Characters
Towa
As a sickly young girl Towa was fed the blood of a mermaid by her sister Sawa. Towa recovered from her illness but developed a deformed arm, resembling that of a Lost Soul's. Towa also stopped aging on the outside, but her internal organs all remained the same, aging naturally. When their father learned of what Sawa had done to her sister, he forced Towa to live in a cell underneath their house and to never come out. Many years passed and Sawa had a life of her own, getting married and having a child, while Towa lived alone completely cut off from the world except for her fiance, Dr. Shinna.
Towa's deformed arm caused her great pain, and so she would have Dr. Shinna amputate the arms of dead girls so that she could reattach a healthy arm. Dr. Shinna always begged Towa to let him take her away from the life she was leading, but she would always kindly refuse.
Soon, Towa's plan goes into action and it is revealed that she is searching for the mermaid buried on her property in order to inflict the same suffering on Sawa that she has had to undergo all these years. Once the mermaid is found though, Sawa dies of a heartattack, leaving Towa with nothing to show for her life except her unfulfilled revenge. With that, Towa joins her sister in death.
The Meaning Behind the Name
Towa is made up of two kanji meaning "ascend" and "harmony". Kannagi's three kanji mean "souless tree".
Voices:
Mika Doi & Sumi Shimamoto
Sumi Shimamoto (pictured) has had a ton of Takahashi related roles, including Kyoko Otonashi in Maison Ikkoku, Asuka Mizunokoji in Urusei Yatsura, Sue in Maris the Supergal and beyond her Takahashi work she was, of course, Nausicaä in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Erica Shaffer