Kaede Akamatsu

Kaede Akamatsu is a character from the Danganronpa fandom.

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Kaede is a character introduced in New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, as a student of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, and a participant of the Killing School Semester. She has the title of Ultimate Pianist. She acts as the first protagonist of the game.

Being motivated to end the killing game and escape with everyone else before the time limit of the first motive expires, she planned to kill the mastermind. Unknowingly to her, her attempt failed. Wanting to make up for, as she believed, killing Rantaro Amami, she decided not to use the First Blood Perk to leave without a Class Trial, and stay to catch the mastermind. However, due to lack of evidence at the time, her plan failed, resulting in Kaede being replaced by Shuichi Saihara as the protagonist upon being revealed as the culprit of the first case. The final case reveals that her plan actually failed and in reality the mastermind framed her for being the killer in their place.

With another reveal of the final chapter, it's unknown exactly how much of Kaede's backstory was fabricated.

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 * Kaede's Japanese voice actress, Sayaka Kanda, has already contributed to Danganronpa franchise as a whole both as a singer (as part of the group TRUSTRICK), singing the opening to Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School/Future Arc alongside Maon Kurosaki as well as its ending, and as a stage actress - playing Junko Enoshima (and Mukuro Ikusaba) in the Danganronpa stage plays.
 * Kanda was also married to Mondo Owada's stage actor for Danganronpa: Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei THE STAGE 2016, Mitsu Murata. However the pair divorced in December 2019.
 * Kaede's English voice actress, Erika Harlacher, also provides the voice of Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.