Naotsugu

"I'm not backing down from freaks who attack people for fun!"

- Naotsugu Naotsugu (real name: Naotsugu Hasegawa) is one of the two deuteragonists in the light novel and anime series ''Log Horizon. He is a 25-year-old business man and a veteran player of Elder Tales'', as well as an old friend of Shiroe. Shortly after forming a party with Shiroe and Akatsuki, he becomes one of the founding members of Log Horizon and takes Touya under his wing. He is a Human Guardian-Border Patrol.

He is voiced by Tomoaki Maeno in the Japanese version of the anime and Andrew Love in the English version.

Appearance
Naotsugu has short, grayish hair and a roguish smile. Unlike Shiroe, his height in the game (183cm or 6 feet) is approximately the same as his height in real life.

Before the Catastrophe, his character had a diagonal slice cutting through one of his eyebrows, but after Naotsugu became trapped in the game, his features changed to mirror his real face more closely, and the scar disappeared.

His original armor, while Artifact-class and serviceable even after two years of inactivity, is somewhat bland and understated. However, he acquires flashier Phantasmal-class armor developed by Akiban researchers before traveling to the Abyssal Shaft.

Personality
'The Warrior of Panties', Naotsugu is the cheerful big brother character of Shiroe's team, albeit one subjected to frequent physical abuse from Akatsuki. A good, solid person and the Debauchery Tea Party's most reliable tank, Naotsugu's greatest fault is his incessant need to crack off-colour jokes, especially those pertaining to women's underwear. However, he's surprisingly shy when he's on the receiving end of such humor.

Naotsugu is a self-proclaimed "open-pervert," meaning that he freely talks about his perverted thoughts and is often proud of that fact. This often leads to Akatsuki hitting him out of irritation whenever he is about to say something perverted. Naotsugu also believes with passion that all men are perverts, even outright claiming that all men are either open perverts like him or closet perverts and accuses Shiroe of being the latter. Surprisingly, he becomes flustered whenever Maryelle glomps him, hugs him, or asks him to touch her breasts.

Despite his perverted mind, Naotsugu is a kind person with a strong sense of right and wrong, which is shown by the outright disgust he showed at PKs, saying he refuses to 'back down from freaks who attack people for fun'. While not nearly as cunning as Shiroe, he has much better interpersonal skills and can pick up on things that the former often misses.

Naotsugu is two years older than Shiroe, and they first met four years before the Catastrophe when Shiroe was already a veteran player. They are close friends and have even met offline several times. Due to his work schedule, Naotsugu has been absent from Elder Tale for two years and had the luck to be caught up in the mess on the very day he returned to the game.