Naoya Kirihara

Naoya Kirihara
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Relatives	Misaki Kirihara (Daughter)
Professional Status
Affiliation	The Japanese Police
Occupation	Superintendent, Division Chief
Behind The Scenes
First Seen	Season 1, Episode 9
Last Seen	Season 1, Episode 23

Superintendent Naoya Kirihara (霧原 直哉) is the Division Chief of the Japanese police and the father of Misaki Kirihara.

Appearance

Naoya has short brown hair, thick eyebrows and brown eyes. He typically wears a suit.

Personality

Naoya thinks that Misaki often acts distant to him and expresses displeasure at the fact that he seems to have her future planned out for her.

Part In Story

The Black Contractor

Naoya joins Misaki at a crime scene.

Naoya appears in the scene of a murder of Richard Lau. After a brief discussion over the crime, he convinces Misaki to have dinner with him. He talks to her about a possible promotion (which would put her out of direct harm). Misaki states that she'll think about it.

After the incident with Alice Wang, Misaki decides not to accept the promotion, stating her abilities are lacking.

As Evening Primrose launch their attack on PANDORA, Naoya phones his daughter to warn her to evacuate Tokyo, refusing to explain why.

Appearances

Season One Appearances
The Star of a Contract Fell...	The New Star Twinkles...	The Red Dream of a Calamity...	The Gardenia Gives Off Fragrance...	The Pure White Dress Is Stained...	Within the Wall...
On a Silver Night...	The Memory of Betrayal...	I'll Sing a Love Song...	Without Dreaming Shallow Dreams...	The City of Regulations...	God's in His Heaven...
Meteor Shower	Is the Dream That a God of Death Has...	Beneath Cherry Blossoms...

Etymology

• The name Naoya means "straight" (直) (nao) and "how, what, alas, question mark, ?" (哉) (ya).
• Naoya's surname Kirihara means "fog, mist, haze" (霧) (kiri) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).