Naoe Nobutsuna

Naoe Nobutsuna (直江信綱) is one of the other main protagonists in the Mirage of Blaze anime. He is the third son of the Tachibana family and is a monk of Shingon-shu Buzan-ha at the Kougenji temple in Utsunomiya.

Appearance
Naoe is almost always wearing a black suit with a black tie as a Japanese mourning dress by reason of the sympathy for the dead person. He has short grey hair that matches his grey eyes and light-tanned skin.

Personality
He is about eleven years older than Takaya making him much more methodical and deliberate in his methods. Intense and understated in speech, he nonetheless harbors a passionate and rebellious nature beneath his veneer of docility and allegiance. He is also shown to harbor a jealousy and an inferiority complex.