List of Ashita No Nadja Characters - Others

Others

Harvey Livingston

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda

A friendly, lanky and talented American journalist who works for a French newspaper, and due to his work he travels through Europe searching for the most outrageous news. He is one of the first persons to give serious tips to Nadja about her true origins, examining her brooch during their meeting in Italy and deducing that she is of a very noble origin, warning her seriously about what this means.

Despite his lazy outlook, Harvey is extremely serious when it comes to his work. He also has a very strong sense of justice and greatly admires the thief Black Rose; one of his most cherished dreams is to interview him. He has raised his little brother T.J. ever since they were orphaned.

Marianne Hamilton

Voiced by: Fuuko Misaki

Marianne is the daughter of another English noble clan, who has known Francis Harcourt since childhood and has loved him since then. In fact, the Hamilton and Harcourt families were planning to engage Marianne and Francis, but Nadja's appearance disrupts these plans.

While she makes clear to Nadja that she will not give Francis up to her and says that Nadja is better off with Keith, upon hearing her family plea Marianne accepts to help Nadja and Francis to prove Nadja's bond to the Premingers, wanting to see if she really is who she claims to be, and even saying that if Nadja truly is a Preminger, she will cancel her engagement to Francis.

Marianne is painted as a morally ambiguous character with both good (focused, honest and straightforward) and bad (manipulative and very possessive of Francis) sides, less malicious than Rosemary or Herman, but still not completely good. Despite her selfishness, she seems to truly care for Francis, as seen in a scene with Nadja where Marianne blurbs out that Nadja has Keith and the Dandelion Troupe while she only has Francis to hold on, and runs away from Nadja almost in tears.

Antonio Fabiani

Voiced by: Ryo Horikawa

Cynical and greedy, Antonio was raised by his widowed mother Irma in the slums of Venice. He left home at age 16 and gradually grew up into a disenchanted, selfish, cold businessman, who apparently won his wealth through extremely shady deals, which may or may not include even scams.

Antonio and Nadja butt heads several times, since Nadja met him when he was courting a rich girl who rejected him and he tried to silence her with money, which Nadja refused angrily. She remained thinking not too highly of Antonio until she learnt of his past thanks to Irma herself. It's later revealed that Herman Preminger owes him a large quantity of money (Herman borrowed the money so he could bribe his father's detectives). Duke Preminger paid the debt and, while telling Herman about this, he disowns his son.

Antonio seems to be somewhat of a ladies man, going out with Sylvie once in a while (it's hinted that he occasionally helps the Dandelion Troupe with the finances) and courting the heiress Julietta openly, yet failing in his attempts to woo her.

Fernando Gonzales

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi

Fernando Gonzales is the son of a wealthy Spanish noble family, and all his life he has been pampered and spoiled. This resulted in Fernando's petty, malicious personality. Fernando finds Nadja very attractive (in a snotty rich kid way) but instead of being nice to her, he bosses her around and publicly humilliates her by forcing her to attend a masked ball as an entertainer, and later blackmailing her into attending another ball ayt his own house. His family also happens to be the one that employs Rosemary after she leaves the orphanage. Rosemary has a huge crush on Fernando, but his mean attitude towards her and his "niceness" towards Nadja is one of the things that causes Rosemary's betrayal.

Raphael the troubadour

Voiced by: Kouji Yamamoto

A kind-hearted and wise man, he's a traveling musician and a long-time friend of the Dandelion Troupe. Once he and a young noblewoman eloped, but she was deathly ill and died; since then, Raphael sings beautiful love songs but doesn't allow himself to be loved by any woman, thinking it's his fault his wife died and not wishing to inflict such pain on anybody else. Sylvie knows his sad backstory, yet she's already deeply in love with him despite her lack of hope on having him love her back. He gives Nadja counseling at some parts of her life, telling her that she has beautiful wings.

Christian Strand

Christian is a kind and klutzy Egyptologist who keeps bumping into Nadja. He soon develops feelings for Nadja throughout the story, despite Nadja's convoluted feelings for the Harcourt twins, so he never really gets to tell her. Christian was a street child with a great love of knowledge; a kind professor saw him in the Museum he worked and took him in as his pupil and heir. Several years ago, Christian's landlady worked for Duke Preminger, and was one of the peersons who had to give baby Nadja away to Miss Applefield, and she also helps the Duke send the trunk containing Collette's stuff to the orphanage.