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I love seeing the expressions people make when they're enjoying themselves. That's why I play piano... To see the smiles on everyone's faces. And that's why we need to expose the mastermind and end this dumb killing game! So we can smile with everyone else!
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~ Kaede Akamatsu.
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Shuichi, you better not lose. You can't lose to this killing game! I know you can beat it! I believe in you guys! So please, believe in yourself! ...Okay? It's a promise.
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~ Kaede to Shuichi, her last words.
Kaede Akamatsu, also titled the Ultimate Pianist, is the overarching protagonist of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. She was the main protagonist of the prologue and the Chapter 1 of the game until she was executed at the near end of the first chapter and Shuichi Saihara takes over the role of being the main protagonist.
She was a student in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and a participant in the Killing School Semester.
She is voiced by the late Sayaka Kanda in the Japanese version, and by Erika Harlacher in the English version, whom also voiced Kyoko Kirigiri from the same franchise.
She is willing to save everyone from the killing game and refused to let anyone die.
She told everyone they should cooperate and not fight each other.
She tries to help everyone escape by going through a tunnel that Gonta found.
Despite being exhausted, she still didn't gave up on escaping the tunnel alongside everyone who was also exhausted.
She was remorseful for putting everyone in exhaustion in the tunnel and blames herself.
Despite everyone being rude to her, she still remains positive and still wants everyone to get out safely.
After Monokuma activates a time limit, she tries to keep everyone together but everyone ignores her except Shuichi since she told him about the hidden door in the library.
Even after everything that happened, she still never gave up on ending the killing game to escape with everyone.
Tries to persuade Ryoma to live for everyone telling him to escape together.
When Shuichi told her about his title of the Ultimate Detective and said that he was afraid of revealing the truth, she held his hand and said that she was actually afraid, but with Shuichi standing by her side, she didn't hesitate to kill the mastermind.
She told him that he needs to hold his head up high, and the fact that she believed in him effectively gave Shuichi the courage and strength that he showed through the rest of the game.
When she realized that she supposedly killed Rantaro instead of the mastermind, she felt remorse for allegedly killing a friend of hers.
While everyone went into the elevator to start the trial, told Shuichi not to avert his eyes from the truth anymore and that he had to fight for it even if it is frightening.
She also tells him that if he was scared, he should borrow the strength of those who would be there to help him and let that be his strength, believing that Shuichi is capable of doing such a thing.
When Shuichi gets pinned as the culprit for killing Rantaro, she denies it and proves Shuichi's innocence, which succeeds.
When Shuichi blames himself for making her supposedly kill Rantaro, she denies again and tells him everything isn’t his fault.
She willingly accepted Shuichi's interpretation of the events of the murder, and apologized one last time for paving the way to her own defeat.
While Shuichi did criticize her for giving up, she reassured him that she wasn't and that her wish would still be carried out.
She told Shuichi that she believed in him and everyone to survive and end the killing game, and that he should believe in himself before being dragged to her execution.
She, alongside the other students were the reason why Shuichi became more confident and to not look away from the truth.
Even after her death, her desire to end the Killing Game by killing the mastermind was posthumously carried out by Shuichi, due to her influence.
Despite Danganronpa's high admirable standards, Kaede manages to stands out despite only appearing in the first chapter (compared to others such as Kaito and Shuichi who appear way more), and has made a big impact in the outcome of the game.
Although she possessed some moments of mischief towards Tsumugi, they are never shown beyond light teasing and she normally has a good reason. In addition to that, any hint of perverted behavior is shown to be accidental, and when called out by Shuichi in one of them, she makes it clear that it wasn't intentional.
Trivia[]
She is the current icon of the Mature Template, showcasing her watching as the Flashback Light gave her new memories which would come to define her.
Ironically, Kaede’s Japanese voice actress, the late Sayaka Kanda, portrayed Junko Enoshima, who is Pure Evil, in the stage versions of the Hope's Peak series.
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