko means "pottery" (陶) (tou) and "child" (子) (ko).
 * Touko's surname Kanbayashi means "cold" (寒) (kan) and "forest" (林) (hayashi/bayashi).
 * The kanji "寒" reflects on her heartless nature.