Touya is one of the main protagonists in the light novel and anime series Log Horizon. He is a beginner player of Elder Tales, a Human Samurai-Accountant and the twin brother of Minori. The two knew Shiroe before the Apocalypse, who helped them out when they were starting the game. After the Apocalypse, they were tricked into joining Hamelin and held as hostages until Shiroe forced the guild's disbandment, After this, they were welcomed into the Crescent Moon Alliance but left shortly afterwards to join Log Horizon instead.
He is voiced by Daiki Yamashita in the Japanese version of the anime and Greg Ayres in the English version.
Overview[]
The beginner player of Elder Tale, Touya and his twin sister Minori joined the game as a way to experience new things. They met Shiroe not long after joining the game and picked up lots of useful advice from him. They were unfortunately separated after the Catastrophe and were unwittingly led to join Hamelin, a guild which exploits beginner players and Touya was forced to battle monsters for the guild. After the forced disbandment of Hamelin, he joined the newly-established Log Horizon guild.
He and his sister are both middle-schoolers in real life. At age 14, they are the youngest characters with confirmed ages in the cast.
Personality[]
Touya is very outgoing and sometimes rude, a foil to his well-mannered and more reserved sister. However, he has shown to be quite loyal and determined to protect those he cares about. Although they are the same age, Touya shows a bit of 'big brother instinct' towards Minori and is very protective of her. He is also quick to jump to her defence, such as when he chewed out Rundelhaus Code for looking down on her for her low level despite only being two levels higher himself.
He sees Shiroe as both his mentor and surrogate big brother, along with Naotsugu, who takes him under his wing and trains him to be a better Tank. Touya is very reckless and hot-headed, having a nasty habit of immediately charging the first enemy he sees and aggroing every mob on the way there, though he gets better with this overtime. However, he can also be unusually perceptive at times, such as when he was able to see that Dariella (actually Nureha in disguise) was putting on a facade of happiness to hide her pain, though he couldn't begin to guess why.