Kagura Mutsuki

Kagura Mutsuki is an NOL general, and the head of the Duodecim's Mutsuki family, as well as a secret disciple of Tenjō Amanohokosaka and a bodyguard of Tenjō's child, Homura, who is planning to overthrow the NOL for his young master to succeed on reforming NOL. He is an unlockable playable character in Chronophantasma's console version.

Information
The head of the powerful Mutsuki family known as the Black Knight, Kagura is the representative Novus Orbis Librarium officer in the 5th Hierarchical City of Ibukido who is secretly a disciple of Tenjō Amanohokosaka and entrusted to care for his young child Homura. Kagura plans to coup against NOL, and once he's succeeded, he'll install Homura as the new Imperator of NOL.

Personality
Kagura is shown to have a laidback attitude, taking things very casually, in stark contrast to some characters in the BlazBlue series. He is described to be more empathic to the people than the government. In BlazBlue: Remix Heart, he is shown to be a pervert as his first line in the manga is about Mai Natsume's breasts, and onwards in Chronophantasma, he is shown attempting to grope Makoto Nanaya's breasts. However, he has no interest in underage females (like Platinum) or males, usually referring to them by their known title, if they have one. However, in special cases, some females are exempt from his usual treatment, like Tsubaki, Kokonoe and Rachel.

He tends to flirt a lot and tries to invite Noel Vermillion to dates but they have all ended in failure due to Makoto's interference. Kagura seems to show a great care towards Noel as seen by his actions when she was assaulted by Arakune, which made him become greatly angered and emotional, making him try to kill Arakune. Kagura is also a mentor figure towards Ragna, where he gives Ragna advice and tries to make him become stronger by having him find out the reason for what he is fighting for. Kagura considers Ragna a man that he has acknowledged and has gained respect towards Ragna after his battle with Azrael.

Appearance
Kagura wears a black cape with red lining and gold trimming. Under this, he wears a white robe-like shirt. He wears three belts: two belts around his stomach and another that dangles loosely around his waist.

When he was in the Military Academy, he looked the same, except he wore a military school uniform slightly opened and wore his scarf loose, as seen in Amane Nishiki's Astral Heat.

Powers and Abilities
Not much is known about Kagura's abilities, but he seems to possess above average strength, being able to swing his rather long and seemingly heavy sword. He has been shown to be able to control a jet-black, flame-like substance. Gameplay-wise, Kagura is a stance and charge character. His special moves are a projectile and an anti-air. His Drive, Black Gale, allows him to enter a different stance and utilize other moves.

According to himself, Kagura is known to be stronger than Ragna the Bloodedge even with his Azure Grimoire active. He is able to subdue Noel Vermillion in her Mu-12 mode. Kagura is even able to resist against Phantom's Gravity Seed magic to some extent, which not even Rachel Alucard could resist against. Kagura is also currently known to be the most powerful among the Duodecim. Considering that Kagura does not use magic, a Nox Nyctores nor something is on par with either, he can be considered an extremely strong individual; strong enough that he was able to stand on equal footing with Azrael, a man who is notorious for taking out entire legions of the NOL and Sector Seven by just himself.

Etymology
Kagura (神楽) is a Japanese name that has roots in Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 神 (kami - spirit, god) and‎ 座 (kura - seat), it referred to the place used to call down the 神 (kami - spirits and gods) to earth, when a 巫女 (miko - shrine maiden) would act as a medium for the kami. Over time, the term came to refer to the music and dance of the ceremony.

Mutsuki is the archaic Japanese word for January. Its etymological meaning is unknown but in poetry, it is often seen as a month of affection, when family and friends gather together to celebrate the New Year.

Trivia

 * Kagura's birthday, January 15, is the original date for Japan's Coming of Age day.
 * Whenever Kagura battles a female character, during the intro sequence he will measure that character's thigh, waist and bust. Also, he has a different quote depending on that character, and a special quote whenever Kagura wins against Noel, Bullet, Makoto or Litchi.
 * However, this doesn't happen with Makoto, in which Kagura gets closer to her, causing Makoto to force him to step back by striking him.
 * Strangely enough, Kagura almost mistakes Amane as a woman, and he also has a special quote with Carl, involving Nirvana.
 * Kagura's move names are all themed on dragons.
 * There is an actual bug which involves Unlimited Kagura and Carl or Relius as his opponent, if Kagura uses his Hidden Distortion Drive during Nirvana's Rhapsody of Memories or Ignis' Duo Bios, it will cause Carl or Relius being damaged indefinitely, this still happens after knocking them out.
 * Kagura is shown to have knowledge about some secrets behind Ragna, Jin, and Noel. He has tried to bring the three of the them together to be more friendly to each other, has shown some sort of knowledge about the connection between Ragna and Noel after seeing that Noel had called Ragna for help unconciously when she was being assaulted by Arakune, and has indirectly called Noel "sibling" after she separates Ragna and Jin from fighting, also saying that it may depend on Noel for Ragna and Jin to become more friendly towards each other.