He is quiet, unsociable, and polite, but in reality he is a suspicious person. He is very sharp-tongued. He is cunning enough to deceive and use even his friends for his own purposes. This time we will introduce Urie Kurie, one of the most popular characters in "Tokyo Ghoul".
Urie Kurie's profile
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Affiliation: Former leader of Quinx Squad, belonging to Mado Squad
Rank: Second-class investigator → First-class investigator (77th class)
Height: 173.5cm
Weight: 60kg
Birthday: February 12th
Age: 19 → 20
RC value: 902
Blood type: O
RC Type: Kokaku
Quinque: Coveralls〈Plain〉(Tail Kaku-Rate c)
Honors: Scholarship Academy student, Mokusei Award
CV: Ishikawa Kaito
Leader of Quinx Squad
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A young man who is the top of the class at CCG Academy Junior School and the leader of the Quinx (Q's) squad. He is characterized by two moles under his left eye. Influenced by his father, who died in the line of duty in the battle against the One-Eyed Owl, he is aiming to be promoted to Squad S3. He is taciturn, unsociable, and polite, but in reality he is a suspicious person. He is very sharp-tongued. Even in the manga, his inner thoughts are expressed in ( ) speech bubbles, and he is cunning enough to even deceive and use his friends to achieve his goals. His hobby is oil painting.
Difficult personality
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He has high analytical skills and is a diligent and excellent investigator who trains every day, but because of this, he tends to be overconfident and have a desire to improve himself, and is hostile towards talented people who are close to him and are close to his age.
A tragedy that happened in childhood
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When Hisao was a child, his father was killed in the line of duty. He hated Kuroiwa Iwao, who had fought alongside his father and came to tell Hisao the tragic news (why had his father died and come back alive), and he secretly harbored jealousy and hostility towards Takeomi, who was a classmate of Hisao's and was the son of Gen, a famous hero of the CCG (who, to Hisao, had not protected his father), and who attracted the expectations of those around him with his superhuman power and toughness similar to his father's, and (though he does not show it on the surface) he has a strong sense of rivalry towards him.
Gradually he becomes more caring towards his teammates...
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In the auction arc, he learns Mutsuki's secret, and becomes attracted to her as a member of the opposite sex. Then, the team members he looked down on gradually begin to feel a sense of camaraderie, his self-centered attitude changes, and he grows into a caring and responsible investigator. After Sasaki resigns as mentor, she takes on the role of squad leader and leads a busy life juggling work and home life. Her red eye is on the left. Her mask is designed as black armor.
Urie's Kagune
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Kagune. His arms are armored with kagune, and the tip of his sword is shaped like a claw. He has a unique eye-like pattern. He has high offensive power, but as he is a typical front-line type, he cannot deal with long-range attacks, and his durability is weaker than other kagune. In the second half of the story, as his transformation into a ghoul progresses, he is able to freely change his kagune, turning him into an all-rounder.
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In the fight against Furuta, who revealed his true nature, his kagune's offensive and defensive powers grew even more, and he began to fight with a kagune greatsword in his right hand and a kagune great shield in his left hand.
Urie's achievements in the Orochi arc
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From the investigation of the wanted ghoul "Torso" to the encounter with Orochi, he repeatedly acted independently for the sake of merit, putting his team members in danger, which led to him being scolded by Q's team mentor Sasaki and dismissed from his position as team leader. Therefore, he used a talented person with poor time management skills to disrupt the Quinx squad, where Shirazu, who was inexperienced and not very good at classroom studies, had taken over as squad leader, and planned to return to his position as squad leader, but Shirazu's unexpected efforts led to his failure.
A little out of control!?
He performed frame release surgery to strengthen his kagune without telling the other members, and because he received permission from Arima Kishou before the surgery, he believes he is more recognized than Sasaki, and the rampage flags are steadily being built.
