#hope to make this a regular series but knowing me I'll forget about social media

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DRV3 Fun Fact 1: Everyone Forgot How Long Kaede's Hair Was

I see plenty of fanart of Kaede with long hair, and it's easy to ask "what's the deal?" Well, see, everyone just collectively forgot that Kaede doesn't have long hair.

Everyone.

Game devs included.

Well it was really just Komatsuzaki but he literally designed Kaede, so even he forgot his own design. It's probably his fault that everyone's hallucinated long-hair-Kaede, because he was the first to do so by drawing her with long hair in the promotional key art.

So really, what's the deal?

One reason it's so easy to neglect Kaede's shorter hair is that the silhouette of her hair from the front really implies long hair.

Her hair has a lot of volume for such short hair...

The other is, as I mentioned, that Mister Komatsuzaki hallucinated her having long hair. My guess is that the promotional key art (where she's depicted with long hair) for the characters was one of the last things drawn for DRV3, or at least a later item on the to-do list.

If that were the case, Kaede would have been dead for a while by the time they were drawn, since she dies in Chapter One (spoilers...? I'd assume anyone reading this should know already, V3 is like, 6 years old). That's enough time to forget what she looks like, I'd say!

Most people are probably looking at Kaede's key art as reference or at least get their initial impression of what she looks like from it. It's only weirdos (like me) who are actually looking for her concept art, and since she dies early on, the in-game images where her shorter hair is shown are just as easily forgotten by us as by the game's lead artist.