| Momoko Touyoko | |
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| Personal info | |
| Japanese name: | 東横 桃子 |
| School: | Tsuruga Academy |
| Grade: | first-year high school |
| Media | |
| Debut: | Saki, round 12 (unnamed)
Saki round 24 (named) |
| Voiced by: | Momoko Saito |
| Mahjong | |
| Position: | Vice-Captain |
| Main skill/ability: | Stealth |
Momoko is a first year student at Tsuruga Academy. Known as "Stealth Momo", she has a lacking presence, and is often ignored by her friends despite her efforts to gain attention. She is the second to last member to join the club and is very close to Yumi Kajiki. Momo has stated that she really likes Kanbara's driving wants her to drive them places all the time, despite the crazy driving. This is probably because she can take advantage of the bad driving and pounce Yumi, as shown before.
Appearance
Momoko is a young first year student who, like Mihoko Fukuji and Nodoka Haramura, has a busty physique. She sports dark and glossy shoulder-length hair with two strands trailing down her temples and intersecting her eyes. She is normally seen garbed in standard tsuruga Academy student uniform. Due to her lack of presence, she is frequently depicted as either completely invisible, semi-transparent, or parts of herself dissipating into a smoke-like array.
Personality
Momo has a strong affection for Yumi Kajiki and she becomes quite jealous if she shows interest in other people. She has an accent which often adds the ending "su" and "s" any to her sentences. Momoko usually refers to others in self-invented names rather than their actual designations. This can probably be attributed to Momoko cutting off communication when she was younger and her speech never maturing.
Playing Style / Abilities
While a fairly decent player, her mahjong playing ability primarily comes when she augments her negative presence into an advantageous stealth state, causing her opponents to miss her moves, though this is negated by players who ignore presence such as Nodoka. Momoko's play style usually involves her targeting the player with the most points while her stealth mode is active, and amasses her score points by stealing those from the recipient's.
Plot
Prefectural Tournament Arc
We see brief glimpses of Momo throughout the final round but was never shown her face. It was not until the final hand of her first match before she did anything; winning off of Touka Ryuumonbuchi. At intermission of her match she shows up when Yumi calls and says that even though it took her a while she is now completly in "steath" mode. Afterward we get a backstory of how Yumi became interested in Momo through online mahjong but couldn't find her. When she got the general location, she stormed into the first year room and yelled that she wanted Momo which caught the girl's attention. Throughout the rest of the match Momo is then shown winning off of Touka repeatedly until Nodoka won off of her, leaving Momo in disbelief that someone could see her. After the match Momo catches Yumi before her match and expresses her disappointment. Yumi however comforts the girl saying that she actually won and that she's the best.
While Yumi's match was in play we see Momo make brief comments and believing in Yumi until the very end where she is defeated. In the halls, Momo greets Yumi after her loss and they have a conversation expressing Yumi's disappointment but Momo cheers her up.
Individual Tournament Arc *Anime Only Arc*
Before the tournament we see Momo on the roof of Tsuruga with Yumi holding hands and discussing their bleak chances in the individuals.
On the first day of the tournament Momo is with everyone else at halftime listening to Mutsuki Tsuyama tell of her defeat. At the end of the day Momo is shown to have been good enough to get into the top 20 and advance to the next round. On the last day we see Momo's 9th match against Ryuumonbuchi's Tomoki Sawamura,Kiyosumi's Hisa Takei, and Saki Miyanaga. It is revealed that even though Yumi was fine despite losing to Saki during the team tournament, Momoko saw how disappointed her senpai was after her match. Momoko was then determined to avenge Yumi's earlier loss against Miss "Tsumo After A Kan" (Saki). During the match Hisa set up a plan to conceal Saki's moves. Both Tomoki and Momoko immediately caught on and silently collaborated with resulting in great success at preventing Saki from implementing her usual strategy until Momo used her stealth mode to start winning points from the other players, beginning with Tomoki. But ended up losing to Saki when Saki used a method that she learned at Kiyosumi's training camp to win. It was later revealed that Momo did not advance to the nationals.
After the tournament while Kanbara and Yumi where discussing Kiyosumi's invitation, Momo is present helping Yumi swim. After they gets out, Momo says that she should now be able to swim in the ocean. Momo is again present with the rest of Tsuruga helping cheer on the new club president.
Combined Training Camp Arc
Going to the training camp we see Momo in the back of Kanbara's volkswagen pouncing Yumi. At the training camp we first see Yumi taking a stroll around the place with Momo joining. They talk about how the traing camp may look cruel to her and Satomi Kanbara but states that it is very usefull to them and that she wanted to spend more time with her. During the conversation Kanbara shows up and tells Momo not to worry and have fun before heading to the baths.
When Hisa Takei shows up to fetch Yumi to a match, Momo was shocked that they called each other by their first names and that they got along last night ( Momo might have misunderstood). Also when it was time to leave the camp Momo was again jealous that Hisa chose to speak with Yumi.
National Tournament Arc
Tsuruga and Momo are shown before going to Tokyo to support Kiyosumi, sitting around listening to the broadcast of the tournament and its set up, noting that Kouko Fukuyo isn't very good at her job. When Tsuruga gets to Tokyo, Momo is present along with the others to greet Kiyosumi before their first match.
Saki Achiga Hen episode of side A
Momoko appears after Achiga has just advanced to the final eight. Here she accidently bumps into Kuro Matsumi. After she apologizes, they recognize her as the person Touka says can disappear. They then bring Achiga along to Kanbara's where Momo jumps into the arms of Yumi. After Yumi agrees to help Achiga, Momo and the others play against them.