Urie's achievements in the Human Auction Arc
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For the sake of merit, he deceives Mutsu, who was supposed to evacuate to the headquarters, and begins fighting Big Madame and Aogiri Tree. He fights well until halfway through, but is controlled by the kagune and goes out of control, and is defeated by Big Madame. He even attacks Mutsuko, but is calmed by her embrace, and at the same time learns her secret: she's a woman.
He gets promoted, but...
After the auction, he gets the Mokusei Prize and gets promoted to first-class investigator, as he wished, but Takeomi Kuroiwa is more highly rated within the bureau, which further stimulates his inferiority complex.
Urie's achievements in the Rose Arc
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He works hard to improve his physical abilities, and succeeds in defeating a small number of members of Aogiri Tree at Kanae's request. He feels satisfied with the improvement in his own abilities, but shortly afterwards he witnesses Sasaki's fight up close and is overwhelmed by his strength. Since then, he has asked Sasaki to teach him in order to further improve his skills.
After defeating the Noro...
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During the Tsukiyama sweep, he showed growth both physically and mentally, worrying about the young man who had little combat experience in the battle against the Noro, but he was seriously injured and temporarily lost consciousness. After recovering, he cooperated with Shirazu to successfully defeat the Noro. As Shirazu is mortally wounded and dying, he desperately tries to encourage him not to give up on life, but to no avail. For the first time, he loses a friend and cries. After the war ends, he decides to recover Shirazu's body, which was stolen.
Urie's achievements in the Rujima arc
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After Shirazu died in the line of duty, he became squad leader. Also, since Sasaki resigned from his position as mentor, he also serves as mentor. At the same time, the three new Quinx members join and Urie Squad is formed, including Saiko, and the Quinx Squad is transferred from Mado Squad to S2 Squad led by Washuu Masa. He uses Fueguchi to eradicate the Aogiri Tree, and appears (outwardly) loyal to Masa in order to gain the position of S3 Squad Leader.
All disadvantages in this world are due to the person's lack of ability
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However "All disadvantages in this world are due to a person's lack of ability," he says, almost as if to say, "Shirazu died because he lacked ability, and you caused him to die because you lacked ability," and he is unable to refute Sasaki's words and watches him leave. After hearing these words, Urie becomes even more greedy in training himself, and his ambition to rise becomes so strong that it even begins to seem dangerous...
Reunion with Mutsuki
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When Mutsuki disappears, he decides to rescue her, and during the search, he is active on the front lines in the Ru Island sweep, and discovers Torso's body. Afterwards, he reunites with Mutsuki, who is in conflict with Owl and Floppy, and while confused by her change and Akira's injured appearance, he defeats Floppy, who has turned into a ghoul. Although he lets Owl and Akira escape, he returns safely with his friends.
Urie's performance in the Black Goat vs. Clown arc
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Through repeated battles, his past, and raising his frame level, his RC value has risen and he has become inhuman. He seems to have broken up with Sasaki's betrayal, and as he ages, he shows an interest in Mutsuki.
VS Donato Porpora
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On the way to fight back with Higemaru during the Pierrot surprise attack, he encounters Donato Porpora, an SS-class ghoul who was once imprisoned in Cochlea after his father and Kuroiwa fought against him, but escaped when Sasaki defected from the CCG and Cochlea was attacked in the Rushima arc.
Runaway...
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After being defeated by the overwhelming strength and mentally cornered, he framed out and became a complete ghoul devouring corpses, but Saiko and Xiao administered an RC inhibitor and calmed him down.
Urie's activities in the new edition
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Promoted to senior investigator when appointed to S2 squad. Following the public execution of "Sasaki Haise (a fabricated fake with his face)" and Masa's disappearance in the confusion of Pierrot's attack on the headquarters, he becomes suspicious of the new bureau chief, former Tajifuku (officially renamed "Washuu Yoshifuku"), who is a member of the Washuu bloodline and has had some success, and learns from Suzuya and Ito that Sasaki is still alive.
