Kaede Akamatsu

Kaede Akamatsu (赤松 楓 Akamatsu Kaede) is a character set to appear in the upcoming New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing. She will apparently be the protagonist player character, similar to Makoto Naegi in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Hajime Hinata in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Appearance
Kaede has long light blonde hair with a very slight greenish tint. She has a prominent ahoge - a commonality she shares with all previous protagonists in the franchise. She wears silver music note hairpins and has purple eyes. She wears her high school uniform, which consists of a long-sleeved white shirt completed with a light purple vest adorned with an insignia and a brownish-red tie. She wears a purple skirt adorned with a black music staves and notes pattern, purple stockings reaching below her knees and beige shoes. Kaede also seems to carry around a white backpack.

History
Kaede was first revealed as part of the New Danganronpa V3 trailer first shown at Tokyo Game Show 2016, along with the avatars of the rest of the game's cast which up until that point where only shown as silhouettes. While all other characters were only revealed by appearance, Kaede's character name, as well as her voice actress were revealed during the trailer, and it is actually presented by herself.

During the trailer Kaede introduces herself as the games "protagonist" (主人公 shujinkō), and is shown participating in a class trial.

Trivia

 * Kaede's last name, Akamatsu (赤松), is the Japanese name for a kind of tree known as the "Japanese red pine".
 * Her given name, Kaede (楓), means "maple tree".


 * Kaede's voice actress, Sayaka Kanda, has already contributed to the Danganronpa franchise as a whole both as a singer (as part of the group TRUSTRICK), singing the opening to Danganronpa 3 - Side: Future alongside Maon Kurosaki as well as its ending, and as a stage actress - playing Junko Enoshima (and Mukuro Ikusaba) in the Danganronpa stage plays.
 * Kaede is the first protagonist to have blonde hair.