Tomio Ookawa

Tomio Ookawa
Name Kanji	大川富雄, Ookawa Tomio
Race	Human
Age	60+
Status	Deceased
Gender	Male
First appearance
Anime Debut	episode 1
Portrayal
Seiyū	Ishii Kouji
Voice Actor	R Bruce Elliott

"If my son committed a sin, it's my responsability as a parent to see that he is punished according to his crime!"

―Tomio Ookawa

Personality

The owner of the liquor store. Tomio is an intimidating man and disciplines his son with an iron fist and is able to intimidate him even after the latter becomes a Shiki. He has a strong belief in the unwritten old rules of the village, such as everyone new must greet their neighbors, and is increasingly irritated over times as many common rules of Sotoba are unnaturally bent when the Shiki start infiltrating.

Battle against Shikis

When Ozaki Toshio successfully exposes the Shiki's existence, Tomio was one of the first ready to join him in the Shiki's extermination. He later stakes his own son Atsushi, who became a Shiki. When it turns out that Seishin is in allegiance with the Kirishiki, he leads some villagers to assault his temple, killing Seishin's mother and several attendants. At the end of the series, he chases Sunako to the church in the forest and tries to kill her, claiming that she has broken the rules that God has set. He's killed by Seishin, who by then has become a jinrou. Tomio was the most eccentric of the villagers and hunted the Shiki with a passion.

Tomio's Death

Trivia

• He is the strongest of all the villagers. This is portrayed to a exaggerated extent in the anime, where he stops a moving car by lifting it with his hands.
• He is also used as a comic relief in the anime where he would be shown punching his son for doing anything wrong.

Quotes

• It's a parent's responsibility to discipline their child, after all.
• You little murderess, you don't deserve my mercy. In this world there are crimes too depraved to ever be forgiven. There are certain unstated rules for living in a village; Rules that go back far too many generations to count. Outsiders are welcome as long as they adapt to village ways. We're a community here; We work together, we protect each other. In a village the young don't die before the old. These simple rules keep places like Sotoba alive through the years! But you and your family have torn that apart. I'm going to send you back to the hell you came from!