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After attending the wedding of his classmate Kuroiwa Takeomi, he is heartbroken when Mutsu confesses to Sasaki. Later, Takeomi's wife, Yoriko, was arrested by Mutsumi for harboring a ghoul (because her classmate from her school days, Touka, was actually a wanted ghoul called "Rabbit"), and a plan for her execution was even launched (to lure out Touka, the "woman Mutsumi should be jealous of, who is by her beloved Sasaki Haise-sensei," and by extension Kaneki Ken = Sasaki Haise, the big boss of the Black Goat (and the object of Mutsumi's unrequited love). Due to Takeomi's words, who was under semi-house arrest as her husband, he began to doubt the abnormality of Mutsumi, who had deliberately arrested him.
Counterattack against the suspicious CCG (Kyuden)
Furthermore, due to the cruelty of Mutsumi's Otsugai Squad, the CCG gradually became a murderous organization, and he decided to break away from Saiko. After that, in order to fight back against Furuta, who is finally privatizing the CCG and engaging in suspicious behavior, Takeomi and Kuroiwa Iwao, a special investigator who is also a key figure in the CCG, plan to take advantage of the fact that the CCG is also a public institution in Japan and lobby the Public Security Bureau to conduct a surprise interrogation of Furuta, the current head of the CCG.
Grudge against a rival
On the way to the interrogation meeting, Iwao tells Takeomi that "Takeomi actually respects Urie's ambition to train and study every day, his meticulous investigation and combat skills, and the broad perspective that he does not have, and is proud of him as a classmate." This finally begins to soften the grudges he has held against the Kuroiwa father and son, such as hostility and jealousy.
Exercising Power
Finally, together with Iwao, members of the Public Security Bureau, and fellow investigators from the CCG who have doubts about Furuta, they enter the director's office and announce an investigation into Furuta's use of power in his role as director...
Kyuta's Plan
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Furuta laughs at them and uses his kagune, which is more like a ghoul's than a Quinx's, to attack everyone who has come to investigate in a surprise attack. He kills everyone except Urie and Iwao, and even throws away his position as the head of the Ghoul Countermeasures Bureau, revealing his true nature as a ghoul. He then goes to kill Urie and Iwao, whom he failed to kill with the first blow, together with two extremely powerful ghouls from "Pierrot," a dangerous organization different from Aogiri and Black Goat.
Death of the nemesis's parent
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Against the three SS-SSS level ghouls, including Furuta, Urie and Iwao, who are powerful but are covered in wounds and have no decent quinques, resist and fight well, but are quickly cornered. However, Furuta escapes when Marute and Masa, who had fled the CCG with their lives unknown and formed a resistance force against the CCG's top brass and the Washuu family, burst in. Of the attackers, Roma and Shikan were barely able to defeat Iwao, but he was already mortally wounded beyond recovery, and he died under the watchful eye of Marute, his old comrade, and Urie, whom his son trusted and who fought with him.
Understanding that all disadvantages in this world are due to one's own lack of ability
Through this incident, Urie lost his hatred for Kuroiwa Gen, a CCG special investigator who had been a major part of half his life, and with the support of Iwao and others and the help of Marute and others, he realized that "no matter how much you improve your skills, there are some things you can't do alone." He finally realized that even the words of Haise mentioned above, "all disadvantages in this world are due to one's own lack of ability," were not necessarily true, and he shook off the curse and grew as both an investigator and a person.
Deciding to face Mutsuki...
Now that his collusion with Pierrot has been revealed and Furuta has fled after abandoning his position as director and brutally murdering investigators as a ghoul, doubts have been cast on the CCG's action plans, which were run under Furuta's wing, and the operations of the Otsugai and S3 squads, which were under his orders. Urie is worried about Mutsuki, who was in charge of the Otsugai squad, and decides to face her...
Summary
What will happen next? I'm also curious about Urie's growth, and her relationship with Mutsuki. I can't take my eyes off "Tokyo Ghoul"!
