Mikagami, Tokiya

水鏡凍季也

Tokiya is a second-year student at Nashikiri High School. He wields the madogu Ensui ("Dark Water"), a sword that uses water to form its blade and can create and control all three states of water: liquid, solid, and gas. People often call him by his last name, although his companions have invented nicknames for him, such as "Mi-chan" or "Mi-bo".
Despite the discrepancy in his age between the anime and the manga, Tokiya wants to take Yanagi from Recca because she looks exactly like his sister, Mifuyu Mikagami, who was murdered in front of him when he was young. He uses the Hyomon Ken style, which was developed specifically for the Ensui and the Hyoma En (a madogu that also controls water but focuses more on its solid form). Tokiya joins forces with Recca to rescue Yanagi from Mori Koran's mansion and remains part of their team for the rest of the series.
In both the anime and the manga, Tokiya is initially portrayed as callous and aloof, often insulting his teammates' abilities and intelligence. He is protective of Yanagi, who closely resembles his late sister, and the manga shows him to be romantically interested in her. Other characters often praise Tokiya for his intellect and composure during battle, with some going so far as to say he might be the strongest Hokage member in normal battles. Another trait that sets him apart from his teammates is his greater ruthlessness and cruelty, a fact recognized by both Kurei and Mikoto, who act as antagonists for most of the manga.
Certain aspects of Tokiya's personality and appearance differ in the anime series compared to the manga and games. His hair is light blue in the manga and games, but brown in the anime. The booklet accompanying the Flame of Recca Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 CD lists his age as 17, while a filler page in the manga states he is 16. Aside from these differences, Tokiya's character development in the anime is less obvious than in the manga, where he becomes more open to emotions other than his desire for vengeance by the end of the series. Tokiya attributes this change to his encounter with Kai, a fellow Hyomon Ken practitioner, and his friends.