Touka Toudou

Tohka Todo is the current student council president of the Hagun Academy and is considered to be the strongest student in the school.

Appearance
A bespectacled young women with orange eyes and, long light brown hair tied in two large braids. She is usually seen wearing her Hagun Academy uniform.

Personality
Befitting of her status as the student council president, Tohka has a serious personality. Tohka is also shown to enjoy fighting, as shown when she had gotten excited over the thought of fighting a strong opponent. She likewise has complete confidence and pride in her abilities.

Outside of battle, Tohka is very motherly and thoughtful but can be very uptight.. At time she would even treat fellow council member and juniors like children. She usually gets worked up when somebody is sick and tries to get them better as fast as possible. The reason for this is because her parents died after getting ill. Utakata note that it because of her motherly personality that Tohka is seen as a hero to all the people at the Wakaba house, which he says is where her strength comes from.

History
Tohka was orphaned as a child, after her parents death, being sent to the Wakaba house orphanage. At the Wakaba house Tohka had met her two childhood friends, Kanata Totokubara and Utakata Misogi.

Tohka participated in the previous Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, reaching the semi-finals before she was defeated by Yudai Moroboshi. It is also revealed that Tohka had studied under Torajirou Nangou, the rival of Ryoma Kurogane.

Raikiri vs Lorelei
Tohka is first seen in the tenth preliminary round match, going against Shizuku. She is able to easily overpower Shizuku, even though Shizuku had tried using intelligence and strategy, and takes the victory using Raikiri, without a scratch on her.

Tohka is then seen carrying loads of documents where she accidentally falls, and looses her glasses. Ikki helps her pick up the papers, along with Stella. Tohka then invites the latter to the student council room, which they accept.

The group gets to the room, only to find that it was a mess. The student council quickly cleans up the room, and Tohka invites in Ikki and Stella for some tea. Kanata Totokubara interrupts, and reminds Tohka of what the director had told them. Kanata further explains to Ikki and Stella, that they are having problems with a giant, in the area of Okutama. Ikki and Stella decide to help out, to which Tohka is thankful for.

Incident of Okutama
Tohka then goes to Okutama with her fellow students in order to investigate the giant incident. Splitting into a group of two people per team, with Tohka grouping with Utakata. She and Utakata then arrives in time to rescue Ikki and Stella who were cornered by their enemies.

Tohka and the rest of the group had then arrived at the inn, where they had met Mamoru Akaza, who had taken Ikki to the ethics committee, after it was publicized that Ikki and Stella were in a relationship.

Siege, Reunion and Trap
Tohka was then seen, along with Utakata, talking with Shizuku in the student council room, and had asked if Shizuku could talk to Ikki about not participating in the match against her, as she had known about Ikki's current condition. Shizuku however did not know how to answer, and had given it some thought over the night.

Tohka had then fought, a very poorly conditioned Ikki, but was defeated by Ikki after she had tried to match Ikki's swing against her Raikiri. She was then seen at the ceremony, where she had given Ikki, the new captain of the team, the school's flag wishing him luck in the seven star festival.

Abilities
Expert Swordsmanship: Tohka is extremely skilled in swordsmanship and specializes in Battoujutsu.

Lightning Manipulation: Tohka has the ability to create and control lightnings.

Trackless Step (抜き足 Nukiashi): This technique combines the users breath control and footwork at the same time to decrease the distance from the user and the target in an instant, to which Tohka has been seen using it many times in battle. Due to her inexperience, Tohka's trackless step, although deadly, is a far cry from Nene's trackless step technique.

Device
Narukami : Tohka's Device that takes a form of a Japanese longsword placed in a black scabbard.
 * Raikiri (雷切 lit. Lightning Cutter): Tohka's Noble Art, an ultra-electromagnetic Battoujutsu where Tohka creates a powerful magnetic field with her thunder ability around the blade and scabbard of Narukami, hanging on her waist, and then shoots the blade out.
 * Reverse Sight : By cutting off her eyesight, Tohka becomes capable of sensing the subtle signals of her opponent's body thus allowing Tohka to know her opponent's state of mind and planning.
 * Shippu Jinrai (疾風迅雷 lit. Lightning Speed): Tohka's Noble Art, by stimulating her muscles with the power of lightning, Tohka can increase her performance to its limit.

Trivia

 * Tohka has made a cameo appearance in Episode 1 during the match between Ikki and Stella. She was seen in the background when Kagami Kusakabe was taking pictures of Ikki.
 * Tohka is unable to touch electrical appliances, due to the fact that she will short circuit them because of her lightning abilities.
 * Tohka can't see properly without her glasses.