List of Ashita No Nadja Characters - Preminger and Colorado Clans

Preminger and Colorado Clans

Duke Preminger

Voiced by: Eiji Maruyama

A well-respected Austrian nobleman, father of Collette and Herman and grandfather to Nadja. He is a powerful and proud man, very cold and obsessed with family honor. The only people he seems to have soft-of soft spots are Oscar and Collette.

The Duke first fired Raymond Colbert, Nadja's father, when Collette asked for permission to marry him; as a result, the two eloped. When Raymond died in an accident and both Collette and Nadja were very sick, he forced his retainers to give baby Nadja away to a friend of them, Miss Applefield, and tell Collette that her child had perished, tricking her into coming back home.

Duke Preminger also hires two corrupt private investigators, Rosso and Bianco, to gather information about Nadja's life to see if she is worthy or not to join the Preminger clan; it's hinted that he is, in fact, the one who sends the gown and the diary to Nadja when she is still in the Appefield Orphanage. Unbenkowest to him, Rosso and Bianco are actually working with his son Herman to eliminate Nadja, making Herman the family heir.

Collette Preminger

Voiced by: Reiko Yasuhara

Nadja's birth mother, the one who originally wore the pink gown and wrote the diary that were sent to Nadja. Collette was the eldest daughter of the rich Austrian nobleman Duke Preminger and eloped with Raymond, a French musician and her piano teacher, since her father fired him after learning they were involved. They lived in poverty but happily in Paris until Raymond died in an accident and both Nadja and Collette were very close to die due to sickness. Believing that Nadja was dead, the grief-stricken Collette was easily convinced to return home by her family's retainers, and has lived her life quietly with her father, second husband (her old friend Count Waltmüller, a good man who takes care of her very well) and younger brother Herman.

Collette is remarkably similar to Nadja: trustful, good-hearted, stubborn when she wants to, slightly klutzy at times. They cross paths several times not knowing that they're mother and daughter until almost the end.

Herman Preminger

Voiced by: Issei Futamata

Nadja's uncle and son of Duke Preminger, who scorns him openly after he failed to meet his expectations and almost caused the clan to lose its wealth with bad monetary inversions. He became a cynical, scheming, money-and-power hungry man who only wants to disprove Nadja's worth as the possible future heiress of the Premingers, first by sending the private detectives Rosso and Bianco to steal Nadja's brooch, and later hiring Rosemary to pose as Nadja. A move he would later regret, as Rosemary is not so easy to manipulate as he thought and whenever he threatens to expose her as a fraud she reminds him he cannot do it without getting himself into bigger trouble for being responsible for this hoax.

Near the end of the series, it's revealed that, as a result of being forced to train in order to one day succeed his father, Herman never had a chance to make friends during his whole childhood and that he resents Nadja because she was chosen over him despite having a happy childhood.

Eventually, Rosso and Bianco start taking advantage of Herman, forcing him to buy stuff for them as he cannot let his father find them. As a revenge, when they lock Nadja in Herman's mansion catacombs, Herman locks them with her. Rosso and Bianco betray Herman and let Nadja escape so she can expose Herman's plans. In the end, Herman is arrested and, despite his pleas, his father refuses to pay for his release, leaving him imprisoned.

Oscar Colorado

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki

Herman's stepson, son of his wife Hilda. Oscar does not get along with his stepfather, but Collette and the Duke like him. In fact, Oscar's lack of real Preminger blood is the only thing keeping him from having chances of becoming the Duke's heir but he does not seem to care about it. He is there for Collette (in fact, the viewer learns of Nadja's true past when Collette is shown telling Oscar her story), and is very protective of his mother Hilda, a sweet and still-young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage with Herman, who abuses her psychologically and once even physically.

Oscar is nice and gentle, but can have a devious side as well. When he attends a ball where he was expected by Herman to find a rich girl to marry, he instead meets people who tell him that, in order to finance his search for Nadja, Herman borrowed money from Antonio Fabiani and avoids meeting his creditor since he missed the deadline to pay the debt and still does not have enough money to do it. Oscar then arranged a meeting for Antonio, to whom Herman says he will be able to repay his debt as soon as he inherits his father's fortune. Antonio then talks about meeting Duke Preminger about that and Herman asks him not to do so. Oscar tells Antonio he hates guys like him and only arranged the meeting because he intends to use "poison against poison".

Oscar is an heir of the Colorado clan, who owns the mansion where Herman lives, and has enough money to pay Herman's debt but Oscar will not do it unless Herman agrees to leave Hilda and the Colorado mansion forever.